Managing scrap, yield and other factors
Process manufacturing enterprises are prone to planned and unplanned production variations, due to the characteristics of the materials being used and produced, the quality or grade of materials as well as the effects of the production process such as machine setup. To help in such environments to ensure enough:- Material is purchased, picked and issued […]
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Dimension based formulas for flexible packing manufacturers
How do flexible packing manufacturers determine a cost for their products?. There are many cost drivers and elements that may be used, such as material price lists, production batch sizes, scrap, yield, production resources, tooling, labour, hourly rates, overheads and landed costs. But the core element to calculate the estimate or the cost is the […]
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Top 10 business requirements to manage Ingredients and Nutrients
As an SME producer of food and beverage products, industry regulations require you to record, measure, calculate and print, key information relating to ingredients and nutrients. Below is a list of the top 10 functional requirements that are required from your ERP solution to manage this element of your business, all of which are managed […]
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Top 10 batch traceability questions?
With increased levels of globalization and extended supply chains, and ever increasing regulatory pressures batch traceability is paramount. But just saying “Batch Traceability” sounds really easy, but in reality it’s a complex multi-dimension business issue, which touches all parts of the enterprise, and for regulated industries such as Food and Beverage and Chemicals batch trace […]
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Manage your factory resources via Drag and Drop Scheduling
If you’re a make-to-order business, having full visibility of how your current order book consumes your existing capacity goes without saying, but understanding your available free capacity is just as important when you have to provide an accurate delivery date to the customer. But even if you’re a make-to-stock or make-to-forecast business, or a combination […]
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Batch Traceability – Looking for a needle in a haystack
We all hear the term Big Data and its loose definition of large volumes of data, and its related problems with data capture, storage, search, analysis and visualization to name but a few. But depending on the industry, product, customer and user, Big Data problems tend to be specific to you! If you produce products […]
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