Crossroads RMC - Baan & LN Tips

I realize it was just Mother’s Day, but I don’t mean your mother. I mean... MOM- Manufacturing Operations Management , a suite of manufacturing applications designed to improve ...

Two big sources of inefficiencies in manufacturing are paper and spreadsheets. I know that you love ‘em, but they are the cause of more problems than you probably realize. Think of how long it ...

From a recent article published by M4B Marketing : When analyzing your sales performance consider the following: Pricing changes eg. price increases or discounting ...

It is essential to capture a reason and duration for each downtime incident to enable the team to effectively prioritize and focus. Start simple, and make sure every reason is clear (when ...

When fixing a downtime issue, make one change at a time. Often, multiple changes are made at the same time, without individually checking their impact on the equipment. This makes it much harder ...

Common sense rules. We may not like them, but generally, they stand the test of time and should be followed. Here are 8 common sense rules related to inventory management published by Inbound ...

Scrap and rework costs are a manufacturing reality impacting organizations across all industries and product lines. Scrap and rework costs are caused by many things—when the wrong parts are ...

I’m not talking “Modus Operandi,” which is a fancy way to say: “what’s your plan to get stuff done”. I’m talking about M anufacturing O ptimization. It is all about efficiency, and by ...

Are you tracking downtime? Is it done manually, or with some type of automation or application that gathers information in real-time, or is it based upon history? If you are measuring ...

Sit down with your IT team. Decide how the information will be captured and where it will be stored so that employees have access to it. What software tools need to be used to capture the ...

Standard costing is really a ‘best guess’ at labor costing -- these numbers are often inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. Accurate job costing requires the capture of all tasks ...

Print Sales Order History Information - all invoices processed through sales Check Inventory Valuation - this should tie out to your inventory accounts Print ...

Want to increase your efficiency across your organization? Is access to real time data important to you? Take a look at how and where your information is stored. Do you have employees keeping ...

Employee empowerment is important if you want to retain the skilled workforce you have and attract new talent. Here are 5 ways you can motivate your employees to give their best every day ...

Just a refresher on a tip I’ve shared previously from Supply Chain Technology Bulletin regarding how to attain greater inventory accuracy. I thought it would be worthwhile to share again: ...

Cross Docking can provide significant improvements in efficiency by looking for outstanding requirements for an item (production orders, sales orders, replenishment orders) and automatically ...

Eliminate paper shop packet and distribution of the paperwork to the shop floor. Eliminate manual (paper-based) recording activities and the need to key in the transactions. ...

I hate getting lost. I feel out of control and helpless. Thank God my dad taught me early on how to read a map. Maps give us direction, points of reference, and helps us navigate the obstacles in ...

Such lofty goals you had when you implemented your ERP system. It was going to be like pressing the “Easy Button”… then it wasn’t. What happened? In some cases, decisions were made to ...

When is the last time you took a hard look at your production lines? How are we moving product through our facility? Do we have work instructions / drawings available where ...

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