SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 2, 2023

As members of one of the most highly regulated industries in the world, medical device manufacturers face numerous challenges. From stringent quality standards to comprehensive documentation requirements, Class 1 and 2 manufacturers must navigate a complex landscape to ensure compliance and product excellence.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 28, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides the second in a multi-part series addressing the renewed importance of production planning and operational excellence in this very uncertain and constantly changing business environment. Refocusing on Operational Excellence In the previous section, we identified a number of drivers for operational efficiency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. The research project analyzed 1200 combinations of 180 metrics for four hundred companies for the period of 2010-2012. The reason? The result? The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. While many employers would have penalized the employees for tablet breakage , Peggy explored the world of wearables to enable her digital manufacturing transformation. At a Kaizen event of the quality team, IT came up with using Google Glass as an alternative.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Responsible for 8% of global greenhouse gases, the fashion industry is a major polluter, especially with the onslaught of “fast fashion”, where people will buy clothes for an Instagram photo and then never wear them again. Leadership Excellence for the Digital Age – LogiSYM January/February 2018. & Changing Landscape”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches. I disagreed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Background.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The Port of Shenzhen –a central manufacturing and export hub including the Yantian terminal that handles 25% of all U.S.-bound Still, the manufacturing plants and distribution centers are closed. Taiwan manufacturers 60% of global semiconductors. Semiconductor manufacturing consumes 10% of the island’s water supply.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. It is important to benchmark forecast accuracy and similar supply chain metrics against your peers. forecasting product sales at 10,000 stores.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2024

However, this year promises a significant paradigm shift where traditional performance metrics are replaced by technology-driven frameworks, as recent breakthroughs with Generative AI in supply chains have demonstrated. Enter our list of supply chain trends for 2024.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While there was always passionate discussions on companies and metrics, the end goal was to raise awareness of supply chain as a practice. However, they seem to fall under the conglomerate issue, where multiple business units may skew the summary metrics. Most of this middleware was Excel and Meetings. So, drum roll please….

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SupplyPike

MAY 14, 2020

The importance of supply chain management What to watch while consumers are panic buying How to implement supply chain management Supply chain management and Walmart. In the case of online shopping, consumers expect excellent service, on-time supply, and convenient return procedures for unacceptable items. Learn about. Inventory Map.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

Medical Device Manufacturer. In the last five years, while the physician is still important, the buying decisions transitioned from the supplier to the care provider. They are primarily focused on cost management on new purchase decisions. Look at the purchase of materials as a buy-sell transaction.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define. His reasoning? We want to help.

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Cognira

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This blog explores the trends that define this year’s holiday season and the factors that draw the consumer path to purchase. Consumers leverage AI-powered benchmarking tools to track the price of their favorite items and make the purchase once it hits its lowest point. compared to the last year.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

PFAS are also used in the photo-resistance process in semiconductor manufacturing. For example, if a company’s shipment gets stopped by customs at the border, they may be required to show where it was manufactured through proof of purchase orders and invoices. That’s a lot of work that can cause a lot of unnecessary panic.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this Part 2 blog post, we will continue to explore how automotive manufacturers are carrying out effective supply chain initiatives and their innovative solutions. The visibility will include not just the short-term purchase order or ASN-level visibility, but also the tactical kind of forecast collaboration with the suppliers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. While there is work within SAP to rethink SNC and use the assets purchased with Ariba to build multi-tier capabilities, the progress is not encouraging.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Understanding the most valuable inventory control techniques, along with utilizing inventory control template Excel, is essential if you want to ensure effective inventory management. This is achieved by helping business owners determine the right time to restock their items or purchase materials for production.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Proper demand forecasting and inventory control can help ensure a business doesn’t buy insufficient or excessive inventory. Demand forecasting can help you spend less money on both inventory purchase orders and warehousing , as the more inventory you carry, the more expensive it is to store. Ryan Casas, COO of iloveplum. Seasonality.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In fact it is often such a forgotten category that operations personnel are often left to fend for themselves in buying and securing supply. As such it can, out of necessity, become a source of rogue buying behaviour and risky purchases. But this is excellent experience and a great development platform. Conclusion.

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BlueYonder

MAY 18, 2023

This event is put on by Blue Yonder, which is the leading supply chain software company. By using a common data cloud, suppliers, manufacturers, shippers, and retail partners can easily and rapidly share vast amounts of data to collaborate and enable each other to run more efficiently.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

This week, as the east coast of the United States was deluged with rain, I basked in beautiful San Diego sun while attending the Logimed USA event. This was WBR’s first event in the United States targeted for the Medical Device Supply Chain Leader. I had not been to a medical device event and I wanted to listen.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amazon wholesaling is a business model in which products are purchased in bulk, directly from the distributor or manufacturer, and then sold through the Amazon platform to customers at a higher price. Amazon wholesaling works by purchasing existing branded products in bulk quantities and reselling them through the Amazon marketplace.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. At Supply Chain Insights , this is our passion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. ” I then countered, “Why don’t we use this spring’s Shaman’s Circle to facilitate a new discussion between leading manufacturers and technologists and see if we could create a new way of thinking about the problem?

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Kinaxis

JUNE 30, 2017

There is omni-channel you can buy products anywhere, you can order stuff from your mobile phone and then get delivered to your home, and so on. So as a consumer, you have a lot more channels through which you can engage with the manufacturers. How are supply chains becoming more complex? Think of yourself as a consumer.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Such information should include pricing (including quantity pricing and quantity discounts), purchase currency, margins, transaction histories, and key contact information. It also means you can connect your front-end to the back – i.e. inventory management – which ensures that your customers don’t buy items that you don’t have in stock.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

While traditional forecasting approaches use statistics to model history assuming that historic shipments and order patterns represent future market patterns, in the times of market volatility, especially for manufacturers two-five levels back in the supply chain, traditionally forecasting is not adequate. It is both an art and a science.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 24, 2013

Ten years ago, Amazon was an online book retailer, yet today a family can buy a wide variety of items, including groceries with next day delivery. The heated discussion was on the use of store displays and experiences to convert shoppers in the store to buy. The traditional metrics within each silo are a barrier. Amazon Effect.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

The APICS event was not there. These can be shift in the channel, issues in manufacturing, increasing variability in transportation, or a shift in commodity prices. Flexible Manufacturing Scheduling Practices: The design of manufacturing processes to flex with market fluctuations. <The reasons are usually many.>

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. I am a manufacturing gal by training. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. I am not quite sure.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

From keeping tabs on inventory levels and production schedules to orchestrating order fulfillment, managing transportation, and evaluating supplier performance – it’s your one-stop shop for tracking many events and activities. So, what features should you look for in your supply chain analytics tool?

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ThroughPut

JULY 6, 2021

Do you remember the time when the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns were announced across the world, followed by the panic purchase of essentials to the point where supermarkets and grocery stores were left with empty shelves? Reshaping the manufacturing world to meet new demands. Historical data method. Demand sensing method.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 29, 2017

It matters not what your metric is, you get the same results: too much of our trade spend goes down the drain, doesn’t it? Demand signals include shopping trends, digital footprints of shopping online or looking at recipes, talking to their neighbors and friends on social media, buying habits, and consumption data. 3 Deductions.

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