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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

This is the first post in a two part series on the “Changing Face of Manufacturing.” ” We have many manufacturing shipper customers, and we love to create content of value for them on such subjects as best practices in logistics or trends around the supply chain. Drop in the price of crude oil.

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Manufacturing Mobility Movement: The 5 Pillars & Why Executives Must Pay Attention

GlobalTranz

What makes or breaks a manufacturer's ability to grow, survive, and change in modern civilization? Do executive level decisions influence the small processes in a factory, or is the world simply ready for a new type of manufacturing industry? The Rise of the Manufacturing Mobility Movement.

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Household Products Industry Stuck in Neutral and Going Backwards

Supply Chain Shaman

They got good at Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and tied the output to decisions on what to make in contract manufacturing. Based on this process evolution, Cisco was one of the first companies to sense the economic downturn of December 2007. Join us for the webinar scheduled for 1:00 PM. Let me know your thoughts.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: As an older Millennial who landed in Transportation Management & Logistics marketing, our target audience are manufacturers who ship freight. I figured, we pepper in some tips on transportation management, but if we also offer value to manufacturers, they would turn to us as the experts. You see, 1.

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

A Demand-Driven Value Network as defined by AMR Research in 2007: A network that senses demand with minimal latency to drive a near real-time response to shape and translate demand. We will be discussing the concepts of Customer-Centric Supply Chains on our webinar on August 17th. We then began the discussion on outside-in processes.

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

The retailer started dealing directly with manufacturers in the 1980s, giving suppliers the job of managing inventory in its warehouses, the Arkansas Business article said. Moving the product from warehouses or manufacturing plants to stores and ultimately to customers is the distribution function of the supply chain. Gilmore, Dan. “50

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IBM Beefing Up for Matrix Commerce in 2012

Supply Chain Network

Connect retailers and manufacturers for collaborative planning through the cloud. Never before have manufacturers and merchants of all sorts been faced with such a dynamic and competitive environment. Marketers, merchants and manufacturers need solutions that address the new volatility of the Matrix Commerce environment.