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Industrial Construction: Examples of Industrial Projects

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This is why industrial construction has special conveyance requirements, such as 24/7 shipping and receiving and accessibility to air and rail transport or major highways. When building, industrial construction floor plans are very important because they need to promote smooth foot traffic and coordinate manufacturing and distribution.

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Warehouse Management: How to Run Efficient Warehouse Operations

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Some of those processes, such as managing inventory, tracking quantities, monitoring expiration dates and organizing products based on customer demand fall under inventory management. They need a clear understanding of the planning, scheduling and monitoring of warehouse operations to ensure that they’re being done properly.

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Warehouse Optimization: Importance, Benefits & Tips

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To achieve the goals of warehouse optimization, businesses must know the space in which goods are stored and plan how to take full advantage of it. Inventory management is also part of this process, which includes tracking, transportation, packing and shipping. Design a floor plan that meets current needs, but also allows for growth.

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The Order Management Process Explained (Free Templates Included)

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Order management is a large endeavor that includes warehouse employees and managers, resource planning and often third-party logistics and shipping partners. More than that, kanban cards can be set for recurring tasks, track cost, manage resource scheduling and compare planned versus actual progress to help you meet deadlines.

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Production Scheduling Basics: Creating a Production Schedule

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Production scheduling is part of the pipeline that starts with sourcing and planning. If you don’t have a plan, you’ll never get your goods to market on time. A production schedule is a plan that helps facilitate the process of delivering products to customers and the marketplace. Is it the most important part?

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How to Calculate Total Manufacturing Cost

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Our live dashboard automatically captures key performance indicators (KPIs) including costs, showing your planned costs against your actual costs in an easy-to-read graph. Our software has powerful Gantt charts to plan your manufacturing costs and secure timesheets to track labor costs all in real time.

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Manufacturing Operations Management Explained

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ProjectManager’s real-time dashboards monitor KPIs to better manage operations. But it goes beyond this to include manufacturing processes such as work-in-progress (WIP), inventory management, production scheduling, capacity planning, demand forecasting and much more. Just toggle over whenever you want to see how production is running.