Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2019

Companies cannot save their way to supply chain excellence with cost-cutting and inventory management — customer back capabilities. Digital Manufacturing Success. In the next two years, companies will make the most progress in the area of digital manufacturing. In 2019, here are seven trends that I will be tracking: The Horizon?

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IQMS

JANUARY 30, 2020

And let’s not forget to mention the importance of labels and, more specifically, proper label controls when running a modern manufacturing facility. From business showstoppers such as compliance issues to the mis-shipment of products, improper labeling can genuinely affect a manufacturers’ bottom line.

Manufacturing 54

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RFgen

MAY 24, 2018

Aerospace manufacturers fave a variety of challenges moving forward. Aerospace manufacturers have long had to grapple with a combination of complex workflows, tight profit margins, and strict regulations. Pressure Escalating in Aerospace Manufacturing. The result is lower costs to manufacture and more rapid production.

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RFgen

MAY 24, 2018

Aerospace manufacturers fave a variety of challenges moving forward. Aerospace manufacturers have long had to grapple with a combination of complex workflows, tight profit margins, and strict regulations. Pressure Escalating in Aerospace Manufacturing. The result is lower costs to manufacture and more rapid production.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

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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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 7, 2011

Designed to enable wholesalers, manufacturers, retailers, and distributors to achieve best-in-class inventory management practices, NetSuite Demand Planning enables companies to forecast peaks and troughs in demand and minimize capital tied up in inventory.

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

A new study by the SupplyChainDigest analyzing the main components of working capital: Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO), and Days Payables Outstanding (DPO) revealed an uptick in DIO. New Study Shows a Rise in US Company Inventories. This and much more, in your Monday supply chain briefing from Arkieva.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Main | Demand Planning in CPG industry - Practising the Best Practices » The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying Season will again Test Retailer MCO and Supply Chain Capabilities. The state of product demand planning and inventory management among retailers becoming more advanced. Automotive. Healthcare.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. » The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday Buying Season- Need for Balancing Retailer Online and Fulfillment Process Investments. As we approach the latter stages of the 2011 holiday buying season, the uptick in online buying has indeed occurred. Automotive. Communication Services. Healthcare.

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Adexa

JULY 27, 2020

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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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

It was called multi-enterprise inventory optimization. In the beginning, the inventory management solutions of LogicTools , Optiant and SmartOps pushed to take operations research to a new level through supply chain optimization. SAP released an S&OP solution using HANA in 2011. They knew little about the software market.

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SupplyPike

MAY 21, 2020

Simply put, the supply is exaggerated and the inventory grows faster than the demand. This may require better management of the inventory. With the help of inventory software, companies can control and understand how buying habits change across a period of time. This is known as the bullwhip effect. Keeping Prices Stable.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In recent Supply Chain Matters commentaries focused on automotive industry supply networks, we have focused on how the ongoing global wide shortage of semiconductor logic devices continues to provide noteworthy manufacturing, supply chain as well as financial impacts. sales organization and vehicle distribution strategies.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2014

For most 3PLs, their customers — across a variety of industries — are growing their presence in Mexico, either manufacturing there or growing their supplier base there, so 3PLs need to align their services and capabilities accordingly to the changing supply chain networks of their customers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

The example that I give in the first post is the focus of manufacturing strategies to drive strong results to improve Return on Assets (ROA) that have actually caused a deterioration in operating margin. Ten-year averages – food manufacturing companies. You got it! It is a low probability that this will ever happen. A Case Study.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Protecting the purity of the manufacturing process and the supply chain isn’t always a matter of safety. Some consumers avoid beef and pork for health reasons, others want to protest the means by which manufacturers produce meat products. Recently, vegetarian hot dog brands have been found to contain meat. The Problems With Meat.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Protecting the purity of the manufacturing process and the supply chain isn’t always a matter of safety. Some consumers avoid beef and pork for health reasons, others want to protest the means by which manufacturers produce meat products. Recently, vegetarian hot dog brands have been found to contain meat. The Problems With Meat.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Back in 2011, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) noted there is a similar sounding word supply chain managers should associate with VUCA. How it will self-manage customer inventories. … It provides a clear view of inventory and supply chain activity, and ultimately, it helps create responsive supply chains.”

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Logility

APRIL 10, 2017

In many cases you will discover that processes like demand, inventory, replenishment, and manufacturing planning are limited by a lack of software capability. the earthquake and tsunami of 2011), risk mitigation scenarios can be modified and run to assess the impact and decide what actions to take.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 15, 2021

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.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Even before COVID-19, supply-chain managers considered how to cope with supply-chain disruptions — from natural disasters like the 2011 Japanese tsunami to political developments such as the U.S.-China Supply-chain flexibility and responsiveness have never been more important as they are at present.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Consumer packaged goods (CPG), food and chemical manufacturers are stuck and pharmaceutical and industrial companies are losing ground and moving backwards. If the definition is the balancing of costs and inventory, the winner is Colgate. In 2011, Colgate had revenues of $16.7 In contrast, in 2011, Unilever had revenues of $64.6

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QAD

JUNE 8, 2021

The Guardian stated : “The technology industry faces a growing shortage of semiconductors and other high-tech components following a failure to invest in new manufacturing facilities during the recession, experts have warned.” This quote is actually from an article published in July 2011.

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Unleashed

APRIL 1, 2020

Review existing inventory management systems. For a more detailed guide on how to pick the best inventory management software for your business, check out our comprehensive guide. Review existing inventory management systems. Use the downtime to reflect on your inventory management systems and practices.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. In 2011, Yannis Skoufalos became the Global Product Supply Officer at Procter & Gamble. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. Discontinued in 2011.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 23, 2015

IBM does this by enriching and analyzing Twitter data in combination with millions of data points from other streams of public and business data – such as weather forecasts, sales information and product inventory stats – to uncover powerful correlations that drive more actionable insights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Manufacturers are Now Selling Directly to Consumers. Retailers can no longer have their heads in the sand, but neither can consumer products manufacturers. Note that apparel manufacturing is growing and apparel retail is declining. Manufacturers that want to have eCommerce capabilities are scrambling to catch-up.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Since 2011, the year the 737 Max was officially announced, Boeing has handed some $68 billion to shareholders in the form of dividends and stock buybacks, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, though it suspended the measures as its financial crisis deepened. From our lens, this will take time and extraordinary efforts.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 3, 2017

Now consumers can compare products from multiple manufacturers and/or retailers in order to find best product at the best price – all from the comfort of their own home – and then have it delivered within days or even hours. The question is: how will this impact retailers and manufacturers? Transforming the Retail Supply Chain.

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Unleashed

MAY 10, 2020

As governments and hospitals work to stamp out Covid-19, manufacturers are also struggling to manage the virus’ impact on their supply chains. Many are quick to blame just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing for their lack of components and raw materials. We’ll take a closer look at: Pull inventory systems. Pull inventory systems.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Consequently, you can minimize inventory costs and capital expenditure (CAPEX) since you won’t need storage for products. In the United States, for example, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 requires that all foods transported in interstate commerce be transported under refrigeration or frozen conditions.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

For instance, during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Toyota’s robust supply chain resilience allowed it to quickly recover and restore operations. These technologies have the potential to automate processes, improve forecasting accuracy, optimize inventory management, and enhance decision-making capabilities.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Better demand planning and multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO). From a demand planning perspective, companies that do a better job forecasting demand tend to enjoy advantages like: 15% lower inventory levels. During a short product lifecycle, too much inventory creates excessive discounting, obsolescence and write-offs.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this blog, Andy discusses the health of the manufacturing industry, manufacturing technology orders, and setting benchmarks for company performance. The State of the Health of The US Manufacturing Sector & Manufacturing Technology Orders. USMTO is managed by AMT, The Association For Manufacturing Technology.

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Material Handling & Logistics

APRIL 2, 2018

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in March, and the overall economy grew for the 107th consecutive month, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report on Business. Fiore, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee: .

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ToolsGroup

MAY 13, 2019

Barton succeeds Patrick Smith, who served as managing director for North America from 2011 to February 2019. ToolsGroup helps companies like Absolut, American Tire Distributors, Harley Davidson, Lennox and Thule profitably balance service and inventory despite increasing demand uncertainty. Media Contact.

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