Purchasing is one of the most critical aspects of the manufacturing process. No production is possible without the raw materials, services and products that support the process. Many ERPs – particularly tier 2 and 3 – do not provide a mechanism to easily and accurately capture purchasing requirements. MRP handles the inventory items and typically […]
Continue readingThose who keep America’s manufacturing industry churning – many of who hail from either the Baby Boomer or Gen X age groups – don’t quite know how to train, attract or retain Millennials. The disconnect among generations isn’t surprising. Let’s consider the following: The G.I. Generation (largely comprised of WWII soldiers) showed Baby Boomers that […]
Continue readingTranscript: Hello and welcome to this quick explanation of inControl. The big question about inControl is “What is it?” so we are going to explore what it can do for you and help your business. —> Next Slide inControl is a powerful and fast web based workflow integration product. What is also great about inControl […]
Continue readingOne problem we are often asked to solve is how to integrate a company’s shipping software – FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc. – with the Fourth Shift shipping process. This usually involves two major features at the basic level. Connecting the shipping software to a SQL view so that the correct address information can be automatically […]
Continue reading5 questions you should be asking to answer critical questions In today’s global economy the manufacturing industry has more competition than ever. You must take a deeper look into your business to be competitive in this market. If you are already at the top of your game you have to constantly review and tune your […]
Continue readingMy son recently asked me, “Why do I need to learn about History?” Now I know that question is partially intended to just get out of school work, but it is a good question that has had an educated answer for many years. I responded, “When we know about the past, we learn about the […]
Continue readingBusiness Intelligence or BI software has become the talk of the town lately in many industries and for good reason. It is no surprise that on top of a company’s priority list is to see the right data management solutions because of the measure of information stored in their growing business. Data has to be […]
Continue readingDuring my time as a consultant I have seen a dramatic increase in manufactures marketing directly to their consumers. The day when sales channels relied solely on distributors is fading away. With the advances in technology, websites, mobile usage, and powerful analytics manufactures are able to reach directly to their users with ease never experienced […]
Continue readingAvoid SSRS Parameter Sniffing and Speed up your reports! So we were investigating an issue on an SSRS report that calls out to a stored procedure. If we run the stored procedure directly from a query window, it will return in under 1 second. However, the same query run from an SSRS report takes up […]
Continue readingI have found this code below to be very helpful when trying to do rankings in SSRS. Public dim Previousvalue as Integer =0 public dim SourceRank as Integer =1 Public Function Rank(sourceValue as Integer ) As Integer if Previousvalue >sourceValue SourceRank =SourceRank +1 else SourceRank =SourceRank end if Previousvalue =sourceValue return SourceRank End Function And […]
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