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What’s Good for Consumer Goods Manufacturing?

USC Consulting Group

What’s on the road ahead for consumer goods manufacturing? Although the industry is multifaceted and varied, encompassing everything from household goods to food & beverage to apparel and more, most arms of the consumer goods industry are facing similar challenges. Supply chain woes. Geopolitical instability. Labor shortages.

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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

Logistics Viewpoints

Ecommerce has thrust DCs into the limelight and elevated distribution as a source of potential competitive advantage, or disadvantage. Earlier in his career he managed large-scale supply chain projects for manufacturing and distribution organizations in food and beverage, retail, consumer goods, and automotive industries.

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What is Operations Consulting and Can It Help My Business?

USC Consulting Group

They employ methodologies like Lean Six Sigma, SIOP, the Five Ms and other tactics to uncover what’s bedeviling your operation and create ways to solve those problems. Operations consultants will first look at your current operations model, systems and day-to-day processes of getting the job done.

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Debunking Myths About Operations Management Consulting

USC Consulting Group

They employ methodologies like Lean Six Sigma, SIOP, the Four Ms and other tactics to uncover what’s bedeviling your operation and create ways to solve those problems. Myth: Operations consulting is only for the manufacturing sector. They talk with front-line workers, executives and everyone in between. Anything but.

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Kraft Foods Names Daniel Myers Executive Vice President, Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network

Myers, 56, will lead the functional groups that make up the company’s integrated supply chain, including Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering and Customer Service and Logistics. SOURCE Kraft Foods. He succeeds David Brearton, who is now Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Northfield, Ill.-based

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

Food and Beverage Company Performance on the Supply Chain Index for the Period of 2006-2012. 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. What have you learned?

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Supply Chain Education: What Skills Do Your Staff Need?

Logistics Bureau

The SCLA program delves into the peculiarities of some of these special cases, such as beverage distribution, humanitarian logistics , and transportation of perishable goods. We also cover production and manufacturing to some extent, and touch on other functional areas such as human resources and procurement.