Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

As a guest writer for Forbes, public relations firms constantly pepper me with requests to speak to technologists boasting of having answers to improve supply chain resilience. I strongly believe that historical supply chain practices are not the answer. They need to evolve to help today’s supply chain business leader.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 13, 2022

Even before the pandemic, global supply chain were fragile thanks to factors such as the US-China trade war, less efficient shipping routes and a huge drive to cut costs by consolidating loads. Just as manufacturers and distributors were starting to climb out of the ‘COVID hole’, they’ve been knocked back in.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 2, 2014

In this week’s news… JDA Software Announces Industry-Leading Distribution-Centric Supply Chain Suite. Supply Chain Council to Merge with APICS. Reports 2014 First-Quarter Results. XPO Logistics Announces First Quarter 2014 Results. Con-way Inc. Robinson Tagline Addresses Market Demands.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 12, 2020

You’re probably sick (no pun intended) of reading articles about the Covid-19 pandemic and how it has shocked the international economy and stressed global supply chains. Disruptions caused by the pandemic revealed just how brittle some supply chains can be. supply chains.”[2] supply chains.”[2]

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 1, 2014

Reports 2014 Second-quarter Results. Here are some details from the press release: New Breed had revenue of approximately $597 million and adjusted EBITDA of approximately $77 million for the trailing 12 months ended June 30, 2014. . Zipments Acquires Hobson to Become the Leading Same-Day Delivery Provider for Retailers in NYC.

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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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Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

There are tens of thousands of books about logistics and supply chains. Amazon has 31,817 books about supply chain and 24,934 about logistics. That’s 56,751 supply chain and logistics books. But we got it down to ten logistics and supply chain books you’ll actually want to read.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We named it the Supply Chain Index. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Background on the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

These consumer products global leaders paved the road for supply chain excellence by defining new supply chain practices. Today, each leader wants to take their empowered team to new supply chain heights. At Supply Chain Insights, we published a report card yesterday. Who is poised to win?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Over the last two decades the company successfully leveraged global scale to define supply chain leadership. With 12,000 supply chain employees operating in 80 countries with 2400 storage facilities, supply chain excellence and innovation are the foundation of corporate performance. BASF creates chemistry.

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Supply Chain Cowboy

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It’s great to know there’s so many people working together to tame the wild west of supply chain management. For Supply Chain Cowboy’s first podcast, I had a great interview with Mark Kosiba, former VP of Operations at Skullcandy. More Business and Lean Quotes. What’s Coming in 2015?

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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. While we speak of collaboration, the focus is on driving enterprise results not value in value chains. As complexity increased, we did not design the supply chain to absorb greater variability.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In order for that to happen, both supply chains and consumer habits must significantly change. 3] Steven Steutermann, managing vice president in the Gartner supply chain practice, stated, “Organizations are under pressure to reduce the amount of waste they’re producing — from consumers and governments alike.”[4]

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

That situation could be changing as consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers are experimenting with reusable packaging. Gutmann notes many large manufacturers have recently committed to offer products “designed for delivery, then collected, cleaned, refilled and redelivered.” ” Manufacturers join the Loop.

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IQMS

MAY 1, 2018

Bottom Line: Manufacturers are reaching a new level of results in 2018 because they have clearer, more actionable insights based on real-time manufacturing and quality metrics than ever before. Quality Metrics Enable Customer-Driven Manufacturing Networks. What Success Looks Like In A Customer-Driven Manufacturer.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The connective tissue of the circular economy is the supply chain. As MIT academics Alexis Bateman, Eva Ponce, and Inma Borrella, explain, “Circular supply chains are at the heart of efforts to tackle the massive environmental problems created by waste and end-of-life products.”[2]. That’s a tall order. Procurement.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

So what does my nostalgic look back at my childhood have to do with the future of supply chains? And all of them, once they reach critical mass in the marketplace, will have a staggering impact on the future of supply chain. The WEF report focuses on five shifts that will directly influence supply chain.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

by Dr. Madhav Durbha Supply chain risks in the spotlight: Effects of Hanjin Shipping filing bankruptcy protection. There is a constant push to free up working capital by leaning down on the inventories. Lead times are in weeks and months in cases where manufacturing is outsourced to firms on the other side of the earth.

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Contents Supply Chain Movement 20 – 2016 Q1. Gartner and Supply Chain Media formalise partnership. Gradual changes in the European supply chain consulting market. The major consultancy firms are still acquiring smaller niche competitors to intensify their supply chain expertise.

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 30, 2009

Green Supply Chain. Lean Manufacturing/Supply Chai. Manufacturing Technology. Retail Supply Chain. Supply Chain Agility/Flexibili. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Optimization. Supply Chain Risk.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The mission for the Tokyo-based company and the world’s largest tyre manufacturer is to achieve Dan-Totsu – to be an absolute and undisputed leader – in all aspects of business. To maintain market leadership and in line with its commitment to be lean and strategic it is transforming its supply chain.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 25, 2015

Since oil prices began their decline in the second half of 2014, the burning question on the minds of analysts and economists alike has been this: where will it stop? The mobile phone industry is design-driven and whilst it does require skilled precision manufacturing, is largely automated. So what is the association between the two?

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 30, 2009

Green Supply Chain. Lean Manufacturing/Supply Chai. Manufacturing Technology. Retail Supply Chain. Supply Chain Agility/Flexibili. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Optimization. Supply Chain Risk.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Contents Supply Chain Movement 18 – 2015 Q3. Supply Chain Media and partners launch Supply Chain Satellite. After years of declining revenues in European logistics services, the business started to stabilise in 2013/2014. 40 | Supply chain thinkers. Publishing date: 18 September 2015.

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 29, 2009

Green Supply Chain. Lean Manufacturing/Supply Chai. Manufacturing Technology. Retail Supply Chain. Supply Chain Agility/Flexibili. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Optimization. Supply Chain Risk.

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Supply Chain Digest

MAY 8, 2009

Green Supply Chain. Lean Manufacturing/Supply Chai. Manufacturing Technology. Retail Supply Chain. Supply Chain Agility/Flexibili. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Optimization. Supply Chain Risk.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Distributors will inbound to a manufacturer the inventory needed and transportation management, especially inbound freight management, efficiency is paramount to an effective vendor managed inventory model. Mr. Higo said in response to the VMI for Supply Chain Cost Reductions post was: “Very informative article, thank you.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 3, 2020

Georgia Wilson predicts the circular economy represents the future for the supply chain. She reports, “In the next 18 months, 70% of supply chain leaders are planning to invest in circular economies.”[1] Creating a circular supply chain. Today that is changing.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JANUARY 25, 2016

Headline: US Manufacturing Contracts at Fastest Pace in Six Years. Headline: Class 8 Orders Slump in December, Down 36% From Same Period in 2014. With manufacturing falling at the fastest rate since 2009, it’s no surprise to see truck stocks plunging, and truck builders cutting back on staff. Over the Road Trucking.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three-part series on Supplier Quality Management processes and how to evaluate your suppliers from Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chain. Therefore, it is paramount for you as a logistics and supply chain professional to have a keen sense of how to properly evaluate a supplier.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 19, 2016

In 2013 Nokia took full ownership of Nokia Siemens Networks, buying the other half of the venture from Siemens, and 2014 sold its handset business to Microsoft. This will have a massive impact on the supply chain,” says Johannes Giloth, senior vice president operations, Nokia Networks. We have to be lean.

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Requis

JULY 8, 2020

How supply chain has changed over the years. How Requis is perfectly positioned to be the supply chain platform of choice for many industries. There have been several downturns in recent years, particularly in 2016 (which really originated in 2014-2015), 2008, and of course 1998. Leaner and greener.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 11, 2013

Industrial Manufacturing. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (GSCM). Lean Manufacturing is eliminating waste in every stage of supply chain.

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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. The Problem: Cequent has long used enterprise quality management.

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 30, 2009

Green Supply Chain. Lean Manufacturing/Supply Chai. Manufacturing Technology. Retail Supply Chain. Supply Chain Agility/Flexibili. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Optimization. Supply Chain Risk.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. Additionally, the company’s manufacturing expertise will enable the reduction of production costs. Kick back, be inspired and happy innovating.

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