GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2016

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? IT Systems?

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It gives you the accurate data you need to make the best decisions for your brand, and positions you to meet customer expectations while reducing the cost of doing business. There are two main ways businesses can track inventory: manually, using spreadsheets and logbooks; or automated, using inventory software systems.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the dynamic world of manufacturing, the quest for operational excellence is unending. This platform is a testament to QAD’s commitment to operational excellence, offering a holistic approach that focuses on optimizing people, processes and systems. Join Us at the Lumenia ERP Head-to-Head Event!

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

“Reach out to other departments about ways to collaborate on sustainability initiatives, and talk to your executive team to gain buy in.” Patrick’s Day is an Excellent Time for Supply Chains to Think Green first appeared on Enterra Solutions. First, they suggest a intra-company conversation take place. The post St.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. He owned licenses of software planning from the ERP provider, and he believed that the ERP solution could not meet the specification. The volatile meat market changes daily.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Trends and business drivers shaping Medical Device Manufacturing Medical device manufacturers should take note of the following key trends and opportunity drivers: Agility Medical Device manufacturers face the challenge of meeting customer demands for diverse and rapidly delivered healthcare options.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Working with Excel spreadsheets does not contribute the efficiency, speed and agility necessary for planning teams to bring the best plans to the company. For the decision making process, the comparison of scenarios in an easy and objective way based on the indicators allows the choice based mainly on a rationalized financial criteria.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

General AI is a self-learning form of artificial intelligence based on language processing to learn across systems. Additionally, the tight integration of ERP to APS (Advanced Planning) makes the system nervous and throws supply chain results out of balance, increasing the bullwhip impact. Not a good thing.) How so, you might say?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. They are impatient that they know more about pizza’s status for lunch before their zoom meeting than the inbound shipment status for their critical manufacturing run. Job satisfaction wanes as the days filled with an endless cycle of meetings, with many not useful.

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2023

How many: Plan production down to the exact number of units that will enable you to meet current and forecasted demand. You can then create a supply plan that stipulates which materials you should be purchasing and how you should be moving them between facilities to keep your supply chain balanced.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 18, 2022

At the end of a long day of a strategy session on supply chain excellence with a client, I needed to fill up some time in an agenda. Through a series of meetings to drive consensus, the team degraded the quality of the demand plan by 27%. (In The strategy day owner was a global process center of excellence leader. The result?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

While we speak of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enablement and better engines (think math) within existing systems, few question why we cannot drive an end-to-end signal across decision support frameworks. Q3 is a tough quarter: the list of companies failing to meet revenue guidance will continue to grow. It does not exist.

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QAD

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In the age of the Amazon B2C, buy-it-now, get-it-now landscape, B2B buyers are finding themselves also wanting the quick and easy shopping experience B2C companies offer, and some actually excel at. Many had to scramble to meet the enormous demand and are still unsure of how to gain the upper hand. .

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Precoro

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Read about a venture capital studio that implemented procurement software to manage purchases for 10 portfolio companies in addition to their own. Redbud Brands went from not knowing if a purchase order was approved to making every payment in time. There was no tracking system in place on the procurement nor on the finance side.

Procurement Solutions 105

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SCMDOJO

JULY 28, 2022

The purchasing department purchases different types of goods and services. However, when you buy something, you may not always know all the suppliers that offer a particular product. The registration systems are usually electronic or internet-based but can also be processed in the paper.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Consumers are demanding faster shipping, better visibility and excellent customer experience from the places they shop. Smart retailers are adopting a digital-first or mobile-first strategy to take advantage of the growing number of consumers taking the digital path to purchase.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 22, 2024

As your operation gets bigger, you will probably need to investigate potential upgrades for your systems. Invoicing takes too long, slowing cash flow If you are experiencing a few of these signs, it’s time to seriously think about moving to an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Software scales up better than people do.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But what’s a sourcing agency or sourcing agent and how does it make buying things easier? Let’s uncover the mystery behind the role of sourcing agencies and see how they make the job of buying things much simpler. They play a big role in making sure the whole process of buying things goes smoothly from start to finish.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 24, 2015

It never ceases to surprise me when I hear how many enterprises entrust a mission-critical task to the desktop spreadsheet software Excel®. Consider the Supply Chain Insights report, Research in Review (Nov 2014), that states: “Many companies have five to 30 Enterprise Resource Planning systems and two to three supply chain planning systems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peeling Back the Lid on Supply Chain World Salad In this world, where board discussions focus on eliminating waste and meeting corporate social responsibility goals, supply chain teams respond with projects like end-to-end planning, control towers, and real-time decisions. days to receive a purchase order confirmation.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 7, 2016

Deciding to buy a transportation management system (TMS) is a big decision and there are a lot of factors to consider. As a customer begins the initial process of utilizing new software, there is a period of time spent ramping up on system knowledge and working through day-to-day operations. Building the Partnership.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Fortunately, having the appropriate pallet racking system can help address these challenges. There is a wide range of pallet racking systems on the market, and choosing the right one could be downright confusing. So, here are several tips to help you decide on the pallet racking system that would best meet your warehouse needs.

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QAD

AUGUST 3, 2022

ERP systems have the ability to transform manufacturing companies, optimize operations, increase productivity, cut costs and help businesses remain competitive. It’s a type of software or system businesses use to plan and manage their daily activities, like their supply chain, manufacturing, services, financials and other operations.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Supply chain managers require visibility to track the necessary components from a purchase order for production or to fulfill a customer order. Shippers’ internal system infrastructure and processes must be ready for data exchange and connectivity with external providers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2022

The solution needs to enable real-time visibility and collaboration across your supply chain to meet demand and ensure the accuracy of quality, quantity and timeliness of supply — all to further a more resilient supply chain. Organizations need to consider several factors for collaboration to be effective.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

Heavily booked and running from meeting to meeting, I was late. The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. As I squeezed into the middle seat of a crowded conference room, I got the stare. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The systems–based on shipment and order data–were out of step with the market. With fixed models and hard-wired data feeds, teams could not adjust the planning systems to use consumption data or market indicators. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. The reason?

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Procurement planning functionality (essentially the planning of future purchase orders) is typically a subset of broader supply planning applications that plan manufacturing work orders, inventory levels, shipments, as well as purchase orders, to meet demand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Well, we also know that many legacy systems will not be able to support all these changes quickly and cost-effectively. While we might go and get the best of the solutions out there to meet today’s challenges and leverage today’s technology, that’s not going to come with a lifetime guarantee that it will meet all our needs in the years ahead.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. eAuctions technology can reduce the cost of purchasing products and services by up to 20%. It’s time for the Auctioneer to take the stage!

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Herlitz Inventory Management

MAY 4, 2023

selected HIMPACT by Herlitz Inventory Management as its new purchasing system in February 2023. The HIMPACT System will help Krasdale Foods build up the foundation of its current solution before making a full transition to HIMPACT in the coming months. KFI) will be switching to the HIMPACT purchasing system.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

According to a new study from Oracle, 84% of people say delays would cause them to cancel their order and 80% say it would cause them to stop buying from a brand altogether. It is important to have visibility across your whole supply chain to avoid out of stock situations and offer excellent service to customers.

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Arena Solutions

DECEMBER 16, 2020

And, if you are a medical device company, one of these projects will be a quality management system (QMS) solution to meet the compliance requirements of FDA, EU MDR, and ISO at scale. How long can you get by with Excel, Dropbox, email, and Zoom calls? PLM helps you do this. Before we start, a disclaimer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Theme 2: Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies. In 2023, consumers will be less forgiving and poised to buy from retailers whose delivery performance is commensurate with the rest of the shopping experience. Figure 1: U.S. Container Import Volume Year-over-Year Comparison. Somewhat nailed it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

Within IT organizations, there are many zealots of existing systems. It requires the oversight of a non-linear, and often very unpredictable, system. Systems thinking is tough for people with a transactional mindset. As a result, the functions do not align to drive flows and small changes thrown the system out of balance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Mr. Welty founded a company that sold warehouse management systems (WMS) called AllPoints Systems in 1987. The company buying his company, EXE Technologies, is now infamous among those who have followed the WMS market. We asked for $2 million to buy more robots and then shortly thereafter another $4m. Fail Until You Win.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 20, 2022

The platform has risen enormously in recent years, and so has people’s skepticism, questioning the possible risks of buying from AliExpress. It’s a big benefit when buying from AliExpress. It’s also worth noting that Chinese citizens can’t buy directly from AliExpress. Is AliExpress Safe?

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