White Papers

Here are some of the white papers (in Adobe PDF format) that have been written by Dr. Peter Green who serves as the Technical Director of KnarrTek Inc. as well as by other co-authors.

Milramco LLC. owns the copyright to these papers. Please do not republish these white papers without permission from Milramco LLC (partner-support@Milramco.com). 

Copies may, however, be freely disseminated within educational, government, and industrial organizations for internal educational and information use only.

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It is acceptable to publish a few hundred word synopsis with a direct link to the papers, whose links are given below:

Most Recent White Papers

• How Much of their Time are Your People Actually Working? (July 18, 2023)
• Low Cost ERP Solution for Manufacturers and Distributors needing Materials Traceability (May 9, 2023)
• Part Numbering Mayhem in a Fractured Supply Chain (April 24, 2023) **

Inventory Tracking

• Year-End Inventory Made-Easy(November 28, 2022) **
• Where is My Box of Parts(September 12, 2022) **
• Part Numbering Mayhem"(Aug 30, 2022) **
• Keeping the Books Straight when Receiving and Tracking Raw Materials Inventory(May 27, 2020)
• Implementing Barcode Tracking Systems in Manufacturing Plants and Industrial Warehouses (March 10, 2021)
• Did the Pandemic Break Your Supply Chain? Is it time for Supply Networks instead of Supply Chains? (March 5, 2020)
• Should you Replace Your Warehouse Management System with the latest License-Plate Number Container Tracking Technology? (February 9, 2020)
• A Better way to Track Inventory - Use License-Plate Container Tracking Barcodes(January 5, 2020)
• A Quick Way to Take Year-End Inventory (December 5, 2019)
• Tracking Sheets, Rolls, and Lengths of Material (November 10, 2017)
• Inventory Tracking is Easy, Isn't It? (May 30, 2017)
• Preventing Inventory Errors (8 February 2012; updated and re-released March 30, 2020)

Manufacturing

• How Much of their Time are Your People Actually Working? (July 18, 2023)
• How to Prevent 9 Costly Mistakes in Manufacturing and Industrial Distribution(March 29, 2023) **
• Barcode vs RFID for Work-in-Process Tracking(October 25, 2022) **
• Will Robots Kill All the Remaining Manufacturing Jobs in the USA?(August 8, 2021)
• The True Cost of Doing Nothing -why using paper forms rather than barcode tracking is no longer justifiable (April 4, 2021)
• Eight Ways Manufacturers can Cut Costs (August 10, 2020)
• Technology Solutions for Distributed Operations Management (April 25 , 2020)
• The Amazon Effect on Scheduling Quick-Turn On-Demand Manufacturing Operations (September 19, 2018)*
• Using Technology to Unleash Profitable Growth of a Manufacturing Enterprise (June 4, 2018)
• Solving the Parts Number Explosion Problem for Make-to-Order Manufacturers(February 15, 2017)
• The 5 Levels of Intelligent Manufacturing Operations Management (September 15, 2016; updated and re-released March 30, 2020)
• Using Technology to Enable the Rapid Growth of Make-to-Order Manufacturing Businesses (18 January 2016)

Supply Chain Issues

• Part Numbering Mayhem in a Fractured Supply Chain(April 24, 2023) **
• Santa's Supply Chain Problems (December 17, 2022) **
• Collapse of Our Global Supply Chains - Disaster or a Golden Opportunity (July 5, 2022) **

Decision Support Systems

• Enterprise Decision Support (EDS) vs ERP Systems(November 20, 2022) **
• Use of Decision Support Systems to Assist with Materials Management in Construction and Engineering Projects (October 16, 2021)
• What are Decision Support Systems for Industrial Operations Management?
  (September 3, 2021)

ERP Systems

• Low Cost ERP Solution for Manufacturers and Distributors needing Materials Traceability (May 9, 2023) **
• So You Want to Buy a New ERP System? (March 23, 2023)
• Why is the Inventory in My ERP System Always Wrong (February 23, 2023) **
• Solving the Work-in-Process "Black Hole" Problem in Manufacturing ERP System Deployments
  (February 11, 2023) **
• Organizational Conflicts in Implementing New Manufacturing ERP Systems (February 4, 2023) **
• Improving the Materials Tracking Capabilities of Your ERP System(Aug 8, 2022)
• Intelligent Order Management Systems - will these replace ERP Systems? (April 18, 2022)
• Adding Real-Time Barcode Work-in-Process Tracking to your existing ERP and Accounting System (May 23, 2021)
• How to Implement a Low-Cost Manufacturing ERP System with a Million Dollar Performance (September 20, 2020)

Technology and Artificial Intelligence

• From the Cloud to the Edge for Barcode and RFID scanning (December 26, 2022) **
• Using Artificial Intelligence to Upgrade Your ERP System(Aug 3, 2022)
• Failure to Excel in the Cloud; a cautionary tale. (January 22, 2021)
• Text Message and Email Alerts, the key to remotely managing manufacturing operations (December 9, 2020)
• Interfacing Anarchy in the Shop (October 19, 2020)
• Using Computer Technology to Help Prevent the Spread of Covid19 in a Manufacturing Operation (April 6, 2020)

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Acknowledgements

Images used in these white papers may be one of the following:
1 Created by and are Copyright Milramco LLC
2 Purchased Licenses from Dreamstime.com and StockIO.com and predecessor companies they acquired.
3. Licensed to KnarrTek Inc and Milramco LLC and predecessor organizations by Zebra Inc., Honeywell Corp and Unitech Inc. as part of their Independent Software Vendor partner program
4. Licensed to Milramco and predecessor organizations by Corel Corporation as part of the purchase of their graphic arts software
5. Used under a free license from Pexels.com