These are exciting times for UK garment manufacturers – if they embrace digitalisation, writes Karl H. Lauri, managing team member at MRPeasy.com. Significant changes are under way in the garment and apparel manufacturing industry. In many cases they are both driving and being driven by …
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An IT recipe for food and beverage supply chain success
A world of opportunity is opening up for smaller and more specialist food and beverage producers – but only if their manufacturing and business information systems are fit for purpose, explains Karl H. Lauri, managing team member at MRPeasy.com. Even before the pandemic, food retailers were …
SME backbone for biotech supply chains
With Covid-19 vaccine delivery highlighting the need for resilience in pharma and biotech supply chains, Karl H. Lauri,managing team member at MRPeasy.com, explains that ERP/MRP gives smaller suppliers the backbone required to take part. The pandemic has starkly revealed not only the science and …
Solution for logistics companies integration with OnBuy
Utordo allows logistics companies to integrate with the world’s fastest-growing online marketplace, OnBuy Utordo – the cloud-based multi-channel order management solution – is now fully integrated with OnBuy.com, the fastest-growing online marketplace in the world and the largest UK-founded …
The best is yet to come
Given that the concepts behind Materials Requirement Planning are now around fifty years old, you might think that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and its siblings would now count as ‘mature’. But in fact ERP/MRP is only just getting started, and the best is yet to come, writes Karl H. Lauri, …
Simplify supply chain complexity and seize the future
by Karl H. Lauri, managing team member at MRPeasy.com – a cloud-based, affordable and user-friendly ERP/MRP software for small manufacturers and distributors (10-200 employees). The combination of globalisation, e-commerce and the Internet has blown apart the post-war ‘standard business model’, …
Realising the benefits of Direct to Consumer
Direct to Consumer (D2C) is a new yet already popular business strategy for many new, and some experienced small manufacturers. But without an appropriate IT platform, which combines traditional manufacturing ERP with new e-commerce channels, the benefits may not be entirely realised. The …
3PLs: Don’t get left behind in the e-fulfillment race
If 3PLs want to win online fulfillment business they must be able to demonstrate that they have the IT infrastructure in place to respond to the demands of e-commerce retailers – and their customers, says Utordo director, Richard Davies The spectacular growth of internet shopping coupled with a …
New cloud-based solution gives logistics companies edge when fulfilling online orders
A new cloud-hosted, multi-channel order management solution has been developed that enables third party logistics (3PL) service companies to fulfill B-2-C orders on behalf of e-commerce retailers quickly, accurately and cost-effectively. By adopting Utordo middleware, 3PLs can integrate their …
