River Logic

JULY 25, 2016

The move to greater sustainability can be seen everywhere from small, local businesses to large multinational ones. While many companies identify the supply chain as the most difficult aspect of their business to make sustainable, it is also one of the most important.

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JULY 27, 2020

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JULY 30, 2019

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River Logic

MARCH 10, 2020

According to Supply Chain Digital Magazine, many manufacturers are falling behind with more than two-thirds of them being unable to provide data-driven analytical information to support their business decisions.

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River Logic

APRIL 22, 2020

While manufacturing also suffered, the transportation shortage was undoubtedly one of the biggest supply chain problems, in addition to the availability of stock, due to lockdown and increased demand on at-home deliveries. Even these services struggled to deliver.

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River Logic

APRIL 22, 2020

While manufacturing also suffered, the transportation shortage was undoubtedly one of the biggest supply chain problems, in addition to the availability of stock, due to lockdown and increased demand on at-home deliveries. Even these services struggled to deliver.

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River Logic

JULY 7, 2021

Here are seven tactical planning examples supported by River Logic.

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River Logic

OCTOBER 9, 2019

What many don't realize is that a significant percentage of their total costs are tied up with the supply chain, especially for those businesses that outsource manufacturing. These include:

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River Logic

APRIL 22, 2016

I did my Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Manufacturing Systems (as explained in my previous blog). I have resisted following this path mainly for one reason: supply chain (when it includes manufacturing activities) adds inherent value to the economy, whereas most financial services firms simply shift money around.

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River Logic

AUGUST 2, 2016

The first post, “ Why Is Supply Chain Sustainability Becoming a Crucial Part of Manufacturing? This post is the third in a series dealing with supply chain sustainability. highlighted the four pillars of sustainability. The second discussed the benefits of traceability to maintaining or developing a sustainable supply chain.

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River Logic

AUGUST 4, 2016

Companies have benefitted from low cost supply of labor as well as raw materials to bring down the Cost of Goods Sold for the products that they manufacture. The evolution of linear supply chains into global demand-supply networks has been happening over the last two decades. This has resulted in bottom-line profits.

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River Logic

JULY 28, 2016

In the first post, “ Why Is Supply Chain Sustainability Becoming a Crucial Part of Manufacturing? ” This is the second post in a series on supply chain sustainability. the general concepts that constitute supply chain sustainability were discussed.

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River Logic

MARCH 22, 2016

Every company, especially manufacturing companies with large supply chains, have the challenge of managing risk. What he failed to mention was that great risk also brings the potential for great loss — just ask any hedge fund or investment manager. Risk is not something only investment firms have to acknowledge.

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River Logic

MAY 11, 2016

As manufacturing companies become increasingly complex and begin leveraging more data, the role of advanced analytics in business planning processes is slowly becoming a necessity. Gartner's 2016 CEO Survey shows that 54% of CEOs claimed that their top strategic priority for the year was business growth.

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River Logic

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Millennials contemplating their future face many misconceptions about the best career path to choose; in particular, popular opinion that traditional careers such as manufacturing are in decline while service industries are in ascendance influences them.

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River Logic

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Sure, it was better than financial accounting, but whenever I looked at the material, I thought, “I’ll never run a manufacturing plant. One of my least favorite classes while working toward my MBA at the University of Texas was Operations Management. Why should I care?”.

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River Logic

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Analytics model helps leaders of a construction materials manufacturer see how they can make more money. Blinders off.

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River Logic

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

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River Logic

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

manufacturing, procurement, inventory, distribution). At the time it was created, the emphasis was on setting up a process that would facilitate collaboration between the commercial departments (e.g., sales, marketing) and operations (e.g.,

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River Logic

JULY 23, 2018

Anyone in Manufacturing is almost certainly familiar with the daily struggle of simulating the real world using a hypothesis (e.g. rules)-based technology to evaluate the impact of decisions before they are made.

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River Logic

JUNE 13, 2018

How prescriptive analytics can help manufacturers set priorities and realize greater financial gains from capital investments and improvement efforts. Efficiency Gains and Cost Savings Don’t Always Drop to the Bottom Line. Prescriptive Analytics Can Explain Why and What to Do About It.

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River Logic

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Examples include, a pharmaceutical company who used the power of the AWS cloud to analyze clinical trial data to reduce the time needed for trial simulations, and an office equipment manufacturer was able to tackle excessive call center attrition.

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River Logic

MARCH 25, 2016

In the highly competitive manufacturing environment, effective leadership is critical if companies want to overcome market saturation and low consumer switching costs. Executive leadership determines the direction and an organization’s level of success — or its failure.

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River Logic

JULY 2, 2019

Similar to the phrase ‘a guy goes into a bar,’ the concept of delivering profit across the entire product portfolio can seem like a punchline when it comes to rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP). Isn’t rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP) about meeting demand at the lowest cost?

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JANUARY 23, 2020

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