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The smart factory Part 4: What skills do manufacturers and distributors need in the factory of the future?

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

As manufacturers and distributors inject their operations with innovative technologies in an effort to transform them into smart factories, a shift in how those factories are staffed has emerged. Reskilling and attracting a smart factory workforce. As factories add smarter tech, they’ll need people to manage it.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

Data is stored just like you might sketch ideas on a whiteboard. Those insights are driven from data connections across the vast amounts of data these companies have access to. Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America.

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Key Takeaways from Oracle CloudWorld 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

The work is also better because even for handpicked food, workers can work at a station, like in a factory, rather than doing stoop labor.To And of course, Oracle with their investments in Cloud computing, Internet of Things technology, and artificial intelligence can be used to minimize inputs while increasing productivity.

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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. They gave River Logic cost, lead time, and other data on five factories, and requested they built a validated network model as soon as possible. It was predictable.

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

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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. Of course it would! The volume of goods needed to serve their patients is also significant. The pandemic changed that.

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Securing the Pickleball Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Many Franklin Sports products carry official sports logos – Major League Baseball, NHL, NFL, Major League Soccer logos, and of course USAPA. Those materials come into their distribution center in Memphis where they inflate the balls, use a die cut machine to create the packaging, and then kit the ball and pump into the custom-made box.

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The (Internet of Things) IOT Supply Chain Benefits Now Coming Clearer

GlobalTranz

At its core, the IoT serves as a way of gathering data and information about a process, but applications of the IoT can detect potential problems within a machine before the machine falters. Automated Data Transfers. For example, a subtle change in hydraulic pressure may still permit the machine to operate.