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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today’s headline news includes AllBirds, Boeing, Canada Goose, Chemours, EMC, Hanes Brands, Fisker, Ford, Krispy Kreme, LKQ, Ryder, Tesla, Timken, Tyson Foods, Weight Watchers International, and WestRock. Most supply chain models are “ship from” models based on orders. The market is punishing those missing the mark.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

HarbisonWalker is the largest supplier of refractory products and services within the US and Canada. The company has 18 plants and operating locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico as well as plants and labs in the UK, China, and Indonesia. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries.

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How Accounting Visibility from Cloud ERP Improves Cash Flow

OptiProERP

This blog is part of a three-part series on how cloud ERP enables manufacturers to achieve operational excellence. These topics and more are covered in our Achieve Manufacturing Excellence with Cloud ERP: A Practical Guide for Small and Midsize Manufacturers. Inform decision making and forecasting. Customer Story.

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Reduce speed – limited visibility!

Kinaxis

Here in Canada, major highways are getting new electronic signs that provide warnings to motorists about upcoming road hazards. You could assess impacts to inventory, margin, cost of sales, new purchases, capacity…all within seconds, all within a single system. by John Westerveld. Compare that to traditional supply chains.

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23 logistics professionals share the #1 way to reduce logistics costs

6 River Systems

“This would increase the complexity of route planning and make more difficult the quest to eliminate empty back hauls as the number of shipping points increases and the number of shipments out of more rural locations increases,” explains Skip Berry in an article published by Clarkston Consulting.

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Selling on Shopify for Beginners: Sourcing, Designing, and More

ShipBob

What’s my shipping strategy? Source your products. Before you build an online store, you need to source your products. Before you build an online store, you need to source your products. There are several avenues you can take to source products from working with local stores or suppliers to wholesale distributor options.

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The Ultimate Guide to Coffee Profit Margins

Unleashed

Sources: IBIS World Coffee Bean Distributors in Australia July 2020. Sources: IBIS World Coffee Processing in the UK June 2020. In fact, the US is in about 21st place, compared to Brazil in 14th and Canada in 8th. Sources: IBIS World Coffee Production in the US October 2020. Consumption: 1.91 kg per person. Revenue: £1.1