Resilinc

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Mike Beckham, CEO of bottle and travel mug manufacturer Simple Modern, told the Wall Street Journal that a major Chinese supplier in Quzhou City had been forced to cut its workweek to four days and trim its electricity usage by a third. The world’s largest exporter since 2009, Chinese producers shipped $2.5 year-on-year in August.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 8, 2016

More data points this week confirming what we already know: demand for freight transportation is weak, which is leading carriers to cut back on capacity. Global trade volumes fell for the first time since 2009 by 1.7 Global trade volumes fell for the first time since 2009 by 1.7 percent from 3 percent.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

Since I first published this article back in 2009, warehouse design principles haven’t altered that much, but as we received many comments, including requests for more information, I figured it might be a good idea to expand on the original piece. Planning Individual Warehouse Design and Capacity. What Happens in Your Warehouses?

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In line with prevailing economic forecasting, readers should anticipate continued uncertainty of global markets and the actual likelihood of various regional economic and manufacturing recession conditions in the coming year. By all accounts, there remain a lot of uncertainties and many potential downside risks. Global Economic Themes.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 17, 2023

Scale matters, tech matters, and now, data science matters. ”. In 2022, we predicted that consecutive multi-year rate and surcharge increases along with capacity restrictions imposed by major parcel carriers in times of high holiday volume periods were equally unsustainable. Processes can be very sophisticated to unsophisticated.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 8, 2013

The company discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets biological products for treating conditions such as multiple sclerosis and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In addition to its portfolio of drug candidates, the company has capabilities, including capacity for protein manufacturing, that are world-class in quality and scale.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, Ganguly, vice president of manufacturing and general manager of the company’s Research Triangle Park operations, says the Jenkins MBA program prepared him for the challenges he faces from day to day. I love data and analytics that create insights into processes and approaches.” If we stock out – our stock price drops.

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Freightos

JANUARY 12, 2016

For forwarders, just as the 2009 financial crisis ended, another crisis began. There has been a massive increase in the capacity of the global container fleet. Supply chain volatility, increased procurement vendors, agile manufacturing and an on-demand economy. Declining Freight Rates. Shippers have their own pressures.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Although, long term, reshoring makes sense for some, at the end of the day, what reshoring does is remind executives at manufacturing companies to look at the long term, then decide what is best for the company. Reshoring Optimism Abound, However, Let’s Look at the Data Now. Just don’t look at actual data.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

But, before we dig into the data – let’s start on a positive note: Supply Chain Statistics Show Challenges, but the Industry Remains Resilient. 49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. Bloomberg).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Industrial Manufacturing. Cloud & Big Data. In my capacity as a consultant and having worked in multiple implementations, I have always thought about processes that could have reduced the cost, time and rework and hence would have brought about a high degree of customer satisfaction. December 2009. November 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Cloud & Big Data. Inventory and Capacity Visibility to Order Management System. Hence, address can be amended without re-checking inventory and capacity. Automotive. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure. Medical Devices.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 14, 2019

Dating back to 2009, bottleneck elimination came in the form of chemical engineering homework sets examining flow rates, pumps, and other levers. It doesn’t matter if you have a garden hose or a fire hose, if the bottleneck cannot take the capacity, then the maximum output cannot change. Bottlenecks? We used technology to frac’em.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 14, 2013

Authorized carriers may offer capacity for each load based on rates already established or based on shipper-established parameters. can also support a public exchange environment to secure capacity and rates in a backhaul, capacity-constraint market. Highly customizable, FAM 2.0 percent (see last week’s news ).

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 9, 2015

Expected Transportation Capacity Issues. The concern and dialog about the transportation capacity issues for our country have bridged the past two decades and beyond. We have heard so much over the years about a coming capacity crunch crisis , many argue if crisis is the proper terminology.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Cloud & Big Data. The first problem was that of underutilized capacity. The capacity booking corresponding to such backordered orders remained unutilized since, route (of the load which contains backordered order) had already been optimized. December 2009. November 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Cloud & Big Data. Demand planning is the most critical process in the CPG industry, since it drives all downstream processes (raw material/finished goods inventory planning, procurement planning, capacity planning, manpower planning, transportation planning, etc.) December 2009. October 2009.

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IQMS

MARCH 2, 2020

The innovation of our manufacturing customers was spotlighted at the Plastics News Excellence Awards ceremony on February 26, 2020. The companies, all users of our DELMIAWORKS (formerly IQMS) manufacturing ERP software, were judged by members of the Plastics News editorial staff. There, Intertech Plastics Inc. Diversified Plastics Inc.,

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Cloud & Big Data. To fulfill these and many other supply chain related needs, retailers are currently importing supply chain concepts from industries like manufacturing and automobile in which supply chain management is an established practice. December 2009. November 2009. April 2009.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 14, 2019

Dating back to 2009, bottleneck elimination came in the form of chemical engineering homework sets examining flow rates, pumps, and other levers. It doesn’t matter if you have a garden hose or a fire hose, if the bottleneck cannot take the capacity, then the maximum output cannot change. Bottlenecks? We used technology to frac’em.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

View the full post or view the snippet below: I got the idea for this blog post after reading Shaun Snapp’s LinkedIn post on the topic of big data. In the post, he correctly argues that the case for big data is sometimes exaggerated. 2006-2009 I did a Ph.D. Will Big Data change the world? Read More ». Read More ».

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Elementum

JULY 27, 2016

And recently, Facebook and Microsoft announced project “MAREA”, 4,000 miles of underwater cable that will run across the Atlantic ocean, transferring more data between US and Europe by connecting hubs in northern Virginia and Bilbao, Spain. Billion by 2018 , and data traffic will triple annually by 2017. Considering the estimated 1.7

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Sarah Boisvert @fablabhub Sarah Boisvert is the author of The New Collar Workforce and founder of Fab Lab Hub that offers Digital Badges for skills such as 3D printing, robotics, CAD design and AI in manufacturing. It’s no longer a question of whether they will exceed human capacities, but when.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

As we see this year, there are more cars on the road (meaning carriers want that attractive freight), and we are also seeing tight capacity. Holiday joy has come early this year with Americans likely to pay the lowest Thanksgiving gas prices since 2009. It must have contingency, as you sometimes aren't prepared for the unseen.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 6, 2014

Industrial Manufacturing. Cloud & Big Data. There are concerns on data security, privacy, business continuity and control. and also carry sensitive and confidential data like financials and sales, hence companies have been maintaining them with utmost planning, precision, control and security. Automotive. Healthcare.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Intra-company and intercompany, across the supply chain and across the globe, from the operator level to the management suite, information on all aspects of production, manufacturing, sourcing, and distribution is increasingly visible and accessible at all levels, so that appropriate decisions can be made and applied.

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ShipBob

APRIL 17, 2020

Even during the Great Recession of 2008-2009, ecommerce wasn’t what it is today. New data: The fastest-growing and declining COVID-19 ecommerce categories. Other questions brought up during the webinar include: If you’re currently manufacturing overseas, are there ways to source manufacturers in the US quickly?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 25, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Cloud & Big Data. An electric utility industry being an asset intensive industry the focus of TOC would be more on to reduce the equipment down time to increase the total throughput of the system rather than just adding the extra capacity. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 30, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Cloud & Big Data. For this retailers need a carrier capacity management system which can offer narrow delivery window and can monitor capacity availability for the time-slot. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009.

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Logility

MARCH 31, 2020

A consequence of long periods of economic growth, like the one we just had from June 2009 until March 2020, is that many members of the supply chain team have only experienced managing a supply chain during growth. Even experienced supply chain members may have forgotten what they learned during the last recession more than 10 years ago.

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Arena Solutions

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In short, the Cloud shifts hosted data from on-premises servers to remote servers hosted on the internet—in the Cloud. Since 2009, cloud computing spending has been reported to grow 4.5 Scaling has fewer implications because new users can access the same software as the original users and capacity can grow as needed.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 11, 2023

The number of interviews and interviewees was not predetermined; interviews were conducted until a diverse range of concepts and themes began to emerge from the data and a sufficient level of theoretical saturation was reached. Unfortunately, the global supply of raw materials needed to manufacture these goods was already depleted by April.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 22, 2020

The representative managed to pivot and dodge the question, with a common response being heard a lot on the news: “It’s a fluid situation” President Trump may yet use his authority under the Defense Protection Act to mobilize industry to manufacture scarce goods like N95 masks. Okay, so what other options are there?

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2023

Today’s executives may want to give this old adage a closer look because empirical data continues to underscore just how important culture is to the performance of a firm. Having worked with data as a software and data engineer since the early 1990s, I find these definitions to beaccurate.

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