MRPeasy Manufacturing Podcast

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the process of managing a product throughout its lifespan, from concept to manufacturing to disposal. Using PLM or MRP software to manage their products could bring manufacturers benefits ranging from better collaboration to optimized production processes and higher product quality. 

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Supply chain management encompasses everything from negotiating vendor contracts for raw materials to handling returns of a product. While it is a central concept for any company producing or selling physical goods or even services, this post focuses on the importance and best practices of SCM from the perspective of small and medium manufacturers.

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Manufacturing analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data to get insights for improving efficiency in a manufacturing organization. While MA used to be the playing field of only large enterprises, nowadays even the smallest manufacturer can benefit from it.

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Xero is one of the most widely used accounting systems among small businesses. Although the software also boasts some inventory management functionality, serious manufacturers and distributors need to find another way to make it work for their companies.

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Frozen Garden produces its own healthy food products as well as white-label goods for other small brands. To effectively scale up, founder Allyson Straka decided to implement an MRP system. “When we started, we produced 200 smoothies a day,” she says. “Now we produce 1000 with the same number of people.”

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The realm of production optimization is as diverse as there are different manufacturing workflows. Optimizations can range from changing inventory and warehouse layouts to adopting machine learning and advanced AI. In this post, we look at the basics of production optimization with a focus on how small manufacturers can optimize their processes.

Excel and other spreadsheet applications have been used in production planning for decades. Even though they are a viable first-step solution for micro-companies, a growing business should already look for something more scalable.

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Total manufacturing cost is an essential metric for understanding the profitability of a business. It can be used to adjust the selling price of your products, identify and cut expenses, and calculate other key metrics like the Cost of Goods Manufactured. In this post, we explore total manufacturing cost and its utility to manufacturers.

Product variants are versions of products with variations in attributes such as color, size, material, features, pricing, etc. Even though selling a product with variants is quite clear-cut, managing their production can be a real headache.

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The manufacturing sector is going through a deeply challenging period. Here are six questions arising in the day-to-day operations of modern small manufacturers that leave managers exhausted.

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Arizona-based LED system manufacturer Anthem One provides a diverse range of industries with compact but powerful lighting and disinfecting solutions. With its production team in the US and its procurement department in Taiwan, the company needed a cloud-based ERP/MRP system to collaborate seamlessly across the globe.

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Manufacturing accounting is an internal business management process that helps managers keep an eye on the fiscal performance of a manufacturing operation. This post looks at the basic processes that inform manufacturing accounting and defines its most relevant terms.

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Manufacturing bottlenecks are points in the production process that are constrained by inefficiency. Finding and eliminating bottlenecks allows you to use more of your production capacity, minimize WIP inventory, reduce lead times, improve quality, and increase the overall efficiency of your manufacturing business.

We have all seen manufacturing depicted in cartoons. Basic resources are rolled into a factory, followed by loud noises and a smoking chimney. Then, shiny finished products emerge on the other side. In reality, manufacturing is a bit more complex. On their journey toward becoming final products, raw materials go through work in process inventory. In this post, we look at what WIP is and how to account for it.

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After trying out a number of solutions, innovative microencapsulated fragrance maker MicroCapture found a perfect software companion in MRPeasy. “We managed to set up bills of materials and products in a single week,” says Customer Support Executive, Kate Taylor.

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The lean manufacturing methodology chiefly revolves around minimizing production times and raising efficiency by eliminating waste. In this post, we go through the 8 principal wastes in lean manufacturing and see how manufacturing software can help to address them.

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Material planning is the process of figuring out what and how much is needed in order to produce goods within a specified timeframe, and ensuring the timely delivery of those materials. Accurate material planning can contribute significantly to the efficiency and profitability of a company.

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Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) is a sales tool that makes it easy to calculate the prices and lead times of complex, configurable products, and to quickly generate quotes with the relevant information. 

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Whole and Free Foods, the Chicago-based manufacturer of Every Body Eat® wellness snacks, cuts down on waste, improves its production processes, and achieves healthy growth by using manufacturing resource planning software.

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Economic order quantity is a supply chain management technique used to determine the optimal lot size per order. This is done in order to avoid stockouts and overstocking, thereby balancing inventory costs and opportunity costs.

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