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How ERP can make renewable energy companies more efficient

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

These include manufacturers of wind turbines, equipment used for solar power and hydropower, and components used in geothermal plants. It can track, manage and report the book value and depreciation of fixed assets. Revenue management can be improved by automatically generating and dispatching invoices at recurring intervals on time.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods.

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Elephant in the Room: Thoughts on Metrics That Matter in Semiconductor and Hard Disk Drives

Kinaxis

With China already a source for semiconductor raw materials and the China/India end consumer market growing, there will be pressure to supply chips and hard drives to local China/India OEM’s first. – as information moves down the supply chain to the manufacturer. Global pressure. Potential for Tightening Margins.

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Surviving an Economic Downturn in the Retail Sector

Enterra Insights

And sales of big-ticket items like jewelry and electronics have weakened. Customers are in control, and retailers who fail to accurately predict demand are doomed to fail.” Intelligent demand management software is the key technology enabler of lean retail merchandise management.”

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What role will human planners play in the supply chain of the future?

DELMIA Quintiq

Charlie Macdonald, Industry Executive for Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics, Telstra. “If A lot of the decision-making can be enhanced and augmented through very smart, very clever, very quick algorithms, using data sources we never thought imaginable before, but there must be human oversight. Here’s what they had to say.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech- June 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

San Francisco -based Onera provides retail technology that connects inventory across siloed systems and transforms them into a single, real-time source of inventory status. Real-time inventory availability is reportedly provided by tracking inventory across the supply chain and intelligently exposing inventory to any fulfillment channel.

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

Manufacturing systems and regulatory compliance are considered to be very complex, coupled with the limited number suppliers due to the high barriers to entry. Moreover, the aircraft manufacturers have to do whatever it takes to win the order long before the commencement of production.