Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2024

On a regional basis, total North America based net sales increased 12 percent to $86.3 Worldwide Consumer Retail Businesses Online business unit net sales were reported as $54.7 billion in Q1, an increase of 7 percent on a year-over-year basis. Sales grow was especially strong for advertising related sales.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 27, 2015

First, you’ll get strategies to critical planning challenges like the ones below: Managing supply chain disruptions. The West Coast port congestion in North America proved to be a game changer for businesses, with preparation being the winning factor. What makes the playbook unique?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

More specifically, it took 83 days for container transport from Europe to Asia, and 88 days from North America to Asia. The delays are attributed to supply chain issues at every stage – from the time of booking transport to gate in at the port as well as ocean transit time of shipping containers.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 14, 2024

Background Supply Chain Matters readers are likely aware of the widely followed salary and career survey that has been conducted annually by the Association for Supply Chain Management Professionals (ASCM). The 2024 report represents the 7 th consecutive year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

At Supply Chain Insights, we published a report card yesterday. The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. The race for excellence will be won on other continents than North America and mainland Europe. A Look Back.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Job satisfaction can be increased by having planners perform more value-added activities such as supplier/customer collaboration and what-if scenarios rather than simply being “excel jockeys.” I look forward to seeing you at next year’s conference!

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2023

This agreement has been characterized by The Wall Street Journal as being the largest collective bargaining agreement involving a private employer in North America. economy and for industry supply chains. This announcement follows the announcement of a tentative agreement that was reached in late July.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 2, 2016

To learn more on this topic, read “Whitepaper: Divestures and the Threat to Supply Chain Performance.”. It’s an opportunity for revival and ensuring its success is what 3PLs do best.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 28, 2024

This funding is reportedly contingent on preconditions which include a delayed filing of its 2023 annual report with regulators and continued negotiations with an established auto maker on a joint manufacturing agreement related to North America based production.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

The study analyzed supply chain performance at manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers throughout 2020. It strained production functions and increased the need for trucking services, which led to falling performance metrics that rippled across organizations. Why Does CPG Logistics Performance Matter?

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 15, 2021

All consumer brands need increased supply chain visibility, track-and-trace applications, and KPI monitoring. These competencies can help shippers focus on supply chain performance, which is an essential part of succeeding in retail relationships. They can deliver several advantages to sporting goods shippers.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 1, 2023

As such, candidates for this program can stem from finance, IT, project management or center of excellence roles, in addition to supply chain areas of procurement, planning, execution or other areas and backgrounds depending on the scope and emphasis of the transformation. We especially applaud ASCM in this approach.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Average Supply Chain Performance in Food Value Chains. I am a big fan of both his leadership and that of Annette Clayton, now COO of North America. I think both are great supply chain leaders. In addition, the company had a major malware virus issue. We are pulling the data.

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IQMS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

A recent survey by Zebra Technologies shows just how important accuracy, scalability, and speed are transitioning a WMS to improve overall supply chain performance. There’s going to be a 43% increase in the number of warehouses needed to support new business models and the growth they’re delivering.

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Supply Chain Network

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A supply chain consulting and implementation firm that maximizes supply chain performance and value creation. Tompkins collaborates with client teams to develop improved operations strategies, supply chain planning, and execution across all the Mega Processes of supply chains (PLAN-BUY-MAKE-MOVE-DISTRIBUTE-SELL).

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

My career has been dedicated to supply chain management from the very start, encompassing more than 30 years’ experience in the industry which began with a university degree in supply chain. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – June -July 2022. Increasing Supply Chain Performance in the Digital Era.

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Gravity Supply Chain

JULY 9, 2020

This research confirms that this is regardless of the fact such technology could have a broad and profound impact on the supply chain. end-to-end supply chain performance. Traditional supply chains operate using milestone-based visibility, rather than near to/real time visibility, blind spots are inevitable.

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Zipline Logistics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

All successful organizations want to improve supply chain performance while cutting costs. Despite the increase in stringency at the industry’s biggest retailer, shippers performed worse throughout the sector. This drop coincided with the rapid, widespread increase in demand that followed the onset of COVID-19.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 26, 2023

assembly plants as well as sales operations in North America and Europe , in addition to China is a positive step from our lens in addressing production and supply chain improvement efforts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

We are one of the very few big pharmaceutical companies with theses specialized conditions and as a result, we are quite skilled in managing the cold chain environment. I think that there are two important factors explaining the superior results of Novo Nordisk supply chain performance.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2023

Andrew Lynch is President and Co-Founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. He works alongside clients ranging from some of the largest food and beverage businesses in the world to the brightest up-and-coming CPG brands in North America.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 4, 2023

assembly plants as well as sales operations in North America and Europe, according to an internal posting of reporting lines reviewed by Reuters.”. In an exclusive, Reuters has reported that Tom Zhu, Tesla’s head China Chief : “ has been promoted to take direct oversight of the electric carmaker’s U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

Prior to Mattel, Peter was the Executive Vice President of Global Supply Chain Operations for Starbucks where he was responsible for the supply of the products that contribute to the Starbucks Experience: from the supply of coffee, to the procurement of the cup, to delivering the table it rests on.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 15, 2022

The saga of fitness hardware and services provider Peloton Interactive took yet another turn last week with an announcement of the pending closing of the company’s owned North American warehouses and the shedding of field customer support teams, along with other moves.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 26, 2020

Again this involved EMC but under my leadership (and working with a great team) we transitioned all of their business with Celestica at the time from North America and Europe to Asia; costs got better, availability got better, and quality got better.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 22, 2015

User Satisfaction with the Performance of Inventory Optimization Software. As shown in Table 1, companies that rate themselves as more effective meeting their inventory goals are more likely to be located in North America than Europe. We launched a new supply chain community, BeetFusion , this month.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 2, 2022

percent in North America. Procter & Gamble ’s latest report of quarterly financial performance featured the company’s largest annual sales growth in 16 years, due mainly to aggressive price increases. The company’s organic sales grew 8.1 percent in the first half of 2022, reportedly driven by price growth of 6.5

Cost Reduction Strategies 52

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IQMS

JUNE 4, 2019

delivering improved supply chain performance, quality, and shop floor productivity. One of the most valuable findings of the study is that mid-market manufacturers need more evidence of Industry 4.0, Early Indicators of Industry 4.0 Adoption: Machine Upgrades, Smart Machines, Real-Time Monitoring & MES Lead Investment Plans.

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Zipline Logistics

DECEMBER 17, 2019

All successful organizations want to improve supply chain performance while cutting costs. We proudly work alongside clients ranging from some of the largest food and beverage business in the world to the brightest up-and-coming CPG brands in North America.

Price Reduction 52

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Again this involved EMC but under my leadership (and working with a great team) we transitioned all of their business with Celestica at the time from North America and Europe to Asia; costs got better, availability got better, and quality got better.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This is the start of what will likely be a profound transformation of supply chain in India. Supply chain maturity in India is not quite where it is in other countries”, explained Reddy. This will help bring attention and resources to supply chain performance.”.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

At the same time, though, supply chain costs rose by more than $75 million. Supply Chain Cost Reduction Challenges: When the supply chain executive team began investigating the rising costs and supply chain performance issues, they found that service was indeed falling short of expectations.

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