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4 Ways to Lift Manufacturing Productivity: The MFP Approach

Unleashed

To put that another way: by the time a business in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan or the United States gets to Thursday they have produced, on average, what the UK needs a full Monday-Friday to do. The issue is also particularly bad for manufacturers. For many manufacturers, automation is synonymous with new equipment.

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Procurement Experiences, Trends and the Future!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Check out What is Virtual Procurement and Why Should You Care? Where is procurement, outsourcing, sourcing, supply chain, and purchasing going? Secondarily, we will include information from other procurement professionals and procurement firms about their experiences, what they forecast, and what they are seeing.

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What is the Biggest Blind Spot in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

In countless surveys over the past decade, manufacturers and retailers rank “improving supply chain visibility” as one of their top priorities. An interruption in delivery of parts from a partner in Europe can therefore also have implications in China,” said [Markus Duesmann, BMW board member in charge of purchasing and supplier network].

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How Microsoft & ThroughPut are helping Global Manufacturers increase Output during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how every Operations Professional can help

ThroughPut

Automotive manufacturers are remobilizing to produce ventilators. Our constraint is not our ability to help global manufacturing at scale, but to help global manufacturing in time. The Defense Production Act has been invoked to meet PPE demand in the United States.

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Roberto Crippa: “If you try to manage new business with old rules you fail”

Supply Chain Movement

Until June of this year, Tecniplast, an Italian manufacturer of laboratory equipment and specialised plastics, did not have a formal supply chain. The business and the mind-set of the company had already moved from one that used to sell products to one that manufactures and delivers complex solutions.

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How Microsoft & ThroughPut are helping Global Manufacturers increase Output during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how every Operations Professional can help

ThroughPut

Automotive manufacturers are remobilizing to produce ventilators. Our constraint is not our ability to help global manufacturing at scale, but to help global manufacturing in time. The Defense Production Act has been invoked to meet PPE demand in the United States.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

Orders are typically placed by different factions within a single facility, and fulfilled by multiple manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors. Centralisation then, is all about taking procurement and logistics out of the hands of medical professionals and placing it under its own governance structure.