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System Integration Methods: Unlocking Efficiency in Facility Management and Supply Chain Management

In the ever-evolving world of facility management and supply chain management, seamless integration is crucial for success. System integration methods like Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) and Application Programming Interfaces (API)...
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The Dangers of Obsolete and Slow-moving Inventory

Whether you’re a manufacturing plant or a retail facility, inventory management for the spare parts, consumables, and materials needed to maintain and repair facility and plant assets is crucial. For...

Optimizing Your Supply Chain: How A Collaborative Model Can Transform Your Business

It’s a story that has played out in businesses of all sizes and industries for decades. A company invests in a new supply chain strategy, excited by the potential for...

Understanding the Cost of Asset Downtime and How to Minimize It

Asset downtime can have a significant impact on an organization’s bottom line, resulting in lost productivity, revenue, and increased maintenance costs. When critical assets break down, production comes to a...
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What to Do When Quality and Purchasing Costs Are out of Control

With competition increasing and competitive advantage difficult to sustain, profits in the manufacturing sector today often comes down to cost containment. Unfortunately, market conditions, supply chain issues, labor issues, invasions,...
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Overcoming E-Procurement Adoption Challenges in Maintenance Operations: Tips for Technicians and Personnel

E-procurement adoption in the maintenance industry can be challenging, but with the right tools, it can be made easier and more efficient. One such tool is a mobile field technician...
The Role of Critical Spares

Maximizing Uptime: The Role of Critical Spares in Facilities Management and Supply Chain Operations

Learn the essentials of critical spare parts management to maintain revenue-generating assets and minimize downtime, leveraging data analytics for optimized inventory and cost-effective operations.
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Unlocking the Power of Digital Transformation with Effective Supply Chain Master Data Management

Master data – the information, statistics, processes, and guidelines that govern a business and its supply chain – has always been essential, strategic, and proprietary. The groundswell attending digital transformation...
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How to Overcome Supply Chain Disruptions With Real-time Data Transparency

The global nature of business, geopolitical upheaval, impacts of the Covid 19 pandemic, increasing extreme weather events, and more factors are placing ever-greater strains on complex and interdependent supply chains....
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