Posted by Jim Owens on Tue, 11/26/2019 For forward-looking manufacturing companies, the so-called digital disruption is a misnomer. Far from being a disruption – defined by Merriam-Webster as “forcible separation...
Robotic Process Automation in Supply Chain Management
Posted by John Delligatti on Wed, 10/16/2019 Earlier this month, UPS received FAA approval to operate a drone fleet to deliver packages to hospitals and university campuses. Tesla introduced its...
Storeroom Organization: How to Maximize Space and Efficiency
Maintenance, repair, and operations stockrooms are no different than consumer product inventory systems, they should be built and managed to solve “customer” problems. Stockrooms “customers” are a company’s internal departments...
Driving Change in Last Mile Delivery for MRO Logistics
The 2019 3PL Study by Infosys, Korn Ferry, Penske, and Penn State, was released in conjunction with The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ annual conference. In addition to various...
BOM Management Best Practices for Maximum Efficiency
With supply chain managers continually scraping to make their operations more strategic and less transactional, most have by now embraced the need for comprehensive equipment bills of material (BOM). An...
How An MRO Supply Chain Audit Can Uncover Opportunities For Improvement And Cost Savings
As industry begins to embrace digital technology and its benefits, many manufacturers and asset-intensive organizations are redefining their value and reshaping their businesses in an effort to stay ahead of...
WE FED SDI’s MRO ANALYTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN TECHNOLOGY OUR FANTASY FOOTBALL DATA: HERE’S WHAT WE LEARNED.
Posted by John Delligatti on Wed, 08/07/2019 The beginning of August means different things to everyone, and one group spends that month preparing for the best season of all: Football...
8 REASONS WHY BOM MANAGEMENT IS CRITICAL TO ANY MAINTENANCE AND RELIABILITY PROGRAM
The Bill of Materials (BOM) is a comprehensive inventory of the raw materials, assemblies, subassemblies, parts and components, as well as the quantities of each, needed to manufacture a product...
The Benefits and Challenges of Digital Supply Chain Integration
For many manufacturing companies, maintenance, repair, and operations supply chain performance continues to lag far behind advances in more customer-facing activities. A big part of the reason is that incremental...
