Blog Post Archives

Mastering Inventory Planning
A strategic guide for achieving supply chain excellence.
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Enhancing Supply Chain Orchestration: Strategies for Synchronizing Teams, Building Collaboration, and Ensuring Visibility
Strategies for seamless supply chain orchestration, team alignment, and visibility.
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Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine Honors Two LeanDNA Leaders with Lifetime Achievement Awards
Supply & Demand Chain Executive has honored both Richard Lebovitz, CEO and Founder of LeanDNA, and Har...
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2024 SCM Report: Global turbulence and lack of readiness threaten supply chain stability
Global manufacturers have been bracing for the new era of supply chain management in recent years, as ...
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Supply Chain Readiness Index 2024 Release
Survey of 250 supply chain, inventory, and planning executives, conducted in collaboration with Wakefi...
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Shortage Attack Team Summary
Mitigate shortage risk by using shortage data, defining a prioritization methodology, and building a s...
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A Better Experience with LeanDNA’s New Supplier Navigation
We’re excited to unveil our redesigned supplier navigation, a significant leap forward in our co...
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The fallacy of waiting for better supply chain data
Read how to overcome procrastination on replacing antiquated systems and data cleanse by taking meanin...
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Winter 2024 Product Update
Unlock efficiency in your supply chain with LeanDNA's recent platform enhancements. Streamline collabo...
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Navigating the 2024 Supply Chain Landscape: A Guide for Discrete Manufacturing Leaders
Unlock the future of supply chain in 2024! Embrace digital transformation, tackle sustainability, fost...
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Adaptability as the Modern Supply Chain Superpower: 5 ways to strengthen supply chain efficiency and build business resilience
Vatsal Gandhi, Executive Director of Global Supply Chain at Modine Manufacturing Company, sheds light ...
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Manufacturing Customer Wins 2023 NextGen End User Award
Customer won the 2023 NextGen End User Award for Digital Transformation by reducing shortages and mate...
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Optimizing supply chain efficiency: The role of technology
Supply chain teams leveraging technology to improve decision making and further developing their workf...
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Optimizing supply chain efficiency: Navigating challenges
Manufacturing companies grapple with challenges that hinder supply chain optimization. Leading organiz...
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Reflections from ASCM Connect 2023 and the next wave of supply chain management evolution
2023 ASCM Connect reflections and how collaboration, digital transformation, and actionable data are e...
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The New Disruption Economy: Why All Manufacturers Should Pay Attention to the UAW Strike
The auto industry is keenly aware of the business magnitude a strike could bring. But this impending e...
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Tips to Maximize Your Experience at ASCM Connect 2023
Gearing up to attend ASCM Connect 2023? Our team is bracing for an incredible journey of learning, net...
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5 Ways To Strengthen Supply Chain Performance Through Supplier Collaboration
Improving Supply Chain Performance Through Enhanced Buyer and Supplier Collaboration Suppliers are you...
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LeanDNA Named Digital Transformation Award Finalist for 2023 Supply Chain Excellence Awards
LeanDNA was recognized for its collaboration with a global aerospace sensor manufacturer. AUSTIN, Texa...
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The Benefits of Adopting a Data-Driven Supply Chain
Why Leading Manufacturers are Leveraging a Data-Driven Supply Chain In today’s fast-paced and ...
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Reduce Inventory Costs: Unlocking New Opportunities for Manufacturers
Do You Need to Reduce Inventory Costs? Inventory management plays a pivotal role in the success and pr...
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Achieving Supply Chain Excellence: The Power of Collaboration Between AI and Manufacturing Teams
Understanding How to Achieve Supply Chain Excellence In today’s fast-paced business landscape, t...
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The Pivotal Change Towards Automation in the Manufacturing Supply Chain Workflow
Why You Need to Improve Your Supply Chain Workflow In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving busin...
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LeanDNA Named Partner in Collaborative Innovation in the 2023 Manufacturing Leadership Council Awards
News Release LeanDNA was nominated in the Collaborative Ecosystems Category, recognizing its work with...
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Improving Data Health for More Accurate Supply Chain Reports
The Importance of Efficient and Accurate Supply Chain Reports In today’s fast-paced and data-dri...
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10 Best Practices to Follow for Supply Chain Network Optimization
Improvements to Make for Supply Chain Network Optimization In today’s fast-paced and complex b...
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Digital Supply Chain Trends for Manufacturers
The world of supply chain management has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, thanks...
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7 Steps for Creating a Successful Inventory Action Plan
Effective inventory management is crucial for manufacturing companies to ensure smooth operations and ...
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Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Industry: The Power of Automation in Supply Chain
The Pivotal Change Towards Automation in Supply Chain Workflows In today’s fast-paced and ever-e...
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Why You Need to Create a Strategic Supplier Management Framework
You could be losing out on thousands of dollars by not having a strategic supplier management framewor...
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How to Deal With Material Shortage Using Analytics and Supply Chain Collaboration
Enhancing Supply Chain Collaboration Helps Adapt with Agility or Proactively Prepare for a Material Sh...
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How implementing sustainable manufacturing practices can help reduce inventory cost and your carbon footprint
88% of executives believe that sustainable manufacturing practices are important for their companyR...
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LeanDNA Named Industrial Data Solution of the Year in the 2023 Data Breakthrough Awards
International awards recognize the best companies, products, and services in digital data AUSTIN, Texa...
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LeanDNA Adds Planner Workbench to Enhance Manufacturing Teams Clear to Build Visibility
Automated Clear to Build analytics for planners will improve supply chain efficiency and productivity ...
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How to Utilize Supply Chain Orchestration to Improve Operational Performance
What does it mean to have an orchestrated supply chain? Supply chain orchestration is essential in end...
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LeanDNA Founder and CEO Richard Lebovitz Named Supply & Demand Chain Executive 2023 Pro to Know
AUSTIN, Texas — March 22, 2023 — Supply & Demand Chain Executive, the only publication coverin...
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Impact of inflation: global logistics and supply chain management
The global supply chain is expected to take a hit as inflation continues to rise in 2023. While facing...
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Adapting to Supply Chain Disruptions in 2023
Rising inflation continues to cause disruptions. As the Federal Reserve continues to increase interest...
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How Manufacturers Can Streamline & Prioritize ERP Data Cleansing
With most manufacturers, their ERP data is not perfect. Maintaining high-quality ERP data is an ongoin...
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Labor Shortages Rise Due to the Manufacturing Skills Gap
With a mix of labor shortages and hiring freezes across industries, manufacturers may be impacted the ...
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Gartner Best Supply Chain Practices for Digital Transformation
More than 60% of supply chain manufacturers are working on or planning to design their machine respons...
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Manufacturing Supply Chain Trends to Look for in 2023
Manufacturing Supply Chain Solutions for Inventory Management Optimization Siloed data is wreaking hav...
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Built In Honors LeanDNA in Its Esteemed 2023 Best Places To Work Awards
AUSTIN, Texas – Jan. 11, 2023 — Built In announced that LeanDNA was honored in its 2023 Best...
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2022 End-of-Year Supply Chain Management Review
As manufacturing started to rebound in 2022, there were many challenges that had to be addressed acros...
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The Cost of Data Silos in the Supply Chain
Siloed data is wreaking havoc in the global supply chain. Without a standardized supply chain system, ...
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Advance Beyond Excel to Reduce Supply Chain Risk
Static spreadsheets are the enemy of advancement in the global supply chain. While spreadsheets have...
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Emerging Technologies for Supply Chain Management in 2023
Procurement teams are struggling to quantify the value behind technology investments. However, innovat...
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Austin Tech Veteran Rod Favaron Joins LeanDNA Board of Directors
AUSTIN, Texas – Oct. 18, 2022 – LeanDNA, a leading inventory optimization and execution pl...
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LeanDNA Customer HNI Wins 2022 NextGen End User Award for Analytics
AUSTIN, Texas – Oct. 13, 2022 — LeanDNA, a leading inventory optimization, and execution platform ...
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LeanDNA’s Richard Lebovitz joins Forbes Technology Council
LeanDNA Founder and CEO has joined the Forbes Technology Council. AUSTIN, Texas – Oct. 10, 2022 — ...
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LeanDNA Sponsors the World’s Largest Lean Manufacturing Conference
DALLAS, TX and ROLLING MEADOWS, IL – Sept. 20, 2022 – PR Newswire – The Association for Manufa...
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LeanDNA Earns Spot on 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List
News Release LeanDNA Earns a Spot on 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual ListsWith three-year revenue growth of 178 ...
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Simple Steps to Strengthen Supply Chain Manufacturing Partnerships
Suppliers are one of the most important relationships to maintain in manufacturing. A supply chain can...
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3 Ways Leading Manufacturers Are Using Technology to Improve Supply Chain Strategies
How Supply Chain Management (SCM) Been Impacted by the Shortage Economy There has been no escaping sup...
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How to improve supply chain sustainability
The shortage economy impacts Dealing with employment and resource shortages presents several challenge...
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The Future of the Manufacturing Supply Chain Workflow Reinvented
Manufacturing Supply Chain Workflow Challenges Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute (MI) reported ...
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Building Supply Chain Resilience: How Manufacturing Leaders are Pivoting Their Strategies in the Shortage Economy
Webinar Recap Recently, LeanDNA had the opportunity to host a discussion of the new shortage economy a...
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2022 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium: Key Supply Chain Insights
Gartner Supply Chain Symposium and Key Supply Chain Insights Recap The severity of the various supply ...
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Challenges for Manufacturers On the Horizon: the Paradox of Reducing Surplus vs Shortages
According to the recent State of Supply Chain 2022 report, nearly 75% of manufacturers feel pressured ...
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What’s Holding Manufacturers Back? It All Comes Down to Trust
According to the recent State of Supply Chain 2022 report, nearly 75% of manufacturers feel pressured ...
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The New Shortage Economy Explained
Shortages are dominating the headlines. The COVID-19 pandemic brought monumental challenges to the sup...
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Embracing Disruption: The 2022 AME International Conference in Dallas
After going virtual the past two years, The Association for Manufacturing Excellence’s (AME) 38th an...
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The State of Supply Chain 2022 Webinar Recap
This week LeanDNA and The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) hosted a webinar on the curre...
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Key Takeaways From the State of Supply Chain 2022 Report
The methods and practices that made manufacturers successful decades ago don’t cut it anymore. An in...
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2022 State of Supply Chain Webinar: Meet Our Panel of Industry Experts
In 2022, manufacturers are still reeling from the ongoing effects of COVID-19, unprecedented global su...
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Hot Off the Press: The State of Supply Chain Optimization 2022 Report
COVID-19 has had a lasting impact on virtually every industry, and manufacturing is no exception. The ...
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The Association for Manufacturing Excellence and LeanDNA Release Data on New Shortage Economy
New global research underscores importance of manufacturing visibility in unprecedented supply chain e...
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LeanDNA Announces Record Growth as Manufacturers Address Supply Chain Challenges
AUSTIN, Texas – February 8, 2022 – PR Newswire – LeanDNA, the leading provider of factory-focuse...
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LeanDNA Named a 2022 Best Place to Work by BuiltIn Austin
02/04/2022 For the third year in a row, LeanDNA has been recognized as one of Austin’s “Best Place...
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The Truth Behind Resolving Today’s Shortages
Shortages are the main causes of global supply chain disruptions amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Build or Buy? Here’s How to Free Up IT’s Time and Resources
No manufacturer uses just one tool. Today’s factory operations and procurement teams use a slew of t...
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Shortage Series #2: Who Handles Supply Chain Shortages?
Supply chain shortages are tricky, even one part can halt an entire production line. Successfully navi...
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Don’t Fly Blind in 2022: 3 Steps Successful Manufacturers are Taking Right Now
Here are three important areas that all manufacturers should be prioritizing and acting on to ensure h...
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How LeanDNA Optimized Spirit AeroSystems’ Supply Chain Planning
Today’s manufacturers in nearly every industry have to grapple with complex supply chain planning ch...
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What is the Difference Between a Shortage and a Scarcity
With supply chain bottlenecks of both goods and services running rampant post-pandemic, the term “sh...
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LeanDNA Partner Program Energizes Discrete Manufacturers
COVID-19, along with other global disruptions, has shed light on the fragile state of our global suppl...
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LeanDNA Named a 2021 Supplier Innovation Award Winner from Spirit Aerosystems
News Release LeanDNA’s Supply Chain Optimization Platform Recognized by Global Aerostructure Manuf...
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A manufacturing ERP system on its own isn’t enough
Most, if not all, manufacturers have at least one manufacturing ERP system in place to house and categ...
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Supply Management and The Supply Chain’s Human Holdup Factor
It’s time to talk about the “human holdup” factor in the world of supply chain management. When ...
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5 Ways Manufacturers Benefit from SaaS
When it comes to technological advancements in manufacturing, many conjure up images of advanced robot...
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The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility for Sustainable Manufacturing
While there are many frameworks for sustainable manufacturing and business ethics, one framework has p...
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Catherine Plumail: Driving Manufacturing Collaboration at Ingersoll Rand
The LeanDNA-List celebrates the hard work of our customers, who work day-in and day-out to optimize in...
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Managing the Bullwhip Effect: The Importance of Signals and Priority
One of the reasons why the bullwhip effect has been a huge obstacle for manufacturers for decades—an...
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From ABC to XYZ: Understanding the XYZ Analysis
The ABC-XYZ Analysis Buyers spend their days determining the optimal inventory levels that should be b...
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Spotlight on Astrid Hussonnois: Women in Supply Chain Award Winner
At LeanDNA, highlighting our Leaniacs’ successes is one of our great honors. It is with great pleasu...
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Cycle Counting and Inventory Shortages
Successfully managing inventory can be difficult. There are many moving parts, from determining the le...
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Astrid Hussonnois of LeanDNA Named a 2021 Women in Supply Chain Award Winner
Customer Success Manager Recognized for Empowering Inventory and Supply Chain Leaders with the Technol...
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How Morgan Advanced Materials Improved Operations and Supply Chain Management through Collaborative Solution
The LeanDNA-List celebrates the hard work of our customers, who work to improve operations and supply ...
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LeanDNA Named an A-LIST Honoree by The Austin Chamber
Inventory optimization provider recognized for innovative solutions that keep manufacturers resilient ...
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In Our DNA: Summer Core Value Spotlight
It’s in our DNA. At LeanDNA, we strive for collaboration and teamwork to create a safe space for...
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LeanDNA for Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Increased sustainability can be extremely beneficial for manufacturers. A focus on sustainability can ...
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Improve Vendor Partnerships with Supplier Relationship Management Software
Understanding how your partnerships impact your level of supply chain risk Discover How Supplier Relat...
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Paul Aram of Ingersoll Rand: Successful Lean Supply Chain Management
COVID-19 disrupted lean supply chain management processes on a global scale, with unpredictable custom...
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Recap: New Manifestations of Lean and the Next Normal of Manufacturing
2021 is the year of new for manufacturers. New challenges are bringing on new manifestations of lean, ...
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8 Ways to Fix Shortage Issues
Dealing with a shortage is no small task. While there is no “quick fix” for such a large problem, ...
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Shortage vs. Stockout: Understanding the Difference
Key Differences Between Shortages and Stockouts Oftentimes, the terms “shortage” and “stockout�...
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Backorders: Back in Stock for Manufacturing Shortage
Are shortages unavoidable? Shortages can mean trouble for many manufacturers, especially when the cust...
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The Emerging Fix For A Broken Supply Chain: A Lean-Hybrid Approach to Inventory Management
The “unprecedented” hits to global supply chains keep coming. As demand fluctuates and shortages r...
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It’s In Our DNA: Core Values Employee Spotlight – April 2021
At LeanDNA, we strive for collaboration and teamwork to create a safe space for everyone to innovate. ...
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Q&A: The New Hybrid Approach to Inventory Management
In IndustryWeek’s recent webinar, “Going Beyond Status Quo,” we brought together leading supply ...
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Factory Management Focus Area #3: Actionable Intelligence to Aid Decision Making
This blog is the 3rd in a series outlining the three focus areas for optimal factory operations manage...
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Reducing Inventory, Revitalizing Sustainable Supply Chains
Why are Sustainable Supply Chains Important? Did you know that 76.6% of U.S. emissions are driven by m...
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LeanDNA Named a 2021 Excellence in Customer Service Award
Customer Success Teams Recognized for Providing Continuous Value to Help Manufacturers Fill the Factor...
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How the Executive-Ordered Review Could Empower Supply Chain Resilience
By now, you’ve heard about President Biden’s recent executive order calling for a 100-day review o...
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Factory Management Focus Area #2: Standard Role-Based Agile Workflows
Agile Workflows Synchronize Teams for More Efficient Factory Management As we go through the three �...
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Women’s History Month: Celebrating the Ladies of LeanDNA
As Women’s History Month comes to an end, we’re taking a moment to honor the female voices of Lean...
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LeanDNA Ranks No. 57 on the Inc. 5000 Series: Texas List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies
Factory-focused Inventory Optimization Provider Forges Ahead on Commitment to Growth and Product Innov...
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LeanDNA CEO Richard Lebovitz Named Supply and Demand Chain Executive’s 2021 Pro to Know of the Year
30-year industry veteran recognized for empowering supply chain teams with best practices and technolo...
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Factory Management Focus Area #1: Total sight into your actionable data
In this continued series, we’re talking about the three must-haves of a successful factory manageme...
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The Four Focus Areas of Smart Factory Management Transformation
Almost 36 percent of supply chain leaders during our recent factory operations webinar with IndustryWe...
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The Past, Present, and Future of the Factory Management Capabilities Gap
While most companies have made significant investments in modernizing and automating the factory floor...
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Frequently Asked Questions: Transforming Inventory Management Techniques for Smart Factories
We’ve been talking a lot about digital transformation for smart factories—specifically optimizing ...
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Digital Transformation Change Management Solutions of the Year
Digital transformation in inventory management is growing. We always knew digital transformation in in...
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LeanDNA Named a 2021 ‘Best Place to Work’ by Built In Austin
Leading factory-focused inventory optimization provider recognized for competitive compensation, colla...
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Letter from the CEO: Top 5 Procurement and Supply Chain Management Moments in 2020 for LeanDNA
2020 has brought a whirlwind of change, uncertainty, and ongoing disruption to normal business operati...
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2020’s A-Listers Persevered Against the Odds: Read their Inventory Control Management Success Stories
This year brought massive challenges and unrelenting uncertainty for manufacturers. But with challenge...
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Medical Device Inventory Management Best Practices
Medical device manufacturers are facing a significant digital transformation. Driven by global economi...
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The Age of Analytics and Beyond: What’s Next for Manufacturing?
As supply chains grow increasingly global and complex, having the right parts at the right time has be...
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VACCO Selects LeanDNA to Improve Inventory Management and Optimization, Drives Operational Excellence and Performance
Cross-site visibility and access to inventory data enables leading specialty product manufacturer to b...
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Insights from NextGen 2020: How Can Supply Chain Teams Achieve Agility?
That’s a wrap on NextGen Supply Chain Conference 2020. This year, Supply Chain Management Review (SC...
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Building Manufacturing Efficiency in Today’s Fast-Changing Environment
Manufacturers are feeling it: Stresses on procurement workflows have been growing for years due to the...
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Craig Jarman: Seeking Truth in Data and Improving Safrans Inventory Optimization Practices
The LeanDNA-List celebrates the hard work of our customers, who day-in and day-out work to optimize i...
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LeanDNA Named 2020 NextGen Supply Chain Analytics Award Winner by Supply Chain Management Review
Leading inventory optimization solution recognized for its factory-centric, actionable, and prescript...
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LeanDNA Drives Results and Operational Efficiency with the Industry’s First Factory-Focused Inventory Optimization Workflows
New workflows simplify and standardize the daily work process of key supply chain functions with presc...
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PFEP Helps You Optimize Your Entire Supply Chain
How Can Plan for Every Part (PFEP) Help Optimize My Supply Chain? As supply chains grow increasingly c...
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How E-One’s Aligned Supply Chain Leadership Team Inspires Camaraderie and Drives Results
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Manufacturers Need a New Approach to Shortage Management—So We Built One
“Tackling our critical shortages using LeanDNA’s automatic shortage prioritization helps us ...
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Benefits of Inventory Optimization and Supply Chain Automation
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LeanDNA One of Fastest-Growing Companies in Texas, Ranks No. 27 in the Inc. 5000 Series: Texas
The ranking follows 422% two-year growth, $15 million Series B funding and recent CRO appointment AUST...
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Ben Galka and the Terumo team build a foundation for growth—one step at a time
The LeanDNA-List celebrates the hard work of our customers, who day-in and day-out work to optimize in...
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LeanDNA selected as the 2020 NextGen Supply Chain Analytics Award Winner
(FRAMINGHAM, MA) February 14, 2020 – Supply Chain Management Review’s NextGen Supply Chain�...
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LeanDNA Factory Analytics Now Available on SAP® App Center
AUSTIN, Texas (Jan. 10, 2020)—LeanDNA announced today that its LeanDNA Factory Analytics manage...
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Safran’s Scott Chambers Helps Teams Turn Inventory Data Into Actions
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Happy Holidays to All with Inventory Just Right
‘Twas the night before the holidays, when all thro’ the site, Not a buyer was stirring, the in...
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LeanDNA Raises $15 Million to Fuel Growth of Factory Inventory Optimization Platform
AUSTIN, Texas (Dec. 03, 2019)—LeanDNA, a purpose-built, prescriptive analytics platform for factory ...
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LeanDNA Expands Factory Optimization Footprint in Industrial and High-Tech Manufacturing with Three Customer Additions
AUSTIN, Texas (Dec. 03, 2019)—LeanDNA, a purpose-built analytics platform for factory inventory mana...
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Implementing A New Software? Spirit AeroSystems Reveals Top Supply Chain Transformation Tips
The LeanDNA-List celebrates the hard work of our customers, who day-in and day-out work to optimize in...
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PSG Dover’s Nick Salmon: Empathetic Visionary Supply Chain Leader
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LeanDNA Partners with Spirit AeroSystems
LeanDNA will deliver advanced inventory analytics, supporting Spirit’s on-time delivery goals AUSTIN...
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National Manufacturing Day and the Leaders Modernizing Factories Around the World
National Manufacturing Day: A day dedicated to celebrating modern manufacturing and inspiring future s...
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John Rokus from JR Automation Shares Lean Six Sigma Coaching Tips
The Secrets to Lean Six Sigma Coaching The LeanDNA-List celebrates the hard work of our customers, who...
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Safran Seats GB Reduces Inventory by 36 Percent in Three Months with LeanDNA
Global airline seat manufacturer transforms supply chain operations with LeanDNA’s factory managemen...
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Integra Lifesciences Corporation: Leader of Supply Chain Management Growth
The LeanDNA-List celebrates the hard work of our customers, who are focused on supply chain management...
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One Small Step For Factories, One Giant Leap For Man(ufacturing) Kind
We love space around here. Maybe it’s our collective backgrounds in aerospace, or maybe it’s just ...
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How Collaborative Analytics Empowers Agile Supply Chain Procurement: This and more from AeroDef 2019
Collaborative Analytics for Morgan Advanced Materials Supply chain management is becoming increasingly...
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ERP Data Cleansing: 3 Best Practices for Long-Term Success
Every day, supply chain leaders from around the world tell us about their struggles with dirty ERP dat...
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Inventory Management Best Practice: Create an Inventory Attack Team
As the supply chain leader of a large multisite organization, how do you organize and drive an effecti...
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Keeping Up With Supply Chain Complexity: Tools You Need Today
The manufacturing and distribution environments are becoming more complex every day. Where 20 years ag...
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Supply Chain Analytics Tools: 5 Obstacles to Adoption (and How to Overcome Them)
In a recent Supply Chain Management Review study exploring the information and analytics needs of supp...
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Improving processes to maximize efficiency of supply chain
Maximizing efficiency of supply chain processes In a new special edition white paper, the Supply Chain...
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LeanDNA In the News: Where Is Supply Chain Software Headed?
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things, algorithms, cloud-based software—thes...
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Supply Chain Front and Center: Thoughts From the APICS 2018 Conference
Hello from Chicago! I’m here attending the APICS 2018 supply chain conference, and I’m spending ti...
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Zodiac Aerospace Shaves Millions in Inventory Cost with LeanDNA
SPECIAL EDITION WHITEPAPER In a new special edition white paper, Zodiac Aerospace reveals how they use...
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LeanDNA In the News: Cutting Inventory For the Factory With Analytics
One of the balancing acts for manufacturers and supply chain leaders is having the right inventory lev...
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Infographic: The Supply Chain Analytics of Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow
It has taken decades for supply chains to adopt analytics at a large scale. For many years, supply cha...
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The Name of the Game is Adoption: Observations from the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit
I just finished my first day at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in Philadelphia and spent the...
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People, Not Data, Will Transform Your Supply Chain
Cut Through the Data Craze With Collaborative Analytics When business analytics first became available...
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LeanDNA in the News: Logistics Management on the Merger of MES and WMS
Modern manufacturing has brought warehouses increasingly into the manufacturing process. According to�...
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LeanDNA in the News: TechRepublic’s Cheat Sheet on Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is necessary for enterprises, but many business leaders don’t know where ...
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¿Habla Español? LeanDNA is Now Available in Spanish!
¡Hola! Each day, LeanDNA sets out to delight customers and transform supply chains around the world t...
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