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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries.

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Global Supply Chain Recovery Dependent On A Vaccine

Supply Chain Shaman

Glaxo SmithKline introduced Shingrix in 2017, but shortages prevailed. During the pandemic, demand fell, and it was now available. The global economy rebound from COVID-19 hinges on the discovery and manufacture of an effective vaccine. They are seldom cross-functional to optimize source, make, and deliver together.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 13-17, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Exclusive: Wal-Mart to tear down walls between store, online buying operations – sources (Reuters). And you’re doing demand planning with data that is old. By the time you get to the third week of the month, demand has already changed. Amazon’s delivery drones may drop packages via parachute (CNN).

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Innovation in the Supply Chain’s Last Mile

Enterra Insights

Fluctuations in the market, unsold products rotting on the shelves and manufacturer delays all affect stock levels, resulting in losses of millions of dollars each year. As a result, many [companies] are embracing big data and artificial intelligence to gain insights into demand trends, seasonal fluctuations and order sourcing.”

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Innovation in the Supply Chain’s Last Mile

Enterra Insights

Fluctuations in the market, unsold products rotting on the shelves and manufacturer delays all affect stock levels, resulting in losses of millions of dollars each year. As a result, many [companies] are embracing big data and artificial intelligence to gain insights into demand trends, seasonal fluctuations and order sourcing.”

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Is your supply chain planning ready for the “Experience Economy”?

ToolsGroup

Gartner says we are entering what they call the ‘Experience Economy”, where personalization, speed, agility and the ability to predict consumer trends before they happen will separate the winners from losers ( Aspire, Challenge and Transform in a Disruptive World , 27 September 2017).

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Forget the Supply Chain of 2020. Here are 3 Things That Supply Chains Need Today.

Arkieva

While it is nice to envision supply chains in 2020 or 2030 the truth is; for many manufacturing businesses, discussions about future supply chain innovations, often leads to a “yeah.right,” smirk by supply chain executives – this with good reason. This looks at all the businesses’ current manufacturing and supply chain processes.