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CONA Services Embraces Supply Chain AI

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Should it be used to forecast a group of materials? Eventually, these plans are executed.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

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.

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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available. this is particularly true in ERP / MRP environments.) This all changed shortly after WWII.

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Is Your Problem Technical or Adaptive?

The Lean Thinker

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. The expansion, examples and explanations are my interpretation. Whose Work Is It?

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Making Sense of Supply Chain 4.0

Material Handling and Logistics

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. Yield rates will vary.

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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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The 4 Step Process to Integrate a New TMS into Existing Logistics Systems from a TMS Provider

GlobalTranz

One person provided a resource, such as steel, to another group of people, who then sent along the items to the final person in the chain. Will my current OE, MRP, ERP, or other database systems allow for integration ?”. Rather than thinking about it as a numbers game, think of it as a group of ten businesses.