The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that the global volume of edible food wastage is as much as 1.6 billion tons.
It’s a mind-boggling statistic if you consider that this equates to roughly one-third of all food produced for human consumption. This means that hunger across the globe could effectively be eradicated simply by recovering only half of what is lost or wasted.
Topics: Technology (or Enterprise Technology), Supply Chain Management
In my previous blog, I discussed the most compelling reasons to automate your supply chain. Now that you are sold on the concept, I’m going to give some detail around how to go about this automation.
Basically, there are four key points to ensure the efficacy of an automation project:
Topics: Supply Chain Management
Firstly, a public service announcement: this blog contains references to sex, nudity and violence. You have been warned …
Well, eventually it had to happen. After some birds and bees and flowers and trees action an egg has been known to give rise to the odd chicken. Now (and here’s the violent bit) in order to cook a chicken to golden deliciousness, it is necessary to first deal with the unpleasant aspect of a slaughter.
Topics: Managing inventory with ERP, Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management
If you recall from my last blog I almost ended up with egg on my face! Not literally - my egg whites were beaten into submission and stayed firmly in their place. My awkward moment only came when I took the wrong approach to combining the eggs with the other ingredients.
Topics: ERP for Manufacturing, Managing inventory with ERP, Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management
Some would say that the link between ERP and baking is tenuous at best. However, my most recent culinary catastrophe got me thinking about SYSPRO’s functionality and convenience. Let me elaborate…
Topics: ERP for Manufacturing, Managing inventory with ERP, Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management
Costing methods can be a contentious issue where there is no definite right or wrong answer. The other day, while looking at my Quora feed, I came across a user who posed a question regarding a disagreement between two people. He wanted to know if at least one person will always be wrong.
Topics: Software development, Managing inventory with ERP, Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management
In my last blog I referred to how much your inventory is costing you and that both direct costs and overhead costs will have an influence on your stocking quantity.
Topics: Software development, Managing inventory with ERP, Inventory Management
Some people like cars, some have an affinity for sport, while others can discuss the sheen of their pet’s coat for hours on end. We all have our own weaknesses … or strengths depending on where you stand on dog fur. My passion is food. Sometimes healthy, occasionally cholesterol-inducing, butter soaked sheer indulgence.
Topics: Software development, Managing inventory with ERP, Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management