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How manufacturers can enable innovation on the factory floor

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

A practical way that manufacturers can do so is firstly through using data in more comprehensive ways and secondly by embracing digitization to optimize their operations for the future. Optimizing the use of data for manufacturers. Obstacles on the data journey for manufacturers.

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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturers and distributors want to dramatically increase their efficiency, productivity and accuracy through smart technologies, data analytics and connected services. These terms are often used interchangeably, and yet understanding the difference is critical in the move toward smart factories powered by digital technologies.

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Everything You Need to Know About Smart Warehousing

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Smart warehousing is a sophisticated inventory management approach that maximizes the transportation, storage, and distribution of goods and materials within the company by utilizing data analytics and state-of-the-art technologies. Read also: Top 8 Applications of Artificial Intelligence in The Supply Chain What is smart warehousing?

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A True Supply Chain Transformation Requires the Proper Talent

Logistics Viewpoints

In Belcorp’s case they have four factories located in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador. Production flexibility is limited; none of these factories can make all the company’s 1,500 products. For consumers in metro areas located close to their factories, there is a one-day lead time. What factory should make a new product?

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Solving The Port Problem with Lauren Beagen

The Logistics of Logistics

Consumer spending also received a bump from government money that was generously distributed during the first year of the pandemic. While American consumers went shopping, particularly online, the Asian factories and supply chains that produce the goods were broken due to labor and materials shortages. Lauren Beagen LinkedIn.

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Greener Farm to Fork Journey

Logistics Business Magazine

Technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and tracking systems can transform the way we manage food and drink across the manufacturing supply chain – from its origins on the farm, through to factory production sites and transporting the food on UK roads to our stores.

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Philip Morris International’s Pivot to Smoke-Free Products Complicates their Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

At the end of 2019 that supply chain covered 38 PMI owned factories, 28 third party manufacturers, and more than 180 markets. Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same. Analysis and scenario formulation lead time went from weeks to days. It was predictable.