Manufacturing Insights

What if your costing solution wasn't adjacent to your business processes, but a core part of what made your company competitive? Mike Perrott from Flex shares his experience.

Digital technology can help manufacturers right-size the labor force and to deliver manufacturing a workforce that's ready for digital transformation.

Manufacturers who are serious about sustainable production need a robust solution that reveals sustainability problems before any parts are produced.

A development cycle that used to take months to complete now takes just hours or even minutes. How? By automating product development with digitized data, knowledge, and processes.

Implementing digital factory twins helped this manufacturer reduce costs amidst a labor shortage.

Typical communication channels don't offer real-time collaboration on design. Plus, organizational knowledge evaporates when skilled engineers move on. aP Workspace provides a fix to both problems. Barton Phinney, Senior Product Manager for aP Workspace, explains.

In Zero RFQs, the need to request a quote is completely removed thanks to seamless integration between procurement and suppliers.

At the start of 2023, what threats are keeping execs up at night? CEO Stephanie Feraday reveals the biggest problems facing manufacturing today, and how aPriori is helping to solve them.

Sustainable sourcing measures carbon footprint alongside traditional metrics such as profitability and time to market. The ability to compute and track the real drivers of carbon emissions is allowing companies to track sustainability all throughout their value chain. An early adopter of sustainability insights describes how this has changed his decision-making around sourcing and procurement.

If there was one word that underlined all my conversations with manufacturers in 2022 it was: sustainability. The past year saw the first wave of reporting mandates hit Europe, while stateside companies scrambled to prove they were improving on sustainability– even if they weren't quite sure what metrics they were supposed to be tracking.

In this podcast we revisit some of the most provocative conversations with sustainability experts in 2022, and use their insights to look ahead to 2023.