Ask the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) Expert -- All questions asked of Alison Smith
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How could an electronics store like Best Buy or Circuit City use transportation to increase the efficiency of its supply chain?
- Beyond Supply Chain Semantics
Can supply chain management entail the management of the facilities, functions, and activities involved in producing and delivering a product or service from suppliers to customers?
If it can be ... how would it be better then value chain management?
- Keeping SCOR of SCM, Lean and Six-Sigma Best Practices
What are the common SCM Best Practices? What are the contribution of SCOR Model, Lean manufacturing and Six-Sigma in SCM?
Which concept/tool (SCOR Model/Lean manufacturing/ Six-Sigma) is best in better SCM in today's context? When an organization wants to implement a SCM practices. which one of the above is best suited or give more advantage?
- Supply Chain Synthesis
What does Supply Chain Synthesis (SCS) mean? How has the Synthesis evolved from SCM to SC Integration to SC Synthesis? What is today's business need for SCS?
- Whipping the Supply Chain Into Shape
Sir,
what is meant by Demand Management in SCM? How does it nullify the effect of Bullwhip effect, and will it be more effective than Conwhip or Hybrid effect?
Warm Regards.
- Software Selection Specifics
What software programs are available for demand forecasting, economic order quantity (EOQ) and transportation models?
- Shipping Systems Shortcomings
Do you see shipping execution/automation as a substantial problem today? Seems to me that many SCM solutions do not fully incorporate the last step in the process, shipping orders?
- Advanced planning systems
Where do you see the problems for impementation Advanced Planning Systems (APS) in a company? Are there any conditions when APS can not be implemented, or is it possible at every company? Where do you see APS in the future and how will it evolve? Thank you very much.
- For whom the channel tolls
What is the role of distributors and retailers in Supply Chain Management and why arre they important in the supply chain of any industry?
- Understanding SAP's Business Process Platform
SAP talks about creating a "business process platform" enabled by its NetWeaver application integration architecture that uses SAP-supplied and certified third-party code to build new applications and / or infuse existing apps with additional functionality. How should my company, an SAP shop still running R/3 in the consumer products space, prepare for the transition to these composite applications as we begin upgrading to mySAP ERP? We are evolving to a build to order business model and need better ways to manage our inventory and work in progress, while preventing stock outs.
- The supply chain defined
I am a senior level HR executive who would like to better understand what supply chain management is all about. What is a good resource to better help me totally understand "suppy chain management" and its value to manufacturing companies.
- How do you spell lean?
We are a small industrial parts manufacturers, and recently, without explaining exactly how, our CEO has mandated that we are to become a "lean" company. I am a manager in the IT department, and after doing some research on the concept, I am fairly confused by what he means. What is "lean" and what are we expected to do about it?
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