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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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Supply Chain Software’s Best Return on Investment

Logistics Viewpoints

A company with one factory and one DC, reorganizing the location and duties of the facilities, will have little opportunity to drive much in the way of payback from a network design solution. Scenarios are run, and the low-cost network that best meets customer service objectives is selected. The project took close to nine months.

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Managing cost, quality and traceability in fabricated metals manufacturing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Getting costs under control is important for a good return on capital investment and to ensure factory equipment is operating at optimum capacity and profitability. Modern machinery is commonly fitted with real-time sensors but these are not very useful if there is no way to view and action the data from the sensors.

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The Top Floor to Shop Floor Production Planning Handoff is Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Increasingly it is recognized that the executive planning meetings, that typically take place once a month, should be chaired by a top floor executive – a chief financial officer, chief operations officer, or even chief executive officer. Your inventory levels in the factory are right, your routings are accurate.

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5 data prerequisites for carrier predictive freight rating in logistics

FreightWaves SONAR

Due to the previous surge of China as the world’s factory over the last two decades, much of the global carriers’ business has revolved around transporting cargo between the U.S. And that’s why it’s important for carriers to apply data and enable predictive freight rating through these five requirements. Download the White Paper.

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Delivering a smarter factory

Automotive Logistics

Magna Steyr’s vehicle assembly plant in the Austrian city of Graz is not a typical automotive factory; the site, which in 2018 brought its cumulative total production tally to 3.5m has been rebadged as ‘Smart Factory by Magna Steyr’. vehicles, produces vehicles under contract for OEMs such as Daimler, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover.

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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.