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6 challenges facing medical device manufacturers and how ERP analytics can provide a cure

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Detailed audit trails of all transactions provide transparency and evidence during regulatory audits and can aid in the investigation and resolution of customer complaints, aligning with FDA guidelines. The ability to monitor transfers between multiple warehouses provides complete visibility, ensuring efficient inventory management.

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Why Procurement Management Tool is a Must for Efficient Purchasing

Precoro

Since suppliers and vendors are critical business partners who provide required goods and services, relationships with them should be perceived as partnerships – equal and dynamic with clear guidelines. Warehouse management is key to determining the best time for placing a purchase order and avoiding unnecessary spending. Mobile Work.

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Putting the Supplier Experience at the Forefront of Strategic Procurement

HICX Solutions

As Ramit describes, “Procurement teams really went out aggressively looking for more available suppliers,” adding, “Another example would be in the warehouse network,” with ramifications of materials being shipped to potentially closed locations needing to be dealt with. Other areas now in the spotlight include resilience and logistics.

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Assessing the True Return of Procurement Transformation on Total Shareholder Return: A Tough Proposition

NC State SCRC

While this can be an interesting exercise, it oftens fails to answer the direct of question “how should the procurement process be improved?” This roadmap can be used to develop a set of guidelines for deployment of best practices across an organization. > Warehouse ownership. > >Inventory Turns. >

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

The need for any S&OP process to have an executive sponsor who actively participates in the process, albeit only by exercising final approval over plans and, of course, making any decisions that call for executive authority, cannot be overstated. Warehouse capacity utilisation. The Executive Sponsor. Supply chain cycle times.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

10 Warehouse Productivity Tips for Reducing Downtime Today! View the full post or view the snippet below: If you are a warehouse manager, you would know that handling warehouse operations is not an easy task. Minimizing downtime and increasing productivity are two things that rank high on a warehouse manager’s to-do list.

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Vertical Integration in the Supply Chain: Is it on the Rise?

Logistics Bureau

Warehouses and distribution assets. It doesn’t take too much imagination to see how these acquisitions also increase the market control exercised by the companies concerned. .” But to understand just how vertical, you need to look a little closer at the supply chain of probably the most famous name in coffee anywhere.