Order to Cash Efficiency: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
Order to Cash Efficiency: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed All service or product providers – regardless of their size – need to be able to operate according to a…
What Is S&OP And Why Should All SMEs Take It Seriously?
Sales and operations planning (S&OP) S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) is more than just demand forecasting and it is not just a process to ensure continuity of supply. S&OP is not…
How Digital Can Improve Your Manufacturing Company
Digital transformation is forcing companies to change their business models and adapt to the new market reality. What’s interesting about this is that it’s not the companies that are driving…
Mr Milk to The Retired Milkman
We would like to share the great story that The Scottish Farmer ran recently about Sandy Wilkie formerly of Robert Wiseman Dairies and Muller. We know Sandy through our work in the dairy…
SFTA Elects New President
Our own Lee Ann Healy has taken the helm as President of the Scottish Food Trade Association (SFTA). Lee Ann will make use of her expertise in the food and…
How Digital Is Enabling Transformation in the Food and Drink Sector
We all know digital transformation is not simply about the technology. It’s about the people who are using the technology and how it can unlock their potential. It is an…
Don’t Miss The Manufacturer Connect Event – 28 Feb 2018 in Glasgow
We are again delighted to partner with The Manufacturer for the Connect event on 28 February in Glasgow, which brings together ERP, BI, CRM and FSM or SCM topics and…
The Importance of Forecasting in the Food & Drink Industry
Deloitte1 forecasted that retailer operating margins could fall between 3-5% in 2017 and we have seen the realisation of this through events such as Sainsbury announcing more than 1000…
The Manufacturing Dinner for Scotland’s Manufacturing Business Leaders
Last week, Optimum PPS co-hosted the first in a series of intimate Scottish manufacturing dinners with round table discussions in partnership with Nine Twenty Engineering and Manufacturing and The Manufacturer….
Improved Working Capital Through Processes and Systems
Lloyds Bank released their latest Working Capital Index in September claiming that there is £535bn in cash that could be released in Britain (7% higher than the previous report in…