Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

As 2013 comes to a close, here are some of my thoughts regarding the supply chain trends we are likely to see emerge in 2014. We will continue to see cost pressure at all levels in the supply chain: at the retail level, on manufacturing, distribution and warehouses, transportation, and raw material supply.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

We built training materials to help the team understand the concepts of bi-directional orchestration. In 2008, the demand planner leaves the meatpacking Company to train for the Olympics. The meatpacking company merges with a competitor in 2014, resulting in an organizational turnover. Manage the Project Through Turnover.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Since 2014, Lean has worked with over 290 satisfied U.S. Lean ensures that your satellite office in Colombia is staffed with highly educated, English speaking professionals trained in your company’s processes and systems. Lean can deliver on this promise because they are the pioneers in helping U.S.

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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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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

It says it will do that by “clarifying retail career paths, better pre-employment training, more innovative and relevant on-the-job and supplemental training and credentials that employers will accept for advancement.” The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2014.” Top 100 Retailers Chart 2014.” Facts at a Glance.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. The adoption of Terra’s products were brisk until 2011, but during 2012-2014 sales softened, resulting in employee layoffs and downsizing. In the last decade E2open did not integrate acquisitions well.

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Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

I threw in a healthy dose of interesting (globalization, shipping trends and the business of logistics), a dash of history (the evolution of longitude), a sprinkle of next generation manufacturing (lean manufacturing) and some great company success stories (FedEx, Walmart. Ever hear of Lean Manufacturing? Got some suggestions?

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. Note the lack of training on next-generation supply chain thinking in Figure 1. The supply chain career is new. The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. Evolution is messy.

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Locus Robotics

JUNE 26, 2020

Since 2014, LogiMed has served as the largest gathering for medical device and diagnostics supply chain heads in North America. This is the only forum that brings together Heads of Supply Chain from both manufacturing and providers to share best practices, benchmark, and learn from peers.

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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. With the growth of transpacific trade, McLean teams with Southern Pacific Railroad to build the first double-stack train car. Readers' choice!

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 3, 2019

The type of contract of interest in this report is for Development and Manufacture contracts in the Aerospace and Defense industries. The subcontract efforts feature the majority of military and part of commercial aviation, systems are outsourced by the overall airframe manufacturer, known as “primes” (Boeing, Airbus, Sikorski, etc.)

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. With the growth of transpacific trade, McLean teams with Southern Pacific Railroad to build the first double-stack train car. The first all double-stack train is developed by APL and UP Railroad. In 2014, the shipping ports of America received $1.73 0 TEUs 0 meters long.

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Elementum

JULY 6, 2015

Excluding seasonal factors, there has been no growth in air freight demand since 2014. Instead, manufacturers are turning to trucks and trains to ship goods – a more economical option for transporting goods up to 1,000 miles, with better prices and fewer security restrictions. percent while capacity increased by 4.3

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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. I can see the light that will maybe be a freight train someday.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

is working to overhaul its extensive network of trucks, planes, trains, and ships–beginning with its relationships with the freight brokers that supply their transportation channels. In 2014, the Postal Service worked with about 4,000 highway contractors. 803 billion U.S. Grocery Industry Remains Reluctant to Adopt Automation.

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Elementum

MAY 27, 2015

manufactured goods over the next decade. But Walmart is not alone in its move towards “reshoring” jobs, moving factories back stateside after a decade-long exodus to cheaper manufacturing facilities in places like Southeast Asia. Manufacturing technology is improving in the U.S., Making Waves. may be beneficial.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 26, 2014

Janine Olariu (@JanineOlariu) June 12, 2014. He demonstrates how he used internal training and company culture, combined with optimal processes and technology to stay ahead of the game. QuintiqWT presenter Marcel Wouterse discussing supply chain struggles turned into challenges pic.twitter.com/QvlzqndATs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. Based on reporting from the Wall Street Journal, the company hired Morgan Stanley to shop the company and package it for sale in 2014 with an expected evaluation of 800M$. There is seldom one technology used within a manufacturing company to connect B2b value networks.)

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RFgen

JULY 27, 2016

For example, according to a 2015 report from the American Trucking Associations, the industry saw a shortage of 38,000 truck drivers in 2014. Meanwhile, manufacturers face talent gaps, too. This has significant implications for manufacturing businesses, per survey results from the report. Strengthen Internal Training.

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RFgen

JULY 27, 2016

For example, according to a 2015 report from the American Trucking Associations, the industry saw a shortage of 38,000 truck drivers in 2014. Meanwhile, manufacturers face talent gaps, too. This has significant implications for manufacturing businesses, per survey results from the report. Strengthen Internal Training.

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OptiProERP

MARCH 4, 2019

Is there some training lacking for some employee / machine combinations? The result may lead you to identify additional training needs, to reallocate employees to machines and processes they are better suited to, and much more. Are finished goods being moved to the warehouse consistently? Do some processes require more movement?

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

The law requires “retail sellers and manufacturers doing business in the state [with over $1 million $100 million in annual worldwide gross receipts] to disclose their efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their direct supply chains for tangible goods offered for sale, as specified.”

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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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RFgen

MAY 2, 2019

Even though distribution center job openings have risen by 50% from 600,000 in 2014 to 900,000 in 2018, fulfilling those openings has proven to be a major challenge. One of the major challenges helped by warehouse automation is in training and onboarding new, temporary and seasonal workers, as well as retraining the existing workforce.

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AFFLINK

APRIL 18, 2018

This website shows that retail e-commerce sales grew roughly 25 percent annually worldwide from 2014 to 2017. Coronado added that e-commerce will impact distribution networks as much as companies building manufacturing plants in foreign nations to save money affected the networks in the past. Better training and technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

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. Orbit Chart for SanDisk for 2006-2014. SanDisk’s Journey to Build a Supply Chain Customer Segmentation Strategy.

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

A Boston Scientific medical device is used somewhere in the world every two seconds, but the company is much more than a medical device manufacturer. Manufacturers find themselves at a crossroads. 12 | Profile Hans Willems, Vice President Supply Chain Europe, Boston Scientific. 26 | Global Trade Map.

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SupplyShift

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Source Trust is a nonprofit founded by swiss chocolatier Lindt with the goal of transforming farmer livelihoods through grower training and community assistance. Hershey Miniatures, for example, one of the most popular Halloween candies of all time, unveiled a new look in 2014 that cut down on packing by 0.05 grams per chocolate bar.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This work started in 2014 when the Colgate team challenged me for giving so much admiration for the P&G team in my first book, Bricks Matter. We started charting public performance on Orbit charts studying the relationships between metrics and having conversations with manufacturing and retail teams about their results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As a result, companies like AstraZenca, BASF, Colgate, Reckitt Benckiser, Seagate, and Taiwan Semiconductor outperformed their peer group in the period of 2006-2014, but sustained improvement becomes more and more difficult. Or did the machine fail in the digital manufacturing process? Digital Manufacturing. 4) e-commerce.

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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. Unfortunately, this amount of time equates to a higher cost of waiting for more drivers to finish their training, thus driving up trucking rates.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 28, 2016

Picture of traditional job in manufacturing. Each setting is an accurate image of manufacturing from different time periods in history, the past and the present. Manufacturing has changed a great deal over the last 100 years, and manufacturing today is dramatically different than what was “normal” in 1990.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Each route starts with one of our 32 manufacturing plants where we produce either finished or semi-finished lenses. Like a lot of manufacturers, the standard S&OP process needs to adapt to the pandemic. A couple of manufacturers have decided or are thinking of relocating part of their production post pandemic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

It is for this reason, that I discount the reporting by APQC, Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF) and Grocery Manufacturing Association (GMA) benchmarking data. Supply is better understood by the traditional manufacturing organization, and the results are more contingent on the technology selection. The reason is simple.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

I wrote about this emerging trend in Keeping Control: What 3PLs Must Convince Their Customers (March 2014). Here’s an excerpt: My hypothesis is that as manufacturers and retailers start to view logistics as a core strategic function, their desire to take more control will increase, and so their desire to outsource will diminish.

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