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5 Ways Businesses Are Uncovering Success With AI In Manufacturing

ToolsGroup

Optimize spare part inventories. Keyence, a company based in Belgium, specializes in the design and supply of machine vision systems for automated inspection in different manufacturing facilities. Here’s what Nick Wilson, Senior Inventory Planner, Parts Operations at Aston Martin has to say. Performing Real-Time Quality Checks.

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

Visibility into the Network side of the business was limited to the company’s engineering and procurement department. Our inventory levels on this side of the business tend to be quite high, with a rotation going to 1 year. I guess in the CPE side of the business, we proved that we could bring down inventory levels and generate value.

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

Visibility into the Network side of the business was limited to the company’s engineering and procurement department. Our inventory levels on this side of the business tend to be quite high, with a rotation going to 1 year. I guess in the CPE side of the business, we proved that we could bring down inventory levels and generate value.

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Warehousing, the Rise of IT, Automation, and Now… Robotics

Logistics Bureau

Affected by changes in production, procurement and distribution methods, warehousing has continually been pushed and pulled in different directions. Logistics services provider TNT runs a large distribution hub in Belgium. From a simple place to stock goods, warehouses have developed in many ways—function and form included.

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Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2022.1

QAD

Updates in the past few months address new requirements for Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Norway, Thailand and other global regions. . It provides the production insights needed to rapidly respond to unplanned inventory shortages, equipment failures and productivity slowdowns. Complete Customer Management.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

So we implemented an inventory management system for them. One of the wastes in Lean is movement , whether that’s movement between here and Belgium or I took 10 extra steps when I could have taken one. That reduces the amount of inventory space, handling, and logistics on individual small orders.”

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Red Sea Ocean Transport Shipping Disruption Update

Supply Chain Matters

China and Sweden auto producer Volvo has indicated that gearboxes needed to build conventional combustion vehicles at a plant in Belgium were delayed, forcing the company to halt production for three days. retailers are already experiencing notifications of extended arrival times of ordered inventory. Some European and U.S.