QAD

AUGUST 16, 2022

Unpredictability is undoubtedly the major issue manufacturers face when dealing with fragmented supply chains. As the supply chain breaks, manufacturers must find new suppliers and new transport routes and find them rapidly, so that production doesn’t come to a halt. So, how can manufacturers respond to these challenges?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Run” will include using the platform for inventory optimization and to support interesting internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. The following article highlights some of the key points made by Mr. Elias and Mr. Stauffer. HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Importing From China! Product Sourcing Agent article and permission to publish here provided by Joyce Chen at Epic Sourcing. Your manufacturer is the backbone of your company; it regulates your inventory, which determines how consumers perceive and communicate with you. Who is a Product Sourcing Agent?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Kevin Nelson, a chief procurement officer and senior vice president at BD, agreed to be interviewed on this topic. Mr. Nelson points out that it is possible for a sourcing problem deep in a supply chain to halt production for BD. If there is only one supplier in the world providing a critical component, “do I need to dual source?

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This article provides an overview, based on a survey of over 1,200 small businesses, of how small and midsize businesses have weathered the storm, and how a changing – and potentially recessionary – market is impacting their outlook. Take Conner, the manufacturer of FORT, a magnetic pillow fort.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

Without a doubt 2020 will be etched in our memories as the year of multiple disasters, with the Covid-19 pandemic, trade issues between the US and China, wildfires in Australia, social unrest in Hong Kong, drastic declines in oil prices, turbulent financial markets and other politically dominated issues in emerging markets.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

To date, most of our content has covered topics related either to logistics or manufacturing outsourcing. In this article, I will redress the balance by exploring outsourcing from a more holistic perspective, focusing on ways to consider outsourcing partnerships for improvement throughout the supply chain.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A manufacturer in China doesn’t read the specs on an order. What makes Ethereum different is that it actively encourages software development teams to use its open-source protocol to design tokens that run on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Editor’s Note: This is a guest article from Jake Rheude.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. In business news articles Chaturvedi has questioned the viability of broad-scale reshoring and warned that supply chain resiliency will likely take a back seat once the pandemic fades from memory. are: Germany, China, Japan, Canada, and Korea.

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QAD

JULY 15, 2021

Given the demand for critical care equipment like ventilators, personal protective equipment, and key medicines, life sciences companies were left scrambling to produce and in some cases source these important life sustaining products at an unprecedented rate. Are manufacturers ready for the next disruption? . Automation and Pharma 4.0

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2020

A New York Times article from August 2019 highlights how much artificial intelligence (AI) is indebted to humans. The coronavirus, which began in China, has spread to 88 countries/areas/territories to date and is on every continent except Antarctica. The third is exports to China.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 27, 2020

Post-pandemic article and permission to publish here provided by Joe Carson, CEO of Spend Strategies, LLC. In many critical supply areas, such as biopharma, the now famous PPE, and high technology medical devices, not just calls, but screams for re-examining supply lines and explicitly, our reliance on China. Subscribe Here!

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

to discuss vehicle customization by original equipment manufacturer (OEM) automakers and its impact on the supply chain of the future. China, obviously, is a formidable force and is overtaking the US now. They would just have the after-market outside manufacturers make them and sell as them as accessories. to a great extent.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 20, 2022

Executives are beginning thus to consider development of policies for either development of a domestic capability, or a means for managing the supply of these items from global sources. As an example, individuals pointed to the fact that during COVID, domestic manufacturers sprung up to produce N95 masks, supported by DoD SBR grants.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 29, 2023

”[1] In Part One of this article, I noted that the World Economic Forum believes we have entered the age of the polycrisis — the simultaneous convergence of a number of crises. ”[3] In Part One of this article, I focused on four supply chain risk areas: Cybersecurity; climate change; geopolitics; and, suppliers/third parties.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And the lack of demand visibility is a big contributor to China-US ocean freight rates doubling to the West Coast since June, and passing USD4,000/FEU to the East Coast – which was surprising as most analysts thought that rates and profits would freefall. Businesses whose inventories ran down slowly since March started restocking.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2020

Containers are piling up in ports, international shipping has been hammered, Western companies are battling to source products from traditional suppliers, and disruptions are being experienced throughout the global supply chain. COVID-19 Impact on Procurement. And, according to some analysts, things could get worse—a whole lot worse!

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 6, 2014

This past Saturday, an explosion at the Kunshan Zhongrong Metal Products factory in China killed at least 75 workers and injured at least 185 others. Zhongron supplies aluminum alloy wheel hubs to another company, Citic Dicastal Wheel Manufacturing Co., which is a supplier to General Motors (GM).

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 13, 2021

Customer service, parts shortages, unprecedented inventory growth, and warrant management can actually take up internal sources and affect profit margins. For example, in the year 2019 the trade war between the US and China was dragged on for more than a year resulting in 25% tariffs placed on US$200 billion of Chinese goods.

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EMERGE App

APRIL 5, 2024

The cost of operating a warehouse is influenced by numerous factors including labor expenses, the dimensions of the storage space, shipment volume, the nature of stored goods, duration of facility usage, and the sophistication of inventory management technology employed. Firstly, prioritize analyzing warehouse operations thoroughly.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 13, 2017

Too often they have implemented MRP and MPS production management systems that come with their ERP but are philosophically rooted in 1980’s planning methodology, when manufacturing was much more regional and computing power was a fraction of what is available today. Flexible inventory buffer windows. Complex resource capability rules.

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DynaSys

MARCH 17, 2020

When we left our account of mid-market manufacturer Superior Thermodynamics (ST), the company was weathering a tremendous escalation of the US-China trade war and faced the following questions: . A manufacturer’s trade war survival kit should not be without the right decision-making systems.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 25, 2021

The pain wasn’t limited to the United States—according to Automotive News , a spokesperson for the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers forecast a “relatively big hit” for Chinese vehicle production in Q1 2021. They’re essential to functions from touch-screen controls to collision avoidance systems.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases. This isn’t just about purchasing power. Image via StarAir.dk). Behind the Maersk shift.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 22, 2024

This article will explore why disruptions happen, and how the industry deals with them as they come. Read more about The Challenges and Opportunities of Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Procurement at our website SCMDOJO! But what steps can you take to a more resilient supply chain during disruptions?

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 3, 2013

This article will discuss about the leadership quality of Apple''s Tim Cook and some reasons why Steve Jobs chose him to lead the company. The company held $500 million of inventory which was about 2 months coverage, much more than those of the other technology companies. By September of 1998, inventory level was down to 6 days.

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In this article, we’ll look at some of these value-added services so you can find a 3PL with the capabilities that matter most to your business. As we discussed in our “3PL warehousing 101” article, there are three basic types of warehousing available to you. Manufacturing logistics services. Third-party procurement.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 22, 2020

As the virus began to spread out from China, Asia, as a region, provided the first lessons to their global peers on how to mitigate the impact of both supply and demand sides. . But companies will have to go beyond the usual inventory optimisation. .

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The Network Effect

JULY 18, 2014

A few years ago, a news report came out of China stating that they were going to put an end to pegging the renminbi (China’s domestic currency) against the U.S. When the dust cleared, millions of dollars were lost – and all because of a mistranslation of an innocuous news article. dollar and instead allow it to float.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 19, 2020

More than 60 percent of firms said delays were related to orders from China. With some 5 million companies impacted by China’s supply chain woes, the picture is similar in other parts of the world. The US auto industry is expected to follow suit as stockpiled inventory becomes depleted. The Food Industry.

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Kinaxis

MAY 20, 2016

I gave an example from inventory management about ABC classification. This way of classifying inventory to provide guidance on which items to place the highest focus on has been around since the 1950’s. There are a multitude of approaches or techniques for managing inventory (e.g.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the previous article, we covered the Future of Digital Supply Chains, Agile, connected and sustainable and the QAD DynaSys senior product management team’s vision of Digital Supply Chain Planning. . Each route starts with one of our 32 manufacturing plants where we produce either finished or semi-finished lenses.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 16, 2020

Article and permission to publish here provided by Sam White at argentus.com. A few weeks ago, we wrote about the impact of the Coronavirus epidemic on Supply Chains – specifically, how the emerging crisis in China had placed new pressures on companies importing finished goods and raw materials from overseas. Ominous words.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 20, 2021

A Three Part Article Series from QAD DynaSys – Greatest challenges to your supply chain. Part Two of our three part article series. Have plans to maintain your physical resources – property, plant, equipment and inventory stocks – as your human and financial resources. Takeaways for Future Supply Chain Crises.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

Shipping container shortage article and permission to publish here provided by Sam White at Argentus. Shipping empty containers back to China has become so profitable that companies are hurrying to load empty containers rather than waiting for them to be refilled. Shipping rates from China to the U.S. Subscribe Here!

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RFgen

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to the Department of Justice, he conspired with suppliers in China and Hong Kong to sell over 12,000 counterfeit ICs for millions of dollars. These counterfeits featured markings normally found on legitimate parts from “approximately 35 major electronics manufacturers, including Motorola, Xilinx, and National Semiconductor.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. In one article , Mr. Sorenson points out that IBP works better for small manufacturers than large ones. The company has 11 production facilities across North America and China.

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