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Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2022.1

QAD

From integrated multi-currency, multi-GAAP and multi-entity financials to best practice purchasing, from shared services to real-time data and flexible data analytics, Effective Enterprise Management ensures that manufacturers operate from a trusted set of essential enterprise processes that meet today’s and tomorrow’s needs.

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5 Ways Businesses Are Uncovering Success With AI In Manufacturing

ToolsGroup

Using this data, advanced predictive models can estimate when failures are likely to occur and recommend appropriate timelines to perform corrective measures, allowing manufacturers to organize their production schedules based on predicted equipment availability metrics. Increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

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This Week in Logistics News (March 27 – April 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Dun & Bradstreet and E2open joined together to provide a report highlighting the impact of this incident on global supply chains. According to the report, Europe is the region that will feel the strongest impact due to the blockage of the canal. But across the board, companies are looking to one solution: compensation.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. To gain organizational support to drive change, Nick ran two more simulations: one in Hong Kong and a grease plant in Belgium. Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The reason?

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Purchasing and supplier management. Transportation. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. KPIs should comprise a handful of metrics that CAN be realistically monitored and reacted to on a continuous basis.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

The free report is available in PDF with supporting spreadsheets and high-resolution infographics here. Maersk would split into two divisions – a Transport & Logistics division, and an energy division. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift. Maersk 2019 Annual Report.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

It’s a constant headache for our purchasing manager. Accurate data is essential for making the right decisions around purchasing and resource planning. Sam points out that where stock lives in the warehouse and how its transported can also influence the efficiency of a business’s operations. “We