From my perspective companies evolve into their manufacturing scheduling process as their business evolves. Attempting to implement a complex scheduling model when a company is beginning to automate their ERP is often a mistake. The key is to take a realistic view of what stage the company is in and grow from there. Formula manufacturing [...]
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4 Ways Formula Manufacturers Can Use ERP Software to Reduce Inventory Shrinkage
One of the most overlooked sources of profit in a formula manufacturing organization is in the existing business processes. Do you need to reduce inventory shrinkage? Take the Inventory Shrinkage Quiz: Go to your system (manual or computerized) and look up the quantity on hand of 10 raw materials. Then go count the inventory on [...]
continue reading...Formula Manufacturers: Inventory Control Issues A Recipe For Disaster
Most formula manufacturers that I encounter are constantly looking at ways to improve their inventory costs and reliability. Nothing is worse for them than having a customer order and/or production ticket ready for staging only to find that the raw materials are not available. During my review of business processes for prospects many times the Material Planner/Purchasing Manager is [...]
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