The year is 2019. According to Blade Runner, manufacturers should be making flying cars and space-mining equipment with help from an android workforce. As we all know, the reality is a little different — and nowhere is this more true than in the back office of manufacturing companies. Patrick Foot reports.
UK manufacturers may be deploying a multitude of cutting-edge digital manufacturing tools in their production processes, but thousands are still distinctly old-school in how they manage production, purchasing, inventory and sales. Excel hasn’t changed significantly in over 20 years. MRP systems are expensive, outmoded and unagile, and yet both are familiar sights in manufacturing back…
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