Controlling Inventory Costs in Manufacturing With ERP
Since I was old enough to understand the concept of money, my father has reiterated more times than I can count that a penny saved is a penny earned. Thanks to the pandemic and the supply chain crisis, as...
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Improving Your Supply Chain With Visibility
One of the great things about shopping online is the tracking information. It’s so reassuring to follow your box’s path across your computer screen until it makes its way to your porch. On a grand scale, companies today need...
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The Manufacturing Forecast for 2022
The past few years have been a whirlwind of unprecedented events for manufacturers. We sat patiently, or as patiently as we could, through 2020 hoping things would get better, only for 2021 to bring new complications. It was like...
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China, Covid-19, & Containerships: How to Thrive in This Supply Chain
The past two years of our lives have been like a poorly scripted Hollywood movie. We’ve seen those movies where a pandemic takes out whole cities and neighbors are arguing in the street over the last can of spam,...
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Optimizing Supplier Relationships: Top 3 Issues Manufacturers Face
Get ready to kiss pesky portals, PDFs, spreadsheets, and Post-It notes goodbye. If you use Infor SyteLine or any other ERP, SourceDay makes working with suppliers easier. From requesting quotes to paying invoices and managing all the changes that...
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Critical Components of Supply Chain Management Systems
Every company has a supply chain that consists of different networks of organizations and facilities that work in tandem to transform the raw materials into the finished product that the company advertises. A Supply Chain Management System...
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Automation and the Supply Chain
In our last segment, Part 1 – Automation and the Supply Chain – Triaging the Supply Chain, we discussed the “new normal” of the supply chain in the time of Covid-19 and explored the top scenarios the...
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States are attempting to begin the process of reopening, but the disruptions caused by the Coronavirus pandemic are far reaching with effects stretching far into the future. Issues with supply chains, driven by both consumer demand and operational...
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IBEX 2016 – in 60 seconds… State of the Boat & Marine Industry
I just returned from the 2016 IBEX boat show in Tampa, getting out right before the hurricane, and the winds outside could not compare to the energy and invigoration of the marine suppliers and buyers on the exhibit floor. ...
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On Time Delivery – The Domino Effect
Throughout the year, it is necessary to purchase and have gifts sent to varying parts of the country. I suspect that many of us face this every Christmas, Birthday, Father's Day, Mother's Day, and the list goes on. We...
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