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. Should it be used to forecast a group of materials? Eventually, these plans are executed.
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
MAY 3, 2023
Material requirements planning (MRP) The MRP is a system that calculates the inventory needed for production and drives procurement to ensure that items are ordered in time. Managed properly, the MRP can optimize material and product levels. It improves the efficiency, flexibility and profitability of manufacturing operations.
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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.
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.
The Lean Thinker
DECEMBER 9, 2022
this is particularly true in ERP / MRP environments.) In practice, though, these systems tend to isolate people from one another, or into small single task groups in much the same way as happened in the coal mine. In any organization, or casual group trying to get something done, people develop webs of social networks.
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. Back in the early 1990s I was an avid skier, putting in 40+ days on the slopes every season.
GlobalTranz
JUNE 1, 2015
The now outmoded MRP scheduling approach too often moves inventory into stock that doesn’t reflect customer needs and cannot efficiently make frequent adjustments to accommodate variations in those needs. Like-kind tasks, and those along a single route, are grouped appropriately. Design your plan to be implemented in phases.
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