QAD

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In this episode, we’re joined by automotive industry veteran Gary Vasilash, an editor with Gardner Business Media. He has spent the last 30 years writing about automotive design, engineering, manufacturing and management. Staffing levels are on everyone’s minds these days, from manufacturers to retailers and consumers.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 14, 2021

BY Joe Lombardo, Editor-In- Chief, LogiSYM. 2020 has been the year of virtual conferences and meetings for most of us. This is a golden opportunity for companies with international sourcing, manufacturing and sales footprints to reap these benefits. EVENT HIGHLIGHTS. Partner—Tax At KPMG Singapore. Royston Phua.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In this Supply Chain Matters Editorial , Founder and Executive Editor Bob Ferrari focuses on Boeing’s ongoing corporate culture challenges. They are tenets which have been incorporated not only in automotive industry but other discrete manufacturing settings. Some industry experts point to such facilities as “ the hidden factories.”

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

The next step of the ZEV declaration integrates workstreams of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) High Level Action Champions (HLAC) with Automotive Manufacturers and The Climate Group’s EV100 to avoid duplication of effort and to pool resources. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This year the annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26) was held at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, United Kingdom, from 31 October to 13 November 2021. He is the co-editor of the first book of Maritime Informatics recently published by Springer. degrees Celsius,” states the Climate Action Tracker. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 23, 2018

claimed Gartner’s Michael Burkett during the firm’s supply chain conference in London in September 2017. Martijn Lofvers, publishing director & chief editor. . “Ecosystems are the future for digital supply chains,”? martijn.lofvers@supplychainmedia.nl.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

We will probably keep the higher value added manufacturing, that requires extensive engineering skills, complexity, high technology precision, and customization for customer requirements. But the trend is definitely going in the direction of manufacturing moving back locally to America.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 1, 2022

Frequent readers of the Supply Chain Matters blog may recall one metaphor that this Editor has invoked over the past three years – the Eagle ’s tune, In a New York Minute ( Everything Can Change ). Everything is a little out of sync right now. ”. Additional Thoughts.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

That was the theme of consultancy company Gartner’s annual Supply Chain Executive Conference held in London, UK, in late September. In the same week as the Gartner conference, I took my first business trip to Istanbul. Up until recently, I’d never even heard of these two manufacturers (of consumer electronics and cars, respectively).

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 17, 2022

In our previously published Supply Chain Matters Editorial commentary , The Federal Reserve’s Interest Rate Action and the Signal for Assessment , this Editor provided a summary of likely implications that industry supply chain leaders and their respective teams should be focusing on in the coming months.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Editor's Note: This is the second in a three part series on advanced demand analytics to improve demand forecasting. For instance, Lennox Residential, a leading manufacturer of HVAC systems, uses machine learning and cluster analysis to automatically identify and track seasonality patterns and trends. Source: NYCCSC.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 22, 2014

Just finished speaking at the EurOMA conference in Palermo, and was excited by the discussions and feedback over the course of today. During my visit, Giovanni Perrone, also emphasized how the Italian economy is seeing a resurgence of manufacturing and product development. Because people are at the core of innovation.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Editor’s Note: Cerasis is a 3PL focused on transportation management. Distributors will inbound to a manufacturer the inventory needed and transportation management, especially inbound freight management, efficiency is paramount to an effective vendor managed inventory model. ” What is Vendor Managed Inventory?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. Localized manufacturing. Shipment and manufacturing of the unit of one. With a blue pen, he had circled the sentence in the opening letter from Michael Meyer, Editor in Chief: “Evidence can be difficult to interpret.

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Unleashed

APRIL 1, 2020

This coronavirus-induced downturn is unlike the 2008 recession, where the economy was active but the credit markets were frozen, as Vox’s editor-at-large Ezra Klein points out. Save time commuting to and from supplier meetings when you can use video conferences instead. A survey measuring manufacturer-supplier relations in the U.S.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three-part series on Supplier Quality Management processes and how to evaluate your suppliers from Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chain. It measures the cost incurred by an organization to manufacture a quality product. Cost of quality. 3: Review of Frequency Suppliers Are Audited.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. Readers' choice!

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

To make matters worse, most of PCA’s products were designated for the low-end consumer market; they were sold to food manufacturers who made products to be consumed by schoolchildren and the elderly in nursing homes – some of the most vulnerable members of society. The effects of a rotten supplier. Author: Hillary Ohlmann.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 1, 2017

Automation has sped up production but for the most part, manufacturing techniques and advances have left the automotive industry in the metaphorical dust. How can existing automotive manufacturers bridge the skills gap in automotive engineering between their current manufacturing techniques and these new invaluable skills?

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Locus Robotics

JANUARY 11, 2022

Warehouses and manufacturing facilities alike see the need for automation to improve warehouse operations, including making the move to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). To help companies properly evaluate, select, and implement AMRs, The Robot Report created Mobile Robotics Week, a virtual conference of webinars and panel discussions.

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ivalua

MARCH 29, 2019

But the highlight was hearing from Mark Gursky, Director of the Procurement Center of Excellence at Meritor (a $4 billion global manufacturer of automotive components). Until recently also Managing Editor, Spend Matters UK/Europe. Author: Peter Smith , Managing Director at Procurement Excellence Ltd.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 27, 2017

In Real Examples of Advanced S&OP and How S&OP Can Be Used to Create Value at Gartner’s recent Supply Chain Executive Conference, Spooner stressed that “no process is more fundamental to predictable financials than sale and operations planning (S&OP, SIOP, or IBP). .” - Matthew Spooner, Research Director at Gartner.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Cliff Saran ( @cliffsaran ), Managing Editor of Computer Weekly , observes that the coronavirus pandemic resulted in just such a paradigm shift. ”[1] Bolstering his argument, he cites a conference presentation given by Francesca Gamboni, a Senior Vice President for supply chain at Groupe PSA. .”[1] Why is this important?

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by Bob Ferrari The following guest blog commentary is contributed by Bob Ferrari, Founder and Executive Editor of the Supply Chain Matters blog and Managing Director of the Ferrari Consulting and Research Group LLC. In October, I had the opportunity to speak at the APICS 2015 conference.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 17, 2019

He a sought-after author, having written both best-selling books and timely pieces in Industry Week Manufacturing Network and Supply Chain Management Group. Brian Bradley is an Associate Editor for American Shipper today. Russell Goodman is the Editor-in-Chief at SupplyChainBrain. Steve Banker. Brian Bradley . Russell Goodman.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 24, 2015

By Dan Gilmore – Editor-in-Chief. I will note Rice used my list during his own excellent presentation on supply chain innovation at the MHI annual conference last October. 10: Taylorism: In the late 1800s, the great Frederick Taylor takes the first scientific approach to manufacturing. First Thoughts. April 23, 2015.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

It’s imperative that the designer understands all of the functions to be included on the site footprint, e.g. warehouse, offices, gantry cranes, loading docks, forklift-charging areas, dangerous or hazardous goods, cool or cold rooms, clean rooms, manufacturing or packaging operations, staff facilities, etc. A) One-way flow.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 5, 2021

Cristina Commendatore ( @CristinaC_FO ), Executive Editor of FleetOwner magazine, reports, “For the first time in 20 years, America’s grade point average for infrastructure is finally out of the D range. Speaking at a virtual ASCE conference, U.S. trillion, up from $2.1 trillion in 2017.”[1]

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

David Sparkman, founding editor of ACWI Advance and head of David Sparkman Consulting. ? The latest smart manufacturing concept that we developed and demonstrated is the robot-on-a-cart concept for autonomous assembly or conveyer tending. Alex Scott, assistant professor, Supply Chain Management, Northeastern University. ?

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