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Best Practices in the Supply Chain Update

-- Modern Materials Handling, 3/23/2006

Best Practices Update

    March 23 , 2006  |  Volume 1, Issue 3  

It’s no longer a best practice to simply collect data in the plant or warehouse. Now it’s essential to make better use of that information to improve operations. This enewsletter offers tips on how three leading companies do that and how you can find gaps in your material and information flow that are hurting your efficiencies.

 

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Best practice: management by information
In today's supply chains, information about the movement of goods is as important as the physical movement of goods. "If you don't have information, you're managing by instinct," says Bruce Strahan, a partner with The Progress Group.
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Three companies that improved operations with better information management
Warehouse management systems, bar code scanning, voice technology and RFID. They are all technologies that enable the collection of information inside the four walls of a warehouse or distribution center. 
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Tips for finding and fixing gaps in material and data flow
I continue to be amazed at the number of operations managers who, when asked, cannot readily provide me with a snapshot of inventory status by discrete location. Read More


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