MRPeasy Manufacturing Podcast

If you’re a small or mid-sized manufacturer, adopting an agile approach can help you respond to changing customer requirements and fast-moving markets. In this podcast, you’ll learn what agile manufacturing is, whether it’s a good fit for your business, and how to put it into practice.

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It started as a study on baby diaper consumer demand variability by Procter & Gamble in the 1960s and was quickly adapted into a role-play simulation by the MIT Sloan School of Management called “The Beer Game”. But the bullwhip effect’s impact on manufacturers and supply chain management is anything but fun and games.

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Traceability is of vital importance in the food and beverage industry as it may directly impact consumers’ health and well-being. When a defective product or contamination is found, whether before or after shipment, finding the source of the problem expediently is the top priority to ensure public health.

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This episode is a live recording from our webinar on product costing for manufacturers. Our guest Yesim Tilley is a chartered manufacturing accountant with over 20 years of experience across many industries, including electronics, automotive, and plastics.

Yesim shares her insight on why margins are often lower than expected, where production costs are commonly underestimated, and what manufacturers can do to understand their true cost of production.

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Your equipment is running. Your team is working hard. But for some reason, production numbers don’t match what the specs promised. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) solves this puzzle by measuring the true productivity of your manufacturing equipment

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Measuring how much of your production capability you’re using is critical. Use too little, and you’re wasting resources. Push too close to the limit, and you risk failure and loss. Tracking capacity utilization helps you discover the sweet spot in your operation.

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A proactive stance on product returns is an essential aspect of modern trade, as relevant for retailers as it is for wholesalers, distributors, and manufacturers. In this blog post, we look at what a modern returns system should include and provide tips for SMEs.

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For UK-based sauna manufacturer Oceanic Saunas, upgrading the production system with new manufacturing software has brought tangible benefits to sales, shop floor operations, visibility, and finances.

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The manufacturing sector is in a constant staffing crisis. Efficient manufacturing workforce management, however, can help mitigate problems arising from worker shortages.

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Small businesses need to know exactly what each specific product costs to make. Not just the factory floor expenses. Everything. Production costs and manufacturing costs aren’t the same thing, even though people mix them up constantly. Get this wrong, and your pricing suffers, along with cost control. Your financial statements won’t tell you what’s really happening.

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