GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As we close the year of 2015, we want to take a look at some manufacturing trends for 2016. We look at 6 core areas that manufacturing companies will take a long look at as they gear up for a successful 2016. E-Commerce for Manufacturing. Manufacturers will seek custom (or specifically tailored) e-commerce solutions.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 30, 2021

Here we examine manufacturing downtime in detail, including what it is, what causes it, and what it can cost your business. Because even small manufacturing firms with limited capital can reduce the risk of suffering unexpected outages through measures like preventive maintenance, staff training and the use of smart manufacturing software.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2014

The ongoing debate, however, is how to pay for transportation infrastructure projects. Now it’s 2014. Tweet The post This Week in Logistics News (January 27-31, 2014) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Raise the gas tax? Implement a Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) fee? Be Sociable, Share!

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GlobalTranz

JULY 24, 2015

Supply chain management in manufacturing is by no means a simple process, but the United States is learning from past mistakes and they're poised to start playing a little catch-up in the manufacturing world due to their expertise. Government Weighs In on Supply Chain Management in Manufacturing. The Numbers Are In.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Thanks to the cloud, there has never been a better time to be a manufacturer or distributor with a vision for rapid, profitable growth. This isn’t a science fiction story—it’s the current reality for many manufacturers and distributors. There’s more to this story. ” Just 13% said IoT was “irrelevant.”

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Thanks to the cloud, there has never been a better time to be a manufacturer or distributor with a vision for rapid, profitable growth. This isn’t a science fiction story—it’s the current reality for many manufacturers and distributors. There’s more to this story. ” Just 13% said IoT was “irrelevant.”

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Tompkins Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

First, it’s important to understand what exactly lean manufacturing is all about. Whether or not you are already considering lean operations, there is no better time to begin than in 2014. Make this one of your New Year’s resolutions and begin your research on lean manufacturing. Has your business jumped on board?

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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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ToolsGroup

JUNE 11, 2020

Serving more than 130 countries, 40 industries and 17,000 customer distributors/dealers, SKF’s vast supply chain includes 94 manufacturing plants in 24 countries worldwide. By 2014 there were some 800,000 item-locations in its core bearing business, in some 40 installations of five+ different ERP systems around the world.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 25, 2022

Retailers expect to be connected to manufacturers. Manufacturers expect to be connected to suppliers. Manufacturing and transportation and logistics companies have been pioneers of today’s IoRT revolution, leading the way to connect and automate industry operations.” in 2014 to just 4 cents in 2019.”[6].

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MIT Supply Chain

DECEMBER 12, 2013

On January 22, 2014, some 120 master’s students representing about 30 countries will gather at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA to present 70 to 80 supply chain thesis research projects. An apparel company aims to evaluate the effect on inventory levels of postponing a manufacturing operation. World view.

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Elementum

JUNE 23, 2015

According to a report released by the Senate Commerce Committee , employees at Takata’s Mexico plant were aware of poor manufacturing practices years before Takata agreed to recall any products. Bad news for Takata, certainly, and a cautionary tale for other manufacturers. The noodles will then be burned in incineration facilities.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Cardwell, 2014). RL is a process where a manufacturer accepts previously shipped products from the customers point for potential recycling and/or re-manufacturing” Kobo360 from Nigeria is a leader in the practice stated. Do you need help figuring out how to become more Sustainable? 2014, July 30).

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GlobalTranz

JULY 1, 2016

We will feature our 5 main categories all week: Logistics , Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Transportation , and Freight. In modern manufacturing and transportation, savings are everything. The shipping industry saw growth and expansion in 2014 when compared to the state of the industry since 2008.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

It is 2014. We have not been able to build the planning architectures that effectively let manufacturers plan from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier. How We Got Here. In the study of 63 manufacturers, the average company has outsourced 49% of logistics and 30% of manufacturing.

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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. No backing out.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 21, 2014

What would the retail—manufacturing world look like if there was wide-spread adoption of this technology? I often ask manufacturers and retailers what percent of their day is driven by exceptions caused by external factors outside of their company. They are not dependent on their trading partner to tell them when an issue arises.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The artist explains: “This work attempts to bring out certain forms and structures by combining organic materials (earth, plants, vegetables, fruit, fish) and manufactured products (a pair of shoes, pigments used to colour the layers). Rojas 2014). The post How to Build a Digital Procurement Ecosystem in 8 Minutes!

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In Parts I through III O’Marah explained how companies must embrace uncertainty, approach Big Data analytics and balance the cross purposes of cost versus service objectives in supply chain. SCN: Manufacturers report a strong trend toward greater vertical integration vs. out-sourcing production. How will this be operationalized?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

An enlightened leadership team wanted to be sure that the organization knew how to make money through bi-directional orchestration of the bill of materials. The meatpacking company merges with a competitor in 2014, resulting in an organizational turnover. The focus was on margin and quality.

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Elementum

JUNE 19, 2015

California has its own Transparency in Supply Chains Act, which requires that “retail sellers and manufacturers doing business in the state… disclose their efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their direct Supply Chains”. As manufacturers, we can decide just how long the path will be. The Business of Ethics.

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RFgen

AUGUST 14, 2017

In 2014, Massachusetts resident Pierre Picone pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit integrated circuits (IC) to the U.S. These counterfeits featured markings normally found on legitimate parts from “approximately 35 major electronics manufacturers, including Motorola, Xilinx, and National Semiconductor.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. As a result, organizations struggle with how to move forward. His struggle is how to make data discovery, mining, and wrangling into day-to-day processes. Reflection. The supply chain career is new. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

An analytics officer from a major consumer manufacturer emphasized how at their organization they valued failure, and in fact would have a celebration of lessons learned around failure. If people choose to override the combine’s analytics, resulting in a suboptimal decision, how do you measure the performance of the equipment?

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

.’ With respect to their consumer behavior, 73 percent of global millennials are willing to pay extra for sustainable products, an increase from 50 percent in 2014.”[2]. Transparency, on the other hand, involves moral and ethical dimensions of activities associated with sourcing and manufacturing. ”[2]. Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

” Hau Lee, October 2014. We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Harvard Business Review.

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EcoVadis

JULY 3, 2014

One would remember the tragedies of the Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013, Bangladesh, where the victims were manufacturing clothes to be supplied to top fashion retail companies. stage 2 – Cost Reduction : simplifying specifications, lowering compliance costs, using more efficient materials.

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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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Talking Logistics

MARCH 22, 2018

No Such Thing as Free Delivery: How to Differentiate? If you think about global supply chains holistically, from raw materials to manufacturer to your customer’s customer, successful final mile execution ensures a positive end to a lengthy process. This is true of your customers and your customers’ customers.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Over the course of the year, I’ve hosted 40 episodes on a variety of industry topics, and my guests have included supply chain and logistics executives from leading manufacturing and retail companies, professors from leading academic institutions, executives from third party logistics (3PL) and technology companies, and authors.

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DynaSys

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Recyclable raw materials, manufacturing processes limiting the consumption of water and electricity, eco-responsible packaging and less energy-consuming transport solutions are all growth drivers and also help reduce production cost and wastage. How to Achieve the Desired Outcome. Not every intention turns out the way it was intended.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 5, 2014

Participants benefited from his tips on how to achieve visibility of the entire supply chain, inventory optimization, and lowered production costs. Janine Olariu (@JanineOlariu) May 22, 2014. What an event! The #QuintiqWT in #Stockholm was an interactive day thanks to great planning stories from the crowd! pic.twitter.com/56kvYfwGdj.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 3, 2020

Many companies were contemplating how to become more sustainable before the outbreak and, hopefully, they will continue to pursue sustainability when things get normalized. Another attendee from the apparel industry highlighted how a product made of manufacturing scraps inspired its employees. ” 3. .” 6] Ibid.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Editor's Note: This is a republish of an infographic from Sanderson IT , a supplier of software solutions to multi-channel retail and manufacturing businesses. Since our manufacturing shipper customers like to receive content that is helpful for them, we thought this was a great infographic to share. Optimise efficiency.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2016

And complexity creates a challenge of how to forecast accurately when faced with new items, new channels and demand shaping. Across the CPG industry, demand forecast errors increased in 2014 and were unchanged in 2015, according to Gartner analyst Steve Steutermann.

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MIT Supply Chain

JULY 17, 2014

The 2014 FIFA World Cup is finally over. For example, Dell Corporation was the leading personal computer manufacturer in the world, earning accolades for its vaunted manufacturing postponement strategy. The winners of the 2014 World Cup, Germany, had already learned lessons like these before they got to Brazil.

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DELMIA Quintiq

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

US trade deficits rose to a massive $46 billion in December 2014. What if a manufacturer has to stop operations for a day because their machinery broke down – do you have enough safety stock to last until operations resume? Learn how to stay agile in tough times. Have you got what it takes to bounce back? Optimized plans.

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