The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Robert Cadena is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lean Staffing Solutions, which provides operational, marketing, sales, and technology services to the logistics and transportation industry. About Lean Staffing Solutions. Lean Staffing Solutions provides operational, sales, marketing, and technology support to over 100 leading 3PLs.

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DELMIA Quintiq

AUGUST 7, 2023

Pressures to address and adhere to global climate control measures and the demand for more personalized products are pushing companies. This is done within and across global and local plants. Lean manufacturing to drive lean manufacturing principles across the value chain and achieve sustainable and profitable goals.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This question is at the heart of any lean supply chain strategy. By implementing the right process improvements, technology, and efficiency optimizations, merchants can create a lean supply chain that: Significantly cuts their logistics costs. What is a lean supply chain? Why retailers are creating lean supply chains.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Inventory management is a crucial aspect of supply chain management, and effective strategies can help businesses reduce costs, improve customer service, and increase profits. But what does a great inventory management strategy look like? But consider, too, how you can turn those needs to your advantage in inventory management.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 27, 2021

At the beginning of the pandemic, some analysts believed the global supply chain was on the verge of breaking. Quick delivery, lean operations and a widely distributed footprint have been the top priorities. ” As a result, they note, “[Global trade could] play a powerful role in the post-COVID-19 economic recovery.”

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 28, 2019

Through the targeted use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and other technologies, leading global innovators are constantly trying to enhance the effectiveness of their inventory management. What one can’t ignore, however, is all the external factors that also directly, and indirectly, affect inventory processes.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here’s a summary of their conversation… Can the notion of global independence help contribute towards building supply chain resiliency? Thanks to Handfield and Linton (2022) global independence can be understood in the following way: “Global independence is a key attribute for creating supply chain immunity.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

Effective inventory management has become increasingly crucial for businesses in this fast-paced and rapidly evolving era of ecommerce. Moreover, the ecommerce explosion has brought new and unique challenges that complicate inventory management for enterprises selling online.

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C3 Solutions

AUGUST 30, 2022

With new technologies popping up, digital tools for all functions one can think of, and then some, supply chains now don’t necessarily need to run lean. There is also the risk of inventory shortages leading to a freeze in operations—all these factors can tax supply chain resilience to the fullest.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 23, 2016

Today I will discuss how a company can sustain a lean culture once they have implemented lean practices in order to achieve continuous improvement. Your company has started the lean journey, but how do you sustain it? How can we Continuously Improve Daily and Sustain a Lean Culture and Behavior? Why are we doing this?

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

In no time at all we were debating between lean versus EOQ. EOQ attempts to optimize lot size by balancing manufacturing cost ( Fixed + variable costs) with things like inventory holding costs and capacity utilization. Lean relies on minimization of, among other things, lot sizes, inventory and waiting. Here we go again!

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Companies of all sizes have been capturing the value from Global Supply Chain to increase the economies of scale and scope for years. Due to the rapid change in global business environment, managers find it difficult to gain the edge over competitors. However, you may wonder what kind of practices really work.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

Global competition mandates that executives never “settle” in their decisions, but that they constantly make higher quality decisions in less time. How Lean Thinking Helps. Lean principles are applied to drive out waste. In inventory management, this often happens through a reduction of lead times and lot sizes.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

Global competition mandates that executives never “settle” in their decisions, but that they constantly make higher quality decisions in less time. How Lean Thinking Helps. Lean principles are applied to drive out waste through a reduction of lead times, lot sizes, and activity that does not increase the value of the whole.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Robert Cadena is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lean Solutions Group , which provides operational, marketing, sales, and technology services to the logistics and transportation industry. About Lean Solutions Group. Lean can deliver on this promise because they are the pioneers in helping U.S. Vendor Managed Inventory.

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Unleashed

APRIL 18, 2024

Implementing JIT in manufacturing operations can significantly reduce lead times and inventory levels, leading to cost savings and more responsive production cycles. Lean Manufacturing aims to streamline production by eliminating non-value-adding activities, enhancing efficiency, and reducing costs.

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ModusLink Corporation

APRIL 22, 2024

By harnessing the capabilities of a global 3PL partner, companies can unlock new possibilities for efficiency, scalability, and innovation in their electronics assembly processes. Global Reach, Local Expertise: Understanding the global footprint of 3PL providers and their local presence.

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RFgen

JUNE 22, 2023

Unlocking the synergy between consulting services, ERP systems, and inventory management is the key to creating a powerhouse of efficiency. Together, consulting and ERP complement each other to improve your inventory management system. Synergy with IM: Consultants bring outside perspective on how best to solve inventory challenges.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2021

Among the universal challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed upon the supply chain management profession is the question of inventory, specifically, “how much is enough?”. It wasn’t long ago that businesses were asking, “By how much can I reduce my levels of inventory?”. Let’s Start with Safety Stock.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 4, 2022

Complete halts result in backlogs and delays, which will impact warehouses and more importantly, their inventory management. As we have seen over the past 20 years, disruptions to supply chains have global impacts on all industries. Inventory takes many forms, ranging from raw materials to finished goods. Survey findings.

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Supply Chain Digest

APRIL 28, 2023

Companies move Away from China, Lean Inventories. Will it Last

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QAD

MARCH 14, 2024

Episode #46: The Crucial Role Of Risk Management In Future Supply Chains Natural disasters, cybersecurity threats, global trade issues, equipment failure; supply chain disruption comes in many forms for automotive suppliers and companies can’t afford to take the pedal off risk management activities. Click here to listen to the full episode.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 27, 2021

Make Sure Your Inventory is Healthy. Getting to healthy inventory levels is a natural result of leveraging downstream demand with demand sensing. Employ a multi-echelon inventory strategy to protect supply chain integrity and plan inventory at every level. Traditional inventory approaches create stockouts and waste.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 27, 2021

2021 Supply Chain and Inventory Management Trends for the US. Then 2020 was thrown into chaos by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Here we are, one year later, trying to determine the 2021 supply chain and inventory management trends to adopt. Even now, the global GDP for 2020 contracted by an estimated 4.3%

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

.” – Sir Winston Churchill Having just returned from the 2023 Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Global conference in Detroit, these words are very fitting to encapsulate the essence of the event. Strategies like production postponement and risk pooling exemplify how lean and resilient practices can complement each other.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Brands like American Eagle Outfitters focused on inventory optimization and flexibility, supply chain transformation, lower SKU counts and fewer shipments per order for improved supply chain performance. So we thought it would be good to examine some key capabilities in fashion supply chain planning and the technologies that support them.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 18, 2024

The economic disruption due to the pandemic highlighted pre-existing loopholes in global supply chains. Lack of digital connectivity made it hard to tie together global operations for supply chains, including inbound and outbound logistics. Strategies to enhance inbound logistics are: 1.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The list is long: Inventory management is handled through your ERP Your product development team works through the PML Sales and marketing are housed in the CRM And it feels like half the company is still managing product data in spreadsheets. Inventory management starts with the fundamental in and out of your supply chain.

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QAD

MAY 7, 2020

Global supply chain leaders have broad and continuous experience in expecting the unexpected. With the technology available today and quicker access to information, more precise demand tracking and monitoring allows for appropriate and timely adjustments to better meet customer demands and reduce inventory levels.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

The current war in Ukraine will further destabilize the global supply chain. Instead, businesses have focused most their investments on inventory control and order requirements. Many individuals and organizations blame Lean and just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing for the situation we find ourselves in today.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

In the review of my first book, Bricks Matter , Keith Harrison, former Global Director of Product Supply at P&G asked me, “You mention the need for supply chains to shift from a focus on cost to value. The industry progressively slid loosing performance in margin and inventory turns, but did not redesign.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Globally, natural catastrophes are the top concern for businesses in East Asia and the Pacific. Global trade regulations and conflicts, as well as tariff threats as a political tool, could cut off sources and markets and push your business plan into the red. Your supply chain must be capable of adapting to all types of threats.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Orbit Chart of Four Industry Sectors at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns (Year-over-Year Averages for the Sector). Lack of Focus on Form & Function of Inventory and Designing Network Flows. As supply chains moved from regional to global, intransit and cycle inventories increased.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions. Tracking Progress.

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American Global Logistics

MAY 12, 2020

Covid-19 Swiftly Exposes Damaging Defect in Inventory Management Covid-19’s effects have reverberated throughout global supply chains. In particular, Covid-19 has upended inventory stockage planning. Over the past ten years, leaning […]. Matching supply and demand has always been an industry problem.

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Logility

MARCH 2, 2011

The prophets of lean manufacturing methods usually scorn planning systems. Demand signals are ignored and individual inventory buffers are based on lead times and lot size requirements throughout the supply chain. With Lean, all is well…except for a couple of significant challenges that have to be dealt with.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 5, 2017

Thomas, director of global capacity planning for Ford Motor Co. My role is to help make certain that we have the most efficient supply chain, and the lowest possible inventories to enable us to sell the maximum possible number of units. Regional issues can cause global problems, and global solutions have regional implications.

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