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What manufacturers need to know about IIoT

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Exercise trackers like Fitbit or Garmin are part of an IoT network that collects and analyzes data from objects – people. Used with a Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) system, manufacturers can digitize the factory to gain insights that will allow processes and workloads to be optimized. Supply chain. Quality control.

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How OEE and MOM can be used to streamline manufacturing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

It involves using data to uncover and unlock value in different areas of a factory, such as: reducing inventory holding costs; increasing labor productivity; reducing machine downtime; increasing manufacturing throughput. In other words, VSM was an exercise, not part of a plan for improvement with a deployment strategy.

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How manufacturers and distributors can mitigate disruption in the global supply chain

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

While the short-term plans focus on safety stocks throughout the supply chain (in most cases, the priority to keep the factories fully operational remains). To assist with the short-term solution, the answer is an extensive data-gathering exercise. Align your business and supply chain strategies. Use data to improve operations.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

The company operates 7 sugar cane processing factories in Brazil, in a cluster located in the northwest region of Sao Paulo state. Decision-making goes from a highly tedious and error-prone exercise to a process that combines computational intelligence with the business knowledge needed to analyze the optimizer’s results.

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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Supply chain strategy is critical to business success, but companies often underestimate its importance and hence pay it less leadership attention than other areas of operation. Supply Chain Strategy. In other words, the majority did not recognise the need for close alignment between supply chain and general business strategies.

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The water in the well – how much readiness is enough?

Logistics in War

Firstly, it recommended conducting realistic wargames and exercises to reflect threats and the capability of the ‘logistics enterprise’ to respond. It’s a question that hits at the heart of strategic policy, if not national military strategy. It’s worth dwelling on what it found. Nonetheless, ‘how much logistics readiness is enough?’

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BD Achieves End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

I could understand how trade data would allow the solution to detect potential suppliers in the extended supply chain, but not how the solution would know that it was the supplier’s factory in Xian China – as opposed to Tianjin – that was the source for a component that eventually ended up in a product.