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Cutting the Fat: Reducing Inventory Waste Through Better BOM Management

Cutting the Fat: Reducing Inventory Waste Through Better BOM Management

Inventory waste may become a major source of losses in manufacturing. Inventory waste sits in the dusty warehouse corner, occupies working capital resources, and drives carrying costs up. Although manufacturers tend to blame forecasting mistakes or supply chain issues for their overstuffed warehouses, the reason behind the problem lies much…
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Manufacturing Cost Control: Why Accurate Production Posting Matters

Manufacturing Cost Control: Why Accurate Production Posting Matters

Cost control has traditionally been viewed in the manufacturing realm as an activity that comes into focus only when profitability begins to drop. However, cost control is, indeed, proactive, and it requires only one discipline to do it: production posting.  Production posting involves capturing what happened on the shop floor in terms of labour input, materials…
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