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Manufacturers Should Focus on This Most Critical Component for Manufacturing Operations Excellence

GlobalTranz

We conclude this two part series about manufacturing operations excellence by consultant Chuck Intrieri, by outlaying why manufacturers should focus on a critical component that will help sustain manufacturing operations excellence for years to come. What is Driving Sustainable Manufacturing Operations Excellence? Work centers?

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How to Manage Supply Chains as a Manufacturer with Automation and AI

Locus Robotics

By Geoff Whiting, Senior Writer, Red Stag Fulfillment Applying automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to supply chain management is an excellent way for manufacturers to increase the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of operations. RPA is an excellent tool for automating laborious processes currently executed manually.

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What Retailers Need to Know About Inventory Management for 2016

RFgen

Innovative inventory techniques go from abstract to concrete in 2016. Here are a few inventory management practices that could make or break a company in 2016: Omnichannel Branches Out. This affects warehouse management because inventory employees must prep orders pouring in from numerous sales channels.

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What Retailers Need to Know About Inventory Management for 2016

RFgen

Innovative inventory techniques go from abstract to concrete in 2016. Here are a few inventory management practices that could make or break a company in 2016: Omnichannel Branches Out. This affects warehouse management because inventory employees must prep orders pouring in from numerous sales channels.

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Looking Beyond Red Arrows

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, supply chain leaders focus on unrealistic goals of inventory or costs, they will throw the system out of balance. Growth in car buying stimulated the value chain. In critical industries like semiconductor and computer hardware, growth is down, operating margin is off and inventory turns are declining.

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Supply Chain Leadership Series VI: Pam Heminger, Senior Vice President of Procurement & Planning, Caterpillar

NC State SCRC

As their needs are changing, we need to evolve to meet those needs. My responsibility is to enable operational excellence within our total supply chain, by providing data and insights to our associates to help them make better decisions. This can help you identify the right balance between these different parameters.”

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. Cross-functional teams meet regularly to learn from the voice of the customer. I am not quite sure.