Enterra Insights

APRIL 21, 2021

The BCG analysts explain, “Today, another workforce transformation is on the horizon as manufacturing experiences a fourth wave of technological advancement: the rise of new digital industrial technologies that are collectively known as Industry 4.0.” So, it’s not a question of if but when AI will become the norm in the manufacturing sector.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

At that time, manufacturers talked about customer-centric supply chains, but were afraid to aggressively adopt ecommerce strategies. Manufacturers, today, are aggressively pursuing e-commerce strategies. Customer Service Needs to be all the Way to the Last Mile. They were afraid of retail retaliation.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Charlie Macdonald (Industry Executive for Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics, Telstra): We’re on this journey of transformation towards customer centricity. For three years, we’ve been using the Net Promoter Score to measure customer satisfaction. Our remuneration packages – including the CEO’s – were tied to the NPS.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By 2015 end-to-end visibility became an interesting possibility. Customer service : “Real-time supply chain visibility can help organizations deliver and maintain exceptional levels of customer service. And it is all about customer experience, isn’t it?”.

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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. In January 2015 SKF decided to proactively improve its supply chain to better innovate and respond to market disruptions.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 17, 2015

When I was asked to organize the Innovation and Thought Leadership track at FOCUS 2015 , I recognized that I would need to assemble some high-impact speakers who would get attendees thinking about the radical changes they need to make in their supply chains. I am looking forward to an engaging, stimulating discussion.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When the industry revved up in 2014, many manufacturers and shippers expanded warehousing options and inventory to meet the growing demands of consumers. Unfortunately, slight contractions in the global economy in 2015 and 2016, reflecting the unrest seen in China and Germany, resulted in the scale back of purchasing by consumers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company. Note that the industry aggregate actually went backwards, as did operating margin and inventory for the period 2015-2017. The focus is first on the customer with a global roll-out using an agile supply chain strategy to continually adapt to customer needs.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Over my next few articles, I’ll share some tips on the kinds of resolutions you can put in place to get your supply chain performance back on track in 2015. When measuring order fill rates, many manufacturer and distributors often fudge the numbers to make them look better than they really are.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 5, 2021

Like other economic sectors affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the manufacturing sector has had to reevaluate past business strategies to ensure they remain on track to survive and thrive in the post-pandemic environment. “Talk of Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing,” he writes, “has been around for years.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

We’ve already listed the top 10 manufacturing blog posts and the top 10 supply chain blog posts last week. When a manufacturer’s product normally moves through the supply chain network, it is to reach the distributor or customer. If the product is defective, the customer would return the product.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 31, 2014

On this last day in 2014, from everyone at Cerasis, we wish you a Happy New Year and great success in 2015 for all those in business. Today, slightly irritated by some of the commercials I have been seeing in the media, I wanted to talk about Software as a Service, or SaaS. Read the Full Blog Post. Read the Full Blog Post.

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Logility

APRIL 10, 2017

Supply chain professionals are asked on a daily basis for what can seem like miracles: improve customer service and reduce costs, do more with less. In many cases you will discover that processes like demand, inventory, replenishment, and manufacturing planning are limited by a lack of software capability.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 10, 2016

There is a reoccurring conversation in the parts industry that suggests that demand and distribution in this space is so complex that companies need to settle for less – lower customer service levels, fewer inventory turns, more obsolete or stranded inventory, and ultimately less contribution to corporate profitability. What’s changed?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 9, 2019

Customs Service for 99% of the duties paid on imported items which are subsequently exported or used in the manufacture of exported goods. Duty Drawback program, and companies are paying 20% of those refunds to service providers that help get the refund from the government. policymakers and Customs.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Another example: A few years ago I met with a supply chain executive at a leading food manufacturer who was working closely with the sales team to educate them on how to position the company’s supply chain and logistics capabilities as a competitive differentiator with their clients.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 14, 2020

The information compiled via IoT provides manufacturers and other stakeholders with abundant information for updated business insights.”[1]. Business journalist Craig Guillot ( @cguillot ) observes, “The Internet of Things is already offering the potential to recast entire supply chains in the manufacturing industry.

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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. Establish a Baseline Forecast.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

A traditional viewpoint of manufacturers reveals many flaws in the efficiencies of standard shipping, transportation, and other logistics processes. Inherently, manufacturing and logistics go hand in hand. Manufacturers must receive raw material inbound and send out product to customers outbound.

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Stord

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Co-Founders of STORD, Sean Henry (CEO) and Jacob Boudreau (CTO) started the company in 2015. Henry and Boudreau’s rapid expansion of STORD within the logistics industry has landed the pair on the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Manufacturing and Industry. said Santosh Sankar of Dynamo.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

Offshoring is basically when a company moves manufacturing to a foreign country in an attempt to save money. For a time, this model of manufacturing seemed to be the paragon of effective business. This may include research and development, product manufacturing, product packaging, and shipping processes. The short answer is no.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Contents Supply Chain Movement 18 – 2015 Q3. Publishing date: 18 September 2015. Winner of the last quarter (Q3-2015): Amazon. Loser of the last quarter (Q3-2015): Costco. 14 | 3PL Subway Map Europe 2015. 14 | 3PL Subway Map Europe 2015. 6 | News & Background. Distribution in China takes a detour.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Each functional area of the supply chain (purchasing, planning, distribution, manufacturing, customer service, etc.) In another example, minimizing distribution expense by going with the low cost shipping option, may extend shipment times and negatively impact customer service levels. Accessibility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 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. I had the opportunity to visit with the SanDisk team in July 2015. in Net Cash on Hand.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 10, 2015

2015 is coming to a close and as we herald in the New Year, shippers (manufacturers, retailers, and distribution centers) around the country are busy gearing up for the holiday season and have holiday logistics best practices on the brain. Be it Christmas, the New Year and New Orders, a new budget, Thanksgiving returns , etc.,

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Logility

AUGUST 7, 2017

This holds true no matter if your company is a retailer, wholesaler, distributor, or manufacturer. Improving forecast accuracy has one of the biggest impacts on improving service levels and reducing costs. 1 The Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics: Diagnosing Your Supply Chain Health - Gartner, 26 June 2015.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Back in 2015, Irfan Saif ( @irfansaif ), a principal with Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Cyber Risk Services practice, wrote, “Internet of Things initiatives demand targeted strategies to combat the influx of new cyber risks that will invariably accompany them.”[2] As I noted in a previous article, caution is warranted.[1] Footnotes. [1]

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

According to the CSCMP's "State of Logistics" Report from 2015, logistics costs now make up over 8% of the GDP. This can be costly in man hours, customer service (goods needed cannot be processed), accidents (safety): unloading a container and the forklift dies: the pallet slips off the forklift tines which can injure employees.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. It is for this reason, that I discount the reporting by APQC, Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF) and Grocery Manufacturing Association (GMA) benchmarking data. We then worked on the analysis.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 19, 2015

In the 2015 19th Annual Third Party Logistics Study, survey results showed the continuing, positive overall nature of shipper-3PL relationships. About one-third of respondents—32%—listed customer service as the top reason they are investing in omni-channel fulfillment; 23% cited service levels; 11% listed freight costs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The promise was the delivery of a decision support system that would allow the organization to optimize the relationships between cash, cost and customer service against the strategy. Leadership teams struggle with the trade-offs between cash, cost and customer service. Attendees at our 2015 Global Summit.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 9, 2016

The rationale for outsourcing certain manufacturing and supply chain processes, such as transportation management, fulfillment, and more to logistics companies is evident and clear. The need to meet the Holy Trinity of Manufacturing (having the right product, at the right time, and at the right price) is only growing.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

JUNE 28, 2022

3PL logistics is the link between your manufacturing operations and moving products to your customers. When your order fulfillment operations run smoothly , your customers are happy , and your business can grow. We have all the tools of larger 3PL service providers, plus the customer service passion of a family-owned company.

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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. Not only is this designed to improve customer service, it has already led to an eye-opening reallocation of costs.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

By 2015, satisfaction had increased to 59 percent and appears to be stabilising at that level, although the required percentage has since risen to 93 percent. From talking to supply chain directors of multinationals, I know that they have implemented IT applications that check whether their logistics service providers invoice them correctly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

In the building of end-to-end- processes (as described in my recent book, Supply Chain Metrics that Matter) , the supply chain is a complex system where growth, cost, inventory, asset utilization, customer service, cost and complexity are tightly inter-woven with non-linear relationships. Need for the design of buffers.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 27, 2015

On April 18, 2015, the National Motor Freight Traffic Assocation® has amended the NMFC rules regarding the required time frames for reporting concealed freight damage. Did the manufacturer provide all of the materials within the original shipment? Did someone steal part of the shipment before the recipient opened the package?

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