Author Profile: Thomas R. Cutler
Thomas R. Cutler is the President & CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based, TR Cutler, Inc. Cutler is the founder of the Manufacturing Media Consortium including more than 4000 journalists,...
View ArticleReplacing OEE with Vimana Yields Improved Equipment Utilisation
Some have called vimana the new Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). System Insights has replaced OEE with vimana and is quickly poised to be the industry gold standard. Curtiss Wright Controls in...
View ArticleWhat ails the pharmaceutical supply chain?
It is always dangerous to draw too many parallels between companies, and yet benchmarking is one of the most effective ways of expressing comparative performance. The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25,...
View ArticleWhy Pick-to-Light is the most effective picking solution
Antonio Rodrigues, a senior manager at Pcdata, based in East Granby, Connecticut, suggested, “One size fits all certainly does not apply to getting the highest productivity out of a warehouse...
View ArticleWomen and younger manufacturing leaders demand holistic automation solutions
Younger CEOs examine the cost of a sale AND the cost of losing a valued customer. Automation decision makers, whether in the manufacturing industry or material demand more than ever before. This...
View ArticleTips for managing a Russian supply chain – Part one: customs clearance
In the first of a three part series for the WTG Blog, Pascal Born, Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions at Neovia Logistics, shares his knowledge of customs clearance in the tough Russian market....
View ArticleTips for managing a Russian supply chain – Part Two: Reliable and efficient...
Pascal Born’s second in his three part series for the WTG Blog, looks at Reliable and efficient 3PL Partners in the tough Russian market. My previous article covered tips to help secure the customs...
View ArticleTips for managing a Russian supply chain – Part three: Quality warehousing
In the third and final part of the series on managing Russian supply chains, Pascal focusses on the myth that quality warehousing space in Russia is either completely unavailable or extremely...
View ArticleManagement Systems: Turning Strategy into Reality
The tendency of typical managers when they first erect a Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC) board – or other type of performance board in their areas – is to stand up and start talking about...
View ArticleWhy S&OP is critical to improving organisational performance
Recent research has shown a mere 10 percent of organisations claim to have ‘excellent or world class’ sales and operations planning (S&OP). It reveals the substantial divide between those...
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