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 […]
