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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Warning Graphical Material: Where is My Production Schedule?
I have worked with mid-sized manufacturing companies for over a decade and have looked at several APS or Advanced Planning and Scheduling Systems that integrate to ERP software like Microsoft Dynamics GP. Especially a graphical tool with a Gantt chart that production planner can change the schedule by dragging and dropping! Most manufacturing companies don’t [...]
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