Resiliency is essential to running an efficient and successful supply chain, and digitizing your business will help you achieve this.
AI has the power to optimize your manufacturing costs. How? Through predictive maintenance, detailed scheduling, and network planning.
S&OE picks up where S&OP leaves off, with short-term logistics plans that have a huge impact on your shipping and your customer's experience.
Every part every interval (EPEI) is a lean manufacturing methodology that focuses on production blocks to keep the supply chain moving smoothly.
Big Data and advanced analytics are paving the way for Industry 4.0 in modern manufacturing.
Furniture manufacturers face a host of supply chain logistics challenges that are unique to their industry. How can planners cope with these challenges?
What is lean manufacturing, and how is it different from agile manufacturing?
Henry Ford wanted the general public to stop thinking of cars as a luxury and start considering them an attainable goal for working class buyers. How did he do it? By making cars cheaply enough that they could be purchased (the story goes) by the very factory workers who were helping to build them.
How is baseball like supply chain integration? Effective strategy in both requires a lot of intra-organizational communication and visibility.
What does mixology have to do with modern logistics? They can both demonstrate the value of pull-based planning.
The introduction of real-time technology into the supply chain has led to the rise of demand sensing in modern forecasting workflows. But what is demand sensing, and why should you care?
Modern product life cycles involve a lot of prototyping, and it has historically been difficult to know in advance what the result of any given change or adjustment might be. Luckily, Industry 4.0 is rapidly changing the journeys that products take from conception to production.
How do you answer thorny questions about demand, capacity, and inventory management in a way that yields smooth production scheduling and minimum of slowdowns? One potential answer is to implement order slotting.
How is container management like moving into a new home? They both get a lot harder with limited visibility.
In order to remain competitive in the world of modern manufacturing, production planners are constantly searching for new ways to derive more value from their operations via improved operational capacities.
We’ve spoken a bit on this blog about the impact that artificial intelligence and machine learning can have on a given company’s supply chaining planning and day-to-day operations, but what impact does this technology stand to make on the global supply chain as a whole?
Also known as 3D printing, additive manufacturing makes widespread use of data, IoT devices, and digital workflows, making it a perfect fit for Industry 4.0 environments.
