Reading Time: 4 minutes Disruptions like the pandemic, supply shortages, global trade barriers, high customer expectations and inflation all add tremendous pressure on the procurement process. As manufacturers strive to reduce costs while increasing speed, the process of procuring materials, making products, and moving them where they need to be is more complex than ever. According to SYSPRO Research … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes The consequences of quality control errors at your manufacturing plant can be huge, potentially resulting in rework, product redesign, recalls, and dissatisfied customers. And if you’re operating in a highly regulated industry such as medical devices, automotive, or food and beverages, you also need to adhere to strict compliance guidelines. The problem: if you’re like … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes Manufacturers are heavily reliant on an effective workflow process to meet the requirements for ever changing customer needs, sustaining productivity levels and to thrive through continuous supply chain disruptions. Organizations are incessantly looking for various ways to enhance efficiency and streamline operations. Industries need to make efforts to improve lead times and quality, boost productivity … Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutes ‘A new, end-to-end synchronized supply network is needed, where suppliers, manufacturing sites, customers and experts’ partner efficiently within a seamless ecosystem. This supply network would be touchless and interconnected, and able to pilot quickly, learn, eliminate low-quality tasks and standardize repetitive actions. It would generate high efficiencies and optimize costs, while also leaving a smaller … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes Manufacturers and distributors can leverage Cloud ERP to revolutionize the way they do business and manage disruption as the impact of the global pandemic, regional instabilities, and natural disasters continues to cause supply chain volatility. Supply chain disruptions have resulted in the need for highly agile organizations that are responsive to ever-changing market needs. Our … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes Many companies were spurred into action during the pandemic to introduce systems that would digitize their operations like ERP Implementation. A recent SYSPRO survey however has found that many of these systems did not deliver on the value promised, as they were carried out as stand-alone projects with little coordination or oversight. Mid-size companies considering … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes With a manufacturing operation based on Assemble-to-order (ATO), success hinges on being able to get products to customers quickly. There has to be tight control over inventory, and production planning and scheduling need to ensure product delivery. In addition, demand forecasting has to be accurate and costs have to be managed. To handle all these … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes Complete halts result in backlogs and delays, which will impact warehouses and more importantly, their inventory management. As we have seen over the past 20 years, disruptions to supply chains have global impacts on all industries. Inventory takes many forms, ranging from raw materials to finished goods. While holding large amounts of inventory enables a … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes Deby Joevita, an award-winning User Experience Designer, mentioned during an online course that a UX design should have some metrics built in, which should provide you with the necessary direction towards achieving a meaningful experience for users. Suddenly my attention was on full alert and my interest piqued. If metrics can be built into a … Read more
