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Manufacturers must constantly address how to increase customer satisfaction, identify supply chain issues before they become
problems, and lower production costs. In this podcast, Lyndsay Wise and Robert Abate discuss the benefits business intelligence
provides to help address these topics. (...)
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Manufacturers must constantly address how to increase customer satisfaction, identify supply chain issues before they become
problems, and lower p...
Published:
2007-08-08
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In today's competitive engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing environment, procuring components on time and within budget
is crucial. With rising fuel costs and increased international trade, supply chain management software can help ETO organizations
get—and stay—ahead of the competition. (...)
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In today's competitive engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing environment, procuring components on time and within budget
is crucial. With rising f...
Published:
2008-07-18
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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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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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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Quick Response Manufacturing. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. Whatever the reasons for pursuing a lead-time reduction strategy, time compression across all company processes
is critical to growth, and in some cases means surviv (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Quick Response Manufacturing. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. Whatev...
Published:
2010-03-11
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The lack of effective game plans is typically cited as a leading cause of poor system implementation. The following guidelines
provide suggestions for improving the effectiveness of sales and operations planning (S&OP) game plans. (...)
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The lack of effective game plans is typically cited as a leading cause of poor system implementation. The following guidelines
provide suggestions...
Published:
2004-03-26
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Managing Your Supply Chain Using Microsoft Axapta provides an overall understanding of how the system fits together to run
a manufacturing or distribution business. This book excerpt focuses on running the business from the top with sales and operations
planning (S&OP). Variation in operations affect the (...)
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Managing Your Supply Chain Using Microsoft Axapta provides an overall understanding of how the system fits together to run
a manufacturing or dist...
Published:
2004-03-23
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Lean Manufacturing. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.
For years, manufacturers have been driven by sales forecasts and the need to maximize production efficiency at every level
of operation. But in order to be successful, manufactu (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Lean Manufacturing. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.
For years, manufac...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Lean manufacturing is a transformational exercise that requires an organization to cast aside long-held beliefs and business
processes. The five main steps to achieving lean transition are defining value, mapping the value stream, making the activities
flow, responding to customer demand, and continuous (...)
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Lean manufacturing is a transformational exercise that requires an organization to cast aside long-held beliefs and business
processes. The five m...
Published:
2006-02-15
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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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When a global high tech manufacturer of desktop and portable PCs sought to reduce their inbound supply chain lead-time and
costs, they came to Optum for help improving their visibility to, and coordination with, inbound suppliers, and contract manufacturers.
Learn how it integrated partners and its syste (...)
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... Type: White Paper Description: When a global high tech manufacturer of desktop and portable PCs sought
to reduce their inbound supply chain lead-time and costs ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Manufacturing Success.Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.
Manufacturing today is fraught with uncertainties in the supply chain due to a variety of global issues, including weather
and exchange rates. You can counter supply problems (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Manufacturing Success.Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and
Time-Bound. Manufacturing to...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Any manufacturing business is faced with promising accurate delivery dates for customer orders. At the same time, the manufacturer
has to ensure that every order taken, is profitable. This article focuses on the issues related to order delivery date promising
in view of profitability of orders to the man (...)
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Any manufacturing business is faced with promising accurate delivery dates for customer orders. At the same time, the manufacturer
has to ensure t...
Published:
2005-11-24
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Traditionally, the consumer packaged goods supply has been driven to market mostly by upstream manufacturers. But progressive
companies are realizing the enduring value of being driven by the market, and they are starting to use demand as a guiding
light. (...)
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Traditionally, the consumer packaged goods supply has been driven to market mostly by upstream manufacturers. But progressive
companies are realiz...
Published:
2009-08-26
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Overcoming Challenges in Collaborative Manufacturing Relationships. Find Free White Papers, Case Studies, and Other Resources
Related to the Collaborative Manufacturing Relationships. Manufacturers today must respond quickly to ever-changing customer
demands—while keeping costs low and efficiency hi (...)
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Overcoming Challenges in Collaborative Manufacturing Relationships. ... planning and management
throughout the supply chain can help reduce your response time. ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Companies make decisions about their supply chains every day. But do they really understand the impact of their decisions
on the P&L, Balance Sheet, and key operational metrics? Do they have the tools to available to consider a broad set of possible
options and their inherent trade-offs? (...)
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Companies make decisions about their supply chains every day. But do they really understand the impact of their decisions
on the P&L, Balance She...
Published:
2003-07-21
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PeopleSoft manufacturing customers and J.D. Edwards customers in service industries should assess the vendor's product plans
given these customers might benefit if PeopleSoft shares functions between the product sets. (...)
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... could hardly imagine successful supply chain management ... of the
product development and manufacturing processes being ... reducing the production lead
time to fewer ...
Published:
2004-01-28
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Coordinating Outsourced Manufacturing: a Win-Win Proposition for OEMs and CMs. Download Free Report on Outsourced Manufacturing
for OEMs and CMs Managing the demands of constant change is one of the biggest challenges facing the electronics manufacturing
services (EMS) industry today. Collaboration betwee (...)
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... recognition in the marketplace for its focus on delivering a real-time supply
chain that drives operations performance management in manufacturing and demand ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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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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Advances in leaner and faster supply chains have, in many cases, come at the price of increased brittleness. It is time to
make supply chains more resilient, and deal with risk more intelligently to maintain the gains from lean strategies, and take
performance to the next level. (...)
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Advances in leaner and faster supply chains have, in many cases, come at the price of increased brittleness. It is time to
make supply chains more...
Published:
2004-04-23