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Materials Management

Materials managers face the challenge of maintaining consistent material flow for production, but many factors inhibit inventory accuracy, causing shortages and adjustments. Major issues include incorrect bills of materials, inaccurate counts, unreported scrap, shipping errors, receiving errors, and production reporting errors. Materials managers have worked to manage these issues in manufacturing since the industrial revolution began.

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Materials Management

Materials managers face the challenge of maintaining consistent material flow for production, but many factors inhibit inventory accuracy, causing shortages and adjustments. Major issues include incorrect bills of materials, inaccurate counts, unreported scrap, shipping errors, receiving errors, and production reporting errors. Materials managers have worked to manage these issues in manufacturing since the industrial revolution began.

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Materials management[edit]

The major challenge that materials managers face is maintaining a consistent flow of materials for production. There are many factors that inhibit the
accuracy of inventory which results in production shortages, premium freight, and often inventory adjustments. The major issues that all materials managers
face are incorrect bills of materials, inaccurate cycle counts, un-reported scrap, shipping errors, receiving errors, and production reporting errors. Materials
managers have striven to determine how to manage these issues in the business sectors of manufacturing since the beginning of the industrial revolution.

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