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How ERP enables traceability in the automotive parts and accessories industry

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Globally linked economies, tight competition, and emerging markets all force constant review of production goals, suppliers, and long-term strategies. The automotive industry sets some of the highest quality standards in manufacturing, driven by a need to ensure safety and a desire to control costs. In the past Toyota had to recall 2.9

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Why You Should Conduct Internal Quality Audits

Arena Solutions

If you’re a product developer, manufacturer, or part of an engineering team, you know the excitement, challenge, and profitability that come from transforming an idea into an actual product. With over 25 years of quality expertise, Christine has worked with many top firms assisting, advising, and setting up their internal auditing strategies.

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Applying Porter Five Forces Analysis to Drive Category Management Insights

Supply Chain View from the Field

Developed by a Harvard Business school academic, Michael Porter, in his seminal book Competitive Strategy , published in 1980, the framework has proven to be one of the most important tools in the category management toolbox. This tool is used to describe competitive forces in a market economy. The five forces are: 1. Product differences.

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Brexit: 5 Things Supply Chain Leaders Should Consider to Prepare for its Impact

AIMMS

Transport companies are already reporting higher costs and manufacturers will undoubtedly be affected as well. New sources of risk post-Brexit include tighter customs and administrative control processes, cost increases, and border crossings that are more prone to error. Implementing an Analytics Strategy to Rise up to New Challenges.

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Jaro Caban: “Establishing S&OP is a challenging journey”

Supply Chain Movement

This is a four to five year journey and we already have a framework and tactical strategy in place. Thirdly I have set up global raw material supply (GMS), a supply entity that consolidates CAN’s global purchase orders and global vendors to plan and deliver raw materials for our manufacturing sites.

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Brexit: 5 Things Supply Chain Leaders Should Consider to Prepare for its Impact

AIMMS

Transport companies are already reporting higher costs and manufacturers will undoubtedly be affected as well. New sources of risk post-Brexit include tighter customs and administrative control processes, cost increases, and border crossings that are more prone to error. Implementing an Analytics Strategy to Rise up to New Challenges.

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

I am facilitating a workshop between supply chain business visionaries and technology innovators. Could we use Open Source Hadoop to process transactions across all networks with powerful in-memory processing? Another source of disappointment is the lack of capabilities in the IBP modeling engines.