Top 5 Supply Chain Disruptors for 2024
From geopolitical conflicts to single sourcing to labor shortages, every organization is vulnerable to supply chain disruptors. However, understanding the leading disruptors can protect manufacturers from supply chain threats and help to keep operations working like they should. Every organization should take a proactive approach to supply chain disruption and have strategies in place to […]
Top 10 Supply Chain Management Tips for 2024
Mitigating risks and overcoming challenges in complex supply chains is on the minds of most manufacturers and suppliers, especially as we prepare for a new year of business. Companies are making plans to enter 2024 with a strategy to keep their inventory shelves lean, while also minimizing the possibility of stockouts. Effectively managing complex manufacturing […]
Supply Chain Management Best Business Practices
As a part of FM Business Daily’s ongoing subject matter expert content, ShelfAware CEO and Founder Andrew Johnson provides supply chain management best practices and practical business strategy every month for facility managers and other industrial professionals. ShelfAware’s vision for the future of business-to-business supply chains is to provide an ecosystem where the market’s largest […]
RFID’s Impact on Industrial Supply Chain Management
The evolution of RFID technology is leading to complete autonomy in warehouses and distribution centers. The use of RFID and other types of innovative automation reduces human interaction in the supply chain while increasing efficiency, reducing costs, and improving the accuracy of inventory management. RFID technology provides accuracy and speed in supply chains across an […]
Use Smart Technology to Manage Complex Supply Chains
Smart technology, like handheld scanners, can revolutionize inventory management and supply. This type of intelligent compact tool allows users to seek and find misplaced inventory in large factory settings. Original equipment manufacturers can perform regular inventory audits that will ensure system accuracy and give them confidence to never again have to perform physical inventory audits […]
How Manufacturing Supply Chain Digitization Reduces Carbon Footprint
Manufacturers are focusing on sustainable solutions that reduce carbon emissions while also improving the management of their complex supply chains. For many reasons, a digital vendor managed inventory (VMI) platform provides a system that accomplishes supply chain challenges while minimizing the carbon footprint. Companies are looking to reduce their carbon footprint, especially in heavy industry. […]
How to Automate Your Supply Chain in One Day
Digital vendor managed inventory (VMI) platforms have made supply chain automation fast and affordable. But not all VMIs are created equally. Be sure to choose a platform that doesn’t require complicated ERP or MRP integration and one that offers crucial supplier and distributor collaboration. In the past three decades, VMI platforms have become a popular […]
CloudSourcing™: The New Industrial Buying Group
For decades, independent industrial distributors have collaborated to create buying groups, which allow them to negotiate better prices, set up training programs, improve their bottom lines, grow, and manage supply chains. With the onset of CloudSourcingTM, the process becomes even more simplified, more efficient, and more robust. Historically in the industrial world, independent distributors and […]
Manage Manufacturing Supply Chains with Scalable Automation
By leveraging CloudSourcingTM and the power of digital VMI, suppliers can manage multiple inventory streams with multiple manufacturers. Because the ShelfAware platform is scalable, it’s typical to start small and grow with time. Here is a typical example from one of ShelfAware’s many recent installations. Generalist industrial suppliers no longer have to complicate the management […]
The Power of RFID Technology for Inventory Audits
Traditional inventory audits require physically counting thousands of small components like O-rings, fasteners, gaskets, and other products. The process is tedious, requires massive hours of manpower, and is prone to human error. However, by using the power of RFID technology and a digital vendor managed inventory (VMI) platform, the same audit can be accomplished in […]
