QAD

JUNE 18, 2019

That average dropped to 24 years in 2016 and is expected to shrink to just 12 years by 2027. Manufacturers can miss opportunities to adapt due to their lack of speed in responding to disruptive forces, under-investing in new growth areas or applying existing business models to new markets. How will Manufacturers Survive Disruption?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

As I study research methods, and the market, I realize the lies I’ve spun for prior employers (Gartner and AMR Research) are untrue: The AMR Research Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics. This research, released in 2005, gives a compelling view of a metrics hierarchy. In 2016 I wrote 35 blog posts. Reflections.

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

Improving semiconductor manufacturing yields up to 30%, reducing scrap rates, and optimizing fab operations is achievable with machine learning. Manufacturers care most about finding new ways to grow, excel at product quality while still being able to take on short lead-time production runs from customers.

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QAD

JULY 7, 2022

Supply chain due diligence is a critical topic for manufacturers and enterprises in all industries, especially given three major impacts of recent high-profile abuse cases, new due diligence laws and consumer buying trends. . Counting the Cost of Ignorance appeared first on QAD Blog. Let’s break it down. New Due Diligence Laws.

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IQMS

JULY 22, 2019

in 2016 and is projected to attain a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 14.1% Warehouse Inventory Management Software is seeing increased adoption as manufacturers expand globally through mergers, acquisitions, and regionally-focused manufacturing strategies. The Warehouse Inventory Management Software market grew to $1.4B

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Manufacturers are Now Selling Directly to Consumers. Retailers can no longer have their heads in the sand, but neither can consumer products manufacturers. Note that apparel manufacturing is growing and apparel retail is declining. Manufacturers that want to have eCommerce capabilities are scrambling to catch-up.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Let me start with a true confession: I am a manufacturing gal. I relished the sound of a manufacturing line when I opened the door of the factory in the morning, and I liked managing inputs so that we could maximize outputs. Manufacturing is the foundation of my interest in supply chain management. It is now part of my DNA.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. In this period, a combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, market confidence on future profits, and speculation in individual stocks, made investors overlook traditional metrics in favor of confidence in future technological advancements.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The manufacturing industry leads all others in the volume of data it produces on a yearly basis. Also, machine learning is leading to more accurate measures of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), a key metric many manufacturers and supply chain operations rely on. References. Bendoly, E. Preston, D.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

There are some positives: in 2016, over 60% of supply chain leaders are embracing cloud-based solutions, and 45% are increasing their spend in supply chain management solutions. Figure 2: Focus of Spending in 2016. For more on this topic, reference my blogs on the building of the digital supply chain. 2020 is four years away.

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synchrono

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Through this guest blog series, my intent is to share some of my experiences implementing supplier quality and Lean manufacturing initiatives by focusing on eKanban systems. My first post offered advice for planning an eKanban rollout (advice that could be applied across any Lean manufacturing project). by Jim Shore.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 7, 2016

We continue our series on the top 5 blogs in our 4 main categories ( Freight , Manufacturing , Logistics , and Supply Chain ). Our last post covered the Top 5 Manufacturing blogs of 2016. Today's post will cover the top 5 supply chain blogs from 2016 so far.

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

Years later in 2016, General Motors has implemented measures to make the company more equipped to handle disasters. The end result was that when another earthquake struck Japan in April 2016, GM was much better prepared. Source: Arkieva Supply Chain Blog. Source: Arkieva Supply Chain Blog. Read Full Article. Source: EBN.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% PCA’s customers were larger food manufacturers. The manufacturers sourced the peanut butter primarily on cost. Safe and secure and the redesign of the supply chain to protect the consumer is a part of the 2016 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit focused on Imaging Supply Chain 2025.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Many which I’ve highlighted over the years in blogs and articles. Intelligent IBP in the making As early as 2016, I wrote about autonomous IBP , comparing IBP to an autonomous car. In February 2022, I wrote the first of a five blog series using the name Intelligent IBP. Decision quality will become a performance metric in IBP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

Instead, companies link suppliers to multiple signals: manufacturing production plans; distribution requirements; and current inventory positions, to help suppliers better plan for supply. Like the Shaman blog? She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, at the Supply Chain Shaman blog, and for Forbes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

During the afternoon, as I quietly held the pieces for Jake’s monster, my mind composed my blog post for the week. I am a manufacturing gal by training. Today, supply chains do not use sentiment data–blogs, rating and reviews, social data on Twitter and Facebook, and call center logs in supply chain processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

We wanted to see which companies were driving the fastest rate of improvement on the supply chain metrics that matter. I am currently collecting case studies in supply chain leadership for my next book Supply Chain Leadership Matters to publish in 2016. The company operates 153 distribution centers and 39 manufacturing locations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

(Included in this post is Cummins’ digital award for the 2016 Supply Chains to Admire. I want to understand why some companies outperform on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter while others do not. It is a condition of too little sleep due to fabulous late night coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Bottom Line: The top 10 manufacturing trends reflect how manufacturers are planning to achieve their goals of revenue growth, operational improvements, digital transformation, and launching new products and services in 2019. In parallel, there will be more self-service analytics and BI apps specifically designed for manufacturers.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

To learn more, please read my previous blog ‘ A Guide to Supply Chain Management: Making Intuition More Valuable ’. We might use “availability in Excel directly or with Add-ons” as an “age metric’.). 2016, “Defining Analytics: A conceptual Framework” ORMS Today pp.

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Aera Technology

AUGUST 9, 2016

seconds separated the gold medalist from last place in the 200m women’s individual medley in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Standardize service level metrics across the business Having inconsistent calculations across plants, DCs or regions makes it hard to know how well you are actually servicing customers. Less than 3.5

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ivalua

JUNE 2, 2016

Challenges in this new manufacturer/supplier partnership Burton cites include: Risk management. Embracing sustainability as a goal and metric that you scorecard suppliers on is a good place to start to get ready for this trend that will become a staple in how successful companies do business. Think of the brand Tom’s shoes.

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IQMS

JUNE 20, 2018

Advanced analytics spending globally is predicted to grow from $136B in 2016 to $232B in 2021, attaining an 11.3% 86% of the top 100 companies in R&D spending worldwide are from the manufacturing industry also according to Deloitte. Every manufacturer’s business is at an inflection point today.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 31, 2016

That shows The Supply Chains to Admire 2016 analysis of Supply Chain Insights. Which companies have a supply chain to admire in 2016? Based on extensive analysis of publicly available financial figures we have published the “2016 Supply Chains to Admire,” listing 16 companies as winners and 21 companies as finalists.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

This was not a trivial transition because the software industry, until relatively recently, was long fixated on measuring its health and success by new license revenue (sales of products) instead of customer-centric metrics, such as realization of ROI and payback objectives. Where is Descartes today? Keegan McCready, Sr.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

Now a ritual, with coffee in one hand and country music blaring, I sit in my faded green chair to write a blog post. This afternoon, I am writing my 334th blog post. From time-to-time, I share the questions and answers in a blog post. Here I want to answer a question that I got this week in this blog post.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 20, 2016

Author’s Note: Below is an excerpt from Moving Up the Supply Chain Maturity Curve: The Process Industry Executive Agenda for 2016 and Beyond , a white paper recently published by Elemica with research conducted by Adelante SCM. How do you successfully align goals, metrics, and resources across functional groups?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It is that time of year again where we feature the most viewed articles on the Cerasis blog in each of the six main categories we write about: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. . Since we started the blog in January 2013, we have published over 650 blog posts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The traditional manufacturing job defined the middle class. Each time, I turn on the channel, manufacturing jobs frame the global debate. Ironically, as global manufacturing jobs decrease, there is a need for talent for the global supply chain. However, globalization comes with responsibility.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Teresa Chiykowski Welcome to the first blog post in our three-part series discussing three ways to improve supply chain collaboration. Maybe I’m stating the obvious but… a lot has changed in the world of manufacturing since Keith Oliver of Booz, Allen and Hamilton Inc. Move over, 1982, it’s 2016.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In this blog post, we share the story of VTech. Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. In 2016, VTech is a finalist in the Supply Chains to Admire analysis. The North American operation is the top manufacturer in the US cordless market.

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QAD

JULY 14, 2022

These copious, non-linked and editable records are used to manage, control and plan for every eventuality for some of today’s most sophisticated automotive manufacturing plants the world over. Does it allow key metrics and reporting to be visible in real time on fully customisable dashboards with drill-down capability?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 31, 2015

When I hit publish on today's blog, we will have published 659 blog posts on the Cerasis blog, with our very first blog post coming nearly 3 years ago to the day. . If you are a regular reader (or heck even if you are not) what you will see from our blog is a focus on education.

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QAD

JULY 14, 2020

Today, the average house size in the UK is 104 square meters, and the average new house in 2016 was 13% larger than the average existing house. Sustainable Manufacturing. metric tons per capita. metric tons per capita. 007 metric tons per capita, but Nepal has little manufacturing, and much of that is agrarian. .

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. Yesterday we published the top 10 most read manufacturing articles of 2015. . As always our goal is to educate and inform.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

From 2010-2016, venture capital funds invested in over 2000 early stage deals in the ‘internet’ sector. Companies have to make sure that the manufacturer they’re buying from is reliable, that the product is worth the price, that they will have enough demand, and enough capital. VCs like to invest in internet companies.

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