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Flow manufacturing leverages techniques to help manufacturers create any product on any given day, in any given quantity
including the "quantity of one" (i.e., through the so-called mixed-model production), while keeping inventories to a minimum
and shortening cycle times in order to quickly fill custome (...)
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Flow manufacturing leverages techniques to help manufacturers create any product on any given day, in any given quantity including
the "quantity o...
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2004-01-14
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Transitioning to Lean with Oracle Flow Manufacturing. Get Case Studies and Other Software to Use In Your Self-assessment for
Transitioning to Lean with Oracle Flow Manufacturing. Lean execution strategies within enterprises and across supply chains
can dramatically reduce cycle times, improve quality, red (...)
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Transitioning to Lean with Oracle Flow Manufacturing. Get Case Studies and Other Software to Use In Your Self-assessment for
Transitioning to Lean ...
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2010-03-11
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While lean/flow leverages practices to stay ahead of actual demand, traditional approaches better coordinate secondary, back-office
systems like accounting and HR. Moreover, flow should be a company-wide strategy that impacts more than manufacturing. (...)
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While lean/flow leverages practices to stay ahead of actual demand, traditional approaches better coordinate secondary, back-office
systems like a...
Published:
2004-01-15
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Intentia, Fujitsu Glovia, QAD, and SSA Global's solutions supporting lean manufacturing are examined. Which areas the extended
enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors excel in depends on their original ERP system's suitability for repetitive versus
to-order environments. (...)
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Intentia, Fujitsu Glovia, QAD, and SSA Global's solutions supporting lean manufacturing are examined. Which areas the
extended enterprise resource...
Published:
2006-02-20
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In times of economic recession, many businesses take the opportunity to look inward and seek ways to streamline their operations.
It’s no wonder that lean manufacturing has been such a hot topic across the manufacturing industry. Lean manufacturing helps
manufacturers work smarter and more efficiently, (...)
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... Lean manufacturing helps manufacturers work smarter and more efficiently,
and has ... of traditional just-in-time (JIT) and demand flow manufacturing
concepts. ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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All good lean systems have both physical systems in the plant and near real time information technology backbones that centralize
data. The primary advantage of enterprise systems is that they can handle considerably more information than can be accommodated
manually. (...)
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All good lean systems have both physical systems in the plant and near real time information technology backbones that centralize
data. The primar...
Published:
2006-02-16
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A number of lean manufacturing tools and practices have long been used to reduce manufacturing waste. These include the five
S's, visual controls, standardized work, mistake proofing, total productive maintenance, cellular manufacturing, single-digit
setup, pull systems, sequencing, activity-based costin (...)
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A number of lean manufacturing tools and practices have long been used to reduce manufacturing waste. These include the five
S's, visual controls,...
Published:
2006-02-14
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Abstract:
Users increasingly look for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system designed for a specific business, since software
that combines industry-specific functionality with the flexibility to accommodate each company's unique processes goes a long
way toward improving the functional fit and the speed of (...)
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Users increasingly look for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system designed for a specific business, since software
that combines industry-s...
Published:
2004-05-03
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Cover-time planning (CTP) is a "pull" system, but with the intent of planning and not merely waiting for the execution time
to act. (...)
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Cover-time planning (CTP) is a "pull" system, but with the intent of planning and not merely waiting for the execution
time to act.
Published:
2005-08-09
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While lean/flow leverages practices to stay ahead of actual demand, traditional approaches better coordinate secondary, back-office
systems like accounting and HR. Moreover, flow should be a company-wide strategy that impacts more than manufacturing. (...)
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While lean/flow leverages practices to stay ahead of actual demand, traditional approaches better coordinate secondary, back-office
systems like a...
Published:
2004-01-15
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... ERP solutions capable of supporting “black hole manufacturing” (pure inputs ...
When I hear “LEAN” I hear six sigma and JIT in the same breath. ...
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2010-08-05
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Lean Supply Chain. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.
When flexibility and speed are requisites for success, it’s the lean organization that leads the race. World-class manufacturing
organizations know the value of focusing on t (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Lean Supply Chain. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and
Time-Bound. When flexibility ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Transforming an enterprise to a lean supply chain requires both enabling technology and discipline. By following some specific
guidelines to extend lean methodology, you can proceed through your supply chain transformation to become effectively lean. (...)
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Transforming an enterprise to a lean supply chain requires both enabling technology and discipline. By following some specific
guidelines to exten...
Published:
2005-09-14
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Abstract:
By being able to address the needs of all stakeholders across the tiers of the supply chain network, and with the marketplace/private
trading exchange (PTX) tool as well, PipeChain can connect trading partners at various levels of the supply chain and deliver
a value proposition of information connectivi (...)
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By being able to address the needs of all stakeholders across the tiers of the supply chain network, and with the marketplace/private
trading exch...
Published:
2002-01-01
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... business gains as you introduce JIT (just-in-time ... In the lean
ERP model, especially where cellular production techniques in manufacturing are introduced ...
Published:
2008-02-05
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Even before the mega merger, PeopleSoft had already set it sights on a bigger manufacturing presence. PeopleSoft’s acquisition
of mid-to-large ERP system developer J.D. Edwards this summer, and most recently demand flow and lean manufacturing software
solution from JCIT, might indicate some deep though (...)
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Even before the mega merger, PeopleSoft had already set it sights on a bigger manufacturing presence. PeopleSoft’s acquisition
of mid-to-large ERP...
Published:
2004-01-27
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QAD has long shifted its focus from being a mere ERP vendor dedicated to the industrial mid-market to fully leveraging the
Internet in the applications it provides to manufacturers and distributors to link their back-office systems to those of their
business partners via private trading exchanges. (...)
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QAD has long shifted its focus from being a mere ERP vendor dedicated to the industrial mid-market to fully leveraging the
Internet in the applica...
Published:
2003-09-22
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Take advantage of expertise about lean manufacturing. With all the discussion, books, Web sites, and other materials on the
topic of lean manufacturing, it’s hard to know which resources are credible—much less understand the mounds of information.
The first part of this series breaks down the defi (...)
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Take advantage of expertise about lean manufacturing. With all the discussion, books, Web sites, and other materials on the
topic of lean manufactu...
Published:
2010-03-11
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The theory of constraints (TOC) is similar to, yet different from, the lean philosophy. TOC focuses on optimizing production
through critical bottlenecks in order to meet market demand. (...)
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The theory of constraints (TOC) is similar to, yet different from, the lean philosophy. TOC focuses on optimizing production
through critical bott...
Published:
2006-02-22
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Abstract:
Users increasingly look for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system designed for a specific business, since software
that combines industry-specific functionality with the flexibility to accommodate each company's unique processes goes a long
way toward improving the functional fit and the speed of (...)
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Users increasingly look for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system designed for a specific business, since software
that combines industry-s...
Published:
2004-05-03