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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

The client leaned across the table and asked, “Is a customer-centric supply chain strategy the same as a demand-driven supply chain strategy?” Drawing from the Whiteboard: Building Customer-Centric Supply Chain Strategies. It had been a long night. However, I had little time to be tired. ” I smiled.

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Inventory Management – The Essential Guide for 2024

ThroughPut

Start reading to find out how to optimize your inventory processes, reduce costs, and enhance operational efficiency in 2024. There are several types of inventory that businesses need to manage: Raw Materials are the basic materials used to produce goods. Let’s jump in. What Is Inventory Management?

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8 Ways PLM Can Support Circularity Concepts for Product Development

Arena Solutions

Circularity can deliver significant material cost savings through value chains and manufacturing processes, and create additional, value and new business opportunities. Reducing waste in production lines is more difficult than expected when transitioning from a linear (extract-make-dispose) business model.

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8 Ways PLM Can Support Circularity Concepts for Product Development

Arena Solutions

Circularity can deliver significant material cost savings through value chains and manufacturing processes, and create additional, value and new business opportunities. Reducing waste in production lines is more difficult than expected when transitioning from a linear (extract-make-dispose) business model.

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Making quality management work in manufacturing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Quality management is one of those things that you only realize the importance of when it does not work. When quality controls are on track, they improve efficiency and cost, and things hum along. But when they go awry, quality issues can drive up material and labor costs, threaten margins, and result in missed orders.

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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

IIoT The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), an extension of the IoT to industrial applications continues to be a major trend. Manufacturers can formulate data-driven decisions on sourcing, production, fulfillment, cost reduction, and other factors, especially if they have access to statistical insights.

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Imagine the Supply Chain of the Future

Supply Chain Insights

While most companies have been able to make progress in one of these two critical metrics in the period of 2006-2013, they have not been able to make progress on both together. Will wearables, voice, internet of things, and robotics redefine warehouse management to reduce costs to pick goods by 30-40%? We think so.