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May 2011 Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers I was reading the Lean Enterprise Institute newsletter the other day when this statement jumped out at me: “Companies are inept at understanding true...
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July 2011 Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers Some manufacturers might come to believe that past efforts – lean, kanbans, MRP, JIT, etc. have delivered all of the “easy” gains in inventory...
View ArticleStill Lean After All These Years
August 2011 Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers The basis of Lean Manufacturing is the Toyota Production System that was refined at, well, Toyota and other Japanese manufacturing operations and was...
View ArticleSet-up / Changeover
June 2013 Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers Process manufacturing companies (powders and liquids, food, chemicals, pharma, etc.) often have to deal with significant change-over cycles between...
View ArticleHow Much Shelfware Do You Have?
September 2013. Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers. When companies install an ERP software suite, they often contract for the whole set of applications that they will need and intend to use, even...
View ArticleAPICS CSCP on-site study program
WHEN: 2014. WHERE: Your location. Contact Us to discuss your requirements.
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Advance your supply chain career at APICS 2014
On behalf of all of my colleagues at APICS *, we look forward to seeing you at APICS 2014 in New Orleans. I’m pleased to share a special promotion we have created just for our presenters — by using...
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5-Day APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) public workshop
WHAT: Five-day APICS CSCP public workshop WHEN: Saturdays in 2015 starting February 7th WHERE: One New Hampshire Ave, Suite 125; Pease Tradeport; Portsmouth, NH INSTRUCTOR: Dave Turbide, CFPIM,...
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Finding value in Annual Reports and Tax Forms
Pulling information together for year-end reports and tax filings offers a chance to evaluate past decisions and processes from a different perspective along with an opportunity to make some changes...
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Inventory errors cause revenue losses
A recently released research report titled “Retailers and the Ghost Economy: $1.75 Trillion Reasons to be Afraid”, produced by the IHL Group and commissioned by OrderDynamics, a Big Data prescriptive...
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Reconsidering Inventory Rationale
New ways to reduce stock and save The main reason for keeping inventory is to save time; that is, it enables a business to provide products or parts in less time than it takes to make or buy them. The...
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About Manufacturing 4.0
As usual, December and January blogs and newsletters have been full of predictions for the coming year. There seems to be a consensus, among pundits at least, that so-called manufacturing 4.0 will...
View ArticleStill Lean After All These Years
August 2011 Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers The basis of Lean Manufacturing is the Toyota Production System that was refined at, well, Toyota and other Japanese manufacturing operations and was...
View ArticleSet-up / Changeover
June 2013 Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers Process manufacturing companies (powders and liquids, food, chemicals, pharma, etc.) often have to deal with significant change-over cycles between...
View ArticleHow Much Shelfware Do You Have?
September 2013. Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers. When companies install an ERP software suite, they often contract for the whole set of applications that they will need and intend to use, even...
View ArticleAPICS CSCP on-site study program
WHEN: 2014. WHERE: Your location. Contact Us to discuss your requirements.
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Advance your supply chain career at APICS 2014
On behalf of all of my colleagues at APICS *, we look forward to seeing you at APICS 2014 in New Orleans. I’m pleased to share a special promotion we have created just for our presenters — by using...
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Finding value in Annual Reports and Tax Forms
Pulling information together for year-end reports and tax filings offers a chance to evaluate past decisions and processes from a different perspective along with an opportunity to make some changes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Inventory errors cause revenue losses
A recently released research report titled “Retailers and the Ghost Economy: $1.75 Trillion Reasons to be Afraid”, produced by the IHL Group and commissioned by OrderDynamics, a Big Data prescriptive...
View Article12-Week APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) public workshop
WHAT: 12-week APICS CSCP public workshop WHEN: Thursdays, 5:30 – 8:30 PM starting this Fall (Sep-Oct-Nov) WHERE: Portsmouth / Seacoast – New Hampshire INSTRUCTOR: Dave Turbide, CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP,...
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