How It’s Made: F&B and CPG Manufacturing Success
In the highly competitive food and beverage (F&B) and consumer packaged goods (CPG) markets, manufacturers have learned to listen more to consumer needs and requirements. For example, consumers are more interested...
The Top Five Quality Management System Failures of All Time
We all know the point of using a Quality Management System (QMS) is to clearly understand customer requirements, then manage internal processes (management, design, and production) so that they fulfill these...
Managing Recalls with an Adaptive ERP
Not too long ago, a major U.S. grocery store chain launched a recall of frozen vegetables that was determined to be contaminated. They were produced by a popular manufacturer. The breach...
Actionable Insights: Overall Equipment Effectiveness
In our previous Actionable Insights blog, we looked at the various predefined Action Centers made available by role, starting with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Action Center. Next we will provide...
Autonomous Driving: What’s the Rush?
The race to develop and capitalize on self-driving, autonomous cars and trucks has been intensifying over the past couple of years as significant innovations and milestones have been announced by automakers....
Doing Business in Japan
Japan has been an economic power throughout much of its history, despite a major economic downturn starting in the 1990s. The earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March 2011 killed thousands of...
CPG Businesses Turning to M&A Activity for Success
Players in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry have been challenged with finding new ways to keep up with today's disruptive environment to meet the requirements of today’s informed and tech...
A “Good” Digital Transformation Strategy is Not Good Enough
Digital transformation. It’s a term that is keeping manufacturers on their toes, and one that has some companies going back to the strategy drawing board. The digital transformation of manufacturing is...
How to Improve the Execution of Manufacturing Strategies (Pt. II)
In "How to Improve the Execution of Manufacturing Strategies (Pt. I)," we discussed reviewing the execution capability of a manufacturing strategy, the first of two steps to improve the chances of...
Actionable Insights: Financial Analysis for CFOs
In our previous Actionable Insights blog, we provided an overview of QAD Action Centers, our role-based dashboards featuring real-time actionable insights, and discussed the ways in which they differ from traditional...