Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Procurement and Supply Chain Management are essential functions that can help companies navigate these challenges, but they are often siloed and operate in separate departments. Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2023

This article explores the disruptive nature of supply chain disruptions, the significance of collaboration in managing direct spend, the role of Purchase Order (PO) Collaboration in tracking materials throughout the order cycle, and real-world challenges faced in PO Collaboration.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 7, 2022

Recent supply chain disruptions , including images of cargo ships stuck off the West Coast , have led eCommerce shops to rethink their just-in-time and just-in-case procurement strategies. What is just-in-time procurement? What is just-in-case procurement?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 12, 2022

Procurement in manufacturing companies is often not done correctly. With direct and indirect materials making up at least 50% of typical manufacturing costs, the procurement function could be re-imagined so companies can be more responsive to customer demands and more agile when dealing with supply chain challenges.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

The global supply chain is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of reasonably priced logistics, and low variability. In March 2023, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008. Over the past three years, supply chain cycles shifted.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This new behavior means that manufacturers and retailers need to anticipate consumer needs across channels with more accuracy than ever. To compete with Amazon, most retailers and manufacturers have had to dramatically shorten their own delivery windows. Navigating an Increasingly Challenging Logistics Landscape.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. As a first of its kind agreement in the US, FedEx Express will develop plans to test Elroy Air’s Chaparral autonomous air cargo system within the company’s middle-mile logistics operations, moving shipments between sortation locations. Amazon workers in Staten Island vote to unionize.

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Precoro

AUGUST 14, 2023

More and more companies are acknowledging the importance of centralizing and optimizing their procurement operations. One of the ways to accomplish this is to establish a procurement team to streamline ordering by centralizing purchases and improving supplier relations. What are the duties of a procurement manager?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2024

These solutions use natural language processing, for example, to read online publications and other data sources, make sense of what they read, contextualize the data into information, and report supply chain disruptions caused by weather, geopolitical events and other hazards in near real-time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2022

Nintendo is struggling to break out of a frustrating sales slowdown, selling 33 percent fewer units of Switch game systems in the April-June quarter than a year ago in Japan due to a crippled supply chain. Nintendo is having negotiations on procurement, but the outlook is uncertain. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The past few years have been quite the rollercoaster for manufacturers. Pandemic-related supply chain disruptions and labor shortages have hit hard, while consumer demand for products has simultaneously skyrocketed. Positive manufacturing signs with some cause for concern. Third-party procurement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

Already upended for two years by the COVID-19 pandemic, the worldwide logistics industry is facing new challenges. While demand is high, ongoing product shortages continue to cause supply chain disruptions, create unpredictable shopping behaviors and drive rapid delivery expectations.

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ModusLink Corporation

APRIL 22, 2024

Consider the unique requirements of your manufacturing process. For high-volume manufacturers, proficiency in efficiently managing large quantities of the same components is essential. Seamless coordination across borders for streamlined supply chain operations.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 24, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting, we highlight a published analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco quantifying the effects of supply chain disruptions have had on the existing U.S. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Resilinc

MARCH 26, 2024

Real Use Case for AI Regression Models in Supply Chain Risk Management Let’s take, for example, a typhoon hitting the coast of China and see how our engine can help. In a typical scenario, a company reaches out to suppliers and begins talking to logistics and procurement after the typhoon strikes.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 26, 2023

Hannah is a board member of the National Association of Manufacturers, WBEC-Pacific, the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) where she also serves as WBENC Forum 1st vice chair, board chair of How Women Lead–Silicon Valley, and is a member of the Committee of 200 for executive women.

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Proxima

JUNE 5, 2023

It was a frenetic period from March 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, followed by a series of events from the Suez Canal blockage to Russia’s war on Ukraine, that scrambled supply chains and ratcheted up costs. In the world of procurement and supply chain, this is an important moment to pivot our approach.

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Synovos

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In one case, a long-time packaging manufacturer changed its reporting structure, putting in place a new manager responsible for the MRO supply chain. We have to leverage the supply chain where we can, and introduce the depth of our full-service team, beyond the on-site account team,” said the account team member.

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Turvo

JUNE 10, 2020

The costs of supply chain disruptions vary based on the severity of the disruption, how quickly companies recover, and numerous other factors. Ultimately, failure to digitize means responding with the most archaic and costly measures when supply chain disruptions occur. Even for companies with U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 13, 2022

Supply chain disruptions are continuing to occur for a variety of reasons. Weather delays can affect shipping lanes, manufacturers face product shortages, demand continues to spike for certain products, containers are difficult to acquire, and the trucking industry faces a driver and capacity shortage, just to name a few.

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Resilinc

APRIL 30, 2024

The 2024 hurricane season is expected to be extremely active, with multiple forecasts predicting above-average activity, increasing the potential for supply chain disruptions. How hurricanes affect supply chains If it becomes a record-breaking hurricane season, it could lead to more substantial disruptions to the supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

Blue Yonder also acquired Doddle to close the loop on reverse logistics. Changes in supply or demand are considered when looking at the overall supply chain planning process, and the changes are reflected in real-time. For the end consumer, it creates a snapshot of traceability from procurement to delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Supply chain executives must evolve from cost and service as the key objectives for optimal demand-supply balancing towards the “quadfecta” of cost, service, resiliency, and sustainability. Inflation, pandemics, railway strikes, adverse weather events – the supply chain disruptions keep on coming.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Digital Twin from Infor Nexus Drives Supply Chain Agility for Molex. The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. The Molex Supply Chain. The Molex global supply chain is complex. This involves a lot of long-haul transportation.”

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Jaggaer

AUGUST 18, 2020

From early on in the Covid-19 pandemic , and for pretty obvious reasons , procurement in healthcare and pharmaceuticals has been in the spotlight like never before. View our recent webinar and learn how Italian pharmaceutical company Angelini navigated through supply chain disruption.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Can the complex global supply network survive the COVID-19 pandemic? Define your procurement response strategy. This in turn could put logistics under pressure at companies like Amazon. That said, the flexibility of the logistics industry has been one of the positives during the COVID-19 crisis. The longer-term impacts.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

How the Supply Chain Crisis is Impacting Businesses and Consumers. 66% of consumers are concerned that supply chain issues will never end ( Chain Store Age ). 82% of people have concerns that the supply chain will ruin life plans, such as birthdays, vacations, holidays, and the purchasing of necessary items.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides commentary relative to July’s global manufacturing PMI indices relative to data indicating declining momentum, and some contraction among specific global regions. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. Global Wide Production Activity. slipping 2.3

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains. Feature Article by Dr. Raymon Krishnan – President at the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society. Firms could choose to insource certain manufacturing processes, such as product assembly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Aera Technology offers a solution they call “Aera Decision Cloud” A key challenge for manufacturers is connecting integrated business planning (IBP) – a longer term plan – to operational planning and execution – what needs to be done in the near term. The post Is the “Autonomous Supply Chain” a Pipe Dream?

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ivalua

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Together with its strategic partner Optis Consulting, Ivalua’s solution has digitally enabled FCL’s policies and processes for core procurement activities, including sourcing and contract management. Together FCL and those local co-operatives form the Co-operative Retailing System (CRS). For more information, visit www.tealbook.com.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

Some of the world’s biggest retailers and their partners are once again feeling the sting of “ the bullwhip effect ” – a term of art amongst supply chain professionals that describes how changes in demand at the retail level can reverberate and amplify issues throughout the supply chain. What’s in manufacturing?

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Gravity Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sourcing: Mitigate risk during periods of supply chain disruption, such as those caused by the Coronavirus outbreak, by using digital technology. . The post Sourcing – What You Need To Know About Coronavirus Supply Chain Disruption appeared first on Gravity Supply Chain.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 22, 2022

The consequences of global supply chain disruption, labor shortages, rising costs, regional instabilities and general uncertainty continue to challenge the fabricated metal and manufacturing industry in general. Challenge: The supply of raw materials and achieving optimum inventory levels.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I’m not implying that efficiency no longer matters — it obviously does — but a disrupted supply chain can’t be efficient. According to analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), supply chain disruptions are likely to outpace resilience.”[1] Here’s the rub. 4] Rashid, op.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Supply chain optimisation helps manufacturing businesses drastically reduce operational costs to improve revenue and customer satisfaction. In our latest Supply Chain Roundtable, four experts share their advice and experience around optimising the manufacturing supply chain.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights recent manufacturing milestones achieved by electric auto and truck maker Tesla. Manufacturing output amounted to 305,407 vehicles. CEO Elon Musk characterized the quarter as “ exceptionally ” difficult due to supply chain disruptions and delays.

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