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How can the manufacturers of building materials – such as tiles, glass, ceramics, bricks, cables, and metals – rise above the challenges that they face?

We provide an overview of the entire, end-to-end supply chain planning framework, and explain why integrated business planning is such an important concept for companies to embrace and embody.

Workforce optimization can enable companies to maximize productivity and employee and customer satisfaction while minimizing operating costs.

Many supply chain companies are not aware of the huge sums of money they are losing every day due to operational inefficiencies and manual planning processes.

We reveal the key steps that manufacturing companies need to take to achieve inventory optimization.

Spare parts may seem like merely a small component of the production process, but they play a major role in ensuring that manufacturing operations run smoothly and successfully.

Why do S&OP implementations fail so frequently? To answer this question, we take a look at the four most common mistakes that manufacturing companies make when implementing an S&OP process.

We examine the differences between optimization and heuristics, and explore the pros and cons of each approach.

An intelligent planning and forecasting solution enables manufacturing companies to gain these five key capabilities, which are necessary to achieve demand planning optimization.

Decision-centric optimization enables supply chain companies to drive increased efficiency, customer satisfaction, and decreased costs.

Algorithmic supply chain planning and decision making optimization solutions, however, can be a game changer for FMCG manufacturers, empowering them to simultaneously maximize customer satisfaction and minimize costs.

ICRON’s S&OP solution has enabled Vestel to overcome its S&OP challenges, visualize and optimize its supply chain operations, and achieve increased agility, efficiency, and profitability.

There is an immense opportunity for manufacturing firms to drive down costs and drive up profitability by achieving energy optimization.

Are you looking to synchronize your company’s numerous manufacturing processes such as mixing, curing, and tire building, and also to minimize setup times, production disruptions, and costs? Would you like to increase your capacity utilization by 25%, your on time, in full (OTIF) performance by 20%, and your profits by at least 30%?

How can you assess and improve your company’s decision process maturity?

An increasing number of manufacturing companies are utilizing capable to promise (CTP) functionality to boost productivity and reduce costs.

In this management paper, we reveal the four key reasons why automotive companies should invest in an automated, integrated business planning solution.

This white paper explains the difference between traditional Advanced Planning Systems and Optimized Decision Making Solutions.

What are the three key capabilities that aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) companies must have to remain profitable in the era of global commercial aviation fleet expansion and modernization?

ICRON to target the global markets for synchronized production processes! ICRON, an international leading software company providing supply chain management and production planning solutions, helps companies to gain flexibility in their manufacturing processes and optimize their decision making.

View the Scenario Planning and Optimization in Integrated Business Planning (IBP) webcast to discover how companies like ASML, Vestel and Trakya Cam are utilizing ICRON to evaluate multiple scenarios, rapidly generate optimized plans and compare financial and operational KPIs to make informed decisions in their S&OP/IBP processes.

Watch our Automotive and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) webinar to discover how companies like Ford Otosan, Maxion and Bridgestone are utilizing ICRON to evaluate multiple scenarios, rapidly generate optimized plans and compare financial and operational KPIs to make informed decisions in their S&OP / IBP processes.

View the "Industry 4.0: Impossible without Advanced Planning & Optimization" webcast to discover how companies can and are utilizing ICRON’s advanced planning and optimization solutions.

What’s special about Spare Parts Optimization? It’s actually inventory management, there are stocks or spare parts you like to control and plan. You are planning stock from that perspective, which is simple. But from the planning perspective it’s not simple. Standard inventory planning models don’t satisfy the spare parts inventory planning. Spare Parts Inventory Planning has very special requirements.

You are invited to view “Advanced MRO Planning and Scheduling / MRO in Aviation” webcast to discover how ICRON empowers companies like SIA Engineering and Singapore Aero Engine Services (Rolls Royce) to move ahead the competition.