Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
In our research, we find that 72% of planners primarily depend on Excel and desktop analysis despite the rollout of advanced platforms for planning in 92% of manufacturers with greater than 5B$ in revenue. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. The question is, “Why?”
The Logistics of Logistics
JANUARY 4, 2021
It was between projects in 2007 that a high school buddy suggested they have a beer with another high school buddy who was selling seafood over the internet. She spent her childhood and much of her professional life managing people, originally on processing ships in the Bering Sea, then later in manufacturing.
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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
But alternative models are emerging, including distributed manufacturing enabled by robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D-printing, distributed intelligence brought about by the internet of things and distributed labor enabled by the internet and mobile devices. Companies can clearly make a dent. Organizational models.
Arkieva
MARCH 2, 2016
Dale Davidson, famed economist who predicted the economy collapse of 1999 and 2007 warns, “Don’t imply that a 50% collapse is looming – it’s already at our doorstep.” Someone even went as far in a Washington Times op-ed to say “It’s worse than 2008, it reassembles 1937…”. What does this mean to business?
Talking Logistics
JANUARY 31, 2014
” Gary Hufbauer, senior trade expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, put it best in a quote from the Wall Street Journal : “[Reid’s opposition] is a one-two punch against trade policy.”. Implement a Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) fee?
GlobalTranz
OCTOBER 25, 2016
More manufacturers are turning toward vocational training and apprenticeship programs to help close the skills gap. According to The Huffington Pos t, a wide variety of apprenticeship programs focus on construction and manufacturing, creating a largely untapped resource of new skilled labor that manufacturers could easily access.
MIT Supply Chain
APRIL 17, 2014
In October 2007, Brian Chesky, a recent college grad, gave up his job hunt in Los Angeles to stay with a friend in San Francisco. [i] At the start of the economic downturn in 2007, individuals strapped for cash turned to alternative methods of fulfilling their needs without making purchasing new products. Pooled resources.
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