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Using Big Data to Drive Manufacturing Sales: 3 Big Takeaways from the USMTO Reports

GlobalTranz

How Can USMTO Reports Help Drive Manufacturing Sales and your Bottom Line? The United States Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) data report is compiled monthly by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). What is the USMTO Data Report? Why Wenzel America Uses the USMTO Data Reports.

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Back to Basics: Is It Time to Break Up With Spreadsheets?

Arena Solutions

In fact, it became so popular that people purchased Apple IIs and IMB PCs just to get VisiCalc. There are, of course, limitations to using spreadsheets, particularly when it comes to managing products across dispersed teams. And, of course, each infected person can infect 18 more. Universal file formats that promote sharing.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

SCMDOJO

Also, traditional logistics focuses its attention on activities such as procurement , distribution, maintenance, and inventory management. Several universities offered courses in the field of transportation. However, topics such as logistics, logistics, physical sourcing and supply chain management are not included in these courses.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

And of course during the deployment their organizational structure has changed and they have gone through some M&A activity in that time. The issue is that none of their IT investments in the last 10 years have moved the needle on operational metrics such as inventory levels, case fill rates, and other operational metrics.

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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

How has Business and Supply Chain changed over the course of your career? Something that the forwarding and logistics industry has wrestled with over the years, is to balance the risk and reward of investment into organic systems development, versus purchasing third-party market software to run our businesses.

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Navigating Regulatory Compliance: A Deep Dive Into QMS Compliance for Medical Devices

Arena Solutions

It’s the elimination of defects, and waste, and the reduction costs, and better cost management. Of course, all of that means that you’ll have higher profitability, and approved customer focus, and satisfaction that they will get from your product. We provide what’s called Arena validate as part of a purchase.

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A Brief Look Back at Clayton Christensen’s Innovative Ideas

Enterra Insights

.” Mcgregor noted, “Criticisms of the book tend to surround its lack of solutions, which Christensen tried to correct in his follow-up, The Innovator’s Solution , which was published in 2003 to less fanfare.” Of course, it’s no surprise that correlation isn’t the same as causality.