EMERGE App

JANUARY 1, 2020

As a wholesaler and distributor, I’m willing to bet that you’re dealing with at least two currencies for your purchases and sales. World exports of manufactured goods increased from US$ 8 trillion in 2006 to US$ 11 trillion in 2016. Developing countries make up the bulk of suppliers and manufacturers today.

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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. How value chain activities are carried out determines costs and affects profits.” What Is Value?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Brand owners have the lowest cost of capital and could redefine the value chain to drive sustainable value, but they don’t collaborate and use these new approaches to drive value. Instead, the focus is on reducing the costs of finance by eliminating labor costs through Business Process Reengineering (BPOS) and elongating payables.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 29, 2020

Anyway, the access to this database costs an arm and a leg. Therefore, the challenge to establish the ranking method is to find a more economical data source and the unbiased metrics. In short, Nielsen provides the point of sales data from various retail outlets and gross sales quantity will be summarized. References - Moed, H.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The orbit chart in Figure 1, shows the relative rate of improvement at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for the period of 2006-2017. Orbit Chart for Rockwell Automation at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the Period of 2006-2017. Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The orbit chart in Figure 1, shows the relative rate of improvement at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for the period of 2006-2017. Orbit Chart for Rockwell Automation at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the Period of 2006-2017. Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Since graduating from the NC State Jenkins MBA program in 2006, Joydeep Ganguly has risen through the ranks at Biogen Idec – the world’s oldest independent biotechnology company and the largest biotech employer in North Carolina. If we stock out – our stock price drops. We have 7000 employees and are growing into a$10B company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. 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. The company is the third-largest manufacturer of flash memory in the world.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Transmitted perfectly, replicated indefinitely; and with a one-time investment in network infrastructure, a digital task performs well with zero marginal cost. For most companies, the traditional focus is on the management of order to cash, procure to pay and forecast to deliver processes. My mind is spinning with the possibilities.

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EMERGE App

JULY 16, 2018

These two e-commerce business models have really taken off in the past decade, helped no doubt by the resurgence of China as the world’s manufacturing hub, the app economy and the convenience of an always-on mobile web. Here, I’ll cover private label products first and how you should go about sourcing for suppliers.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

  To reduce production cost, many US pharmaceutical companies purchase active ingredients from overseas and/or produce the drugs overseas.  billion between 2006 and 2012 to fight Malaria in Africa that kills 600,000 annually.  billion between 2006 and 2012 to fight Malaria in Africa that kills 600,000 annually. 

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

He wanted to build depth in the S&OP process; but, he had not been able to convince his management team to purchase an S&OP technology. We discussed how the Demantra application purchased by Oracle in 2006, and embedded into the solution, was a great technology, but that it required a very skilled user.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 28, 2013

In the pursuit of finding a way to off-load inventory (read “working capital”) from their books, many large manufacturers are moving towards so called “Vendor Managed Inventory” systems. The logic couldn’t be easier to follow: ”why not have our suppliers own the inventory up to the point of use?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

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. Supply chain excellence was largely defined as manufacturing excellence.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 27, 2015

How Can USMTO Reports Help Drive Manufacturing Sales and your Bottom Line? The United States Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) data report is compiled monthly by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). Who is Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT)? What is the USMTO Data Report?

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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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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2016

The shift from complicated, on-premise systems to hosted, SaaS-based solutions has made everything from procurement to implementation much simpler thanks to: Cost – No longer do you need to get buy-in from your bosses on the big capital outlays that come with on-premise solutions.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 20, 2013

ADVA Optical Networking, a Meiningen based manufacturer of telecommunication equipment focusing on fiber-optic transmission technology, is the winner of the Supply Chain Management Award 2013. The end result is that Adva Optical Networking serves its customers faster, with better on-time performance, and at lower cost than the competition.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

To arrive at optimal European supply chains it is crucial to consider shifts in economic growth, currency fluctuations and tax reductions in addition to production and distribution costs. In 2006, with an export value of EUR1.5 16 | Profile Ivanka Janssen, Director Global Sales Operational Excellence, Diageo.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

The Freightos System is SaaS for freight contract management, automatic price quotations, and business intelligence. McLean purchases a steamship and a railroad terminal company. Loading costs plummet. Gantry cranes slash loading times, cost, damage, and pilfering. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports.

Shipping 120

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

McLean purchases a steamship and a railroad terminal company. Loading costs plummet. Gantry cranes slash loading times, cost, damage, and pilfering. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. Costs fall and service improves. First shipping container regulations, promoting international container shipping.

Shipping 120

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In fact, GE predicts that just one day of downtime on an offshore platform can prevent $7 million per day in lost production, and for Toyota, every minute of unplanned downtime on their factory floors costs them over $60,000 a minute in lost revenue! Curtis was appointed by President George W. Bush to be a Trustee of the Presidio Trust.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The desire for absolute control over manufacturing or raw material quality (a driver for backward integration). Whilst the bean farms under Starbucks’ ownership are not able to meet the full raw material needs of the company, a sufficient supply is assured through solid purchase agreements with a wide range of growers.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In fact, GE predicts that just one day of downtime on an offshore platform can prevent $7 million per day in lost production, and for Toyota, every minute of unplanned downtime on their factory floors costs them over $60,000 a minute in lost revenue! Curtis was appointed by President George W. Bush to be a Trustee of the Presidio Trust.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

Source: Google. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends). One of Descartes’ most high-profile acquisitions was its purchase of MacroPoint for $107 million in August 2017. Where is Descartes today? The company is financially strong, with 14 years of record year-over-year growth.

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EcoVadis

JUNE 14, 2015

A retrospective on the five-year anniversary of one worker’s courageous act of protest in China that sparked a chain reaction… In May 2010, revolt was brewing in the Pearl River Delta, one of the most industrialized regions in the world and home to automobile parts manufacturers for Volkswagen and Toyota, among others.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2021

Supply Market Intelligence (SMI) is the mechanism by which organizations make as complete analysis as possible of a current or targeted supply base, including adoption of supplier-specific and market risks (Handfield, 2006). These interviews are often the best source of information and are not published. Manufacturers or the U.S.

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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. Now that’s the price of entry into the field—now you also need the advanced management skills. Will they care about how it’s made? The simple answer is yes.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. Balancing Cash, Cost, and Service: The Supply Chain Triangle. Supply Chain Complexity 1 – Plan/Source/Make/Deliver/…. The right layout will also help in minimizing safety hazards.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

China’s low prices have historically undercut global prices and pushed out foreign competitors –– such as the Mountain Pass mine in California, which closed in 2002. Since the 1990s, China has supplied the lion’s share of the world’s demand for REEs. The reasons for the lack of global sustainability standards are manifold.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Shipping approximately 400 million selling units consisting of 700 million manufactured units per year, Carter’s employs about 4,000 employees at its peak. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

Gone are the days of ‘growth at all costs’ and here to stay is the concept of calculated scalability. It has been forecasted that by 2040, approximately 95% of all purchases will be facilitated by ecommerce. Such unicorn ecommerce brands have acquisition costs that are too high and thus are not profitable. Product sourcing.

Trends 105

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RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2022

Calculating the Cost of a Food Recall. The total cost of this recall is believed to have exceeded $1 billion after lawsuits. In surveys by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), 58% of respondents’ companies had been affected by a product recall in the last five years. Calculating the Cost of a Food Recall.

Food 52

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AFFLINK

MAY 17, 2017

As a 2013 UNLV paper points out: “One of the biggest challenges with information technology at the Four Queens and the Venetian/Palazzo is the poor flow of information which ultimately affects areas of the hotel’s supply chain in areas of costs, flexibility, and delivery of goods and services.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Retailers are forced to lower prices, optimize their systems and processes, and reduce profit margins in favor of competition; meanwhile, Amazon continues its trek toward dominance. Following the 2006 book by Charles Fisherman called “The Walmart Effect,” the Amazon Effect is a story of an Entrepreneur and his execution of an idea.

Price Reduction 43

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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. At the time, Alan was frail. He spoke from a chair in a stilted voice with an uneven tempo.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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EMERGE App

APRIL 23, 2020

B2B Marketplaces in China – Suppliers, Manufacturers, Distributors. Global Sources. Global Sources is a leading B2B media company and a primary facilitator of trade with Greater China. Tradekey is a global company established in 2006 and have presence in many countries. Its headquartered in Hong Kong. HiSupplier.

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