SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 14, 2022

Food and beverage manufacturing and distribution companies usually operate on smaller margins than most organizations in other industries. Wages are another significant cost for food and beverage manufacturers and distributors , and they’re going up, with labor currently very difficult to find and retain.

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Logility

MARCH 21, 2024

AI has presented challenges and opportunities for business leaders seeking to leverage its potential across their organizations to improve efficiency and increase profitability. In this blog, I‘ll address 10 common generative AI myths to demonstrate the value of this exciting technology.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 2, 2022

Deby Joevita, an award-winning User Experience Designer, mentioned during an online course that a UX design should have some metrics built in, which should provide you with the necessary direction towards achieving a meaningful experience for users. Manufacturers need to become data-driven and this can be done with Business Intelligence.

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Resilinc

MARCH 23, 2021

Wherever your organization is on the journey to a mature and robust SCRM program, this four-part blog series—based on the Ultimate Guide to Supply Chain Resiliency Program Success co-authored by Resilinc and the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council—should be helpful. Part 1: Starting the SCRM Journey.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I loved Peggy’s presentation at the Summit. While many employers would have penalized the employees for tablet breakage , Peggy explored the world of wearables to enable her digital manufacturing transformation. .” To solve these problems, AGCO partnered with Proceedix to develop an application for manufacturing.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Supported by partners Heriot-Watt University, Pedersen & Partners and RV Consultancy, the full-day agenda featured a stellar line-up of speakers presenting and discussing key issues facing logistics and supply chain management practitioners. Global Assets in a Constantly Shifting Supply Chain. & & Changing Landscape”.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 22, 2019

Manufacturing has been the lifeblood of the global economy for hundreds of years. Because manufacturers have historically moved factories to regions featuring cheap labor and few regulatory restrictions (sometimes referred to as outsourcing or offshoring), a misconception has arisen about the importance manufacturing to national economies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 13, 2023

My first digital supply chain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.) The fear is the readiness of adoption of a laggard industry where only 3% of manufacturers are early adopters. Traditional planning taxonomies focus on the optimization of functional metrics. Stay well and thanks for reading my blog.

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ThroughPut

MAY 22, 2024

Following this, data sources are identified and shared, and success metrics and business outcomes are defined so that everyone works toward the same goals. Step 3: Metric Selection During the next step, we focus on validating key metrics. Global Cement Manufacturer Achieves $1.5M

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IQMS

JULY 24, 2019

With a focus on business process improvement, our consultants are regularly out in the field guiding manufacturers and distributors that are challenged with managing the complexity of their operations. Once the metrics are defined and understood, the next step is determining where in the process they are relevant. Real-World Success.

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OptiProERP

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The global pandemic has brought significant changes in the manufacturing industry. To grow, small manufacturers need to rethink their production processes and consider digital solutions. Many small-scale manufacturers are ready to go digital but investing in a new ERP system raises some concerns for them. from 2019 to 2026.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 4, 2015

Editor's Note: As a third party logistics company with a focus on better Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) freight management, we have several shippers who are in the manufacturing industry. We relay on guest bloggers and the expertise of others for manufacturing best practices. His 5 golden metrics center on performance management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. The demand latency for a semiconductor manufacturer is 180-220 days, while a chemical manufacturer has a latency of 150-280 days.

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Taulia

JUNE 26, 2023

Blog Expert Advice 8 min read 26 Jun 2023 By Taulia Share: Share via linkedin Share via twitter Share via facebook Share via email Copied Copy page URL to clipboard The supply chain process: Step by step The supply chain process influences how effectively you manage costs, mitigate risks, and meet customer expectations.

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

Improving semiconductor manufacturing yields up to 30%, reducing scrap rates, and optimizing fab operations is achievable with machine learning. Manufacturers care most about finding new ways to grow, excel at product quality while still being able to take on short lead-time production runs from customers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. This blog post formed in my head as I worked with clients this month. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” It has been awhile. Background.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

At the end of every presentation, one of my clients always says, “Let’s fix the basics.” Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. ” I smiled and thanked her for her contribution to my blog. He got the point.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 7, 2015

If nothing else, this blog reinforces the importance of establishing goals and measuring performance. Which metrics are most important? Everyone would agree that the big buckets of metrics are Service, Revenue, Inventory (Cash), and Cost, which support your company’s strategic goals. Just Google it. How are they calculated?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Here, I will share my insights and hope that you will share yours as you read my blog. As companies outsourced—greater dependency on third parties for manufacturing and transportation—and asset utilization grew from 10% to 35% ROIC the management of the supply chain became more complex. Presentations are hand-picked.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 24, 2023

Even for companies who have implemented supply chain solutions, the replication of data (with each application having its own data store) and latency in data updates from one solution to another preclude manufacturers from achieving synchronized near real-time response. The end result?

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 11, 2022

As with many tech conferences, this was the first opportunity to conduct an in-person event, but Kinaxis management elected to also livestream many of the keynote events and customer presentations. As Supply Chain Matters readers are likely aware, Kinaxis has been a continuous thought leadership sponsor of our blog.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

This blog was started in 2010. Today, 270 posts and five years later, I am thankful for the opportunity to sit at my kitchen table and communicate to almost 20,000 supply chain professionals globally (directly through this blog and through connections on Linkedin). Manufacturing is core to the middle class and a healthy economy.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 28, 2023

This second in this series provides a specific focus for the now growing importance for increased operational excellence and efficiencies for companies whose products are anchored in process and batch manufacturing process environments.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The ability to ramp up and sustain manufacturing output is a further challenge in order to generate needed cash to sustain operations. While progress was indicated against key business performance metrics, investors prompted a reported 25 percent decline in the company’s stock value. Net loss was reported as $2.8 All rights reserved.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 19, 2024

Logistics presents a formidable challenge in the ready mix concrete (RMC) industry. For ready mix concrete manufacturers, managing logistics effectively is crucial. This was evident in our work with an RMC manufacturer grappling with these very issues. For obvious reasons!

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Even though things seem to be going well (all of the meeting details are well-executed and the speaker is giving an energized presentation), the room is eerily quiet. I will write more on this in my next blog post.). Tomorrow, I get to deliver this message to a large manufacturing client. These new technologies are evolving. (I

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QAD

JULY 29, 2021

Mozart, Metallica and Manufacturing Operations Management. It is impossible to visually monitor thousands of metrics and, because data used in analytics is increasingly real-time, those thousands of metrics change often. The Adoption of Augmented Analytics in Manufacturing. A Roadmap for Augmented Analytics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

So, with labor day approaching, I am penning a blog on supply chain talent. Before I started doing this research, I believed procurement and manufacturing were aligned. While this is the case in 50% of the organizations, there are many organizations with large alignment gaps between finance/operations and procurement/manufacturing.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 10, 2022

Giles notes, “Unpredictable events happening outside an organization can be negative or positive, but either present greater VUCA, which makes it more difficult for leaders to make decisions.” Taiwan manufacturers 60% of global semiconductors. Semiconductor manufacturing consumes 10% of the island’s water supply.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. Yesterday we published the top 10 most read manufacturing articles of 2015. . These metrics should be reviewed frequently to ensure supply chain success.

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Resilinc

MAY 16, 2023

In this blog, we look at the top high-risk commodities to watch in 2023, including where they come from, what they are used for, and why you should pay attention. #1 Presently, The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the top producer of cobalt—making 71% of the world’s supply. Read more about domestic U.S.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Supply chain conversations have shifted from the boardroom to the dining room, (where delayed shipments for birthday presents causes nail biting family anguish) as these disruptions impact our daily lives. A great plan must be executed against, and include financial metrics. appeared first on QAD Blog.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2022

It can be a minefield and sometimes not overly obvious how to justify whether you need to hire such a firm, this blog will address this with providing 7 reasons to hire a supply chain consulting firm. The consultant(s) can help evaluate and present all viable solutions providing the most cost-effective recommendations.

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3PL Insights

MAY 3, 2021

Evans365 accesses and analyzes data sets from Evans’ warehouse management system and other data sources and presents findings graphically. We will continue to improve evans365 by integrating additional data sources and providing even more valuable metrics,” Evans says. This is only the beginning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2013

Recently, I wrote a blog post that contrasted Colgate and Unilever. In this blog post, I share insights from Michael Corbo, the head of supply chain at Colgate. For example, we seldom outsource manufacturing. We take pride in our innovations in manufacturing. We manage supply chain metrics. Success is never final.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

I recently presented this slide to a group of consultants, and a person that I love in the audience raised his hand and said, “Lora, let’s just face it. One of my favorite interviews on this topic, that I recently completed for my upcoming book Metrics That Matter , was with Amway’s Chief Supply Chain Officer George Calvert.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

In our work on the Supply Chains to Admire report , we tracked the progress of manufacturing, retailing and distribution companies for the period of 2006 to 2013 and 2009-2013. We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

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