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Are Late Purchase Orders Undermining Your Production?
Even during periods of “normalcy,” delays or changes in purchase orders (POs) can disrupt your manufacturing business. And for the past two years, the world has been facing anything but “normalcy.” Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an absolute necessity to ensure production planning meets customer demand and deadlines, and VISUAL Manufacturing ERP is one of…
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EDI and Collaborative Supplier Portals
EDI is great, but extra capabilities make it greater If you’re part of a large company, you probably have Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in place already. If not, how do you know whether or not you should pursue it? Since the 1960s, EDI has represented a huge advancement in business processes. In the ’90s it…
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Understanding Why Purchase Order Management Is Crucial to Supply Chain Success
There are lots of moving pieces to managing the whole shebang of our supply chains. They stretch, sometimes literally around the globe, from raw material extraction and creation, through multiple transportation and manufacturing steps, all the way through to a finished product getting into the final user’s hands. There are countless places where things can…