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Unleashed SME Supply Chain Resilience Roundtable: Improving Cash Flow in a Manufacturing Business

Unleashed

Product businesses are holding more stock than ever before, creating new cash flow problems for manufacturers. Tim Wright: Founder of two medical equipment manufacturing companies and currently MD of Langcroft Consultancy – specialists in digital transformation. Review how you manufacture things,” Tim says.

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ERP Aids Your Sustainability Initiatives

QAD

Sustainable manufacturing refers to the ability to manage manufacturing operations “in an environmentally and socially responsible manner,” according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Sustainability Objectives for Manufacturers. Where Does ERP Come into Play with Manufacturer Sustainability Efforts?

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Supply Chain’s Must Adapt Before Global Conditions Change

Enterra Insights

He explains, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ How it will self-manage customer inventories. … It provides a clear view of inventory and supply chain activity, and ultimately, it helps create responsive supply chains.”

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8 Inventory Costing Methods That You Might Not Know About

EMERGE App

Inventory costing or valuation is an accounting concept that has a direct impact on your gross profit and thus taxable income. Methods of valuing inventory are simply different cost-flow assumptions about how to allocate your cost of goods available for sale. We’ll start by explaining why inventory costing is important.

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News Round-Up: 3 Businesses Prioritizing a Green Supply Chain

RFgen

Here are three stories from the recent news about companies prioritizing green manufacturing and distribution techniques and what it meant for their overall success: 1. The company’s information indicated 75 percent of the organization’s carbon footprint stems from its supply chain. Apple Wants to Stop Climate Change.

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News Round-Up: 3 Businesses Prioritizing a Green Supply Chain

RFgen

Here are three stories from the recent news about companies prioritizing green manufacturing and distribution techniques and what it meant for their overall success: 1. The company’s information indicated 75 percent of the organization’s carbon footprint stems from its supply chain. Apple Wants to Stop Climate Change.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. I am a manufacturing gal by training. It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. This work is important to me. What drives my passion?