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The Dire Need for Data Automation in the Manufacturing Industry | AFFLINK

AFFLINK

Automation in manufacturing can help be the driving force to lift some of the burden felt by many distributors across the globe. Unpredictable Consumer Demand Trends Traditionally, organizations got away with loose forecasting and just-in-time (JIT) inventory management to match production to consumer demands.

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Carbon Mitigation Actions; For The Planet, And for the Pocket

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As a consumer, I expect when I invest in an appliance or a tool, it will keep working for a reasonably long time to bring a return. This is not just for meeting a target – it is for the health of our planet. More importantly, this same voluntary market is projected to increase to $50 billion by 2030. Planet earth is similar.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The delays are attributed to supply chain issues at every stage – from the time of booking transport to gate in at the port as well as ocean transit time of shipping containers. In fact, global freight rates have increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic. points the month before, for the first time in months.

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Supply Chain Matters COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule Update- October 25 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Trillion by 2030. . Trillion by 2030. . Our most recent update of this series were published on September 27 and on September 9 th. Included in this update is a report indicating further adjustments in Apple iPhone 14 planned production volumes, reporting that the major U.S.

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Boeing’s Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

Supply Chain Matters

We do so in the lens of supply chain management and manufacturing. According to a published report by The New York Times , the FAA’s audit: “ explored how well Boeing’s employees understood the company’s quality control processes.” Interviews reportedly conducted with six engineers and scored by auditors yielded a score of 58 percent.

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TMS Delivers on NASSTRAC’s Five Common Sense Suggestions for Shippers

Supply Chain Collaborator

In a competitive business climate organizations need to make the right decisions the first time. Unsurprisingly, these suggestions aligned perfectly with the technology solutions already in production from top TMS software solutions. Step 1 – Establish coherent, data-driven plans. Step 1 – Establish coherent, data-driven plans.

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Reverse Logistics emerging from the "dark side" and into earnings calls

Cathy Roberson

I spent time at the conference listening to members’ research needs and, best of all, their willingness to share data so that we can size the total, global, and regional returns market, figure out the average returns volume by type of business (retailer, manufacturer, etc.), by industry and lots more. collecting more than 2.5