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Food Safety and Traceability: Ensuring Compliance and Enabling Supply Chain Visibility
Major changes have occurred since our last study on Food Safety and Traceability was published in November of 2009; namely, passing of the "Food Safety Modernization Act". With this new legislation we have...
A Risk Management Approach for Improving Safety and Productivity
Safety has always been a critical measure of success for any industrial organization. There are of course risks to an organization’s brand...
The Role of Software in Asset Performance Management: Reduce maintenance cost, downtime and safety incidents
While frozen budgets have been a key issue for maintenance organizations, the results from Aberdeen's fourth annual research study, including responses from 117 executives revealed that managing employee and plant safety, reducing maintenance costs and minimizing asset downtime is placing increasing pressure on these groups. This report will serve as...
Business Process Management in Manufacturing: Paving the Way for Effective Collaboration
Manufacturers today are struggling with pressures from many different stakeholders. Regulators, shareholders, customers, and suppliers all impact operations and the ability of an organization to quickly sense and adapt to these pressures can be a source of great competitive advantage. Unfortunately, most legacy applications, as well as the supporting...
Facilities Management: Strategies to Reduce Operating Costs
The facilities management function has begun its strategic rise to the top of the operational hierarchy. Companies are beginning to shift away from the notion of facilities as merely a back-office set of day-to-day activities and looking at this indirect spend category as one that can drive value to specific organizational areas. Aberdeen Group...
Lean Operations: Software Strategies for Manufacturing's New Normal
In the run up to the global economic downturn of 2008 and 2009, manufacturers had to a large extent given up on Lean. Initiatives were still prevalent but core principles had not been adhered to. A "build it and we can sell it" attitude had been adopted; with a narrow focus on pure output maximization. Since the collapse, manufacturers have responded...
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