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Making Sense of Supply Chain 4.0

Material Handling and Logistics

The trouble with traditional forecasting methods is they can be impacted by one-time events such as economic changes, special promotions, fashion trends, a spike in social chatter or extreme weather, that affect the stability of historical sales patterns.

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Is Your Problem Technical or Adaptive?

The Lean Thinker

Trying Technical Solutions on Adaptive Problems An organization had a culture of working around their ERP / MRP system. Anyone who has been though a classic “kaizen event” knows this. If production fell behind, they extended lead times in the system (which is the worst thing you can do in this case).

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

.” In the background, also in the early 90s, Boeing was beginning to experiment with things like 5S and “Accelerated Improvement Workshops” (AIW) (aka kaizen events). The company had hired Dick Clark Production to stage the event, and even thinking about it today still brings (good) chills.

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ERP addresses the challenges of Make to order manufacturers

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

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.

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Implementing AI in Supply Chain and Logistics

GoShip Blog

This technology involves using data to make decisions based on anticipating events, avoiding risks, and creating solutions. You’ll likely be gathering data from different systems ––CRM, MRP, ERP, among others. Enhanced forecasting accuracy. In recent years, AI has become a vital tool for predictive demand and network planning.

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How to Get a Job in the Supply Chain Sector

Logistics Bureau

You are not alone, especially as in the time since we first penned this article, one huge and unforeseen event has raised awareness of the global importance of this vital sector—and shown it to be an attractive career choice. That event was the global COVID-19 pandemic, which erupted during the first half of 2020. Networking.

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6 Ways Big Data is enhancing the global supply chain

The Logistics Academy

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.”. 2015 Revenue. 2016 Revenue.