Supply Chain and Sales and Operations Planning Software

September 13, 2022

Preparing for “What If” Scenarios Across the Supply Chain

Just when supply chain managers were getting a handle on logistics slowdowns, labor shortages and the rising cost of raw...

Tags: End-to-End (E2E) Visibility , Lean Manufacturing

June 14, 2022

Technology as a Tool for Business Growth

Much of the discussion around Industry 4.0 technologies centers around improving agility, streamlining processes and gaining...

Tags: Digitization , End-to-End (E2E) Visibility

November 5, 2020

How Supply Chain Integration Impacts Production Planning

Pop quiz: As a production planner, what steps can you take to improve machine utilization by 20-40%? What to reduce setup time by...

Tags: AI , Planned Production Programs

November 3, 2020

5 Features to Look for in Your APS Solution

The stability of your sequencing, scheduling, and planning workflows has a huge impact on how cost effective your production...

Tags: Intelligent Planning , Planned Production Programs

September 8, 2020

What Is Procurement 4.0?

The progression towards Industry 4.0 is usually described like so: The first Industrial Revolution involved the transition from...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , Planned Production Programs

June 30, 2020

How Will the Cloud Impact Your Factory Floor?

If you’re an automotive manufacturer, you’re working with hundreds of thousands of parts for each car that you produce. How on...

Tags: Cloud Technology , Industry 4.0

June 2, 2020

5 Strategies for Optimizing Your Production Planning and Scheduling

As industrial businesses in Europe slowly start to reopen, we’re guessing that a lot of businesses are having the same...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Digitization

May 19, 2020

How to Integrate S&OP and Production Planning

Let’s say you’re a production planner, and you’re trying to generate planned production programs for the upcoming month: what...

Tags: Planned Production Programs , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

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November 19, 2019

What KPIs Should Production Managers Be Tracking?

As the era of Industry 4.0 approaches in earnest, production managers will soon have access to more data and information than...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Planned Production Programs

October 31, 2019

5 Reasons Why You Should Simulate Your Factory

In the past few years, the industrial world has seen an increase in the use of so-called digital twins, i.e. digital...

Tags: Digitization , Planned Production Programs

October 24, 2019

5 Facts About AI in Production Planning

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can refer to a number of things, from machine learning to computer vision, but in general the phrase...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Planned Production Programs

September 26, 2019

How Not to Implement Advanced Planning and Scheduling

Life in the digital age is meant to be easier for manufacturers: rather than using spreadsheets to plot out potential production...

Tags: Intelligent Planning , Planned Production Programs

Key Challenges in Digitizing Your Supply Network

August 15, 2019

How Industry 4.0 Will Impact Your APS in 2021

Let’s says you’re playing chess. Traditionally, a chess player looks at the whole board and comes up with an overarching...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Industry 4.0

June 20, 2019

5 Tips for Increasing Production Visibility

Imagine for a second that your factory is essentially a black box. Materials go in, and finished products come out, but what...

Tags: End-to-End (E2E) Visibility , Planned Production Programs

June 4, 2019

How Will Industry 4.0 Change Your Production Network?

In his seminal work of economic theory, “The Wealth of Nations,” Adam Smith famously uses a pin factory as his example to...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , Planned Production Programs

May 9, 2019

5 Tips for Improved Production Planning

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry—and nowhere is that more true in the worlds of manufacturing and supply chain...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Planned Production Programs

December 27, 2018

The Benefits of Industry 4.0 in Production Planning

Let’s say you have to schedule a medium-sized meeting with some of your coworkers. If you’re a traditionalist who likes to do...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , Planned Production Programs

March 29, 2018

The Benefits of Forecasting in Planning and Production

If there’s one thing today’s planners and managers wish they had to ensure their planning and production strategies, it would be...

Tags: Demand Capacity Planning , Digitization

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