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Manufacturers Should Focus on This Most Critical Component for Manufacturing Operations Excellence

GlobalTranz

We conclude this two part series about manufacturing operations excellence by consultant Chuck Intrieri, by outlaying why manufacturers should focus on a critical component that will help sustain manufacturing operations excellence for years to come. What is Driving Sustainable Manufacturing Operations Excellence?

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Holding Ourselves Accountable for Business Results

Supply Chain Shaman

Enterprise resilience–the ability to have consistent balance sheet returns despite market volatility– decreased starting in 2014. The first reason is that it is a bad use of a resource. The focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) sucked up company resources. The reality is very different. The reason?

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Supply Chain’s Next Decade of Dealing With the Unknown

MIT Supply Chain

The inaugural post appeared on March 4, 2014, and was about the rising status of the supply chain profession. Some events and trends driving the supply chain’s standing back in 2014 remain just as influential in 2023. Decisive phase But some of the 2014 challenges we still witness today have become more urgent.

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Transforming Consumer Value Chains: Navigating The Power Shift to the Shopper

Supply Chain Shaman

Customers are buying less. Manufacturers are Now Selling Directly to Consumers. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy.

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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. At the time, the popular belief was that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technologies would build multi-tier capabilities. Transora was an extreme.

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Reflections on Integrated Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

Using quantitative surveys, we collected the data in Figure 1 in 2014. The research is a study of large manufacturers. Buying these solutions is far more complicated than is represented in a simple four-box quadrant. They had enough scale to invest resources and build a bench of expertise. Background. It is complex.

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Summary of Development and Manufacture Contracts in the Aerospace and Defense Industries

NC State SCRC

The type of contract of interest in this report is for Development and Manufacture contracts in the Aerospace and Defense industries. The subcontract efforts feature the majority of military and part of commercial aviation, systems are outsourced by the overall airframe manufacturer, known as “primes” (Boeing, Airbus, Sikorski, etc.)