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Making Sense of Supply Chain 4.0

Material Handling and Logistics

And every conference showcased the latest technologies available to help you do so. The first is to gather new data, such as sentiment information from social channels, weather inputs, economic performance or information from new IoT or Fog Computing sensors that can provide insights into customer demand. Everyone was excited about it.

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Manufacturers Should Focus on This Most Critical Component for Manufacturing Operations Excellence

GlobalTranz

Getting back to the first post about " What is Manufacturing? ", with MRP we generated Purchase Orders (POs) and Manufacturing Orders (MOs). Does MRP end there? The actual vs. planned is measured, and the next MPS is set up based on this data. The next phase of MRP was MRP II. Where did they go?