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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. What is Manufacturing?

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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?

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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.” In the late 1940s the industrial engineers turned this craft production system into a factory system with the tasks divided between three shifts. this is particularly true in ERP / MRP environments.) This all changed shortly after WWII.