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6 challenges facing medical device manufacturers and how ERP analytics can provide a cure

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other governmental entities necessitates continuous reporting on product traceability and adherence to exacting standards. To contend with these pressures, medical device manufacturers crave actionable, real-time, accurate, and reliable data throughout the entire supply chain.

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

Procuring transportation for freight is much different than any other procurement category. Transportation procurement needs to support both customer service and a company’s internal supply chain goals. One master of freight procurement is Kyle Masters. Procurement ran a request for proposal event.

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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

Logistics Bureau

At Logistics Bureau, we capture, analyse, and exploit freight benchmarking data to help us when we provide freight contract negotiation services for our clients. Although freight benchmarking is not a complicated process, it may prove challenging because the data your company needs is unlikely to be readily available.

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Using OEE and MOM with older manufacturing equipment

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Therefore collecting and using data about the operations of these machines has seemed difficult, requiring expensive upgrades. Equipment is purchased on the assumption that it will last years and can be depreciated over its useful life. Flexible, low-cost sensors can be deployed in industrial scenarios.

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Being Adaptive Drives Resiliency and Margins in Collaborative Supply Chain Networks (CSCN)

Logistics Viewpoints

By embracing collaboration, real-time data, and a focus on sustainability, companies can build resilience, improve margins, and gain a competitive edge. They underwent a thorough Network Optimization exercise to identify the roadmap of transitioning to a hybrid offshore/nearshore model. Nari Viswanathan is Sr.

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Don’t Let Your Warehouses and Buildings Become a Vector for a Cyber Attack 

Logistics Viewpoints

New Building Automation Systems Expand the Threat Surface Buildings require reliable 24-hour operation, and the move to new technologies such as industrial IoT, cloud computing, edge computing, and analytics is driving a shift to remote building management and monitoring.

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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

The percentage of purchases made and fulfilled through digital commerce has exploded in the past two years, advancing a pre-pandemic trend by as much as 10 years according to some industry watchers. Today, many leaders are seeing an easier path to higher visibility by building around a common technical platform and data model.