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What’s Affecting Your Lead Time?

Unleashed

The more you understand these issues, the better you can mitigate the delay of sought-after inventory stock to your warehouse. There are cargo ships full of inventory stock stuck at sea or shipping deliveries cancelled , factories are shut down, and quarantine rules have been put into effect. The complexity of parts.

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What is Inventory Management?

EMERGE App

What is Inventory Management? Inventory management, in a nutshell, describes your efforts to manage, assess and report on the flow of your stock of goods. You might be using pencil-and-paper, spreadsheets or sophisticated inventory management software to do this. Two Essential Features of Inventory Management Today.

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How to boost relationships between shippers and 3PLs

DELMIA Quintiq

The manufacturer would benefit from lower inventory levels, while the 3PL operator could gain a better profit margin for being responsive and reacting “on demand”. The logistics operator commits to certain time windows to deliver or pick up goods from the manufacturer, and the agreement is fixed. Discover more. Got a question?

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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

On every screen there were moving graphical visualizations of material inventory. Tom had literally put his inventory on these control towers, and it was all updating in real time. For example, if we’re manufacturing something in China there are labour costs, the costs to ship, plus tariffs. I disagree.

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Sourcing Offices: a shift of paradigm

KEPLER Consulting

Asian countries and China in particular have been privileged destinations for those entities due to cost attractiveness of the area. Last point in the inventory, the tools are most of the time not adapted to the needs of teams and are not giving the right vision for people to monitor their activity.

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The Virtual Twin Experience: How to Use it for Maximum Benefit

DELMIA Quintiq

This can enable you to simulate and optimize physical space and line layouts, workshop operations, and robot operations. Manufacturing & Operations Extend the digital thread to the shop floor Reduce waste, inventory & cycle times to improve productivity and quality.

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IIoT In Manufacturing Update

IQMS

IIoT platforms are beginning to replace MES and related applications, including production maintenance, quality, and inventory management, which are a mix of Information Technology (IT) and Operations Technology (OT) technologies. IoT Analytics relies on econometric modeling to create their forecasts.