IQMS

MAY 24, 2018

Investing in a manufacturing company – and/or operating a manufacturing company – in the current economic climate represents both opportunity and risk as U.S. manufacturing demand and profitability are accelerating. Manufacturing Predicted to Regain All Output Lost in the Great Recession by April 2019. “The

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During I strongly believe diversity of experience and thought leads to improved performance. We named it the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The company is a B2B Supply Chain Operating Network supporting the automotive and aerospace industries. The majority of manufacturing and retail companies want better performing supply chains. As shown in Table 2, the contract manufacturing industry is a weak model, and a risk for the hi-tech value chain. There are many reasons.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

And when equipment breaks down unexpectedly, your manufacturing operation can be hemorrhaging money by the second. However, if you are like the other 78%, introducing automation technologies with a short ROI may be a way for your operation to drive improvement without increasing your annual spend. M is for Maintenance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

I am a manufacturing gal by training. The DuPont supply chain supplied products and services into the housing and automotive supply chains. In a similar vein, their forecasts for the automotive market would have been on new automotive sales and dealer inventory. It is clear to me that an evolution is not sufficient.

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Today I want to talk about the challenges faced by today’s automotive suppliers, and why a network model for their supply chain can help. Supply chain organizations within the automotive supplier industry contribute to manufacturing excellence in many ways, including quality, cost, and delivery to their OEM and subsystem customer base.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

The first post in this series broke down what is supplier quality management and the steps to evaluate suppliers and the second post gave you insight into the metrics to look out for by 6 major industries. Without great relationships with those carriers we would be unable to serve our shipper customers in the best way possible.

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

For automotive giant General Motors, it meant production of some of its models in the U.S. Its supply chain management team reviewed what went wrong, and more importantly, how it could better prepare for unforeseen disasters around the world where the automotive giant has production. Read Full Article. Source: EBN. Read Full Article.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

However, companies mature in the concepts of demand know that each order has latency–the time to translate market take-away into re-order points through the channel to the manufacturer. The automotive manufacturer had a surplus of green vehicles that no one wanted. Yes, the manufacturer made more green Volvo cars.

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Supply Chain Opz

APRIL 15, 2015

Background Lean concept is considered one of the most popular management practice that can be used anywhere from manufacturing to service environment, from automotive industry to retail industry. Wheeler (Control Charts/SPC, Citation=729) 7) A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System by Shigeo Shingo and Andrew P.

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QAD

JULY 14, 2022

These copious, non-linked and editable records are used to manage, control and plan for every eventuality for some of today’s most sophisticated automotive manufacturing plants the world over. Does it allow key metrics and reporting to be visible in real time on fully customisable dashboards with drill-down capability?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 22, 2015

I was moving from a position where I led a manufacturing operation to being a part of a team to design supply chain software to improve planning decisions. I was moving from the world of manufacturing to a new world of software. The technology world moves at a quicker pace than the world of manufacturing and distribution.

Inventory Reduction 150

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Lean practitioners believe that when manufacturers stockpile large quantities of raw materials, load up the shop floor with work-in-process, and pack warehouses with finished goods, that the results are more product defects, long and unpredictable lead times, higher costs, and too much cash tide up as working capital.

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I am buying a sheep and goat farm alongside a larger space for a garment factory so that I can control where the cashmere and wool is coming from, how it is processed and how it is manufactured before it is sent to my customers. I think when your business is self-reliant, you never have to deal with lost shipments, late shipments or anything.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2023

Handfield and Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo’s Dr. Marcos Paulo Valadares de Oliveira showed that an open analytics culture (OAC) strongly correlates with improved supply chain performance metrics. Supply Chain Metrics!?!? Vanity metrics and dashboards excite viewers but. So what happened?

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