Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

As a result, unit picking, shipping and returns is redefining warehouse management and transportation processes. Voice picking, piece pick walls, and pushing the goods to the packer are new processes, but underlying these process redefinitions is the need for investment in warehouse management. Instead, it is a redefinition.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 23, 2016

Industry Week, March, 2016). These metrics would, of course, be aligned and are updated every hour. The metrics are also manual as automatic metric systems cannot retrieve the information at an hourly frequency as these metrics are process inputs and not outputs. Flex is eight (8) years into its Lean journey.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 20, 2019

.” Fans of Indiana Jones’ movies, will remember the scene at the end of the first movie where the crate containing the Ark of the Covenant is placed in a huge warehouse containing thousands of similar crates. The implication is pretty clear — the likelihood of the Ark being discovered in the warehouse is slim to none.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 20, 2017

The need to transport parts also drives inventory up, creates a need for space to store those parts, and uses energy for more forklift time and warehouse heating. Read Also: 10 Warehouse Productivity Tips for Reducing Downtime Today! Right Source. Related: Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog.

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

Source: Smartening up with Artificial Intelligence (AI) – What’s in it for Germany and its Industrial Sector? (52 Source: Technology and Innovation for the Future of Production: Accelerating Value Creation (38 pp., Source: Digital Factories 2020: Shaping the future of manufacturing (48 pp.,

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 27, 2018

Essentially, gamification is just an expansion of the use of metrics and KPIs to measure human performance. The difference is quite subtle, but lies in the fact that while rewards (financial or otherwise) may play a part in logistics gamification , they should not become the sole source of motivation. Gamification in the Warehouse.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 27, 2016

As digitization continues to modify the global supply chain landscape, its unprecedented data sources and solutions will lead to not only the demise of disparate information systems, but to the rise of true, end-to-end, supply chain visibility. Improve lead times and performance. Identify shortage and quality problems along the supply chain.

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RFgen

MAY 5, 2016

CNN reported that CRF Frozen Foods expanded their voluntary recall of products in May 2016. Incidents like this seem increasingly prevalent as news sources rush to inform consumers about any products that may be contaminated. Salmonella and listeria are primary concerns for modern grocery shoppers.

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RFgen

MAY 5, 2016

CNN reported that CRF Frozen Foods expanded their voluntary recall of products in May 2016. Incidents like this seem increasingly prevalent as news sources rush to inform consumers about any products that may be contaminated. Salmonella and listeria are primary concerns for modern grocery shoppers.

Food 52

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Amazon has dozens of warehouses all over the country, and more around the world, so your products may be in your customers’ hands quickly. Q4 of 2016, in particular, created less than ideal press for the company when a British jury found Amazon UK guilty of shipping hazardous materials by air without proper labeling or packaging.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. Include the supplier’s warehouse and manufacturing locations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

The source of the content is research. We are also more advanced on transportation and warehouse planning than supply chain planning. In 2016, 45% of companies plan to increase technology spending. The answer is unknown; but what is for sure, the market is going to be far more interesting in 2016. How do you see 2016?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

If Gartner’s Top 25 Supply Chain rankings are anything to go by, Unilever is THE world leader in supply chain operations, at least in 2016. For example, by 2020, Unilever expects to sustainably source 100% of its raw materials, even those used for packaging. Unilever’s Supply Chain: A Lesson in Responsibility.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

Source: Google. This was not a trivial transition because the software industry, until relatively recently, was long fixated on measuring its health and success by new license revenue (sales of products) instead of customer-centric metrics, such as realization of ROI and payback objectives. Where is Descartes today?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Our goal in writing these case studies is to share insights from the Supply Chains to Admire winners from 2016. Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” (The The composite of metrics includes growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital.)

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Locus Robotics

JUNE 21, 2018

At Locus, we’re hyper-focused on delivering innovative and technologically advanced warehouse robots that optimize worker productivity and maximize customer ROI. Image source: Dan Romik. The downside of this approach is that it significantly impacts the same key operational metrics (UPH)/LPH, cycle times, etc.)

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Locus Robotics

JUNE 21, 2018

At Locus, we’re hyper-focused on delivering innovative and technologically advanced warehouse robots that optimize worker productivity and maximize customer ROI. Image source: Dan Romik. The downside of this approach is that it significantly impacts the same key operational metrics (UPH)/LPH, cycle times, etc.)

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Locus Robotics

JUNE 21, 2018

At Locus, we’re hyper-focused on delivering innovative and technologically advanced warehouse robots that optimize worker productivity and maximize customer ROI. Image source: Dan Romik. The downside of this approach is that it significantly impacts the same key operational metrics (UPH)/LPH, cycle times, etc.)

Optimal Sourcing 40

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Locus Robotics

JUNE 21, 2018

At Locus, we’re hyper-focused on delivering innovative and technologically advanced warehouse robots that optimize worker productivity and maximize customer ROI. Image source: Dan Romik. The downside of this approach is that it significantly impacts the same key operational metrics (UPH)/LPH, cycle times, etc.)

Optimal Sourcing 40

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Organizations need to be able to tap into multiple sources of information from both structured and unstructured, internal and external sources, to provide greater insights into key research insights into business strategy questions. Social media holds a lot of promise here.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

Check out the highlights and photos from our 2016 , 2017 , and 2018 rides. Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon to invest in French firm’s technology for self-driving forklifts (Reuters) Warehouses Test a New Breed of AI Robots (WSJ – sub. Robots in the Warehouse.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Source: Adelante SCM poll of MercuryGate clients. The progress here is also mixed: Source: Adelante SCM poll of MercuryGate clients. Source: Adelante SCM poll of MercuryGate clients. Source: Adelante SCM poll of MercuryGate clients. Source: Adelante SCM poll of MercuryGate clients.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 19, 2016

2016 will be a defining year for the logistics industry , and transportation management practices must adapt to these changes. Similarly, the method of determining the rate of shipping will change in 2016. In a report by the American Truckers Association, the driver shortage is expected to grow in 2016.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Move over, 1982, it’s 2016. Often, departments take a vertical approach to reporting, whereby individual, functional metrics are tracked, instead of taking a horizontal view that gives insight into the health of the supply chain network and interdependencies of the individual functions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

From 2010-2016, venture capital funds invested in over 2000 early stage deals in the ‘internet’ sector. Product sourcing. Product sourcing is the process of purchasing or creating products that you can sell. A thorough understanding of metrics that prove out business models. Scalable order fulfillment.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The number and locations of required warehouses, distributors, etc. This way, the client and the operator are completely on the same page (even up to being on the same line of the page) regarding crucial details like goods being dispatched, warehouse goods procurement and delivery at arranged destinations.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. I took our line of fasteners: bolts, nuts screws and washers and put them in one location in the Warehouse. VMI is all about collaboration.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

You have to get the numbers right and you have to translate the S&OP lead-time, inventory, planning bill of materials design implications and sourcing to dozens of different languages used in the roles / departments of a company. This tends to illustrate how profits are created from balancing lead time of supply with lead time of demand.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Source: Evan, Flikr. “I It echoed the title of my September 2016 post, “ The Day a Cyber Attack Brings the World’s Supply Chains to a Halt.”. SophiaTX Open Source Platform to Integrate SAP, Blockchain. I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right.

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