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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The digital transformation of the operations and processes of factories and supply chains is based upon digitization of carefully selected machines and digitalization of the related business processes. So here goes – read on for a greater understanding of these concepts and the role they play in your journey to a smart factory.

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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. This verification is crucial for electronic boards since they are identifiable when they leave the factory.

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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. The tool was able to create a model going out multiple years. It was predictable. PMI was not an easy prospect.

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Tata Steel Europe’s Connected Planning Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

The company sells directly and through channels; they have an extensive distribution network to provide postproduction processing, service, distribution, and sales support. This is a complex tool because doing IBP well is difficult. Finally, after collaboration and further analysis, the annual plan is agreed to.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper has one main distribution center roughly three miles from their largest hospital in Camden. And the reasons spanned from a global chip shortage, to embargoes, to factory fires, to natural disasters. This analysis surfaced the need for alternative suppliers for these products.

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Precision Pricing Software

Logistics Business Magazine

Forensic profitability analysis for small and global businesses alike is available at a click with today’s supply chain software, as Paul Hamblin discovers. This is where data software vendor The Information Factory came in. The Information Factory has built the analytical capability to make these examinations very quickly.

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The Future Of Manufacturing Post-COVID

Blue Grace Logistics

Within the last year, manufacturers have had to cope with supply chain disruptions and the shutdown of factories due to restrictions caused by COVID-19. Traditional forecasting relies on statistical tools and a divided team, addressing demand forecasting, production planning, and sales and operation planning separately. Industry 4.0.