Monday, March 18, 2024
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People in Manufacturing: Procurement

Procurement, also sometimes known as purchasing, is the group responsible for acquiring components, services, and other materials to manufacture a company’s products and to keep the operation running. But corporate procurement isn’t...
joining the great resignation, great resignation, employer mandates, new employment

What Employees Should Consider Before Joining the Great Resignation

The turmoil employees faced during the COVID-19 pandemic led many to rethink exactly what they want out of their careers and personal lives. The dilemma boiled down to a question of...
accounts payable, ERP, accountant

People in Manufacturing: Accounts Payable

Manufacturing companies often have hundreds or even thousands of suppliers. In addition to the usual service and business supplies that every company deals with, manufacturers must acquire the components necessary to...
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People in Manufacturing: Customer Service

Savvy manufacturing companies know that efficient operations, low costs, and high quality are good, but none of that matters if you can’t make your customers happy. Customers don’t have to play...
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Building a Quality Culture: No Heroes

This is the last of a series of blog posts digging deeper into the seven keys to building a quality culture, which builds on Nicole Parker's introduction blog. In this article,...
great resignation, flexible policies, flexible work

How Employers Can Survive the Great Resignation

In the first blog of this series, we looked at the economic impact of the Great Resignation. Achievers predicted that 52% of the world’s workforce planned to look for a new...
great resignation, remote work, skills gap, employee satisfaction

Surviving and Thriving in the Aftermath of the Great Resignation

The global pandemic forced companies to rethink employment policies on the fly, finding new ways to keep employees productive, engaged and, most of all, safe. The result was a massive rate...
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People in Manufacturing: Production Planner

In modern manufacturing, nothing is certain except that everything changes. While many positions within an organization may have the same titles they did historically, the tasks and processes have changed completely....
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Celebrating Ada Lovelace’s Birthday and Women in STEM

On December 10th, we celebrate Ada Lovelace’s birthday. Considered the first ever computer programmer, Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (also known as Ada Lovelace) was a mathematician who wrote about...
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Building a Quality Culture: Using Cross-functional Teams

This is one of a series of blog posts digging deeper into the seven keys to building a quality culture, which builds on Nicole Parker's introduction blog. In this article, we...