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[Video] Kinaxis – Revolutionizing supply chain planning

Kinaxis

At the moment, Kinaxis focuses on six verticals: high-tech, industrial, aerospace and defense, life sciences, automotive and consumer packaged goods. It means finding the appropriate data contained in staggering amounts of information, and the exercise is complicated when other players want to run simulations at the same time.

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November Global PMI Reporting Reflects Some Stabilization

Supply Chain Matters

Growth was reportedly fueled from demands in medicine, high tech, auto, railway, shipping and aerospace equipment markets. While the production sub-index registered 50.7, the new orders index was reported as 49.4. China’s non-manufacturing PMI weighted towards services fell to 50.2 in November from 50.6

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What I Have Learned Teaching Courses on Market-Driven Value Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

I am busy researching the business network evolution of GHX for Healthcare, E2Open for high-tech, Elemica for the Chemical Industry, Exostar for Aerospace and Defense, the redefinition of Covisint for the Automotive Industry, and GT Nexus for Apparel and Distribution Intensive industries. What is old is new again.

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Labor Tensions Running High on Many Fronts as Peak Season Approaches

Intelligent Audit

Though three smaller unions—the Transportation Communications Union, the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers—did make progress toward a tentative agreement, the larger unions BLET and SMART-TD were unable to do so. 16, ” according to FreightWaves. .

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American Software Reports First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2022 Results

Logility

The collaboration offers solutions to its customers across Automotive, Industrial Heavy Machinery, Aerospace, Industrial, and Medical devices verticals to help them achieve agility and improved resilience in the new normal.

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SCRC Student Project Lineup Off to a Great Start…

Supply Chain View from the Field

In the latter portion of the class, students will be involved in a comprehensive supply chain computer simulation exercise. Third, executives emphasize that to succeed in internships and entry level jobs, students must have a strong knowledge of cost models, negotiation and contract management.

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Guest Blog Part 2: Start Your eKanban Implementation with Value-stream Mapping and Engaging Your Suppliers

synchrono

Over the course of the exercise, we found multiple variations in the current, 66-step process that produced excess waste. The exercise exceeded expectations, providing all team members with quantifiable value of the project. For example, in one facility I worked with, it took us a day to develop a good process map.