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How Manufacturers Can Take Control of Inventory with RFID Technology

QAD

Manufacturers may not think they have much in common with the retail companies beyond producing the products that stock store shelves, but there could be a lot to learn from the latter as the manufacturing headwinds of the last few years carry into 2023. Walmart Has Embraced RFID Technology – Should You?

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How Food Manufacturing Software Drives Profit [w Case Studies]

Unleashed

Effective inventory management is crucial to reducing costs in any manufacturing business. This is particularly true in the food manufacturing industry, which characteristically has a high volume of products stored, and an urgent need to fill existing client orders to match ongoing consumer demand. Working with fresh food.

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Finished Goods Inventory: Definition & Formula

Unleashed

Finished goods inventory are products that have been through the manufacturing process and are now ready for sale. Managing finished goods and tracking the costs associated with each of them are essential aspects of manufacturing accounting and stock control.

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Metcalf’s Law Does Not Apply to Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

Nulogy, for example, is a platform for collaboration between consumer goods brands and their copacker and comanufacturing partners. Then the site also does the kind of purchase order and invoicing collaboration that EDI solutions do. In automotive, the OEM says “jump” and the suppliers asks “how high?”.

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Logility to Acquire Network Optimization Provider Starboard Solutions

Logility

Applying Starboard’s rich set of reference costs with Logility’s lane rates and time data structures, users have the ability to quickly analyze options in regions for which they have no prior data and locate the absolute best location for future plants, warehouses or 3PL locations.

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Mid-Year Assessment of 2022 Supply Chain Predictions- Part One

Supply Chain Matters

Our annual predictions advisory began with a summary of prevailing global economic, financial and manufacturing outlooks. The effect has been cash and working capital headwinds and growing demands for warehouse space. . Global Supply Chain and Manufacturing Activity. Economic Outlook Significantly Changed. percent of GDP to 6.2

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Five Tips on Sourcing Products From China

EMERGE App

Google a phrase like “sourcing products from China” and you’ll instantly be faced by almost 39 million results! This underscores the importance of China being the world’s manufacturing hub in the past decade, and most likely for the next few decades. Pricing, quality and variety are important considerations.