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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

Logistics Viewpoints

Any company shipping physical products today – whether to consumers or to other businesses – needs to meet higher service expectations, including faster order turnaround in the DC. In addition to large distribution orders, many retail and business-to-business facilities are shipping rising volumes of direct-to-consumer orders.

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Navigating Automotive Disruption: Eliminate Bottlenecks in your Supply Chain and Lean-out Operations to free-up Working Capital for R&D

ThroughPut

The Automotive Industry is being disrupted on all sides and is upending the traditional models of vehicle manufacturing that have evolved over the past 120 years to dominate the world. But the Automotive industry’s massive scale can also be its savior in an age of unprecedented disruption across multiple fronts.

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Examples of How Supplier Quality Management System Implementations Pay Off

GlobalTranz

Automotive calls it Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), with Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)-essentially a risk profile and its operational counterpart, a control plan. The next step may be Six Sigma quality ( In order for a company to achieve Six Sigma, it cannot produce more than 3.4

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

Moreover, products can be shipped to stores in-time then lost sales is minimal. Lean manufacturing concept has been implemented widely in the automotive industry so the case studies about lean manufacturing is very readily available. The secret behind its supply chain success is the use of Six Sigma approach.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

We built these into continuous improvement programs such as Lean Six Sigma, while also setting goals to drive breakthrough cost savings to supplement continuous improvement savings. The good news is that the team was aware of the results and feel that they have righted the ship in 2014.

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Podcast: Susie Bodnar on the CSCMP and the New Directional Shifts in Supply Chain

Requis

When I started, that visibility was a phone call— ‘where is my container ship?’ Think of the carriers who have switched to food and beverage delivery, versus something like automotive plants, some of which have been shut down for months. Visibility has changed. Now we’re developing some excellent online platforms.

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Tracking Shipments with IoT

Logichain Solutions

Besides logistics and transportation companies, industries like pharmaceutical, cosmetics, automotive, aeronautics, and food & beverage, are other early adopters of the newest developments in IoT. They are therefore embracing the advancements in IoT technology. Challenges of IoT.