GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

We continue our top blog posts of 2014 from our main categories today by focusing on something at Cerasis we are experts in : Logistics. We’ve already listed the top 10 manufacturing blog posts and the top 10 supply chain blog posts last week. Top 15 Logistics Blog Posts of 2014. Read the full Post.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. From our lens, the latter is evidence of recessionary manufacturing conditions that are now stabilizing. That stated, the reported 49.6

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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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Claritum

JUNE 13, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. I took on the challenge of writing a condensed version of all the current Procurement challenges. I believe the issue with these articles is the broad range encompassed by the word Procurement and the constant change within this domain. Procurement Domain Name. Introduction.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Today, is day two of our annual year-end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 5 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , Transportation Management , Freight. There were approximately 220 blog posts in 2017, and over 360,000 page views on those posts alone.

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EC Sourcing Group

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. 9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2023

freight rates have reached their lowest levels in nearly six years. In essence, it is confirmation of a freight recession condition. That is not good for retailers and manufacturers, each under the looking glass to reduce not only transportation but also inventory carrying costs. All rights reserved. The post U.S.

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EC Sourcing Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. 9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At the time, we were both deployed as consultants for Manugistics to help a manufacturing company to implement end-to-end planning. There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. Manugistics is now owned by JDA.).

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QAD

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Causes of Stock Loss Sources of stock loss can include: Incorrect part movement Scrap with parts being dropped and damaged Shipping inaccuracy from warehouses and suppliers Manual mistakes in the processes Supplier performance Inaccurate forecasting Split shipments can also cause issues. Stock loss isn’t selective on item size either.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 10, 2024

Background Throughout 2022 and 2023, we have highlighted for readers the various indications of Apple’s unfolding China Plus sourcing moves. That culminated in our research arm’s published December 2023 Supply Chain Matters update, Apple’s Unfolding China Plus Sourcing Strategy for iPhone Production. All rights reserved.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 28, 2021

Shipment planning and execution capabilities that can be used to optimize shipments in real time, route freight, track carrier rates, manage the inbound flow of goods and integrate with the dozens, if not hundreds, of possible vendor platforms. Another Thing to Consider: Network Versus Execution-Level Optimization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My last post on the Supply Chain Shaman blog was forty-five days ago. My first focus was on China sourcing. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) This cross-functional group (sales, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution) is an operational team to manage the day-to-day issues and exceptions in the supply chain.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Ask manufacturing leaders what changes they plan to make in the next three years in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, and they will likely say their use of technology will deepen as more and more players in their supply chains come to rely on digital connections for daily interactions. Talent gaps: ? Legacy systems:? Managing Inventory.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our annual 2023 predictions for industry and global supply chains research advisory. A published Future of Freight study sponsored by Deloitte in September 2022 indicated that U.S.

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4WL Consulting

JULY 8, 2015

The previous decade has seen many companies, mainly those handling manufacturing operations, change how sourcing of direct materials is executed – from an administrative function to a somewhat strategic procurement approach that has seen the creation of a new position “the Chief Procurement Officer.”

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GlobalTranz

JULY 8, 2016

Today, we wrap up our series on the top 5 blogs in our 4 main categories ( Freight , Manufacturing , Logistics , and Supply Chain ). Our last post covered the Top 5 Supply Chain blogs of 2016. Today's post will cover the top 5 Transportation Management blogs from 2016 so far.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 17, 2020

A few months ago, we highlighted a major theme from Gartner’s Supply Chain Planning Summit in our blog: winners change their mindsets–and accelerate through economic turns. Examples of this include expediting with LTL and air freight and costly in-network transfers from warehouse to warehouse–all of which erode profit margins.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

This week, the company announced a reversal in manufacturing and supply chain strategy, as well as a major turnabout. The company will henceforth outsource the manufacturing of its stationary exercise bikes and treadmills to a Taiwan based contract manufacturer. Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Background In various Supply Chain Matters blog commentaries, this supply chain technology industry analyst has raised awareness, perspectives and added focus to the critical importance of establishing synchronous processes and more timely decision making across an end-to-end supply chain network.

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CHAINalytics

APRIL 21, 2021

Freight transportation and its resulting carbon emissions have come sharply into focus as companies progress towards environmental sustainability. A CPG company with worthy environmental goals brought in Chainalytics to help dramatically reduce the emissions of their distribution network.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry. Freight rate reportedly fell 37 percent. The LMI has now declined 6.7

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 20, 2022

There is now an urgent need for manufacturers, retailers and logistics services providers to be able to address added efficiency, ensure needed flexibility in supply chain execution processes while simultaneously ratcheted-up supply chain sustainability efforts.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 13, 2022

National Association of Educational Procurement. As some of you have already seen we have written 60 plus blogs on Career Advice for Supply Chain Professionals. National Association of Educational Procurement. NAEP maintains its status as the leading association dedicated to procurement professionals in higher education.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule format follow-up relative to the updating of prior supply chain management developments we have shared with readers. It is becoming clearer that supply chain procurement and logistics teams elected to route import shipments thru either U.S. West Coast port operators.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Robinson’s own technology and data from the largest network in the freight industry, help our customers stay on top of the trends that influence their supply chains. With these caveats in mind, plotted below are the CES data for employment at general freight, long-distance truckload and LTL firms. for Q2 2021, relative to Q2 2018.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 30, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights a further negative drop in the New York Federal Reserve’s Global Supply Chain Pressures Index ( GSPI ). Noted in the Feds April 2023 narrative were significant downward contributions from Euro Area delivery times, Euro Area stocks of purchases, and Korean delivery times. All rights reserved.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2015

Editor’s Note: This blog post is from SupplyChainOpz. However, complex supplier relationships, unreliable sources of material supply, and ever-increasing customer expectations greatly add to the expectations to select the best suppliers and conduct their operations more efficiently. 2) Connected supply chains. 3) Risk Management.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 21, 2017

Talking Logistics is an online video talk show and blog featuring interviews with industry thought leaders and newsmakers by supply chain and logistics analyst Adrian Gonzalez. The Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management is celebrating 35 years of thought leadership in logistics, procurement, and supply chain management.

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EC Sourcing Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A Request for Proposal (or RFP as it is more commonly known) is one of the most important pieces in sourcing and procurement and the overall supply chain. However, this can be a tedious process if you’re still sourcing using spreadsheets or haven’t made your procurement process digital quite yet. Ocean freight.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest quantitative data related to global manufacturing PMI activity levels for April. Global Manufacturing Output Levels Declined. The Global Manufacturing Output sub-index reportedly dropped to a contraction value of 48.5 According to the J.P. value, up from 53.1

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 13, 2022

Just as manufacturers and distributors were starting to climb out of the ‘COVID hole’, they’ve been knocked back in. Unpacking expected disruptions across the supply chain for manufacturers and distributors. This will in turn impact manufacturing operations up- and downstream as much as raw material mining.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 5, 2023

Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. Morgan Manufacturing PMI® , compiled by S&P Global in association with ISM and IFPSM , provided a banner headline of global manufacturing output edging only slightly higher. That stated, the reported value of 49.6 declined 1.5

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. imports peaked at 21.6 percent in 2017 and have since fallen to 16.5 percent in 2022.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an updated news capsule follow-up relative to major supply chain management and industry developments that we have shared previously on this blog. Companies included in this capsule update are Pratt & Whitney , Flexport , and Volkswagen AG. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides perspectives on an emerging supply chain management focused lesson occurring at Rivian Automotive. Musk described the experience as “manufacturing hell” but the reality was a culmination of misaligned decisions among functions and operations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. ” I then countered, “Why don’t we use this spring’s Shaman’s Circle to facilitate a new discussion between leading manufacturers and technologists and see if we could create a new way of thinking about the problem?

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