For small and midsized manufacturers, production planning is where daily operational efficiency meets long-term business strategy. Here are 15 core KPIs every manufacturing SME should consider ...

Detailed production planning is largely related to efficiency and lean manufacturing practices. It simply involves the careful consideration of variables that affect production. Detailed production ...

Microsoft Excel is a simple but powerful spreadsheet software program that lets small businesses project, track and review information, including manufacturing data. Excel lets you create custom ...

Non-connected, siloed data and rigidity of commercial production planning solutions hinder production processes for manufacturing and consumer goods businesses ...

Production and inventory-planning processes commonly used by companies, called sales & operations planning (S&OP), require predictable demand and supply to function properly. In the post-pandemic ...

Mark Holmes, senior advisor for supply chain with InterSystems, lays out the multiple challenges that manufacturers face in optimizing their repackaging processes, and proposes some solutions for ...

Grown from a one-man business into a global leader, STIHL Group develops, manufactures, and distributes power tools for professional forestry and agriculture, garden and landscape maintenance, the ...