The history of lean may stretch back more than a century, but it’s as relevant today (and will be tomorrow) as it was when first conceived.
Rather than replacing lean, digital technologies are helping to identify previously unattainable efficiency opportunities and augmenting employees’ efforts to unlock unparalleled levels of productivity and innovation. Here’s what your organisation needs to know.
- Topic:
- Manufacturing
How implementing a WMS helps wholesalers and 3PLs overcome the most common warehouse problem.
I speak daily to businesses with warehouses ranging from 8,000sq ft to 70,000sq ft, and they are almost all worried about the same thing: visibility. Lack of visibility is most often caused by continuing to use paper-based systems when warehousing is quickly becoming more and more electronic.
Read our article on "The minefield of Warehouse Management Systems
- Topic:
- Supply Chain
Supply chains have long been a crucial part of almost any business’s processes. Ensuring that you have the right materials and items to complete your work is more than a question of effective sourcing: it’s also about forward planning and adequate data-sharing. It can be disastrous if things go wrong.
There have been plenty of technological developments in the supply chain management field, such as modelling software designed to locate where efficiencies can take place. However, emerging cloud technology has an increasingly essential role to play in developing optimised and efficient supply chains.
- Topic:
- Hosting (IT)
For the past century or so, construction projects have largely relied on the same building methods, with construction workers constructing everything piece by piece on site.
Due to huge technological advancements taking place in the 21st century and a swing in commercial building trends, modern construction methods now include offsite construction. This is the manufacture and assembly of construction elements off-site, prior to being put together onsite.
Offsite construction is easy to manage – using specialist construction software which is designed to improve your internal processes, increase productivity and reduce costs. Also termed ‘prefabricated construction’ and ‘modular construction,’ there are plenty of benefits of offsite construction.
- Topic:
- Construction
