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Moving targets

Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers May 2014 From time to time, I enjoy playing one of those gem games (the ones where you match sets of 3 or more of the same color). The one on my office PC has a...

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Improving Your Work Ethics

Sustainability is an important part of corporate social responsibility—a group of ideals that includes concern for human rights, labor practices, and anti-corruption. Today’s companies are becoming...

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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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Sorting out the solutions

Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers November 2014 Sorting out the solutions We all know what ERP is… the major information management system for manufacturers (and others) that integrates all of...

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12-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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What’s in your toolbox?

MRP, ERP, APS, ToC, Lean, WMS, DRP, SCEM, DDMRP . . . There are lots of tools (software, primarily) and improvement approaches to choose from today, and they each have their place. But not all tools...

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Why is OEE a popular manufacturing operations KPI

Getting a big picture indication of how well plant processes are doing is important for manufacturing. Here’s how OEE can help you determine just that.   Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a...

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Schedules Are Worthless, but Scheduling Is Everything

Former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower once gave this great advice: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. The same can be said for production schedules and production scheduling. No matter...

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Are supply chain risk assessment and management CFO issues?

Given how complex — yet critical — today’s networks of suppliers and partners are to a company’s profitability, supply chain risk assessment and management are critical areas of concern for today’s...

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Are You Asking the Right Questions?

Several years ago, I visited a manufacturing company that was just putting the finishing touches on an impressive, highly automated warehouse. Meanwhile, another area of the company was involved in a...

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