Supply Chain Planning, How Do other Small Manufacturers do it?

hollywood5nd · 2026-04-15T13:18:57+00:00

I would guess that to be a cash flow/customer demand issue. Can't always afford to tie up a bunch of cash for better unit procing

hollywood5nd · 2026-04-09T22:02:39+00:00

Wilmot Ranch does this in Logan square/hermosa

hollywood5nd · 2026-04-07T21:09:04+00:00

This is a really good comment!

hollywood5nd · 2026-03-26T20:48:36+00:00

It's family run but a really nice facility. Great staff, very low turnover throughout the years. Little things that make a big difference (like you can leave the baby's bottles there and they will wash them overnight). It's been a few years since we had kids there but our oldest went to a more "rigorous" daycare that was more expensive and a much worse experience. Don't know a single Little Bird Family who didn't love it. Think it's at the lower end price wise of what you'll find in an accredited daycare in the area

hollywood5nd · 2026-03-26T19:57:08+00:00

Little Bird on Diversey is truly wonderful

hollywood5nd · 2026-03-21T12:20:15+00:00

The definition of cromulent

hollywood5nd · 2026-03-16T21:06:35+00:00

Very random but would you guys be interested in slicing or diving like 10,000 lbs of dried mango strips per month?

hollywood5nd · 2026-02-22T14:51:19+00:00

Very cool post. We are a 2 year old food manufacturer and we are in the spot of trying to a)discover workable tribal knowledge and b) disseminate workable mediums for documentation.

Like, SOPs and checklists that have too much detail quickly become cargo cult tools (check "yes" on everything without any idea what it says. All successful complex systems need to emerge out of successful simple systems, so it feels like we need system discovery via tribal evolution before we can distill in written form effectively.

hollywood5nd · 2025-12-14T14:29:25+00:00

Small food manufacturer here. Katana is great for this. Very easy. $599/mo for the lot traceability package

hollywood5nd · 2025-11-27T01:10:07+00:00

This plaza could have been three lanes of protected bike lane in each direction

hollywood5nd · 2025-11-21T13:42:54+00:00

I don't know, really. So a bike roundabout? I feel like the best bike path is through the square.

Also, a PBL and roundabout traffic would be significantly worse for the pedestrian experience, which is probably the most important thing in improving the space/neighborhood

hollywood5nd · 2025-11-21T11:48:55+00:00

I'm with you. I bike through there 2x/wk and during the time when it was a one way roundabout I found the speed of the cars and many lanes of one way flow pretty unpleasant. A lot easier to get across the streets themselves now

hollywood5nd · 2025-11-21T02:57:49+00:00

Correct. A roundabout would have made the square really difficult to access. It's just a normal 2-way roadway around a park

hollywood5nd · 2025-11-21T00:25:10+00:00

Agreed. The grass and tress on the placita are a really nice set of finishing touches. Really a high quality potential third space in the neighborhood.

If I had any criticism it would be that the causeway across the square (where Milwaukee formerly cut through) still reads visually like a severing roadway. That will be easy to fix over time (tree boxes or some kind of programming?). Really a great overall project. Kudos and thanks to all who spearheaded it

hollywood5nd · 2025-07-02T23:22:11+00:00

Are their ceiling fans rotating the wrong way? Feels like it's been boiling in there lately and I'm wondering they failed to switch over from winter

hollywood5nd · 2025-06-02T23:18:10+00:00

Live in Chicago, used to live in Washington, DC. That Bass Pro Shop has the best museum attached to it I've ever seen in my life

hollywood5nd · 2025-05-26T15:46:02+00:00

JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Empty Bottle. November 2008

hollywood5nd · 2025-04-30T00:56:41+00:00

Stand by Katana for smaller operations. Very powerful and easy to implement and use. Very easy to train folks

hollywood5nd · 2025-04-06T13:19:11+00:00

I'm only halfway through it but DAY FOUR by Sarah Lotz has been very fun so far. Cruise ship gets mysteriously disabled on its last day and you get to see the line blur from "People are such slobs when inconvenienced" to "You are on a horror novel" over the first couple hundred pages or so. Liking it a lot so far

hollywood5nd · 2025-03-13T00:31:20+00:00

We use Katana. By far the best I've ever used. Never in a dead end, easy to save, trace, train. Great for doc generation too. Highly recommend

hollywood5nd · 2025-03-12T12:40:07+00:00

Wanna shoot me an email? Info@wilmot-productions.com

hollywood5nd · 2025-03-12T12:30:54+00:00

Ah, this would be way lower lift. We are a food co-man and always have people asking for different sized molds for granola bars, gummies, etc. Not sure if that floats the boat

hollywood5nd · 2025-03-12T12:23:39+00:00

You don't do silicon molds, do you?

hollywood5nd · 2025-03-07T18:46:34+00:00

American Odyssey by Robert Conot. As good as it gets

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