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  • Demand-Driven Supply Chain Transformation

    Demand-Driven Supply Chain Transformation

    End-to-end Visibility for Real-time Coordination, Communication, and Commitment By applying demand-driven methods and synchronizing processes, manufacturers are reaching new levels of communication, profitability, and customer responsiveness. Demand-Driven Manufacturing incorporates the best of Lean manufacturing, Theory of Constraints (TOC), and Lean Six Sigma principles. In demand-driven environments, production is based on actual customer demand, with everything…

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  • Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration – How ERP Falls Short

      TR Cutler, Inc. Market Research (TMR) just released the results of a survey conducted in the first two weeks of February, 2017. The respondents were all discrete manufacturers and all held VP or C-level titles. The universe of completed surveys totaled 401 and inquired about the highest priorities for manufacturers today. (The sample size…

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  • Synchronizing Production Processes

    Synchronizing Production Processes

    Synchronizing Production Processes Using demand-driven principles and synchronised systems, manufacturers have learnt to reach new levels of communication, growth and customer responsiveness. Every forward-thinking manufacturing environment is somewhere on the path towards becoming more synchronised and demand-driven. The feature discusses how technology will connect enterprises and create demand-driven factory of the future…MORE

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  • Aligning Metrics to Strategy

    Aligning Metrics to Strategy

    Measuring your strategic goals against their value and the time, money and attention they need When we began our metrics discussion, we talked about how behaviors are too often dictated by metrics—and whether or not these behaviors actually “move the needle” for sustainable supply chain improvements. Mark Davidson’s blog about aligning metrics to larger goals…

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  • Demand-Driven Matters Episode: The 5 Key Elements that Drive Flow – Part 5: Align Metrics

    Demand-Driven Matters Episode: The 5 Key Elements that Drive Flow – Part 5: Align Metrics

    Demand-Driven Matters Episode: The 5 Key Elements that Drive Flow – Part 5: Align Metrics This, the final installment in the series, 5 Key Elements to Drive Flow, focuses on metrics. Experts discuss suggested metrics to focus on to improve and maintain an optimal rate of production flow.

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  • Podcast: Part 5 of the 5 Key Elements that Drive Flow – Part 5: Align Metrics

    Podcast: Part 5 of the 5 Key Elements that Drive Flow – Part 5: Align Metrics

    Podcast: Part 5 of the 5 Key Elements that Drive Flow – Part 5: Align Metrics This, the final installment in the series, 5 Key Elements to Drive Flow, focuses on metrics. Experts discuss suggested metrics to focus on to improve and maintain an optimal rate of production flow.

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