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What manufacturers need to know about IIoT

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In manufacturing, the Internet of Things (IoT) is the technology that will allow companies to purposely instrument their equipment and products to collect data and then use it to improve, experiment and develop value. IIoT refers to the usage in areas such as manufacturing plants and supply chains. Manufacturing efficiency.

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

It can move quickly from a situation where there is too much capacity in the market and buyers having the whip hand, to a situation where shippers are begging carriers to take their loads at almost any price. Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer. An RFP is a data intensive exercise.

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What is Supply Chain Resilience?

GlobalTranz

Manufacturing and supply chains couldn’t ramp up fast enough. Orchestrating the efforts of suppliers, manufacturers, truck drivers, warehouses, retail employees, and other critical links in the supply chain was no small feat. Closures and social distancing measures impacted manufacturing. Overall, U.S.

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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

Moreover, this exercise might need to be repeated several times depending on how the war proceeds. We can use this same method to represent customer orders, suppliers, manufacturing sites, warehouses, transportation assets, and all other agents that you have in your company’s value chain.

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The Food and Beverage Industry is in Crisis – How will you Respond?

Logility

Drilling down, you’ll learn that demand planning, inventory, replenishment, manufacturing and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) capabilities are the building blocks of supply chain planning excellence. Second – and this one is cultural – it’s a good time to tell analysts that for now there are no bad ideas.

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Laying the Foundation for Advanced Supply Chain Planning Capabilities in the F&B Industry

Logility

As a former Director of Supply Chain Management for a multi-national, multi-channel food manufacturer, I experienced first-hand the variety of challenging problems faced by supply chain planners in the unforgiving Food and Beverage Industry. I definitely earned some grey hair while leading supply chain activities in the F&B industry.

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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

The pursuit of ever higher efficiency and speed have dominated transformation initiatives for more than forty years, driven in large part by the assumption that raw materials, commodities, warehouse space, transportation capacity and labor will be plentiful and immediately available at stable and often declining cost.