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Steel Yourself for Change: Fully Optimized Master Production Schedules

DELMIA Quintiq

Meeting these objectives, on top of addressing existing industry challenges, requires steel manufacturing companies to become more efficient and flexible in their operations—and this means optimizing their master production schedules. As your steel manufacturing operations transform, so too will the complexity of your planning needs.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. Source: LLamasoft.

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Rockwell Automation: Supply Chains to Admire Winner

Supply Chain Shaman

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Diversified Industry Performance For the Period of 2010-2017. Meet Ernest.

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Blockchain in Supply Chain: 2 Ethereum-Based Projects That Demonstrate How Blockchain Can Improve Supply Chains

GlobalTranz

A manufacturer in China doesn’t read the specs on an order. 2017 was the year that blockchain technology finally made world headlines, but it was mostly for the wrong reason. Provenance ensures transparency in supply chains, with the aim of encouraging brands to source materials and labor in an ethical and fair trade manner.

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Supply Chain Shortages Hit the Customer Where it Hurts

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2017, a chicken farm affiliated with Tyson Foods discovered a flock had been contaminated. But chicken and eggs are not the only protein source that has been facing supply chain shortages. Avian flu continues to be a thorn in the side of the poultry industry. The flock consisted of about 73,500 birds, which were used for breeding.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

Run” will include using the platform for inventory optimization and to support interesting internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. Molex has more than 80 manufacturing facilities around the world supported by an 18,000 strong supplier eco-system that provide raw materials, electronic components, and services. The Molex Supply Chain.