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Rising to the Challenge: How MAXAIR Systems Helped Protect Healthcare Workers During COVID-19

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What’s the first thing you picture when you think about the COVID-19 pandemic? It’s probably masks. The shortage of protective devices made everyone uneasy—especially healthcare workers on the front line of the fight to overcome the deadly virus. For Bio-Medical Devices, International, increasing production during COVID-19 wasn’t just a matter of adjusting to demand.

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Quick Guide to Improving Fashion Supply Chain Management

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The fashion industry is well known for being a tough business. With big companies like Forever 21 having solvency problems, it becomes apparent that any weakness in supply chain or demand forecasting can seriously hurt a fashion company. So what can be done about the fashion supply chain, and how can it be managed better? Here’s an overview of the issues, and how they can be helped.

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Guide to Effective Strategic Capacity Planning

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What is strategic capacity planning? Strategic capacity planning is how companies figure out the production capacity needed in order to meet consumer demand. It’s a highly difficult process because of several reasons. The first reason is because it relies on accurate demand forecasting. Most businesses do not do demand forecasting very well, often due to a lack of understanding of how to use the data at their disposal.

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How To Do Proper Retail Demand & Sales Forecasting

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Being able to accurately predict customer demand, and act on those predictions, is a key skill for any business. Yet, most businesses do not know how to do this correctly. Retail businesses can be very difficult, as well, as there’s so much data to collect. If you’re a wholesaler, then much of the data doesn’t belong to you. If you’re a retailer, then you’re likely selling thousands of SKUs, making it hard just to collect data on them let alone analyze it in order t

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Guide to Manufacturing Scheduling Software for Small Business

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Manufacturing scheduling software has become much more popular in recent years. The reason is because this software allows for optimized production scheduling and demand forecasting in order to create production plans that keep the operations as efficiently as possible. But how do you choose a manufacturing scheduling software, and what do you need to do before you go all in on one?

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Methods to Improve Demand Forecasting

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Demand forecasting is one of the most important business activities. Poor demand forecasting leads to businesses making purchases of products that they can’t move, or buying too little product and being unable to meet customer demand, potentially putting their business at risk. However, many businesses don’t do demand forecasting very well.

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The Quick Reference Guide to Supply Chain Planning

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If your business relies on key supply chain elements to provide products or services, then supply chain management will be one of your key considerations. Intelligent businesses can save millions of dollars per year and build a sustainable competitive advantage through proper supply chain management. This relies on proper planning, and without it, you can’t manage your supply chain properly.