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Supply Chain Planning Software Vendor Selection: What they Won’t Tell You

Logility

Whether your definition of value includes on-time, in-full (OTIF), inventory reduction or optimization, transportation spend, speed of decision making, supply chain costs, net working capital, or a myriad of other value measures, you know your business better than anyone. They’re also how you will hold one another accountable.

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Unleashed Cash Flow Workshop: Experts Share Tips for Generating Cash Flow & Mitigating Risk

Unleashed

As a result, significant amounts of cash flow remain tied up in unmoving inventory. Converting overstocked inventory into positive cash flow While prevention may be preferable to cure, the reality is that many firms are still stuck with excess stock tying up their cash flow and costing them thousands in storage fees. Look at it fresh.

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Industry 4.0 was Delayed, not Cancelled, by the Pandemic

Enterra Insights

” If manufacturers didn’t believe that truism before, they certainly believe now it — thanks to 2020. ” If manufacturers didn’t believe that truism before, they certainly believe now it — thanks to 2020. “Pilots were fruitful enough to convince manufacturers about the importance of data. .

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Manufacturing 4.0 in academia & practice: How SupplyOn contributed to the MIM 2019 conference

SupplyOn

More than 750 participants from 51 countries all over the world came to discuss the latest trends in Manufacturing 4.0 and smart manufacturing systems to inventory control and supply chain management (SCM). The post Manufacturing 4.0 from a wide variety of perspectives. Alexandre Dolgui from IMT Atlantique.

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How ERP enables traceability in the automotive parts and accessories industry

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The automotive industry sets some of the highest quality standards in manufacturing, driven by a need to ensure safety and a desire to control costs. If a batch of components proves to be faulty, it should be traceable back to its original manufacturer, and forward to the cars that may ultimately require repair or recall.

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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #10 Failure to adequately train your supply chain planning staff

Kinaxis

by John Westerveld Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. Reason #7 Making decisions based on bad data (supply chain data accuracy). Do you do it?

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

Requis

On this episode of Supply Chain Next, Rob speaks with host Richard Donaldson about technology, data, supplier relationships, what’s changing as a result of COVID-19, and up-and-coming supply chain talent. On every screen there were moving graphical visualizations of material inventory. The next step is to look at the data.

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