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Outsourcing production removes a lot of operational burden and introduces a specific new problem: you no longer see what your…
Read article : Contract Manufacturing: Keeping Material Costs Under Control
Adding a second plant rarely doubles capacity in practice. It adds a coordination problem, and how that problem gets solved…
Read article : Multi-Plant Production Planning: Coordinating Sites Without Chaos
Overall equipment effectiveness is widely reported and frequently misused. It gets presented as a single number, tracked as a target,…
Read article : OEE Explained: Measuring What Actually Limits Your Output
There’s a version of every manufacturing business where the shop floor and the board are describing different companies. The floor…
Read article : Shop Floor to Top Floor: Connecting Production Data Across the Business
Scrap and rework occupy an odd position in manufacturing accounts. They’re measured, reported, and largely tolerated — treated as a…
Read article : Reducing Scrap and Rework With Predictive Quality Analytics
Consignment sounds close to free money. The supplier’s stock sits in your warehouse, you pay only as you consume, and…
Read article : Consignment Inventory: When It Helps and When It Hurts
Materials with a shelf life break the ordinary logic of inventory management. Normal stock has a carrying cost. Perishable stock…
Read article : Shelf Life and Batch Expiry: Managing Perishable Raw Materials
Reorder points have a particular way of going wrong. Someone calculates them carefully at implementation, they’re correct for perhaps six…
Read article : How AI Sets Reorder Points That Adapt to Real Demand
Operating several stock locations creates a problem that single-site manufacturers never face: you can have plenty of an item and…
Read article : Multi-Warehouse Inventory: Balancing Stock Across Locations
Ask what it costs to hold inventory and the usual answer references warehousing and the interest on the money tied…
Read article : The True Cost of Carrying Inventory (It’s More Than You Think)