ivalua

JUNE 2, 2016

Niul Burton wrote a great article in Industry Week titled “Procurement 2025: 10 Challenges that Will Transform Global Sourcing”. For those of you who are executives in Supply Chain, Procurement or New Product Introduction/Development, this is a must read. Globalization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods.

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Shipsy

JUNE 20, 2017

With an ever increasing focus on innovation and efficiency in the supply chain, Gartner’s Top 25 Supply Chain Rankings 2017 threw up a host of interesting takeaways. Key Trends in Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain Rankings 2017 (Source?—?Gartner) Net income/total assets Inventory turns?—?Cost Change in revenue from prior year CSR?—?Index

Gartner 40

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 3, 2019

The type of contract of interest in this report is for Development and Manufacture contracts in the Aerospace and Defense industries. The subcontract efforts feature the majority of military and part of commercial aviation, systems are outsourced by the overall airframe manufacturer, known as “primes” (Boeing, Airbus, Sikorski, etc.)

Aerospace 40

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. Source: Machine Learning – A Giant Leap for Supply Chain Forecasting, Material Handling and Logistics Conference (PDF, 28 pp.,

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QAD

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Armed with in-depth insights into procurement, inventory management, supplier performance, order management, fulfillment, and more, companies can improve their processes and better manage challenges that arise within their businesses with supply chain analytics. What is Supply Chain Analytics Software?

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QAD

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Manufacturing in Belgium. Typical manufacturing products made in Belgium include engineering and metal products, automobile assemblies, transportation equipment, scientific and precision instruments, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, textiles, glass, petroleum and food and beverages. Manufacturing accounts for about 22 percent of the GDP.

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Cognira

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Throughout this blog, discover what green retailing is, why retailers should adopt this strategy, and the positive impact advanced technology can have on sustainable strategies. However, consumers have been making bold efforts to protect the environment since 2017, and many retailers have made little to no changes. Table of Contents.

Waste Reduction 52

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

It hasn’t been too long ago that a typical consumer products manufacturer rep would replicate last year’s plan, make any adjustments for an account’s expanded stores, new markets, or new product launches, and dub it the new current year forecast. It was a tedious effort, but, overall, rather easy. Ah, those were the days! Just a nuisance.

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Zipline Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Right now, we are seeing a shift away from the big box brand purchasing that defined the spring of 2020 to food trends more in line with what we have seen over the past several years. plant-based and cell-based meat companies in the past 10 years — $13 billion of it in 2017 and 2018.” Increased Sourcing Transparency .

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

These key metrics become your organisation’s “multi-function display” and give you the primary data needed to monitor and manage “normal flight conditions.” ” Feel free to track lots more metrics in the background if you wish, but try to keep attention focused on the five or six “real KPIs.”

Supply Chain Design Software 80

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Enterra Insights

MAY 22, 2019

Manufacturing has been the lifeblood of the global economy for hundreds of years. Because manufacturers have historically moved factories to regions featuring cheap labor and few regulatory restrictions (sometimes referred to as outsourcing or offshoring), a misconception has arisen about the importance manufacturing to national economies.

Manufacturing Procurement 100

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The Texas freeze and the power outages brought the world’s largest petrochemical complex to a standstill, forcing more plants in the Gulf of Mexico region to shut down than during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Gulf Coast export PVC prices were assessed at $1,900 a metric tonne for the week of Sept. as supplies tighten.

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E2open

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Thursday 30 November 2017. With that in mind, the aim of this blog is to confirm or dispel these myths and set the record straight. Companies with manufacturing schedules of 2-3 weeks often wonder, “Why bother forecasting anything within the frozen period, let alone daily since I can’t use it?” Industrial Manufacturing.

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Arena Solutions

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It’s getting harder for product manufacturers to compete successfully in today’s global economy. GETTING OUT OF THE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT RUT Whether it’s due to insufficient budgets, lack of resources, or limited performance metrics—some organizations surrender to the old way of doing things. Design for manufacturability (DFM) issues.

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IQMS

MAY 1, 2018

Bottom Line: Manufacturers are reaching a new level of results in 2018 because they have clearer, more actionable insights based on real-time manufacturing and quality metrics than ever before. Quality Metrics Enable Customer-Driven Manufacturing Networks. What Success Looks Like In A Customer-Driven Manufacturer.

Manufacturing Procurement 56

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Procurement’s North Star article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks. What exactly are you and your procurement team working towards? What is Procurement’s North Star Metric? The North Star Metric (NSM). Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

Source: Google. 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?

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Former McKinsey analyst Markus Zils adds, “The circular economy aims to eradicate waste — not just from manufacturing processes, as lean management aspires to do, but systematically, throughout the life cycles and uses of products and their components. It is important not to confuse those metrics with the circular economy. Footnotes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. Starbucks redesigned their cups for the Grande product, and the flimsy cups were a source of constant spills and burns. ” I smiled and thanked her for her contribution to my blog.

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ShipBob

JULY 2, 2023

You begin drawing up sketches, doing manufacturer research, and brainstorming catchy names for your brand new product. Will customers complete repeat purchases? There’s such a thing as launching a product that is too niche where only a small subset of people are interested in purchasing. Source new ones.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2023

This was the metric that many investors were focusing on. Further noted was that closely watched automotive related gross margins, a key indicator of cost of sales, excluding regulatory credits, narrowed to 18 percent, its lowest level since 2017. His focus on streamlined manufacturing of only a handful of models has kept costs at bay.

Cost Reduction Strategies 52

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 8, 2018

“By the end of 2020,” asserts the editorial staff at Material Handling & Logistics (MH&L), “one-third of all manufacturing supply chains will be using analytics-driven cognitive capabilities, thus increasing cost efficiency by 10% and service performance by 5%.”[1] Footnotes. [1]

Prescriptive Analytics Software 100

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

It has been forecasted that by 2040, approximately 95% of all purchases will be facilitated by ecommerce. This was 46% more than in 2017. Product sourcing. Product sourcing is the process of purchasing or creating products that you can sell. The ecommerce industry will eventually overtake brick-and-mortar retail.

Trends 105

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QAD

JULY 14, 2020

By 2017, the average new home was 2,631 square feet in size—about 1,035 square feet per person—with each person having more than the entire size of a typical new home in the 1950s. Source: The Globe and Mail. Sustainable Manufacturing. metric tons per capita. metric tons. metric tons per capita.

Sustainability 145

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QAD

JULY 14, 2020

By 2017, the average new home was 2,631 square feet in size—about 1,035 square feet per person—with each person having more than the entire size of a typical new home in the 1950s. Source: The Globe and Mail. Sustainable Manufacturing. metric tons per capita. metric tons. metric tons per capita.

Sustainability 85

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

2017 will not be a bed of roses for third party logistics service providers, nor will the coming year be filled with thorns in the sides of major supply chain entities. By understanding how the industry will evolve throughout 2017, you can prepare your organization for the challenges and opportunities that will come.

Third Party Logistics 120

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Today is day three of our annual year-end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 5 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , Transportation , Freight. We will feature over the next 3 business days each category's top 10 most viewed posts over the course of 2017. Share This: Read More.

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