A Guide for Strong Materials Intelligence to Streamline Your Private Equity Strategy Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is often a critical part of a manufacturer’s growth strategy. A critical strategy for private equity firms focused on the manufacturing industry involves…
A Guide for Strong Materials Intelligence to Streamline Your Mergers and Acquisitions Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is often a critical part of a manufacturer’s growth strategy. The ability to expand a product portfolio or line of brands helps organizations…
Shander to provide value-creating customer insights to AI-driven supply chain and materials management platform company Atlanta, Georgia — August 11, 2022 — Verusen, the global supply chain intelligence innovator, today announced the appointment of Stephen (Steve) Shander, former Senior Vice-President…
The terms “network” and “network effect” get tossed around a lot these days when discussing strategies to improve manufacturing operations and supplier relationships. But “network” and “effect” are used in a variety of ways and incorporate very different initiatives depending…
Photo By WavebreakMediaMicro Materials management is a crucial component in the manufacturing process, whether it be delivering raw materials from suppliers to manufacturers or managing the spare parts needed to ensure finished products make it out the door. Without a…
As seen on Forbes U.S. and global oil, gas, energy, and utility companies are looking at challenges in their markets, rarely seen in recent years. The complexity of delivering energy to previous high standards is staggering. Power grids are becoming…
Ask The Expert: Stop Relying on Excess Inventory as an Insurance Policy For decades, global manufacturers have relied on excess inventory as an insurance policy to combat unexpected disruption, often at the expense of opportunities to balance working capital. What…
It’s Time To Move Beyond a Traditional ERP Strategy ERP Functionality Isn’t Specifically Designed for Materials Management Many manufacturers believe their ERP alone is enough to optimize their manufacturing and supply chain operations. This mentality has grown even more prevalent…
Innovative enterprise-wide materials intelligence platform provides MRO supply and material visibility across the entire enterprise networkEnables global manufacturers to implement Virtual Networks and scenario models across their Indirect material supply chain without the prerequisite of data cleansing and preparation. The…
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to send shockwaves across the global supply chain even after 2.5 years, putting inventory levels at a lot of risk. This is further exacerbated by other disruptive events such as the “Zero-Covid Policy” in China, extreme…
