Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

News that 3PL giant DHL will buy more than 1000 robots from Boston Dynamics, according to a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the two firms. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

I will note we lost one member of our index when software maker and privately held Aptean acquired Logility early in 2025, and will soon lose another software company when non-public WiseTech’s purchase of e2open is finalized. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

You can find the full breakdown by logistics cost bucket in the chart below: Source: CSCMP/Kearney Within transportation, trucking-related spend (including private fleets but excluding parcel) comprised 59.7% CSCMP members can download a copy for no charge, and others can purchase one for a modest fee. I recommend it.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

The trade war is likely to extend the for-hire freight recession further as higher prices reduce goods affordability and consumers’ real incomes.” ( See More Below) CATEGORY SPONSOR: SOFTEON Each month, Cass nicely summarizes the state of freight, as seen in the graphic below for May: Source: Cass An y reaction to thi s Cass report?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Commandment 9: Insist on User Friendliness Independent of the effort put forth to design a system, purchase hardware and develop software, the single biggest test of implementation occurs when an operator attempts to scan bar coded media. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Smith’s pilots were asked to use their personal credit cards to buy fuel and stagger cashing their paychecks.” ( See More Below) CATEGORY SPONSOR: SOFTEON At one point, the company was down to its last $5,000 — which Smith took to Las Vegas and turned into $27,000 playing blackjack. locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Source: State of Logstics Report 2025 May you live in interesting times, as the Chinese saying goes. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Any F eedback on our Supply Chain Graphic of the Week?

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

That also led Klappich to recently define a new category of software, which Gartner calls a Multiagent Orchestration Platform (MAOP) for managing mobile robots in warehousing and manufacturing. ( lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

in May, but falling below the key 50 mark that separates US manufacturing expansion from contraction for 30 out of the last 32 months. Another manager in the computers and electrics sector stated that: “Tariffs continue to cause confusion and uncertainty for long-term procurement decisions. A Manufacturing PMI above 42.3,

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. Shipping approximately 400 million selling units consisting of 700 million manufactured units per year, Carter’s employs about 4,000 employees at its peak. Not many companies have cracked this code. Managing complexity is key.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define. His reasoning? We want to help.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company. On average fo rthe period of 2006-2016, L’Oreal had a 17% operating margin as compared to Estee Lauder’s operating margin of 13%. (Read more to understand the details on the Supply Chain Index ,). Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

One of my favorite speeches, over this fifteen year tenure, was listening to Alan Greenspan at the AMR Research IT conference in November 2006. He discussed the adoption of the steam engine and the electric motor in the manufacturing sector. Buying patterns are changing quickly, and the insights are multi-dimensional.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. This team was working on quality improvements and found that the flows crossed 117 disconnected documents in access, excel, and google analytics. These sources while functional are difficult to connect.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

While traditional forecasting approaches use statistics to model history assuming that historic shipments and order patterns represent future market patterns, in the times of market volatility, especially for manufacturers two-five levels back in the supply chain, traditionally forecasting is not adequate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Customers are buying less. Manufacturers are Now Selling Directly to Consumers. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

SmartOps was purchased by SAP. SmartOps entered the supply chain optimization market in 2000 and became an SAP partner in 2006. The capabilities of the technologies were often more advanced than the processes of the manufacturers and retailer. The problem was larger and rooted in organizational issues.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches. I disagreed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I followed his journey during the period of 2006-2011, and wanted to check in with him to gain his insights on the selection of VTech as a finalist in the Supply Chains to Admire research. Orbit Chart of VTech for the Period of 2006-2015 at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns . Slowly, my process thinking evolved.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

16 | Profile Ivanka Janssen, Director Global Sales Operational Excellence, Diageo. This is an end-to-end Supply Chain transformation and a shift in the way that Diageo gets its brands from its own and third party manufacturing facilities to bars, restaurants, hotels and retailers, both directly or through a network of distributors.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

The clean energy technology sector achieved considerable growth with China’s low REE prices and advances in manufacturing technology , growth that some associated with low environmental and social sustainability standards. Nevertheless, over the last few decades the world largely relied on Chinese REE supply.

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RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2022

This guide is intended to help food manufacturers and distributors: Consider the requirements of FDA traceability compliance, Calculate the potential costs of a recall, Review solutions other companies have used successfully to track food, Gain practical advice for how to improve traceability systems and processes, and. ConAgra Foods, Inc.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Organizations around the world are now adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technology solutions to create smarter, leaner, safer and sustainable manufacturing systems. He served on the board of Trammell Crow Company (TCC: NYSE), which was purchased by CB Richard Ellis (CBG: NYSE) in 2006. billion to $9 billion.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Organizations around the world are now adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technology solutions to create smarter, leaner, safer and sustainable manufacturing systems. He served on the board of Trammell Crow Company (TCC: NYSE), which was purchased by CB Richard Ellis (CBG: NYSE) in 2006. billion to $9 billion.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Since 2006, Abe Eshkenazi has served as CEO of APICS, a trade association focused on offering research, education and certification programs in supply chain management. And so they’ll start impacting supply chain through their purchasing and buying power and their brand selection. Will they care about how it’s made? CEO, APICS.

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