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Manufacturing Inventory Management: The Manufacturer’s Guide

Unleashed

Manufacturing inventory management is crucial to the success and profitability of your manufacturing operations. This guide for manufacturers explains how it works and explores the most effective ways to manage inventory in manufacturing. In this manufacturing inventory management guide What is manufacturing inventory management?

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Capacity Planning Software – Plan, Analyze and Prepare for capacity

ThroughPut

What is Capacity planning software? Capacity planning software is a programmable solution that helps manufacturing organizations understand the actual production capacity needed to address fluctuating demands for its products and services. How much capacity buffer is needed for those?

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Megatrends Shaping Supply Chain Innovation

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Port congestion, capacity constraints, large increases in rates across all modes, labour shortages and long delays in shipments—these are just some of the operating realities supply chain and logistics professionals face today. Will the environment improve in 2022 or get worse? Resilience through technical capability and consistency.

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Ten Supply Chain Predictions for 2023

NC State SCRC

These predictions are perhaps not completely original – but they represent what I think will be important guidelines for supply chain executives to consider. Inventory will remain bloated for the first half of 2023, – and supplier relationships will be tested. He writes a weekly blog on Linked In which I follow religiously.

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Contingency Planning Amid a Potential Rail Strike

QAD

Just when manufacturers and distributors thought some semblance of “normal” might be returning, the possibility of a railroad strike has resurfaced. While responding to supply challenges by adapting to new ways of working, increasing inventories and improving digital and risk management strategies, manufacturers understand the harsh truth:

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Planning Optimized – A Never Ending Journey

Logility

But, despite its importance, this goal is too often unreached—and if it is reached, it may last only a short time. Just look at Thomas Edison. Theoretically, a resilient supply chain can be built by creating redundancies—holding extra inventory, maintaining just-in-case capacity, having many suppliers, etc.

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Keeping 3PL services flowing during a pandemic

Kanban Logistics

From trucking capacity issues to staffing challenges, supply operations have been impacted, but continue to move. For starters, we continue to adhere to CDC guidelines for preventing the spread of COVID. Just this past week, we had our annual audit to maintain our ISO-9001 and AS9100 certifications.

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