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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

After a year full of more scandals, indictments, political contentiousness, workplace violence, school shootings and natural disasters, maybe it’s time we all took a collective breath and focused on some of the positives that came out of 2018. Content Summary: Walmart Says It Can Reduce Emissions in China by 50 Million Tons.

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Added Boeing Developments Related to Production Quality Challenges

Supply Chain Matters

In its reporting, the WSJ indicated that the investigation is occurring in tandem with the justice agency’s ongoing review of Boeing ‘s compliance with a previous settlement sparked by two fatal crashes involving separate 737 MAX aircraft in 2018 and 2019 that killed nearly 350 people.

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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

performance-based metrics. For example, shipments that are missing origin documents are being held up and turned away at ports, causing costly disruptions that ripple through supply chains.” 3] Staff, “ The Difference Between Visibility and Transparency Within Your Supply Chain ,” Supply Chain Link , 13 March 2018. [4]

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Collaboration Technology for a More Sustainable Supply Chain

Turvo

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks 1990–2018 (the national inventory that the U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2018.”. This includes analyzing volumes, distances, and mode selections, and documenting inefficient modes, routing, and empty miles that flow from poor utilization.

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Seeking Logistics Perfection

Enterra Insights

Even when companies have been generally successful in reducing the number of imperfectly fulfilled orders, the high cost of the very small percentage of orders that aren’t filled completely, on time, damage-free and with all proper documentation and invoicing remains a vexing problem.”[1]

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Off to another exciting year of student-industry engagement at NC State on cutting-edge supply chain projects

NC State SCRC

In a prior post on 2018 supply chain predictions, I shared how NC State’s Poole College of Management engages directly with industry through student-led projects. The students will review and document the current geography allocation process for Surplus/excess, Overage and Unconsumed Purchase parts inventory (SOUP).

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Retail Inventory Shrinkage Remains a Problem

Enterra Insights

APQC analysts note, “Thoroughly evaluating shrinkage includes looking at the actions of employees and suppliers to identify fraudulent behavior, as well as badly defined or documented processes that might lead to higher errors or inventory problems at multiple points in the process.”[3]. ”[3]. Human errors.