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Decline In Performance in Consumer Products. Are You To Blame?

Supply Chain Shaman

On Thursday morning, I began an engagement with a food manufacturer attempting to drive “Supply Chain 2.0. Let’s start the discussion by reviewing aggregate results from consumer manufacturers. Personal Products Manufacturers Industry Averages for the Period of 2010-2019. The answer was not clear to them. My observation?

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Industry Transformation: Advanced Manufacturing and Digitalisation of Supply Chain-Logistics

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The pandemic exposed major supply chain vulnerabilities affecting the Manufacturing, Industrial Logistics , Commercial sectors as well as Food Security challenges. ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND DIGITALISATION OF BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRY. Supply Chain Resilience became an instant Buzz word amongst Policy makers and Industry.

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Supply Chain Leaders Rearranging Deck Chairs? Yes, I Think So.

Supply Chain Shaman

The focus on financial reengineering–elongation of payables, manufacturing outsourcing, tax-efficient supply chains, lean programs, IT standardization, tight integration to ERP, and business process outsourcing– only moved the deck chairs on the Titanic. Comparing 2010-2019. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

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Freight Recession: Opportunity or Threat with Steve Elwell

The Logistics of Logistics

About Steve Elwell Steve is the Founder and since 2010 Managing Director of iDev Partners a boutique leadership, business strategy and turnaround consulting firm located in Farmington Hills, MI. Steve has lead multiple technology, manufacturing, and start-up businesses as CEO, COO, and President.

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6 Tips to Maintain Quality in Aerospace Manufacturing!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Aerospace manufacturing article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. While the aerospace industry may employ the same equipment and techniques as other manufacturing operations in producing parts for spacecraft and aircraft, it requires a significantly higher level of quality standards.

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Stop Food Waste Day 2024

Enterra Insights

.” Those measures are: • EPA estimates : 2010 was selected as a baseline at 218.9 USDA estimates : amount of food loss and waste from the food supply at the retail and consumer levels: in 2010 food loss and waste at the retail and consumer levels was 31 percent of the food supply, equaling 133 billion pounds and almost $162 billion.

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US Food Manufacturing Success: Outsourcing MRO Supply Chain

Synovos

They were a new company that had taken over an existing manufacturing plant and lacked the infrastructure needed to keep the facilities in good working order, whether that was buyers to order parts or an accounts team to manage the purchasing process. It’s a juggling act between the finance and manufacturing side of the business.”