Manufacturing companies manage their production operations at different levels. Board members and senior executives set strategic direction, middle managers plan and control production, and ...

Both service operations and manufacturing operations are in the business of satisfying customers, and that requires organization and planning. While the mechanisms and inputs for creating customer ...

Analyst Insight: Enterprise resource planning (ERP) arose from material requirements planning (MRP), evolved into manufacturing resource planning (MRP II), then scaled globally. Now comes ERP4, ...

Automation. Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. These sound more like sci-fi than actual business tools, right? If you’re like many small-to-medium-sized businesses, you might be taking your ...