Remove 2012 Remove Inventory Remove Japan Remove Supply Chain Software
article thumbnail

100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Will the supply chain ever catch a break? With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain.

article thumbnail

Redesign to Improve Value: A Case Study of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, I will speak at Llamasoft’s conference on improving supply chain network design. One of the reports that I am writing is on the state of Supply Chain Planning (SCP). In the recent study of the Voice of the Supply Chain Leader , we find that the gaps are large, and growing.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Good-bye siloed, functional planner. Hello storm chasing network planner.

Kinaxis

by Bill DuBois If you had anything to do with supply chain planning in the early days of enterprise resource planning (ERP), you may consider those years the “good ol’ days”. Aligning the supply plans to these new volatile demand profiles was no easy achievement. However, none of this physically destroyed your supply chain.

article thumbnail

Creating a Dynamic, Demand-Driven Supply Chain

BlueYonder

Declining global sales, pressures to reduce inventories, high levels of demand variability – these are all contributing factors to the increasing complexity of the global automotive industry. Every modern supply chain is complex, but the automotive industry faces special challenges. Global inventory optimization.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (December 9-13, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Japan Impasse Dogs Pan-Pacific Trade Talks ( Wall Street Journal ). NAFTA Trade in September 2013 than in September 2012. They have engineered new strategies for jockeying inventory across the country to avoid overstocks and markdowns and to keep customers from defecting to Amazon, a big problem last year. . UPS and FedEx.

article thumbnail

Supply Chain Management:Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Technology Services. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Publishing Resources Industries.

article thumbnail

Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Nippon Express Nippon Express is a Japanese logistics company commonly known in Japan as ‘Nittsu.’ It was established in 1937 with the merger of Kokusai Tsu-un KK, six other competitors and many other small-scale logistics companies in Japan. million square feet of warehouse space in Japan and an additional 25.8