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If you are a supply chain leader whose company is on the road to digital transformation, you should make these three New Year’s resolutions.

In today’s business environment, supply chain companies must be able to respond rapidly and effectively to constant changes and complex challenges.

What if you could precisely predict when your machines and equipment will require maintenance – thereby preventing costly breakdowns, minimizing maintenance costs, and maximizing efficiency? With predictive maintenance tools and techniques, you can.

We speak with ICRON’s A. Tamer Ünal and CQM’s Jan van Doremalen, two trailblazers in the world of supply chain planning and optimization solutions, to get their thoughts on how supply chain trends and optimization technologies have evolved over the past 25 years and how they will change in the years to come.

Imagine the immense financial and operational benefits that your company could gain by making optimized business decisions.

The key to harnessing the power of new automated technologies is optimized planning and decision making.

A global financial crisis – when most companies are in cost-cutting mode – is actually a perfect time to invest in a supply chain optimization solution.

There's a disconnect between what supply chain companies’ data and plans are telling them to do and what they actually decide to do.

With algorithmic planning and decision making solutions, high-tech manufacturers can conquer the high costs and complexity in their industry.

To diagnose your supply chain planning problems and determine the right solution, you need a professional “supply chain doctor”

We explain how manufacturing firms can automatically, instantly transform their data into optimized decisions that enable them to achieve their business goals.

What are the key ingredients that supply chain companies need to make optimized business decisions?

Supply chain breakdowns can lead to sub-par delivery performance and customer satisfaction.

With an automated supply chain planning and optimization system, manufacturing companies can optimally plan for the holidays.

A growing number of companies are applying cutting-edge technologies to address critical inefficiencies and boost profitability.

Learn how supply chain optimization solutions can help companies conquer the complexity caused by unexpected events – such as the recent, record-setting global heat wave.

We explore some interesting opportunities for planning and operational optimization in the tire manufacturing industry.

Supply chain companies have come to expect the unexpected. Beyond the usual, unpredictable fluctuations in demand and supply, they must also cope with the unforeseen delays, disruptions, and even disasters that regularly occur in their end-to-end operations.

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. These flawed processes and practices lead to hidden, escalating costs that add up and take a tremendous toll on bottom lines.

I travel quite extensively for work and have had the opportunity to pass through airports all around the world. Although these airports have their own unique facilities, features, procedures, and processes, they all face many of the same challenges as they strive to ensure the smooth flow of traffic –  of both aircraft and people.

Over the past decade, supply chain and information technology organizations have invested extensively in data collection and storage systems and schemes and have made great strides in terms of their data maturity.

These days, companies across almost every industry are looking for ways to optimize their operations – to do more with less, to do things more intelligently, and continuously improve their processes.

Outside of my business career, I’m an avid and accomplished competitive glider pilot. I am very serious about the sport of gliding, and have competed at the highest levels in the Dutch National circuit. As with many activities in life, I think it is possible to draw some interesting parallels between competitive gliding and business operations and extract some important lessons from the former, which we can apply to the latter.

Tedarik zinciri yöneticileri ve envanter arasındaki ilişkiyi aşk-nefret ilişkisi olarak tanımlayabiliriz. Bir yandan her durumda müşterilerini memnun etmek için stokta ürün bulundurmak isterlerken bir yandan da stok tutmak para bağlamak anlamına geldiği için stok miktarını minimuma indirmek istiyorlar. Bu da sanırım envanter kavramının doğası: nefret edersiniz ancak onsuz da yaşayamazsınız.

Uçuş rötarları hepimizin defalarca yaşadığı bir deneyim ve sürekli seyahat eden biri olarak seyahat etmekle ilgili en sevmediğim şey diyebilirim. Güvenlik ve gümrük noktalarında uzun süre beklerken uçuşuma kadar bekleme salonunda geçireceğim güzel vaktin hayalini kuruyorum.

The Industry 4.0 era is upon us, and manufacturing companies around the globe are increasingly embracing automation and data exchange and implementing new technologies including cyber-physical systems, internet of things (IoT) devices, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, robotics, and advanced data analytics.

In today’s hypercompetitive and highly complex business environment, companies are constantly searching for ways to gain competitive advantage by improving the speed, efficiency, and quality of the goods and services they deliver to customers through their supply chains. The key to unlocking ...

Geçtiğimiz günlerde eVTOL’lar hakkında bir video izledim. Bir pilota ihtiyaç duymadan kendi başına uçabilen drone’lar, temelinde blockchain teknolojisi bulunuyor. Evet gerçekten blockshain teknolojisi diğer amaçların yanı sıra bu araçların başka hava taşıtlarını çarpmasını önlemek için kullanılıyor.

Günümüz tedarik zinciri şirketleri oldukça büyük miktarda veriye sahipler. Müşteri verisi, üretim verisi, GIS verisi, POS verisi, finansal veriler ve daha bir çok farklı veri toplanıyor ve bu aşırı bir verinin birikmesine neden oluyor.

Enerji, üretim sektöründe faaliyet gösteren şirketler için üretim seviyesini güçlendiren ve şirketlerin ürün ve hizmetlerini müşterilerine sunmalarını sağlayan yaşam kaynağıdır. Enerji olmadan üretim operasyonları durma noktasına gelir. Üretim firmaları için enerji arz-talep dengesini sağlamak karmaşık ve riskli bir süreçtir..

Solvers: What are they and what role do they play in supply chain optimization? At its core, every supply chain planning and scheduling problem is essentially an optimization problem – as its solution lies in finding a way to optimize the flow and delivery of goods and services from supplier to customer.

The term big data probably sounds familiar to many people. After all, much is written and spoken about in the media and perhaps also in your organization. But what exactly it is, few people can give ...

Forecasting is predicting the future with the help of quantitative methods. Crucial for many organizations. Because, if you know what happens in the future, you can already respond to it.

A new year and a new budget. New opportunities to do better. But do we start well with our personnel planning? Or do we make a false start and are we already out of the lead at the beginning of the year?

When we think about supply chain operations, we think about a number of activities, such as purchasing, production, transportation, order shipment, or product delivery.

Wednesday December 13th 2017 ICRON participated in the 4th Supply Chain Management Conference in Istanbul. Approximately 100 senior managers working in the field of supply chain and/or production attended the conference.

Açık pozisyonlar uzun süre kapatılamıyor. Global iş portali Indeed’in 2017 verilerine göre lojistik ve taşıma sektörlerindeki açık pozisyon sayısı 2016’ya göre %30 artış gösterdi.

İnsan doğası, karar almadan önce bazı bilgileri göz ardı etmeyi gerektirir. Eğer bu olmasaydı, karar verme sürecinde aşırı bir bilgi mevcut olurdu ve bu da karar vermeyi çok daha zorlaştırırdı. İnsanlar, ...

2017 Eylül ayı sonunda tüm dünyadan tedarik zinciri liderleri Londra’da bir araya geldi. İlham verici konuşmalar dinlediler, yeni iş bağlantıları ile tanıştılar ve tedarik zinciri alanında karşılaştıkları sorunları hem birbirleriyle hem de fikir önderleriyle tartıştılar.

Günümüzün hızlı ve yüksek rekabetçi iş dünyasında, ürün ve hizmetlerin mümkün olan en kısa zamanda hazır hale getirilmesi telaşında şirketler, sıklıkla zorlu uyum sorunlarıyla karşılaşıyorlar.

Havacılık & Savunma, Endüstriyel Makin eve Ekipman, Toplu Taşıma ve Kamu Hizmetleri gibi sektörlerin Bakım Onarım ve Yenileme (MRO) departmanlarında radikal bir değişim görünüyor.

17 Ocak 1706 tarihinde doğan Benjamin Franklin, Amerika'nın bağımsızlığı ve Birleşik Devletler'in kurulmasında büyük rol oynadı.

Çalışan ve iş verenin çıkarları arasında denge sağlayacak biçimde şekillendirilmiş bir iş ortamı, gelecek için doğru seçimdir. Pek çok örnekte günlük 8 saat çalışmak, ..