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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. We will hold the event at the Westin, Dulles in Washington, DC. Let’s look at the past to forecast the future: Phase 1. Lockdowns and Disbelief. Spring 2020-February 2021.

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The Better Goal: More Fuel Efficient Trucks or Using Fewer Trucks?

Talking Logistics

In 2011 alone, our focus on backhauls, the practice of picking up a load from a vendor and delivering to our distribution centers (DC), rather than running an empty truck between our store and DC, saved more than 56,000 trips. Put differently, in FY 2007, Del Monte left 11.2 percent improvement.

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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

Today’s warehouses are 143% larger than they were in 2007. According to Ben Ames of DC Velocity, dark warehouses refer to the full automation of material handling equipment, warehouse execution systems, and automatic identification of inventory and shipments. The word ‘dark’ refers to the lack of human input in the facility.

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Profiles in Leadership: Arne Sorenson

Enterra Insights

Having spent more than 4-years-worth of nights at Marriott properties worldwide in my career (and more than 70 during the pandemic — mostly in Washington, DC, during the spring and summer of 2020), I can appreciate the work that the company has done to navigate the virus and to be resilient during a very difficult time. ”[3].

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Distribution in China takes a detour

Supply Chain Movement

In 2007, the Dutch producer of pushchairs relocated its factory from Taiwan to the free trade zone close to Xiamen in China. Regional DC. It therefore opened a regional distribution centre (DC) for those three countries, based in the same free trade zone as its existing factory. Free trade zone. Bugaboo opted for that solution.

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Industry 3.X and TPM deciphered

KEPLER Consulting

Artificial intelligence is a sub-domain of computer science, whose sole purpose is to give machines or robots a human intelligence as they become independent platforms and able to make intelligent decisions autonomously (McCarthy, 2007). Washington, DC: U.S. In Real-time systems (pp. Springer US. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Supply Chain Leaders, Chained to Tradition, Face the Whip

Supply Chain Shaman

I then told them about working with a Fortune 500 Chemical Company in 2007. We are in the middle of planning for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 6th-8th in Washington, DC. The further back in the Company’s supply chain, the more critical the modeling of consumption data.