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Production Planning Software: Your Comprehensive Guide

Logility

Your Comprehensive Guide to Production Planning Software The benefits of production planning software vs scheduling are about the granularity of the plan: capacity plans (or master production schedules) are not granular and factor in less granular things, like high level capacity, forecasts, inventory, and transfer times.

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Emerging and Persistent Consumer Packaged Goods Trends

Enterra Insights

A strong consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector is essential for a healthy U.S. Unfortunately, high-quality, sustainable and ‘cheap’ don’t usually go hand-in-hand, so retailers are navigating a number of competing purchasing priorities.” ”[5] • Increase in private label purchasing. economic activity.”[1]

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Achieve Seamless Material Flow in Industrial Equipment with Material Synchronization

DELMIA Quintiq

Industrial equipment manufacturers today are operating in an increasingly complex and ever-evolving landscape. Furthermore, the manufacturing workforce gap is a growing concern across all industries. Furthermore, the manufacturing workforce gap is a growing concern across all industries. In this sector.

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The Risk of Venture Capital Takeover of Supply Chain Software Providers–Anaplan A New Victim

Supply Chain Shaman

It is the buying of software companies to profit from maintenance or service revenues paid by manufacturers and retailers to their established software partners. Venture capitalists invest in the software industry to make money for their shareholders (financial markets). My impression? The recent victim is Anaplan, Inc.

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Procurement and Supply Chain are Smarter Together – Practical Use Cases

Logistics Viewpoints

In a previous post , I made a case for how the Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) and Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) are smarter together. Accordingly Supply Chain and Procurement will need continuous collaboration. By aligning supply chain and procurement, spend can be considered more holistically.

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Climate Change is Also Changing the Consumer Packaged Goods Sector

Enterra Insights

Both consumers and enterprises in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector are taking notice. Analysts at NielsenIQ observe, “Positive consumer sentiment toward sustainability has been growing for more than a decade, but the impact of purchasing preferences has yet to inspire a green revolution within the retail industry.

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3 Myths About Voice-Warehouse Management System Integration

Logistics Viewpoints

There are 3 common myths when it comes to adding new voice solutions to existing host or warehouse management systems (WMS): The Legacy Myth – You need a Tier 1 WMS to use voice-directed mobile applications so you should replace your custom-built systems or upgrade your legacy WMS package before looking at other solutions.