Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

In the first facility management was focused on controlling the workforce through individual metrics. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Matters

MAY 6, 2025

Background Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia , ketteQ describes itself as redefining how businesses approach supply chain planning and execution with fundamentally different technology approach. Changes in a forecasting performance metric can be attributed to a specific step or action in the forecasting process.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Cathy Roberson

JUNE 1, 2025

Reported May 29 While China remains the number one source for products we sell, we currently estimate the percentage of product COGS it represents is approximately 30% to 35% compared to the 55% metric we shared in March. These include: Leveraging manufacturing flexibility. I would organize them into five main themes.

Purchasing Skills

Jaggaer

JUNE 25, 2025

For example, discriminative AI can be used to classify suppliers based on performance metrics (including delivery time and quality, pricing) and external data (including ESG scores and financial stability) to recommend the best-fit suppliers within constraints such as cost, location, or sustainability goals.

Predictive Analytics Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

South Africa

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

That also led Klappich to recently define a new category of software, which Gartner calls a Multiagent Orchestration Platform (MAOP) for managing mobile robots in warehousing and manufacturing. ( lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 31, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

in May, but falling below the key 50 mark that separates US manufacturing expansion from contraction for 30 out of the last 32 months. A Manufacturing PMI above 42.3, recorded in May, in bad news for future US manufacturing activity. a little up from 48.5 a little up from 48.5 Supply Chain Digest Says. What do you say?

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 8, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Distribution

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Analysis

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 5, 2025

See More Below) CATEGORY SPONSOR: SOFTEON According to Transportation Topics, “While Trump’s new rates provide some certainty to manufacturers, plenty of tariff uncertainty remains. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 11, 2025

confectionary business in 2018. The New York Times reports that the takeover would combine Ferrero, a family-owned company that makes Tic Tacs, Ferrero Rocher candies and Nutella spreads, with the producer of Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Rice Krispies and other cereals.

Pharmaceutical

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 4, 2025

in June, falling below the key 50 mark that separates US manufacturing expansion from contraction for 31 out of the last 33 months. A Manufacturing PMI above 42.3, recorded in June, in bad news for future US manufacturing activity. recorded in June, in bad news for future US manufacturing activity.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

CP has recorded annual losses in each year dating back to 2018, and was on pace to completely deplete its cash reserves by Q2 of 2025 before the federal government stepped in with a $1 billion lifeline in January.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

ABF’s test of the Semi trounces the standard key performance indicator if taken as a stand-alone metric but also surpasses publicly available data released by carriers in earlier pilot tests and by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 18, 2018

Here are my predictions for 2018: Supply Chain Excellence as We Know It Is Redefined. This includes SCOR, APICs, Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains, Gartner Hierachy of Metrics, etc. Manufacturers and retailers are bundling goods and services to drive solutions. Confluence of Technologies. Realization that Integration Is a Mistake.

Prescriptive Analytics Software

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The first story is about a large regional food manufacturer. An example for this client would be to use 2017 and 2018 history to forecast 2019. The second story is about a regional beverage manufacturer. This was the case for the client stories that I will share in this blog. I have changed the names to provide anonymity.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In manufacturing-based companies, 70-80% of costs are in the processes of source, make and deliver. We analyzed the impact of 150 factors on 493 financial metrics for the period of 2004-2016. With the flurry of M&A, industry consolidation, outsourcing, and downsizing, the gaps for North American manufacturers are increasing.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In 2018, the Journal of Commerce reports that a container will have 22,000 to 24,000 twenty-foot containers in 2018. There is a need to re-shore where possible, and relocate manufacturing and supplier relationships. With the rise of the global multi-national, Asian flows are essential to today’s manufacturing operations.

Long Beach

Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

At the Supply Chain Global Summit 2018 , Francois discussed the impact of digitalization, Industry 4.0, The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve.

Case Study

Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 21, 2018

As 2018 comes to an end, a quick thank you to all of our readers, followers, and sponsors for another great year of learning and conversation on Talking Logistics. logistics executive at manufacturing company. “I Top 10 Talking Logistics Posts in 2018. 2018 Parcel Oversize Changes: Tightening of the Vise. I like that.

Video

IQMS

MAY 1, 2018

Bottom Line: Manufacturers are reaching a new level of results in 2018 because they have clearer, more actionable insights based on real-time manufacturing and quality metrics than ever before. Quality Metrics Enable Customer-Driven Manufacturing Networks.

Manufacturing Procurement