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Guest Blog: Real-world Advice for Getting Started on eKanban

synchrono

Successful projects start with buy-in from the top and an eKanban initiative is no exception. Let your leaders know project success is accelerated through gaining universal buy-in. (If Corporate leadership sponsored and evangelized the project, but we still needed buy-in at the local plant level.

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The State of the Health of The US Manufacturing Sector & Manufacturing Technology Orders

GlobalTranz

At Wenzel we watch the PMI ( Purchasing Managers Index ) and the USMTO (United States Manufacturing Technology Orders) numbers and compare them with our own performance. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) is an indicator of the economic health of the manufacturing sector. USMTO order for May 2016 were 18.2%

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Guest Blog Part 2: Start Your eKanban Implementation with Value-stream Mapping and Engaging Your Suppliers

synchrono

So, once you have universal buy-in on the project (see Guest Blog1: Real-world Advice for Getting Started on eKanban ), the first step toward execution is to develop a good process, or value-stream map. Mr. Shore is co-author of “Proactive Supplier Management in the Medical Device Industry” (2016: Quality Press).

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Top 10 Manufacturing Trends For 2019

IQMS

Manufacturers who excel at orchestrating analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), quality management and real-time monitoring to improve manufacturing strategies are growing 10% faster than their peers. With the advanced analytics spending predicted to grow from $136B in 2016 to $232B in 2021 , attaining an 11.3%

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Guest Blog Part 3: Listen to the Process

synchrono

Worse, because these suppliers were known to be late, purchasers (with the best intentions) would trick the system and override the Kanban quantity. Mr. Shore is co-author of “Proactive Supplier Management in the Medical Device Industry” (2016: Quality Press). Of course, they ended up with too much on hand inventory.

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Impact of SMAC on Enterprise Software Applications - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Aerospace and Defense. By 2016, there will be more than 10 billion mobile devices which would roughly be 1.5 Cloud Simple meaning of Cloud in context of SMAC is using software applications as a service without buying them. New application purchases are being evaluated to be cloud deployable. Contact Us. Infosys Labs.