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Elon Musk Ensures that Product Development is Not Siloed

Logistics Viewpoints

The profession has not yet managed to integrate product development into core decisions in a meaningful way. One thing that makes Musk distinctive is his hands-on approach to product design. At both Tesla and SpaceX, Musk put the design engineers in charge of production. You can’t hand it off to someone else.

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Inventory Everywhere, But Not the Right Product to Ship

Supply Chain Shaman

Increase in Product Complexity. The addition of items to the product portfolio increased manufacturing cycle times and increased inventory cycle stock. As a result, a focus only on safety stock is not sufficient. Most companies do not measure FVA and COV to calibrate and adjust their processes. Focus to understand root cause.

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Production Planning Software: Your Comprehensive Guide

Logility

Your Comprehensive Guide to Production Planning Software The benefits of production planning software vs scheduling are about the granularity of the plan: capacity plans (or master production schedules) are not granular and factor in less granular things, like high level capacity, forecasts, inventory, and transfer times.

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How Cloud Solutions Enable Visibility for Successful Modular Production

DELMIA Quintiq

Discover how the right cloud-based platform can enable end-to-end visibility in your modular production for agile operations and increased customer satisfaction. This can be enabled leveraging a modular production system. However, modular production needs to be supported by end-to-end visibility.

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How to Find and Test Assumptions in Product Development

Watch this webinar with Laura Klein, product manager and author of Build Better Products, to learn how to spot the unconscious assumptions which you’re basing decisions on and guidelines for validating (or invalidating) your ideas. You'll learn: Why every product leader goes into a new project with untested, hidden assumptions.

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Steel Yourself for Change: Fully Optimized Master Production Schedules

DELMIA Quintiq

Meeting these objectives, on top of addressing existing industry challenges, requires steel manufacturing companies to become more efficient and flexible in their operations—and this means optimizing their master production schedules. The Value of Master Production Scheduling. DELMIA Quintiq Master Production Scheduling (MPS).

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Get Started Using Machine Learning for New Product Forecasting

ToolsGroup

New product introductions (NPI) are critical to any company’s success, but many of them never become household names. In fact, it’s estimated that up to 80 percent of new product launches in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry fail. Machine learning (ML) provides an effective weapon for your new product forecasting arsenal.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. How much value could you add? Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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The Essential Guide to Building Analytic Applications

What should software teams know about implementing security that works with the rest of their products? What should product managers keep in mind when adding an analytics project to their roadmap?

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. How much value could you add?

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Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability

You'll also find out how the transformative power of synergies and collaborative innovations in product development can help companies cut down costs significantly. Discover how these strategies can boost your enterprise's financial health, helping not only to keep up but to excel in today's market.

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How to Build Data Experiences for End Users

Organizational data literacy is regularly addressed, but it’s uncommon for product managers to consider users’ data literacy levels when building products. Product managers need to research and recognize their end users' data literacy when building an application with analytic features.

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Automating Freight Forwarding Processes with CargoWise Workflow

This training guide helps freight forwarders utilize the productivity capabilities of CargoWise. It covers 5 key CargoWise Workflow features, the importance of auditing your operation’s processes, and using automation for maximum productivity.

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Industry 4.0: Are You Ready?

The supply chain is moving towards automation - and even awareness - that will change how products are ordered, manufactured, shipped and consumed. Are you ready? This evolution is called Industry 4.0, and it's happening now.

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Playbook: Critical & Time-Sensitive Pharmaceutical Cold Chain Shipments Best Practices

Gaining a higher level of visibility into pharmaceutical supply chains is essential as the portion of pharmaceutical products sensitive to temperature, vibration, humidity or timing is growing at approximately twice the rate of non-cold chain products. Gaps in pharma critical cold chain.