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What is Lead Time? Definition & How to Shorten It

Unleashed

If a manufacturer has to wait an extra day for raw materials to arrive, they might lose a customer. In manufacturing, for example, lead time refers to the amount of time it takes for a product to move through the entire production process , from when the initial order or request was made to the final delivery.

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Advanced Product Quality Planning – The 5 Phases of APQP

QAD

APQP’s focus on customer needs ensures that products are developed and manufactured to fulfill those requirements, resulting in increasing customer satisfaction, improved customer loyalty and business competitiveness. Since then, the APQP process has gained momentum and piqued the interest of manufacturers across various industries.

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

Introducing Intelligent IBP Let’s start with a definition. This definition should become clear once you go through the principles. In February 2022, I wrote the first of a five blog series using the name Intelligent IBP. However, for a manufacturer a price or promotional change might first need to be aligned with the customer.

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Yowza! A Nine-Step Decision Process to Help Guide Supply Chain Planning Selection

Supply Chain Shaman

They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets. The source of data for this blog comes from market triangulation. Sadly, only 7% of companies test before purchase. Frustration abounds. For example.

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The Definitive Guide to Cost Savings

Precoro

Recall how manufacturers had to limit their on-site staff due to coronavirus safety regulations; more recently, food production in Ukraine was disrupted, which in turn affected the sales channels of Ukrainian products and everyone around the world who uses or distributes them. In situations like these, every cent matters.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Industry 4.0: Powered by the Internet of Things & Digital Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

At Cerasis, a core value of ours is continuous improvement for not only our company, our clients, and employees, but through our blog and content to those who are related to what we do (transportation management) in the fields of manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, distribution, and transportation. Industry 4.0:

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

Having worked with data as a software and data engineer since the early 1990s, I find these definitions to beaccurate. Inconsistent definitions of what data values Or inconsistent values across datasets for thesame value. Consistent data quality and taxonomy where data values and column definitions are consistent acrossthe.