How Manufacturers Use Technology to Reduce Waste & Build Resilience

In this video, Mike Fuller explains how the manufacturing industry can use ERP systems and AI not just to automate tasks, but to improve real-time visibility, reduce hidden waste, and strengthen operational resilience. The opportunity isn’t simply adopting new tools — it’s using better data for cleaner decision-making.

In This Video, You’ll Learn:

  • Why AI should be viewed as a resilience tool — not just a productivity upgrade
  • How ERP systems improve production scheduling, inventory management, and supply chain coordination
  • What it means to let your systems “talk” to your customers’ systems
  • How improved visibility strengthens customer satisfaction and service reliability
  • Where hidden waste tends to accumulate inside manufacturing processes
  • How optimizing AI can surface overspending, defects, bottlenecks, and excess inventory buried in large data sets
  • Why the real value of AI is filtering signal from noise — not generating more metrics
  • How better data collection can free up capital and improve quality control and calibration decisions
  • Why now is an accessible moment for manufacturers to deploy AI at scale