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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Manufacturers have to do more than produce a product, they also have to manage their operations. That’s why manufacturing operations management is so important—it keeps the lights on. Of course, there’s more to manufacturing operations management than that. What Is Manufacturing Operations Management?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Certain manufacturers use a recipe to combine materials to deliver products. This is called process manufacturing and is a production method that’s common when producing in bulk. To better understand process manufacturing, let’s first define the term and explore the different types of process manufacturing.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Managing a program or portfolio of projects involves many things, but utmost importance should be given to resource management, especially organizational resources. Resource planning, resource allocation and resource utilization are all under the umbrella term of organizational resources.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Manufacturing depends on a supply of raw materials, labor and the proper functioning of machinery to turn those inputs into the outputs that customers want. Manufacturing engineering is what keeps those integrated systems operating. What Is Manufacturing Engineering? Learn more What Does a Manufacturing Engineer Do?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Manufacturing isn’t free. Being able to make accurate estimates of your manufacturing costs is critical to a company’s profitability and competitive advantage. Before work hits the production line, one must know how to calculate manufacturing cost. What Is Manufacturing Cost?

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JANUARY 2, 2024

This concept is an important part of project portfolio management (PPM) and project management offices (PMOs). This can apply to a business or a project team. To organize and manage this process, businesses employ project management techniques and tools, such as project management software.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Manufacturers make things, and how much they make is determined by demand and the supply of raw materials. First, let’s define what a production order is and why it’s so important to the manufacturing process. First, let’s define what a production order is and why it’s so important to the manufacturing process.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

People have been manufacturing goods for a very long time. From working with hands to using machinery, the advances in manufacturing aren’t isolated to tools but also methods. There is process manufacturing, which mixes ingredients, and the other major method is called discrete manufacturing.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Production capacity is an essential metric for manufacturers. To better understand production capacity, we’ll define the term and go into greater detail as to its importance in manufacturing. We’ll end with several ways in which manufacturers can increase their production capacity and how software can help with planning.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Whether you’re managing a project in construction or manufacturing, keeping costs down is paramount. This is why in project management and business in general cost control is so important. Learn how cost control can help you better manage construction or manufacturing projects.

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APRIL 17, 2024

The sales order process, which we’ll cover in a bit, needs management to ensure that vendors and customers get what they want. But first, it’s important to have software that can manage the sales order process to ensure that goods are delivered on time and paid for as determined in the sales order terms. What Is a Sales Order?

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APRIL 10, 2024

But the only reason it feels effortless is because of order management. We’ll explain what order management is and explore how an order management process is conducted. There are, of course, people behind the order management process. What Is Order Management? Customer satisfaction is also an objective.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Once a product has been manufactured, how does it reach the customer? What is order fulfillment and how does it differ from order processing and order management? Order fulfillment is part of the larger supply chain management process, specifically, the receiving of goods and then processing and delivering orders to customers.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Manufacturing is all about production. Having that production work more efficiently will help manufacturers make more products and get those products to their customers faster. Cycle time is one of the key performance indicators (KPIs) that manufacturers use to measure the time they spend working on an item.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Manufacturers can’t just produce as many widgets as they want. A production budget is a document that calculates that number of units of a product will be manufactured to meet the estimated sales demand. Manufacturers make a production budget quarterly, though sometimes they will also be produced on a monthly basis.

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APRIL 18, 2023

Production and manufacturing are often seen as the same thing. It’s important to understand the differences, especially if you’re involved in the manufacturing industry. Let’s explore production vs. manufacturing. We’ll also highlight many free templates that can help if you’re involved in production or manufacturing.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Your team is your most valuable resource when executing a project. The ability to know who you need and when you need them for the project is what workload analysis is all about. As you can imagine, workload planning is essential for project success. ProjectManager’s resource management tools balance your team’s workload.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Manufacturing requires a lot of attention to detail and coordinating various moving parts to deliver the final product. In order to accomplish those goals and meet a tight deadline and an even tighter budget, you need these 10 free manufacturing Excel templates. The Gantt chart is the cornerstone of any project schedule.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Inventories are a very important tool for business management as they allow companies to track physical assets such as raw materials, supplies and products that are available for sale. Currently, most manufacturing and retail management teams use Excel for inventory tracking , but there are good reasons to use Google Sheets instead.

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APRIL 19, 2023

There’s more than one way to manage a construction project. From the world of manufacturing comes an approach called lean construction. But lean manufacturing and lean construction are two different things. Lean construction adopts the principles and practices of lean manufacturing and applies them to building processes.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Finally, we’ll offer links to a few free construction project management templates to help manage industrial construction projects. Finally, we’ll offer links to a few free construction project management templates to help manage industrial construction projects.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

If you’re managing a project or organization, you’ll need resources such as people, materials and equipment for executing tasks and completing your goals. These resources generate different types of costs, such as labor costs, which refer to the cost of paying employees for their work.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Projects are expensive. When a contractor bids on a project or a manufacturer takes on a job, they need to have an accurate forecast of the price for the project to make a profit, which is why job costing is so important. Using job costing can also help future projects. What Is Job Costing?

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

There’s a lot of money involved in these capital projects and that means getting the funding and allocating the finances wisely. Let’s take a look at capital projects, explore the idea of a capital asset and delve into the process of capital planning. What Is a Capital Project? Capital projects involve capital assets.

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MARCH 21, 2023

The best things in life are free, but manufacturing goods cost money. Finally, learn how project management software can track the cost of production to help you control it in your production line. Some costs of production are labor, raw materials, consumable manufacturing supplies and overhead.

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MAY 9, 2023

Projects are planned and scheduled, but that’s just the preamble to the real work. Executing projects to meet deadlines without overspending the budget requires a project manager to understand resource availability. It’s part of the larger process of resource management. What Is Resource Availability?

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MARCH 29, 2023

If you don’t have the materials, you can’t manufacture a product. Then we’ll explain what to consider in production scheduling and explain how the process can benefit your projects. Then we’ll explain what to consider in production scheduling and explain how the process can benefit your projects. What Is Production Scheduling?

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Creating a schedule of values is important for the project owner, contractor and subcontractors alike. It can be used to communicate what’s needed in the project, the costs associated with the activities and the management of payments. The schedule of values is an itemized list of all the project activities.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Manufacturing is based on delivering quality and quantity products to the market on schedule. Using manufacturing KPIs can help you determine strengths and weaknesses that can direct you toward improvements in all phases of your production cycle. What Are Manufacturing KPIs?

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Having many projects to manage in a portfolio can be daunting. You need to strategize and plan your resource allocation to ensure that every project has what it needs when it needs it. There are many ways to do this and one of which is lean portfolio management. What Is Lean Portfolio Management?

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APRIL 11, 2023

Planning and scheduling production is just the starting point in manufacturing. Once the production line is in action, managers need to keep a close eye on what’s happening to ensure they’re meeting the production schedule and delivering goods on time to retailers.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

What Is a Project Management Methodology? A project management methodology is a set of principles, tools and techniques that are used to plan, execute and manage projects. Project management methodologies help project managers lead team members and manage work, while facilitating team collaboration.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Every project is different. Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. To better manage projects, one must clearly understand project strategy, who’s responsible for it in the organization and the steps to create a project strategy.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Planning for construction projects isn’t enough. Construction submittals are an integral part of construction project management. We’ll outline the various types of construction submittals and the process to help for your next project. We’ll define the term and explain its importance.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is commonly called lean project management. What Is Lean Project Management? Lean project management focuses on delivering a manufacturing project with more value and less waste. Lean project management focuses on delivering a manufacturing project with more value and less waste.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

The production process takes resources, such as raw materials, labor, capital and equipment, and turns them into finished goods or services for consumers. Capital, labor and whatever other resources are required to produce goods and services are called the factors of production. These activities are also part of the routing step.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A budget is a document that’s mainly used to break down the costs of executing a project or running the operations of a business for a period of time and define a maximum spending limit for the procurement of resources. Google Sheets helps with collaboration but it isn’t a true project management software.

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