Lena is a freelance contributor to Newsweek’s small business team. A business owner herself, today she advises on business owners of all kinds on proper management, software, and tools to ...

Investopedia / Jiaqi Zhou Kanban is an inventory control system used in just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. It was developed by Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, and takes its name ...

According to a recent report, Fortune Global 500 manufacturing and industrial ... information reflected in their inventory databases. However, these systems, which were not built with MRO ...

Maintenance and production speak different languages and may not always see eye-to-eye. By breaking down this language ...

Inventory software programs now on the market let you track usage, monitor changes in unit dollar costs, calculate when you need to reorder, and analyze inventory levels on an item-by-item basis.

As Chinese manufacturing slows and the ... relied on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) inventory management. However, they need more advanced ...

Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital ...