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Top 5 Logistics Challenges and Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry

GlobalTranz

The manufacturing industry faces many challenges, such as a skilled labor shortage, supply chain instability, and inventory management issues. Supply Chain Management and Maintaining Inventory. Facing inventory challenges is common in the manufacturing industry. Inventory management software is an important solution.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

The availability of capacity in industries like the semiconductor industry is tight. The proliferation of products and capabilities is exponential with over 60% of capacity in Taiwan. But, even then, the relocation of capacity is not a snap of the fingers. Focus on right-sizing inventories. These are our weakest links.

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Driving the Future of Automotive — Connected, Autonomous, Electric, Configure to Order

BlueYonder

However, the risk of this business model is the disconnect with the market it serves — which results in massive incentives to clear out vehicle inventories. It is anticipated that by 2030, 80% of new vehicle purchases will occur online, and a significant portion (60% to 80%) of new cars will be directly sold to consumers.

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From the Barley in the Fields, to the Beer in Our Hands: Carlsberg’s Sustainability Journey

BlueYonder

Nearly all strategies put forward by organizations, including Carlsberg, come with a 2030 or 2040 asterisk. Blue Yonder Transportation Management solutions are one string in a wider bow that allows for complete capability and capacity to be analyzed, and therefore responded to. The former deadline isn’t far away.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030. This is putting the squeeze on small businesses.

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Ease the Burden of Labor Shortages and Increase Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

The trucking industry was down 80,000 drivers in 2021, and that shortage is anticipated to balloon to 160,000 by 2030. million by 2030. It’s a global problem. The labor supply is shrinking in Germany, Poland, Russia, and Japan, and contraction is expected to quicken. China, which had a worker surplus of 55.2 million to 75.3

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The March of the Lemmings.

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, the company, at the end of the five-year implementation, is unable to roll-up data to a corporate level to analyze the forecast or capacity planning. A supply chain team improved forecast accuracy by 22%, but did not improve inventory or customer service. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. without a material balance.

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