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 …
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 …
Telling the supply chain story of a part
Maintaining a library of information pertaining to the record of a part as it moves through a supply chain can be a significant challenge, even for smaller companies with relatively simple operations. But a suitable ERP system can provide a logical and appropriate organising framework. Every …
An urgent matter of supply chain preference
Karl Heinrich Lauri, managing team member at MRPeasy says implementing an ERP/MRP system should be high on the supply chain priorities list of smaller manufacturers – that is, if they wish to become ‘preferred suppliers’. COVID-19 has accentuated problems and accelerated …
Digital transformation is no longer an optional extra
Karl Heinrich Lauri, managing team member at MRPeasy asks: can a smaller manufacturer looking to survive and prosper in this changing world afford not to embrace the digitalisation of the business process? As manufacturing businesses prepare for life after Covid, it should be clear that …
