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Warehouse Management: How to Run Efficient Warehouse Operations

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After defining warehouse management and its importance, we’ll focus on its key areas and what the operation life cycle looks like. Some of those processes, such as managing inventory, tracking quantities, monitoring expiration dates and organizing products based on customer demand fall under inventory management. Here are a few more.

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Order Fulfillment: Process, Models & Documentation

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Companies will have their order fulfillment either as an in-house department or they might outsource the process to a third-party logistics (3PL) company. We’ll define these phases of the order-processing workflow in a moment. To understand the order processing workflow of order fulfillment, let’s define each of those stages.

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The Order Management Process Explained (Free Templates Included)

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We’ll define those roles and link to some free templates to download, which will help users facilitate the order management process. Order management is a large endeavor that includes warehouse employees and managers, resource planning and often third-party logistics and shipping partners. What Is Order Management?

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Manufacturing Operations Management Explained

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Before getting into the benefits of manufacturing operations management, let’s define what the term means and the areas that are under manufacturing operations management. ProjectManager’s real-time dashboards monitor KPIs to better manage operations. Below we define those areas of manufacturing operations.

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The Importance of Operational Project Management for Businesses

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To better understand operational project management requires defining what an operational project is, how it differs from strategic projects and what operational project management is. Operational project management deals with the planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling of resources to achieve project objectives.

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What Is a Service-Level Agreement? (Example & Templates Included)

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A service level agreement, often abbreviated as SLA, is used in IT and professional services to define what a vendor is expected to do. As noted, a service level agreement is used to define the level of service that a customer expects from a supplier. Therefore, to better understand what an SLA is, we’ll define the three types below.

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Production Management: A Quick Guide

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This means it works with the management of all materials necessary for production, including inventory or warehousing of those materials, to the design of the product or goods, utilization of product equipment, monitoring performance and more. The overall goal is to achieve the objectives of the company’s production strategy.