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Engineer-to-order manufacturers build complex, customized products that are specifically designed to meet customer requirements. In order to accomplish this on time at less cost, manufacturers have to  Looks easy on paper, isn’t it? However, ETO manufacturers face a lot of challenges in their day-to-day operations right from customer proposal to delivery. Let us look at […]

Engineer to Order (ETO) is a manufacturing approach that is highly driven by customer demand and is highly flexible in nature. Customers opt for ETO manufacturing when they need a product that is tailor-made to suit their requirements or want to transform a concept into a final product.  ETO manufacturers have in-depth knowledge and expertise […]

Discrete manufacturers belonging to certain industry segments often have a field service department that conducts installations, repairs, and maintenance at customer locations. Service management is a challenging area where personnel and supervisors are always in a constant state of fire-fighting mode due to continuous, incoming job requirements. They must keep constant track of service work […]

The word ‘downtime’ is not an uncommon word on the manufacturing shop floor. But, the very mention of it is enough to send shop floor managers and supervisors scrambling to resolve it as early as they can. They know that any unplanned downtime during peak operating hours will disrupt production, leading to delivery delays, loss […]

Manufacturing and distribution enterprises not only incur costs in procuring, maintaining, and transporting inventory but also in storing/holding them at their premises. Inventory such as raw materials, semi-finished or finished goods, need to be stored for a certain period of time before they are dispatched for respective purposes. In the meantime, enterprises incur costs to […]

What is Inventory Counting? As manufacturers, you are required to keep a constant count of inventory consisting of raw materials, sub-assemblies, parts, semi-finished and finished goods. The entire process of physically verifying, and counting each inventory item is called inventory counting.  Inventory counting is usually done to, Identify inventory management issues such as stocking errors, […]

Inventory is one of the most crucial aspects of the manufacturing industry. It consists of raw materials, sub-assemblies, and semi-finished goods that manufacturers use to produce finished goods.  Managing inventory is not an easy task as it involves constant movement of inventory between the factory floor, warehouse, third-party vendors, and finally to the customer as […]

About Inventory Valuation Inventory is the lifeline of any manufacturing enterprise, be it parts, sub-assemblies, raw materials, semi-finished, finished products, and even repair, maintenance, and operating goods. Every inventory item holds a certain value and manufacturers have to calculate this value accurately at the end of the financial year. This is called Inventory Valuation.  Let’s take […]

We often hear about manufacturers recalling batches of products that have already been sold to customers. These products number from a few thousand to millions and are not limited to a few industry categories. Almost every industry faces this issue.   Product recalls are a costly activity as manufacturers have to identify the faulty product batches, […]

We all rang the new year with a hope that Covid-19 will become a thing of the past but the world saw another wave with the Omicron variant. Along with it, the challenges of medical manufacturers increased even more. In our previous blog, we gave a detailed outline of the challenges that medical manufacturers will […]