Servicing SMEs Throughout Atlantic Canada
In today’s global economy of rising fuel costs, fluctuating exchange rates, labour shortages, and rapidly shrinking margins, organizations without an import strategy are finding it near impossible to compete. Global competition, and in particular competition from low cost labour countries, is resulting in lost customers and deteriorating profitability for many domestic manufacturers. Despite these competitive…
As the years go by, buzz words come and buzz words go. Some we tend to ignore in the hopes that they too will be washed away by the tide of time, never to be heard from again. From JIT, to Quality Circles, to MBO… they come, and they go. Some disappear altogether, while others simply…
Enterprise Resource Planning systems have exploded in popularity in recent years as organizations try to gain control over their businesses, realizing that to truly succeed, they need to view the business holistically, as an integrated system, focusing on the sum of the parts. These systems bring with them obvious complexity, as the organization moves towards…
During a recent academic class I was participating in, a discussion took place regarding differences between traditional manufacturing systems, just-in-time inventory systems, and stockless inventory systems. This discussion was focused on the idea that although companies can save money going from traditional manufacturing systems to just-in-time systems (basically by pushing the responsibility for storing materials…