article thumbnail

Reshoring Or Not, What is Manufacturing? 4 Questions to Ponder with Real American Manufacturers

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: This is a two part series featuring Chuck Intrieri, who along with providing excellent insights over at his industry leading The Lean Supply Chain blog, is also a consultant who works with companies for Cost Reduction, Supply Chain Optimization, Logistics, Manufacturing, and 3PL Selection. It was called, “ The Short List ”.

article thumbnail

What is the difference between ERP, Supply Chain Management and CRM

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In 1990, technological research and advisory firm, Gartner, created the definition for enterprise resource planning (ERP) as: “an integrated suite of business applications. ERP systems emerged out of Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) – the planning and scheduling of inventory for the manufacturing process. What is ERP?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

S&OP – 13 Years On, What Have We Learned and What Has Changed?

AIMMS

T his definition of what S&OP is and what the objectives are is still v alid today at this high level. If I were writing the article today , I would be advocating to break the link between forecasting and operational planning using a demand driven approach enabled by DDMRP (more on this in a su bsequent blog).

article thumbnail

S&OP – 13 Years On, What Have We Learned and What Has Changed?

AIMMS

T his definition of what S&OP is and what the objectives are is still v alid today at this high level. If I were writing the article today , I would be advocating to break the link between forecasting and operational planning using a demand driven approach enabled by DDMRP (more on this in a su bsequent blog).