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Leveraging the power of ERP to optimize inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturers and distributors can optimize their inventory management using some of the latest emerging technologies, including machine learning, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. In the new normal, a data-driven approach to inventory management provides the basis for better and faster decisions.

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How manufacturers and distributors can improve inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

On the supply side, constraints such as large manufacturing batch sizes and supplier delivery lead time force organisations to hold some raw materials or components in stock so that products can be delivered to customers. A data-driven approach to inventory management provides the basis for better and faster decisions.

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Calling ‘order’ on Inbound Goods

Logistics Business Magazine

The supplier, after all, isn’t presenting a chaotic mix of items just to be awkward – they will have their own constraints, for example on batch sizes and times, or on their own storage capacities. There is a lot of data-driven software involved, but the benefits will be significant.

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IFOY FINALIST FOCUS: robobrain.NEUROS

Logistics Business Magazine

In times of shorter product life cycles and production quantities up to batch size 1, flexible processes place ever new demands on production and material flow for all companies. Thanks to a physics simulation, new robot skills can be developed and trained in a few hours without real data. market relevance ++.

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Sustainability and due diligence laws force action

Logistics Business Magazine

His analysis is based on conversations and data from Setlog customers who use the SCM tool OSCA, e.g. more than 100 brands in the fashion industry alone. Collaboration, the optimal use of data and streamlined information flows eliminate errors and delays as well as reduce lead times and inefficiencies.

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Mobilisation in the Information Technology Era

Logistics in War

Artificial intelligence, big data, virtual reality, robotics, cloud computing. This is the exciting world of three-D printing where production batch sizes can be small or on-demand without impacting production efficiency. By Peter Layton. The information technology (IT) revolution rolls on, progressively changing the world.

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[INFOGRAPHIC & VIDEO] A 2D Explainer of Rapid Prototyping & Additive Manufacturing in 3D Printing

GlobalTranz

Rapid prototyping is a group of techniques used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a physical part or assembly using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD) data. Additive Manufacturing refers to a process by which digital 3D design data is used to build up a component in layers by depositing material. Functional Principle.