Supply Chain and Sales and Operations Planning Software

April 16, 2020

What Is Supply Chain Integration?

We’ve sung the praises of supply chain integration at this blog on more than one occasion, and we’re certainly not the only ones...

Tags: End-to-End (E2E) Visibility , Postmodern ERP

March 24, 2020

Should Your ERP Live in the Cloud?

Studies show that, as of 2018, 73% of companies had at least one application in the cloud. This includes the 47% of companies who...

Tags: Cloud Technology , Industry 4.0

January 16, 2020

Is Your ERP Strategy Industry 4.0-ready?

Most prognosticators have pretty much agreed that Industry 4.0 is going to radically change the world of manufacturing through...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , Postmodern ERP

December 3, 2019

Is Your ERP Hurting Your Sales and Operations Planning?

Is your ERP working for you? Or against you? Sometimes businesses can get so entrenched in “how we’ve always done things” that...

Tags: Postmodern ERP , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

November 26, 2019

The Top 5 KPIs Every Inventory Manager Should Track

Is your boss starting to ask uncomfortable questions? Like what your average order cycle time is? Or what the latest shrinkage...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Automotive Industry

November 12, 2019

What Is Postmodern ERP?

It’s a story one hears surprisingly frequently: a mid-sized enterprise company adopts a new mega-ERP solution, and they’re almost...

Tags: Postmodern ERP

October 29, 2019

How to Evaluate Supply Chain Software Solutions

How are you using your ERP software? Strictly for resource planning, as intended? Or are you stretching that definition to...

Tags: Postmodern ERP , Supply Chain Management

July 16, 2019

How to Forecast Demand in Manufacturing

Demand forecasting plays an important role in manufacturing. That fact isn’t changing; what is changing is how it’s done. Whereas...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Postmodern ERP

April 5, 2018

4 Fascinating Facts About Supply Chain Digitization

In the past few years, supply chain digitization has evolved from a hypothetical into a reality for many manufacturing...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Postmodern ERP

April 3, 2018

5 Ways to Improve Your Demand Forecasting

No matter how sophisticated your methods, or how intimate your knowledge of the field, no demand or sales forecast will ever be...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Postmodern ERP

March 27, 2018

Struggling with Intelligent Planning? Postmodern ERP Can Help

With a name like “intelligent planning,” it’s hard to imagine that many companies would express a strong preference to do the...

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

February 8, 2018

How to Get the Most from Your Advanced Analytics

Although automotive manufacturers have been hearing for years that Big Data is the next big thing, studies often show that...

Tags: Automotive Industry , Lean Manufacturing

January 23, 2018

What Does Integrated Planning Really Mean?

Imagine you’re playing musical chairs. The music starts and stops and your instinct is to rush to the nearest seat before your...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Postmodern ERP

November 9, 2017

What’s So Modern About Postmodern ERP

Buzzwords abound in today’s manufacturing and logistics industry. As technologies develop, emerge, and take hold, so does a new...

Tags: Postmodern ERP

July 20, 2017

Does Postmodern ERP Actually Provide Value?

Today’s manufacturing and supply chain planners and managers are inundated with concepts and strategies purporting to add value...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , Lean Manufacturing

There are a number of important factors that can derail your suppy chain.

May 11, 2017

Important Factors That Can Derail Your Supply Chain

We’ve discussed a great deal on this blog about the elements necessary for optimizing or enhancing global supply chain management...

Tags: Lean Manufacturing , Postmodern ERP

May 2, 2017

What We Talk About When We Talk About Postmodern ERP

There are some terms or concepts in today’s modern supply chain management landscape that even industry insiders have difficulty...

Tags: Automotive Industry , Intelligent Planning

March 16, 2017

What to Consider When Structuring Your Supply Chain

We’ve discussed in great deal on this blog the elements that comprise effective supply chain management and how automotive...

Tags: Lean Manufacturing , Postmodern ERP

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