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5 Ways Businesses Are Uncovering Success With AI In Manufacturing

ToolsGroup

Using this data, advanced predictive models can estimate when failures are likely to occur and recommend appropriate timelines to perform corrective measures, allowing manufacturers to organize their production schedules based on predicted equipment availability metrics. Increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

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How Electra Implemented Precoro Soon After Establishment and Grew Ever Since

Precoro

Now Electra has offices in France, Belgium, and Italy, with Spain and Switzerland marking the next destinations on their expansion roadmap. Rémi Lelarge, the Head of Procurement and Logistics at Electra, shared their story of building a comprehensive procurement process with Precoro.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

It’s a constant headache for our purchasing manager. Accurate data is essential for making the right decisions around purchasing and resource planning. 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.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. To gain organizational support to drive change, Nick ran two more simulations: one in Hong Kong and a grease plant in Belgium. Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The reason?

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Purchasing and supplier management. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. There is really nothing wrong with capturing a lot of metrics, especially with today’s powerful analytics software solutions to help.

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