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After expanding its product lines and accelerating product roll-outs, the Campbell Soup Company needed to align demand forecasting
and supply chain planning with its new, more dynamic business model. Learn how the company’s new solution helped it improve
inventory forecasting, adapt to day-to-day chang (...)
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... the company’s new solution helped it improve inventory forecasting, adapt to day-to-day
changes in demand, enhance long-range production planning and risk ...
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2010-06-02
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Superior Quality Foods was growing, but poor inventory control was impacting its profitability. To ensure there was enough
stock to meet production needs, it always ordered extra raw materials—just in case. To reduce costs and improve inventory
control, Superior chose an enterprise resource planning (E (...)
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production planning and inventory control:
... was enough stock to meet production needs, it ... To reduce costs and
improve inventory control, Superior chose an enterprise resource planning
(ERP) and ...
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2010-03-11
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Mature sales and operations planning (S&OP) is more than a sales forecasting or tactical planning tool. S&OP is a decision-making
mechanism for aligning strategic plans with sales, operational, and financial plans. Download this TEC executive brief for
pointers on selecting an S&OP system, information ab (...)
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... How to Select a Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) System. ...
Download <strong>How to Select a Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) System</strong>. Comments:
...
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2010-09-08
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At Nagoya Guidance and Propulsion Systems (NGPS), more than half of production time goes into to products such as aircraft
guidance systems. In 2003, NGPS installed Asprova’s advanced planning and scheduling system for greater efficiency from the
planning it had been doing manually until that time. In (...)
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... time. In 2007, NGPS added the sales module for more uniform production planning.
Learn more about the efficiencies NGPS gained. ...
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2010-03-11
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Effective Inventory Analysis. Get Data Related to Effective Inventory Analysis. For many distributors, inventory is the largest
and perhaps the most important asset. Inventory ties up more money than buildings or equipment, and is often less “liquid.”
It is crucial, then, that distributors develop and (...)
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Effective Inventory Analysis. Get Data Related to Effective Inventory Analysis. For many distributors, inventory is the largest
and perhaps the mos...
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2010-03-11
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Production/3 plan, execute & control. Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant and Time-Bound. Primarily due to rapid development of technology in the past thirty years, the market structure throughout
the world has changed considerably. Local mark (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Production/3 plan, execute & control. Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant and Time-B...
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2010-03-11
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Intentia, Fujitsu Glovia, QAD, and SSA Global's solutions supporting lean manufacturing are examined. Which areas the extended
enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors excel in depends on their original ERP system's suitability for repetitive versus
to-order environments. (...)
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Intentia, Fujitsu Glovia, QAD, and SSA Global's solutions supporting lean manufacturing are examined. Which areas the
extended enterprise resource...
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2006-02-20
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Maple Leaf Farms Improves Inventory Control with WMS. Search for Data and Other Software to Define Your Dynamic System Related
to the Inventory Control with WMS. As one of North America’s premier producers of duck products, Maple Leaf Farms knew the
importance of delivering fresh, quality goods to its c (...)
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... is an essential component of production management ... Thus, for Maple
Leaf Farms, inventory control concerns occur ... an Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) warehouse ...
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2010-03-11
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After remarkable growth, ADA Cosmetics’ business software had reached its limits, and the company needed a replacement. Due
to ADA’s broad product range, the new system had to manage batch and process manufacturing, as well as custom and small-scale
production. And because ADA distributes products na (...)
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production planning and inventory control:
... Due to ADA’s broad product range, the new system had to manage batch and process manufacturing, as well
as custom and small-scale production. ...
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2010-08-27
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Sales And Operations Planning: The Key To Continuous Demand Satisfaction. Search for Data and Other Software to Define Your
System Related to a Continuous Demand Satisfaction. All companies use some form of sales and operations planning (S&OP) to
synchronize market data with production output. But most pr (...)
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Sales And Operations Planning: The Key To Continuous Demand Satisfaction. Search for Data and Other Software to Define Your
System Related to a Con...
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2010-03-11
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About two-thirds of SoftBrands' revenue comes from its manufacturing division, which includes the Classic Fourth Shift solution
and Fourth Shift Edition for SAP Business One, the result of a joint initiative to integrate Fourth Shift functionality with
SAP Business One. (...)
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About two-thirds of SoftBrands' revenue comes from its manufacturing division, which includes the Classic Fourth Shift
solution and Fourth Shift E...
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2006-02-28
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Webplan believes its offering should benefit many departments within a manufacturing organization. When it comes to operations
and manufacturing, the benefit is in getting the right information to the right people and ensuring the results of decisions
align with goals and objectives. (...)
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Webplan believes its offering should benefit many departments within a manufacturing organization. When it comes to operations
and manufacturing, ...
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2004-07-02
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ERP applications are designed to optimize an organization's underlying business processes - accounting/financial, manufacturing,
distribution, and human resources/payroll. (...)
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ERP applications are designed to optimize an organization's underlying business processes - accounting/financial, manufacturing,
distribution, and...
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2000-12-27
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What's Happening on Your Shop Floor?. Select manufacturing execution system (MES) for your warehouse. Read this white paper.
While many ERP software companies claim to support manufacturing companies, their solutions do little more than accounting,
order entry, and other office tasks. They are not suitabl (...)
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... and reading capability for inventory, gage control ...
change management, enterprise resource planning (ERP) functions ... functions such as production
scheduling and ...
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2010-03-11
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Less Stock, More Profit: Inventory Optimization. Download Technology Research White Papers In Relation To the Inventory Optimization.
Inventory optimization is the area where most enterprise resource planning (ERP) software implementations get the highest
and fastest return on investment (ROI). However, m (...)
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Less Stock, More Profit: Inventory Optimization. Download Technology Research White Papers In Relation To the Inventory Optimization.
Inventory opt...
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2010-03-11
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Make-to-order company Advanced Scientifics produces medical devices, including bag systems, tubing assemblies, and molded
components. Manual paper-based systems severely hampered the company’s growth potential: it couldn’t effectively control production
consistency, as its inventory control and job o (...)
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... potential: it couldn’t effectively control production consistency,
as its inventory control and job ... with an enterprise resource planning
(ERP) system. ...
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2010-03-11
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Kanban—the Japanese term for physical or visual signs that trigger replenishment, which can be a useful part of lean
manufacturing—is not a good fit in some situations. Alternatives to kanban can also eliminate waste in lean production
by addressing inventory, materials, and replenishment pro (...)
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production planning and inventory control:
... kanban can also eliminate waste in lean production by addressing inventory,
materials, and ... to kanban to make your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system ...
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2010-03-11
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To be certain its materials management functions were up to par with industry best practices, a South African fertilizer
plant obtained the services of an inventory optimization firm. In doing so, it was able to identify weak links in its inventory
control processes, and achieved a savings of over $2 mil (...)
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production planning and inventory control:
... In doing so, it was able to identify weak links in its inventory control
processes, and achieved a savings of over $2 million (USD)—an impressive return on ...
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2010-03-11
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The requirements of the engineer-to-order (ETO) environment create special challenges for capital equipment manufacturers.
Traditional material requirements planning (MRP) techniques don’t account for these manufacturers’ needs. Before you invest
in manufacturing software, you should carefully consid (...)
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production planning and inventory control:
... manufacturers. Traditional material requirements planning (MRP) techniques don’t account
for these manufacturers’ needs. Before ...
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2010-03-11
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Lean principles are difficult to employ in complex environments, but materials requirement planning has well-known limitations.
The theory of constraints, which is complementary to lean manufacturing when it comes to low volumes and complex environments,
may provide an answer. (...)
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Lean principles are difficult to employ in complex environments, but materials requirement planning has well-known limitations.
The theory of cons...
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2006-02-21