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Supply Chain Resilience Core Capacities

MIT Supply Chain

Part 2: Lessons from Comparing Disruptions In the previous post in this two-part series, The 7 Core Capacities of Supply Chain Resilience , we identified the core capacities that are the building blocks of supply chain resilience. Note that the seven core capacities are assessed as to whether there is a loss of capacity or not.

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Inventory Management Excellence: Some Companies to Learn From

Logistics Bureau

Inventory management is a crucial aspect of supply chain management, and effective strategies can help businesses reduce costs, improve customer service, and increase profits. But what does a great inventory management strategy look like? But consider, too, how you can turn those needs to your advantage in inventory management.

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Taking a Holistic View on Inventory May Lead to Change in Strategy

Talking Logistics

Inventory optimization has always been a challenge while designing and planning a supply chain. A variety of barriers can impact an effective inventory strategy, such as working in functional silos and demand/supplier volatility¹. Asking the Right Inventory Questions. Where and in What Form Should Inventory Be Held?

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

Today was the worst day in the S&P since August 2011. Simplistic thinking of trading-off customer service, inventory and cost became much, more complicated with the shifts in asset strategies. With greater pressure on shorter cycles and less asset availability, getting good at inventory processes increased.

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Deployment of Adexa’s latest version of its SCP solutions at Teledyne Dalsa

Adexa

Dalsa has been using Adexa planning applications for many years to overcome their business challenges such as on-hand inventory reduction, meeting customer requested date and capacity allocation for the demand load and engineering forecasts. Los Angeles, California – July, 2020 – Adexa, Inc.,

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A Look Back at the Automotive Industry in 2022

Resilinc

million vehicles, a sales total not seen since 2011. What caused this rocky year for car manufacturers? automotive industry was battered in 2022, with its sales dropping about 8% from 2021 to 13.7 GM was an exception with U.S. sales up by 2.5% YOY in 2022, a metric due partly to its robust sales of mid-size pickups, according to CNBC.

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How to Fulfill Orders When You Don’t Have Enough Product to Meet Demand

MIT Supply Chain

In the first stage of the pandemic, many automotive manufacturers reduced their orders, anticipating a downturn in vehicle sales. For example, General Motors scrambled to find scarce materials in 2011 after a trifecta of disasters?—?an Companies need to think about how they are going to address this challenge.