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Production Planning Software: Your Comprehensive Guide

Logility

Your Comprehensive Guide to Production Planning Software The benefits of production planning software vs scheduling are about the granularity of the plan: capacity plans (or master production schedules) are not granular and factor in less granular things, like high level capacity, forecasts, inventory, and transfer times.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

As companies struggled to respond to increasing business complexity—a growing number of products, channels, and markets with regional preferences—few software applications were equal to managing channel complexity. Replatforming Current Planning Solutions. For example, inflationary costs, lead time variability, conversion rates, etc.)

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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. GEON Embarks on a Digital Transformation GEON Performance Solutions is embarking on a supply chain transformation. The company ships directly to customers and also to distributors.

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ERP for process manufacturing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

While this is wrong for manufacturing in general it is especially wrong for process manufacturers – companies that produce food and beverages, paints, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. For example, the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals vs. processing liquid waste in the mining industry. Types of process manufacturing.

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

I also shared with them my view that companies will ultimately find opportunities for supply chain innovation at the intersection of Software, B2B Connectivity, and Social Networking — a trend best illustrated by the rise of Supply Chain Operating Networks (SCONs). Herman Woltjes, Shell Chemicals – “Logistics Execution”.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

Refractories are products that have been chemically engineered to resist high temperatures. For example, the bricks in a pizza oven are refractory bricks. They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. Making refractory products is complicated and challenging.

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8 Useful Types of Manufacturing Inventory

Unleashed

If you manufacture candles, for example, you need wax, containers for the wax to be poured into, labels, and wicks. Raw materials you might find in a manufacturing facility include: Food ingredients Plastic Metal Wood Glass Fabric Chemicals and gases Coal Oil Minerals 2. In common use, this inventory is called an assembly.