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Getting that “Swing” in Supply Chain Management

Talking Logistics

What you find instead are functional groups — such as Manufacturing, Distribution, Sales and Marketing, and Procurement — operating in silos, like a boat full of rowers each doing their own thing. Step 5: Measure Current Performance and Benchmark with Best-in-Class Competitors. Which metrics are the right ones?

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Industry 4.0: Will Your Business Survive?

Murano Corporation

It is used to describe networked value chains that can self-regulate, meaning that manufacturing lines can automatically trigger critical maintenance procedures, or reconfigure production to accommodate sudden logistical problems. It incorporates the Business to Manufacturing Markup Language (B2MML) XML standard.