Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

The National Product Supply Group, governed by members from most US producing bottlers, develops the collaborative supply chain plan based on defined governance processes. The production plan is fed into the MRP for production execution. However, unexpected events do happen. Should it be used to forecast a group of materials?

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

The second part of the class involved a facilitator leading our group through discussion of the “grieving process” as it relates to “change” and trying to draw out how we felt about it. Then we were video-linked to other groups in identical sessions, perhaps in some effort to show how we were all in this together.

Supply Chain Design Software 397

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

McKinse y, Cap Gemini and the Boston Consulting Group all suggest digital transformation is about applying digital technologies [such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain] to operational processes and creating improvements.

Supply Chain Planning Software 134

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 11, 2024

I was part of a group that did days in local (to Seattle) ski areas; annual trips to Whistler, BC (my favorite place); Mount Hood and Mount Bachelor in Oregon; and a semi-fateful trip to Red Mountain in Trail, British Columbia in March of 1993. Anyone who has been though a classic “kaizen event” knows this.

MRP 195

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 4, 2024

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) can be a crucial tool in MTO. MRP is a kind of inventory optimisation system, meaning that it creates recommendations for inventory requirements to maintain the correct levels of inventory. The MRP can also be used to specify alternate materials and suppliers.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 1, 2025

ABC Analysis: A form of Pareto analysis applied to a group of products to enable selective inventory management controls. ABC Classification: The classification of inventory, after ABC analysis, into three basic groups for the purpose of stock control and planning. A items may also be of strategic importance to the business concerned.

Supply Chain Planning Software 76

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The Logistics Academy

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Descartes Systems Group. The same benefits apply on a global scale, where both supply chains and operations are becoming more interconnected and, subsequently, more impacted by world events. “By “Actionable data is created through analytics; it’s the analytics that tells the user what to do, and ultimately what action to take.”.

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