Talking Logistics

APRIL 6, 2015

As I wrote last October, all signs point to Mexico playing a greater role in supply chains , as companies across a variety of industries grow their presence in the country, either manufacturing in Mexico or growing their supplier base there. A very creative departure from just having someone read the speaker’s bio!

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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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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 14, 2024

The report highlights the luxury automaker’s production approach where electronic powered model vehicles not only have the same appearance of gasoline powered models, but are produced on the same production line in Munich, Germany. The approach is one of flexible manufacturing, practiced by other global manufacturers including Toyota Motor.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

Motivations and Stats on the State of Reshoring in 2015. Many off-shore manufacturers have returned to the U.S., Those changes, along with high costs of transporting materials and finished goods to and from overseas locations, make the value of reshoring likely to become a compelling financial reality for many manufacturers.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2015

As Joe Dixon, SVP of Supply Chain at Brooks Brothers, commented at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference a few weeks ago: “SAP is our internal ERP system, GT Nexus is our external [supply chain] ERP system.”. OHL specializes in the sectors of apparel, electronics, healthcare, food and beverage, and consumer packaged goods.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Unions set sights on e-commerce and manufacturing firms after NLRB ruling (Reuters). Union organizers see Thursday’s ruling as paving the way for gains across a range of industries given the widespread use of subcontracting by the manufacturing and service sectors to lower costs. HighJump Acquires Wesupply.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. To help, in this post, we provide you with some insights for the period of 2006-2015. Each year at Supply Chain Insights , we study the progress of public companies in manufacturing, retail and distribution sectors. A Look at History.

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Elementum

APRIL 15, 2016

Consumer electronics could be facing months of supply chain disruptions after the Kumamoto quakes rattled manufacturers in Southern Japan. The popularity of semiconductor and other electronics producers in the region, whose fragile manufacturing process could have been critically damaged by the quakes. What Happened.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

E-procurement, which is known as ‘electronic procurement’ or ‘supplier exchange’, is changing the way companies are sourcing their goods and services. Over the last ten years, institutions have been using more electronic tools to manage their procurement activities. & (Dec 2015). Bibliography: Adebayo, V. &

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QAD

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Manufacturing in Germany. Typical manufacturing products made in Germany include machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages, textiles and shipbuilding. The manufacturing sector invested 53.4 Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. billion mt-km of goods in 2015.

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QAD

JANUARY 16, 2020

Another challenge to automotive cybersecurity is the various electrical components in a car (known as electronic control units, or ECUs) that are connected via an internal network. Security practitioners and car manufacturers must provide connected cars with security solutions that address the increasing threat landscape.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 22, 2015

In The Netherlands, cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris is closing its factory in Bergen op Zoom and AkzoNobel has decided to phase out its production of organic peroxides in Deventer by the end of 2016. In Belgium, the Ford factory in Genk will soon close for good, as will the Heinz manufacturing facility in Turnhout.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 17, 2011

The IT and telecommunications sectors have long been at the forefront of sustainable procurement, yet the pressure to successfully actualize sustainable practices along each stage of the supply chain (raw materials, manufacturing and end-of-life recycling) is intensifying.

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2016

Offshoring offers manufacturers many supply and labor benefits, but it can also present supply chain logistics management obstacles. Forbes explained how Mexico is currently undergoing manufacturing growth that makes the country an ideal candidate for production. auto manufacturing giant that wants to get into the hybrid game.

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2016

Offshoring offers manufacturers many supply and labor benefits, but it can also present supply chain logistics management obstacles. Forbes explained how Mexico is currently undergoing manufacturing growth that makes the country an ideal candidate for production. auto manufacturing giant that wants to get into the hybrid game.

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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. The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (TFTEA) brings significant changes to Duty Drawback policy and implementation. Duty Drawback is a refund from the U.S.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Medical manufacturers make perfect copies of body parts using 3-D printers. Companies that use 3-D printing – also known as additive manufacturing – create a product one layer at a time. Fortune recently reported Alcoa Aluminum has plans for a $60-million dollar 3-D printing manufacturing center.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Medical manufacturers make perfect copies of body parts using 3-D printers. Companies that use 3-D printing – also known as additive manufacturing – create a product one layer at a time. Fortune recently reported Alcoa Aluminum has plans for a $60-million dollar 3-D printing manufacturing center.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Rebounding freight volumes and the proximity of the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate are set to change the industry in 2017, reports Sean Kilcarr of FleetOwner. When the industry revved up in 2014, many manufacturers and shippers expanded warehousing options and inventory to meet the growing demands of consumers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At the time, we were both deployed as consultants for Manugistics to help a manufacturing company to implement end-to-end planning. In the process, each of the founding partners–Hitachi, Matsushita, LG Electronics, Nortel Networks, Seagate Technology, Solectron and Toshiba–created their own processes. Investors moaned.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2023

The made-to-fit boxes, along with other efforts to reduce the use of cardboard, have cut the average weight of packaging used per shipment by 38 percent since 2015. Electronics seller Crutchfield Corp. in a statement. “On On behalf of the American people, this Committee is demanding answers on the risks these cranes pose to U.S.

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o9 Solutions

JANUARY 11, 2022

Together, o9 and AWS enable companies across a wide range of sectors — including industrial manufacturing, life sciences, oil and gas, telecommunications, high-tech and electronics manufacturin g, consumer-packaged goods, and retail — to accelerate their digital transformation. “o9’s

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Logility

AUGUST 28, 2018

To some extent durable goods manufacturers can predict aggregate demand based on the average useful life for their products. percent last month, the biggest drop since January 2015, after advancing 1.2 Of course people like me, who stretch the limits on the useful life of a product, tend to throw outliers into the data.

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Logility

AUGUST 28, 2018

To some extent durable goods manufacturers can predict aggregate demand based on the average useful life for their products. percent last month, the biggest drop since January 2015, after advancing 1.2 Of course people like me, who stretch the limits on the useful life of a product, tend to throw outliers into the data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

In our work on the Supply Chains to Admire report , we tracked the progress of manufacturing, retailing and distribution companies for the period of 2006 to 2013 and 2009-2013. The results for the high tech and electronics industry is shown in Figure 1. 2015 Supply Chains to Admire. Our first step was to define the leaders.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 3, 2021

Manufacturing is gaining steam not only in the US but around the world as businesses return to a COVID-19 type of redefined normalcy. However, as manufacturing comes roaring back, it is being met with supply chain issues such as delivery delays and higher costs. If 2020 was the year of B2C, 2021 could likely be the year of B2B.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2017

Only 12% of public companies are making improvement during the period of 2009-2015 in both operating margin and inventory despite spending an average of 1.7% In some industries, like consumer electronics, we are going backwards. Over the last decade, managing costs in the supply chain is becoming more and more difficult.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

Services by Amazon Here are some of the key services offered by Amazon: General public: Amazon.com – an e-commerce platform offering a diverse selection of products such as books, electronics, apparel, and groceries. From books and electronics to clothing and groceries, Amazon offers an unparalleled selection of items to its customers.

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 23, 2017

The manufacturing firms that continue (successfully) into the future must possess the “talent” with the right competencies, and the “strategic thinking and problem solving” abilities to deal with the new and increasingly more complex supply chain. Technology, digitization and automation are dramatically changing the supply chain.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2019

based chemical manufacturing remains advantaged in global markets due to abundant energy and feedstock supplies. Light vehicle sales have declined from the robust pace of 2015-16, but the council predicts they will remain elevated at 17.1 ACC notes that more than 96% of all manufactured goods are touched by products of chemistry.

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EcoVadis

OCTOBER 17, 2017

A significant amount of waste – including flame retardants and gas pollutants – is generated during the manufacturing process of electronic components, which is hazardous to both plant workers and the environment if not handled and disposed of properly. The challenges are only growing. Even as the new U.S.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox explain, “In the 2015 novel Ghost Fleet , the spark that starts World War III is not a nuclear bomb, but a supply chain hack. The story line begins back in 2015 when Amazon was considering the acquisition of Elemental, a video-compression company. ” Footnotes. [1]

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 25, 2017

According to Vijay Ramachandran of Logistics Viewpoints, the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) mandate, reduced fleet sizes, growing problems within the driver shortage and merging of business and logistics strategies are responsible for this new view on the TMS. In 2015, drones were new and exciting, but still out of reach.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Retailers that effectively manage their product returns to manufacturers can drive significant savings. Neither retailers nor manufacturers have the specialization or bandwidth to deal with product returns (manufacturers deal with many retailers, and vice versa).

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Retailers that effectively manage their product returns to manufacturers can drive significant savings. Neither retailers nor manufacturers have the specialization or bandwidth to deal with product returns (manufacturers deal with many retailers, and vice versa).

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 29, 2019

They still rely on paper-based, manual processes; they lack electronic connectivity with most of their trading partners; their data quality is still poor (inaccurate, incomplete, and/or not timely); and they have failed to modernize their IT systems.” ” Not all companies are laggards. . Footnotes. [1] 5] Michael C.

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Elementum

APRIL 28, 2017

initiative that implemented different proof of concepts for manufacturing and logistics processes using a range of technologies including 3D printing, cloud computing, data visualization, and the Internet of Things (IoT). These two technologies are continuously changing the landscape in manufacturing and the logistics network of companies.

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