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Build Resiliency With Supply Chain Planning

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Global supply chains have faced significant disruptions in recent years. While pandemics, natural disasters, geopolitical conflicts, and other disruptive events are inevitable, manufacturing managers can insulate their supply chains from their worst effects with proper preparation. What is Supply Chain Planning?

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Relationship Management Up & Down the Supply Chain

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Modern supply chains are somewhat like Rube Goldberg machines — incredibly, often unnecessarily complicated, interconnected systems where a single disruption can trigger a chain reaction, impacting the entire operation. What Is Supplier Relationship Management? Where Does a Strong Supplier Relationship Add Value?

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Managing Risk to Build Resilient Supply Chains

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

In the early ‘90s, American manufacturers began transitioning to a global supply chain model. However, this shift also exposed companies to an array of new supply chain risks including disruptions, cyber attacks, labor disputes, IP risks, extreme weather events, and geopolitical tensions.

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Innovating for the Future: Four Trends from Hannover Messe

Gary Mintchell

layan Arkan, Vice President, Global Strategy and Sales Lead, Manufacturing and Supply Chain at Microsoft, a few years ago. Checking through Microsoft press information recently, I came across his blog reporting from Hannover in May. Designing more resilient supply chains. Here are four trends he picked up.

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What is Traceability and How to Achieve It?

MRPEasy

Traceability is the ability to track and trace the journey of a product or item throughout its entire supply chain, from its origin to the end consumer. appeared first on Blog for Manufacturers and Distributors.

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MES and ERP Data Integration

ATS

Real-time data mapping between MES and ERP systems enables companies to act on relevant information and ensure consistency across operational departments such as production, maintenance, inventory, finance, and supply chain. Enhanced decision-making: Access to a broader range of data sources significantly improves decision-making.

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MRO Data Management

ATS

This blog describes how a holistic approach to maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) data management builds a solid foundation for improving operational efficiency. Maintaining the MRO master data as the single source of truth requires following good data governance principles.