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.

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

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

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

• Intelligent Order Management Systems - will these replace ERP Systems (April 18, 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)

Decision Support Systems

• 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)

Inventory Tracking

• 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

• Intelligent Order Management Systems - will these replace ERP Systems (April 18, 2022)
• Will Robots Kill All the Remaining Manufacturing Jobs in the USA? (August 8, 2021)
• Adding Real-Time Barcode Work-in-Process Tracking to your existing ERP and Accounting System (May 23, 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)

Technology and Artificial Intelligence

• 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)
• How to Implement a Low-Cost Manufacturing ERP System with a Million Dollar Performance (September 20, 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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