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Qualcomm’s Answer to the Chip Shortage and Digital Transformation Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

In May, I attended the Kinaxis Kinexions event in San Diego, CA. Brent pointed out that Covid created small interruptions for many companies in terms of sourcing semiconductor chip materials. Some resins and epoxies were not available, so the company had to look at alternative components or different methods of sourcing.

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5 Reasons Ecommerce Companies Fail with Paige Fitzgerald

The Logistics of Logistics

Paige currently resides in San Diego, California, where you might find her reading at the beach or birdwatching at the bay in her free time. Prior to working at Fulfyld, Paige held various roles in events, marketing, and sales in Chicago, Illinois. About Fulfyld.

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SanMar’s Sustainability Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

While it was originally scheduled for San Diego, the ongoing Covid pandemic pushed it online once again this year. This meant the company did not handle the product development or sourcing. With the launch of its private label brand, SanMar began product development, sourcing, and working with global factories.

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Kinexions, a tale of growth and potential

Kinaxis

by Trevor Miles I’m on my way back from Tokyo where I attended our user conference, Kinexions Tokyo , in Japan, just 5 weeks after our Kinexions North America user conference in San Diego. In wrapping up, let me give a quick shout-out to Watanabe-san of Abeam Consulting who presented the keynote in Japan. Dow AgroSciences.

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The Backorder, March 20 2024

Unleashed

To relax, I read Adam Gnade : he’s a modern day John Steinbeck out of San Diego and living on a farm in Kansas. His work is poetic, beautiful, harsh, and sometimes crass. Always full of perspective.” ” On the lighter side… Who’s hiring?

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Kinaxis Kinexions ’22: Ready. Together.

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week I attended Kinaxis Kinexions ’22 in San Diego, CA. It began with the sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution of necessities for life. This was my first in-person event in over two years, and it did not disappoint. John Sicard made a statement early in his keynote that really struck a chord with me.

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One Multinational’s Supply Chain Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

They source from approximately 15,000 suppliers with a sourcing spend of over €7 billion. But even multi-sourcing is not enough. A supply chain is mapped, where components are source from, how they flow through a supply chain to factories and out to customers. Their revenues exceed €25 billion.