The resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States has renewed the scramble for personal protection equipment (PPE) among healthcare providers and industry. Supply chain issues and distrust of domestic and...
Essential Personal Protective Equipment in Industry
Procuring critical supplies has always been a matter of survival for manufacturing companies. Over the last several months, however, securing a reliable supply of personal protective equipment in industry has...
Ensuring a Supply of Industrial PPE Through a Proven Supply Chain Management Process
The COVID-19 outbreak and resulting tensions between the United States and China have put the squeeze on the industrial PPE (personal protective equipment) supply chain. Manufacturers are struggling to find...
Storeroom Organization: How to Maximize Space and Efficiency
Maintenance, repair, and operations stockrooms are no different than consumer product inventory systems, they should be built and managed to solve “customer” problems. Stockrooms “customers” are a company’s internal departments...
Driving Change in Last Mile Delivery for MRO Logistics
The 2019 3PL Study by Infosys, Korn Ferry, Penske, and Penn State, was released in conjunction with The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ annual conference. In addition to various...
BOM Management Best Practices for Maximum Efficiency
With supply chain managers continually scraping to make their operations more strategic and less transactional, most have by now embraced the need for comprehensive equipment bills of material (BOM). An...
8 REASONS WHY BOM MANAGEMENT IS CRITICAL TO ANY MAINTENANCE AND RELIABILITY PROGRAM
The Bill of Materials (BOM) is a comprehensive inventory of the raw materials, assemblies, subassemblies, parts and components, as well as the quantities of each, needed to manufacture a product...
The Trend is Your Friend: Reducing MRO Purchasing Costs through Demand Analysis
All MRO inventory is not created equal. Job-critical spare parts should not be treated the same as routine maintenance supplies. Cheap, bulk-order items do not deserve the same attention as...
3 Standards in Data, Controls, and Systems to Further Enable Supply Chain Integration
Manufacturers want to leverage evolving technology in the age of Industry 4.0. Companies that integrate their supply chain through digital technologies are agile and nimble. The digital supply chain allows...
