MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The inaugural post appeared on March 4, 2014, and was about the rising status of the supply chain profession. Some events and trends driving the supply chain’s standing back in 2014 remain just as influential in 2023. Decisive phase But some of the 2014 challenges we still witness today have become more urgent. billion).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Enterprise resilience–the ability to have consistent balance sheet returns despite market volatility– decreased starting in 2014. Nvidia, PACCAR Inc, Ross Stores, Sleep Number, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur Sealy, TJX Companies, and Western Digital. Doing a conference in the pandemic is a risk.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

One of the goals of the conference was to challenge the audience to redefine work. In our research, we find that 72% of planners primarily depend on Excel and desktop analysis despite the rollout of advanced platforms for planning in 92% of manufacturers with greater than 5B$ in revenue. The question is, “Why?”

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Supply Chain Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2013

During the Summit, as companies presented their ideas and panels debated issues, a graphic artist captured the spirit of the conference. With over 91% of companies rating the conference as excellent and with more than 80% stating that they will attend again, the planning phase for the 2014 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is active.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I was attending the Zycus Horizons 2014 conference at Amelia Island today, listening to speakers. We don’t impact COGS much in financial services – but from an indirect side – we will continue to build procurement but won’t build the level of influence as manufacturing. It is amazing that we do the same things.

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 11, 2014

Crossroads 2014. MIT’s Professor Suzanne Berger believes that US manufacturers need more support. The US can be a lonely place for manufacturers, believes MIT Professor Suzanne Berger. She explained the project’s findings at MIT CTL’s Crossroads 2014 conference, on the MIT campus, March 25 2014.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

“There is a revolution happening because we are now able to program physical, synthetic, or biological materials to change shape, change property, compute and self-assemble,” said Skylar Tibbits, at the MIT Technology Review Emtech conference, October 9th, 2013, on the MIT campus. How does this lead to 4D printing?

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

We are at the beginning of new advances in data analytics, manufacturing technology, materials science, and robotics, and many other technologies that will likely have a profound impact on supply chain management (SCM). This is what attendees at Crossroads 2014 will have the opportunity to do. Read the agenda here.

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Does Google’s entry into the robotics industry mark the beginning of a renaissance in manufacturing automation? An article titled Can Google’s Robots Build a New Future for US Manufacturing? Moreover, the online giant is collaborating with Taiwan-based contract manufacturer Foxconn on the development of robot systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

It started in manufacturing and spread, step by step, to improvements in the way the company runs its supply chain. This manufacturer already has business continuity plans in place. They built them between 2012 and 2014, and then enhanced them when better supply chain risk management solutions became available. It takes time.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 13, 2015

Last year around this time I made a lot of predictions about what 2014 would hold in store…Let’s revisit some of these, and see what has happened (or what hasn’t!) Here are my predictions from 2014, and an update on what I think will happen in these areas. This is the biggest opportunity I see for 2015.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 9, 2014

by Trevor Miles I’m on my way back from Tokyo where I attended our user conference, Kinexions Tokyo , in Japan, just 5 weeks after our Kinexions North America user conference in San Diego. If attendance at both conferences is anything to go by, 2015 is going to be even busier than 2014. Buffalo Technologies. •

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 14, 2021

2020 has been the year of virtual conferences and meetings for most of us. This is a golden opportunity for companies with international sourcing, manufacturing and sales footprints to reap these benefits. BY Joe Lombardo, Editor-In- Chief, LogiSYM. EVENT HIGHLIGHTS. Partner—Tax At KPMG Singapore. Royston Phua.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

The meatpacking company merges with a competitor in 2014, resulting in an organizational turnover. The manufacturer pays maintenance for the planning software but stops contact with Company A. The goal of the conference is to Imagine the Supply Chain of 2030. The organization is not clear on the role of the forecast.

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Resilinc

APRIL 26, 2022

House and Senate negotiate in conference to reconcile their competing bills to boost U.S. Manufacturers in Europe and the United States are building new in-country API development and manufacturing capabilities,” writes Deloitte. They are] regionalizing the supply of critical materials … and using continuous manufacturing.”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

Yes, there was lots of the usual hype coming from NRF, and CES conferences filling the airways. Three weeks is substantial and may tip the hand to reshore more manufacturing into North America. 2014 was not a good year for the western ports. On the road, I scanned the newspapers… read newsfeeds.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2014

Yesterday, I spoke at the Eye for Transport conference on the Big Data opportunity in supply chain. When I go to an analytics conference today, I feel like the dumbest person in the room. They are paving a way for manufacturers to rethink their processes. I cannot sleep. It is hard to quiet an unquiet mind. What do I mean?

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 9, 2014

These risks will be explored at MIT CTL’s Crossroads conference , which takes place on March 25, 2014, on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA. An issue that attracts relatively little attention is the infiltration of manufacturing processes. Register for Crossroads 2014 here.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

The manuscript is due to Wiley on March 1st for an August 2014 publish date. I need it for my conference on September 10th-11th, 2014. He is responsible for manufacturing, procurement, supply chain planning, logistics, quality, social responsibility and final product engineering. I am behind. The heat is on.

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 17, 2014

So mark your calendar with the relevant supply chain conferences. Last updated on December 16th , 2014. Supply Chain Management & Optimization Conference. 13th annual supply chain standard Logistics & Supply Chain Conference. 9th Turkey Trade & Export Finance Conference. End2End Supply Chain Conference.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

If the word collaboration was listed on a card as a drinking game at supply chain conferences, we would be drunk at many. Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006. It is worse in some industries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. When I hear them at a conference, I squirm uncontrollably in my seat. SanDisk Corporation designs, develops and manufactures flash memory storage devices and software. The company is the third-largest manufacturer of flash memory in the world. Source: Dictionary.com.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Datum: 3-4 December 2014. Every year, senior supply chain executives from pharmaceuticals manufacturers, medical devices manufacturers and hospital groups attend for elite-level, interactive peer discussions. The Life Sciences SCM Summit Breaks the Conference Mould. 5th Annual Life Sciences Supply Chain Summit EU.

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MIT Supply Chain

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Implications like these will be discussed as MIT CTL’s 2014 Crossroads conference , Biomanufacturing, Robots, and 4D Printing: The Next Decade of Disruptive Innovation, March 25 th , 2014, on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA. Find out about the supply chain possibilities by registering for Crossroads 2014 here.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. the company is owned today by 20 organizations representing manufacturers, distributors, hospitals and group purchasing organizations (GPOs).

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In 2014, while sipping on an early morning coffee, Maddy called to ask me a question. Working for a large manufacturer, she was trying hard; but failing, to integrate Ariba, Elemica, and GT Nexus. To help, I set up a series of dinner meetings for Maddy to speak to other manufacturers working on similar problems. She is there.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 19, 2015

This was announced at Exchainge, the Supply Chainers’ Conference in Frankfurt (Germany) on June 25, 2015. The end-to-end supply chain solution that emerged focused on growth and agility, cost management, manufacturing flexibility and productivity, and supply capability. Nokia Networks has won the Supply Chain Management Award 2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The conference is always a lot of fun. At the conference I encouraged the attendees to network with each other, to build a guiding coalition, to redesign supply chain processes for the Supply Chain of 2025. At the conference the remarks of Anthony Volpe from Lenovo struck a chord. We are starting to plan for next year.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

Throughout this time, 3PL transportation management providers have taken advantage of the low-costs of transportation, which further reduced the costs for businesses and manufacturers. billion manufacturer TriMas Corp. told the conference. I think 2016 and 2017 will make 2014 look like child’s play,” Albrecht said.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 1, 2015

billion USD) in pro-forma trailing 12-month revenue for the year-ended December 31, 2014. Norbert Dentressangle serves customers in retail, food and beverage, manufacturing, chemicals, agriculture, e-commerce and high tech. I will share my takeaways from the session and the overall conference in a future post. billion ($5.5

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2016

The Boston Consulting Group said at the 2015 Grocery Manufacturers Association/Food Marketing Institute (GMA/FMI) supply chain conference that 22% of polled respondents said less accurate forecasts were one of their top hurdles to improving service.

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Logility

MAY 20, 2014

We are at Gartner's 2014 Executive Supply Chain Conference this week and the opening keynote just wrapped up. It was a part of manufacturing. Noha Tohamy, research vice president, and Debra Hofman, research vice president, discussed where the supply chain is headed by taking a retrospective look at where we have been.

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Logility

MAY 20, 2014

We are at Gartner's 2014 Executive Supply Chain Conference this week and the opening keynote just wrapped up. It was a part of manufacturing. Noha Tohamy, research vice president, and Debra Hofman, research vice president, discussed where the supply chain is headed by taking a retrospective look at where we have been.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Human Centered Big Data Research was recently posted. The research shows that many organizations are using haphazard approaches to drive insights into supply markets, but that there is an increasing recognition of the value of market intelligence in many industries, particularly in manufacturing.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

Coincidentally, at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference yesterday, I attended a presentation by Justin Dillon, Founder and CEO of Made in a Free World , a nonprofit group that is “building a coalition of consumers, businesses, and governments to disrupt the system of slavery.”

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

As the world is more distributed and players within the supply chain in transportation, manufacturing, and distribution are varied, applying a supplier quality management system in your business may allow you to stay more strategic and collaborative. Examples and Case Studies from the Implementation of a Supplier Quality Management System.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. More types of goods are traded economically, and much manufacturing is transferring to developing economies. Readers' choice!

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