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What’s Good for Consumer Goods Manufacturing?

USC Consulting Group

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. Lean Six Sigma. Together, Lean Six Sigma is a powerful process methodology. Supply chain woes.

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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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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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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.

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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. Benefits of IoT. Challenges of IoT.

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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. Benefits of IoT. Challenges of IoT.

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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.