10 Best practices to gain immediate, actionable insight into your supply chain events across your extended supply chain

Article by Kevin Wilson of ERPGenie LLC - Optimizing your Supply Chain.
Extended Supply Chains have the following characteristics:

• Multiple geographies – Where do your customers and partners reside?
• Multiple languages and currencies
• Multiple systems – SAP, EDI, Web site, ...
• Multiple partners – Carriers, freight forwarders, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors
• Varying regulations and compliance requirements – What’s needed to ensure we conduct business legally across the globe?

How uncertainty in Lead time affects the Safety stock?

In a supply chain, calculating the lead time of the raw materials, with a fair degree of accuracy is critical.  In most of cases, the lead time cannot be calculated precisely and there exists a certain level of uncertainty in lead time. This uncertainty has a considerable impact on the safety stock of the raw […]


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Five Critical Responsibilities of a Production Manager

A Production Manager is an important person for a manufacturing organisation. The five key responsibilities of a Production Manager are, 1. Delivery The Production Manager holds the overall responsibility of delivering the finished goods as per the customer’s requirements and to ensure 100% on-time delivery 2. Quality The Production Manager must meet the quality requirements […]


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What is the major responsibility of a Production Supervisor?

The production supervisor of a section is in next to production manager in terms of importance for a manufacturing organization. The production supervisor has a major responsibility of executing the Production Plan. The Production Manager breaks down the Monthly Production plan into Weekly and Daily production plan for each shop/operation. He then sends it to […]


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