Whether we’re in a global pandemic or not, one constant remains: our need to eat. The companies that bring consumer goods to market – like our local grocery stores and chain restaurants – rely on the sustainability of their supply chains to make their goods available as efficiently as possible and to remain profitable while …
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It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you pause and listen to the needs of others. For me, listening is the key factor in delivering the best possible solution for a customer and understanding what they’re actually asking me for, rather than just giving them what I think they want or what I think is …
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For the 25 years of our existence at Profit Point we have helped organizations capture value through the use of optimization. Moving companies from spreadsheets to detailed scheduling solutions is one of the ways we have accomplished that. As we were finalizing a deployment for one of our clients, they proclaimed that their scheduling system …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the frailties in our supply chains. If we would like to keep our supply chains from being paralyzed by a global health crisis in the future, perhaps we can learn something from our colleagues in Environmental Health & Safety. Because the EH&S departments of manufacturing companies perform assessments periodically to …
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It is great to see progress in a relatively short amount of time. When I joined Profit Point in 2014, one of our key customers was scheduling their plants with AspenTech SCM, which is one of the most customizable scheduling tools, As we typically do, we complemented that flexibility with some of our own expertise; …
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What is the best inventory strategy to manage the risk of a supply interruption? Will the COVID-19 pandemic change our minds about the wisdom of continually driving down inventory targets to reduce working capital costs, especially during the last quarter of the fiscal year? During the hurricane season of 2005 that included Katrina, chemical …
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Unsung, everyday heroes In late March, the Governor of the State of Michigan issued execute order 2020-21 a stay at home directive intended to ensure social distancing, slow the advancing spread of the Corona virus and promote public health and safety. Prior to the order, restaurants and bars were limited to carry-out only, schools and …
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I have worked in the manufacturing supply chain information technology (IT) field for more years than I care to admit. A sleepy-eyed dinosaur stares back at me from the bathroom mirror each morning. Over the course of my career, more than a few trends have emerged. Many of them, perhaps most of them, have turned …
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In just a short time, the year 2020 has introduced the average person to phrases unheard only three months ago – social distancing, N95 masks, PPE, and Global Supply Chain. As the COVID-19 virus spread around the world, countries went under lockdown as they tried to “bend the curve” on the spread of the virus. …
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I’m a supply chain lifer. I started in manufacturing, but early in my career made the transition to supply chain and never looked back. It was never easy to explain to others what I did though. I would say, “all the stuff between manufacturing and sales.” Still, I don’t think they really understood the complexity …
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With a lot of the world moving to working from home we thought we would take this time to share some tips from the Profit Point team. For the past 25 years, since our founding, Profit Point has always had a remote work from home culture. We narrowed our list down to the top 8 …
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Giving Back to the Communities We Live and Work In This has always been part of our mission statement here at Profit Point. We are living in an uncertain time right now, and we are all shifting our behavior. One thing that has been inspiring to me is how much we are becoming a global …
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