Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

As expected, with the existence of this industry’s just-in-time inventory replenishment planning, the implications of the work stoppages are cascading across individual automaker’s supply networks. Today, China based EV automakers and suppliers have notable cost advantages in materials sourcing, production and labor costs.

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Bristlecone

MARCH 31, 2020

The financial crisis of 2007-08 was referred to as a black swan event because it caused catastrophic damage to the global economy and triggered widespread disruption to people’s lives. Some of the most effective supply chains have been those that leverage a global footprint, with China playing a role as the “world’s factory.”

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory weekly, using direct shipment and cross-docking operations from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities. The only option was to try to reduce levels of inventory, which, up to that point, had been kept very high to support a nine-week order cycle.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Further, if one does a Google search on data science groups in private industry, numerous large industry groups formed just since 2007 appear. TOMPKINS: Sellers today find e-commerce inventory allocation and replenishment to be challenging. The area of most waste was inventory. I asked in all innocence.

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