Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This global, Tier 1 manufacturer is headquartered in Stockholm and had revenues of over $8 billion last year. The main take aways from the presentation earlier this year were the following: The auto industry has made supply chain risk management a priority since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

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USC Consulting Group

JUNE 19, 2023

. #1: Worker safety According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 5,190 fatal work injuries in 2021 , with 798 attributed to exposure to harmful materials or the environment — the highest figure since the series began in 2011! In fact, unplanned downtime costs manufacturers a staggering $50 billion annually.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2023

One of the clearest lessons learned during the pandemic was the importance of domestic manufacturing. As global supply chains snarled and essential products became hard to find, many domestic manufacturers pivoted to make up shortages. The importance of manufacturing has often been overlooked as the U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

One factor that stands out to me as a highlight of their IM strategy is their seemingly chaotic approach to warehouse layout. At that point, each SKU will be taken to any convenient storage location in the warehouse. This process ensures that Amazon’s warehouse management system records the location of every item in the facility.

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AFFLINK

JUNE 22, 2016

Self-driving cars have been on many manufacturers’ minds since Google announced that it had mastered the technology in 2011. Including: Warehouse Operations: Self-driving loaders, pallet movers, and order pickers could become reality. No need to rest your driver, pay for hotels, or overtime.

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Resilinc

MAY 17, 2022

And for OEMs in virtually every manufacturing industry, supply chains are where much of their climate change risk lies. This of course starts with mapping the sites across the world that supply your business, including manufacturers, warehouses, and logistics providers several tiers below direct suppliers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It’s essential to keep their products in a temperature-controlled environment from origin to destination through warehousing and distribution centers for safety consumption or usage. . For example, pharmaceutical companies may have to ship refrigerated products from one facility to another at various points in the supply chain.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

For example, an analysis carried out by AIR on the potential impact of Hurricane Harvey on regional manufacturing found that, based on percentage of the total potential revenue loss, the top three subsectors are petroleum and coal products manufacturing (37%), chemical manufacturing (13%), and oil and gas extraction (12%).

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

percent in 2012 compared to 2011 (including contribution from acquisitions). percent from 2011. percent from Q4 2011; “net revenue grew at a lower rate than gross revenue, primarily due to slower growth in warehousing volumes at current accounts, and tighter margins on new business.” percent in Q4 2011.

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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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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 26, 2015

In 2011, Google announced that this technology that had been envisioned and imagined for the better part of the 20 th century was within its grasp, as a result of increasing sophistication of computer navigation, GPS technology, and camera technology.

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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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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. But it requires far more than adding machine learning, blockchain or additive manufacturing (3D printing). ” 3. It acts on real-time data. … A new tariff is announced?

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 6, 2023

We all know the storyline that insists advanced economies have moved on from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age and have become service-focused rather than a manufacturing-focused. ” Santhanam is one of a trio of co-authors who have labeled this manufacturing resurgence the “Titanium Economy.” ”[4].

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 12, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. » Flying Robots in a Warehouse? Well, this may appear strange but having watched Vijay Kumar and his teams innovation on flying robots in TED - [link] , it struck to me that these little robots can do wonders in warehousing operations. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 30, 2022

The previous record for billion-dollar events in a year was 16, in 2017 and 2011. “This means identifying all the sites across the world that directly or indirectly support manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, and repair by land, sea, and air.” ”[6] Last year wasn’t much better. In 2021, the U.S.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Today, there are no authoritative identifiers to track and trace for containers, warehouse locations, trucks or manufacturing plants. Cecere asserts gaps exist in supplier visibility, manufacturing visibility, logistics visibility, and enterprise visibility. Your wallet has a social security or a passport number. Close this gap.

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Elementum

JUNE 7, 2022

For our purposes, a supply chain is a connected set of organizations and individuals, working together to provision, receive, store, and move goods, for product manufacturing, and distribution. In 2011, the Japanese tsunami hobbled Japanese suppliers for years. However, sad to say, this kind of situation is not unusual.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Nulogy & GENCO Announce Production Command Center for Manufacturing & Packaging Suppliers. According to a Wall Street Journal article (“Decoding Our Chatter,” Robert Lee Hotz, October 1, 2011), “When Virginia’s magnitude 5.8 Twitter and IBM Form Global Partnership to Transform Enterprise Decisions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2021

With the third vaccine authorized, these manufacturers are pressing for more companies to be authorized to ship the vaccine. Drop shipping is where retailers have manufacturers ship items directly to the consumer rather than carrying them in their warehouse. Global transportation is at the forefront of sustainability efforts.

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Supply Chains Rock

APRIL 28, 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011. I recently came across an interesting post at Warehouse Management Systems Guide on the topic of supply chains and social media. But.social media can be used within the "supply chain firewall" of the procurement, logistics, fulfilment and manufacturing teams. Manufacturing Central. Subscribe To.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Research by McKinsey in 2011 revealed that only 20 percent of companies link their business strategy to clear decisions about their product portfolio and allocation of the necessary resources. The company intends to plan the production of its denim jeans based on insight into current capacity at contract manufacturers in Italy and Turkey.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

As I wrote following the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011, the reality is that there is relatively little companies can do right now to minimize the impact of these disruptions. What are the lessons learned here? The same as with other natural disasters and disruptions.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

In 2011 Cargill, the multi billion-dollar agri-industrial conglomerate acquired animal nutrition specialist, Provimi. It’s hard to imagine that Cargill began as a grain storage warehouse in Iowa, USA, in 1865. We align our supply chains along these strategies and, at the same time, we aim for lean and/or agile manufacturing.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 4, 2018

economy in 2017 and so far in 2018, manufacturers have been producing more goods than usual and requiring more freight to be shipped. retail holiday sales jumped 4.9%, the biggest increase since 2011. and many jobs in manufacturing and other industries available, desirable alternatives to trucking jobs remain. Holiday Season.

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RFgen

AUGUST 29, 2016

One such manufacturer is Dunkirk’s Coca-Cola European Partners bottling plant. In 2011, 2012 and 2014, the site was internally recognized with the Oscas Energy award. Not only was this project time sensitive, but it required new manufacturing practices, meaning CCEP had to restructure its supply chain strategies.

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RFgen

AUGUST 29, 2016

One such manufacturer is Dunkirk’s Coca-Cola European Partners bottling plant. In 2011, 2012 and 2014, the site was internally recognized with the Oscas Energy award. Not only was this project time sensitive, but it required new manufacturing practices, meaning CCEP had to restructure its supply chain strategies.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Behind the scenes during the tumultuous disaster season of 2017, building materials manufacturers leaned heavily on dynamic digital tools to supply recovery efforts. The urgent phone call to the building materials manufacturer came as yet another hurricane was churning its way toward landfall during the record storm season of 2017.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 2, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. One of the biggest time consuming and mundane activities in warehouse management is the pick up of inventory and the appropriate shelving of inventory. Imagine picking up inventory from the warehouse without having any paper lists or even any barcode scanners. December 2011. November 2011.

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Unleashed

APRIL 1, 2020

It may involve supporting your warehouse team with a better system. They are working to produce prototypes for face masks at their manufacturing facility in America, with other facilities to follow when ready. A survey measuring manufacturer-supplier relations in the U.S. automobile industry. Map upstream suppliers.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 19, 2016

In the last three years we’ve developed our strategy, centralised procurement, purchasing and manufacturing aligned our portfolios across all categories globally and developed our exclusive brands portfolio. Pearle and GrandVision were merged in 2011 making it the right moment to align the very fragmented business.

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 17, 2021

hoku earthquake disaster of 2011 did have a high, global impact, but the disruption was felt primarily in just one area of capacity: supply. However, this outcome was exacerbated because several of the disrupted supplies were sourced primarily in the impact area, which served as a manufacturing hub for many products.

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 29, 2013

Ocean Spray added new manufacturing and distribution capabilities in Florida to support the company’s growing customer base. To construct the very large vehicles used in the mining industry, parts are shipped from all over the globe for assembly at Caterpillar’s manufacturing facility in Decatur, Illinois.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

While the company eventually produced and shipped the airplane, it faced gluttony of manufacturing and operating problems that delayed construction and delivery. According to Steve Denning, a Forbes contributor, Boeing also had lofty plans to cut the plane’s manufacturing expenses by outsourcing to international and domestic suppliers.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

While the company eventually produced and shipped the airplane, it faced gluttony of manufacturing and operating problems that delayed construction and delivery. According to Steve Denning, a Forbes contributor, Boeing also had lofty plans to cut the plane’s manufacturing expenses by outsourcing to international and domestic suppliers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Our team was recognized for our unique configure-to-order process for our microprocessors as a finalist in the Supply Chain Council’s Operational Excellence award in 2011. Finally, on the personal front, the Global Supply Chain Leadership Group selected me as their Supply Chain Executive of the Year in 2011.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 29, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. « Enabling individual item picking in tomorrows warehouses | Main | Supply Chain Collaboration and Social Media » Utility of iPads on Shop Floor. Today, manufacturing companies have adopted software in major part of their supply chain. December 2011. November 2011. August 2011.

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