Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 14, 2022

Wumdrop is a successful last mile logistics company in South Africa. But we believed, because we had studied TV script writing, that we knew how to pitch. You can write Breaking Bad, but if you don’t know how to pitch it, it doesn’t get made. We also had no idea how to raise capital. We were nobodies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2021

When Biden laid out his five-part plan for how to speed up the vaccination campaign on January 15 th , vaccine logistics was only partially addressed. manufacturing for protective gear. For example, say a manufacturing company decide to optimize factory throughput by having long production runs.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 29, 2021

”[1] The consequences of a blocked Suez Canal are just beginning to be felt around the globe — by shippers, by manufacturers, by retailers, and by consumers. Venturing south around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope adds at least 26 more days.”[3] But knowing how to choose the right and best alternative is another matter.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The Port of Shenzhen –a central manufacturing and export hub including the Yantian terminal that handles 25% of all U.S.-bound Still, the manufacturing plants and distribution centers are closed. Taiwan manufacturers 60% of global semiconductors. Semiconductor manufacturing consumes 10% of the island’s water supply.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

One point of focus explores how to incentivise the large pharmaceutical manufacturers to make generics and lower-cost items that could then be shipped to where they’re needed. We also explored how to build an international standard of university programs to train supply chain professionals properly as we go forward.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Understand how the recent Red Sea ship attacks are impacting global supply chains and how to mitigate potential risks. Will either navigate its vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, or temporarily pause their journey and reposition them in a safe location. Paused all shipments through the Red Sea (Dec 18).

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 5, 2023

During a recent “Logistics New Tomorrow” Blue Yonder Live, I spoke with Roy Bridgland, Senior Industry Strategy Director, and Brad Revell, VP of Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) Industry for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). It is important to note LSPs run a supply chain differently as compared to a retailer and a manufacturer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While shipping craziness is abating, the issues and implications of the Russian-Ukrainian war, energy shortages in China and Europe, food instability in Africa, and the global water crisis reverberate as disruption after disruption in the supply chain. These results herald upcoming issues for future manufacturing reporting earnings calls.

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Resilinc

JULY 25, 2023

In those roles, we closely aligned with 3,000 total suppliers globally, constituting about 6,500 individual manufacturing locations. We were also in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. A simple thing that we always said was that we wanted to buy where we manufactured. We also knew we wanted a process for responding to issues.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 25, 2021

My struggle is that while I rate some of the newer analytics an “8” on the ability to drive value, I rate the technologists’ teams a “2” on how to implement the technologies with business leaders. He must define “What good looks like” and “then clarify how to make decisions best.”

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 13, 2017

Too often they have implemented MRP and MPS production management systems that come with their ERP but are philosophically rooted in 1980’s planning methodology, when manufacturing was much more regional and computing power was a fraction of what is available today. Complex resource capability rules.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 18, 2022

This made it incredibly difficult for manufacturers to accurately gauge the market size for production. The situation became dire in February of 2022 when Abbott Nutrition, one of the country’s three main powdered formula manufacturers, voluntarily recalled several formula brands and shut down its Sturgis, Michigan factory.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 5, 2016

We will describe how to choose a partner, but first let’s take a look at why to consider outsourcing at all. These are people that know all the traps and know how to navigate around them. Yolandé du Toit is an industrial engineer at ToolsGroup Africa focusing on supply chain strategy.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

RL is a process where a manufacturer accepts previously shipped products from the customers point for potential recycling and/or re-manufacturing” Kobo360 from Nigeria is a leader in the practice stated. Do you need help figuring out how to become more Sustainable? 1995, April 12). Los Angeles Times. consulting.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

It doesn’t matter if you’re a technician working on the shop floor or an executive in the board room, if you’re in the business of manufacturing then this is a conversation you’ve had before. Without the right data it’s a debate that’s impossible to win, but I’m convinced that neither solution is perfect in all cases.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In a recent infographic, How to get your supply chain ready for the future, we highlighted three factors driving the need for supply chain change. I’d really love a $137.57 box of chocolates. Heck, let’s round it up to $140 and skip the sentimental greeting card. Consumers’ changing expectations. Raise a glass to land conservation.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 25, 2021

China trade war for companies with global manufacturing networks. percent of respondents from the engineering & manufacturing and 40 percent of automotive and mobility sectors declared that they had no contingency plans at all despite being industries heavily targeted in the trade war.” In particular, 47.6

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For example, on June 26, Lithium producer Livent Corp had a fire at its largest manufacturing plant in North Carolina. ARC Technologies manufactures a variety of sound absorbers, including honeycomb absorbers used to reduce noise from aircraft engines. A lithium compound caught fire at the 800-acre facility.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

How to Track Performance. How to Manage Performance. Dr. Muddassir Ahmed is a Manufacturing Operations, Procurement and Supply Chain leader from international multi-site manufacturing experience in Electrical, Hydraulics and Internet industries. Every business has their set of metric which they want to focus on.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

The cost was 60% more in than average; but even more unfortunate, they never got a good understanding of how to use the planning system. Bias and error are selectively measured and the organization is unclear on how to improve demand processes. Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Manufacturing.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 26, 2018

De Bernardini points to a number of emerging technologies he believes are disruptive enough to change how supply chains work. They include: Real-time Big Data and advanced analytics; mobility; the Internet of Things (IoT); social media; additive manufacturing (aka 3D printing); and drones/autonomous vehicles. Footnotes. [1]

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

He explains, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ It is an umbrella term which encompasses the end-to-end aspects of Finance, Operations, Development, Sales, Manufacturing, Distribution, Customer Management, Supplier Management, Technology and I/T.”

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Whether it was the US going to Asia or the EU going to Africa or the Eastern European countries to procure lower cost components, this concerted effort created a coordination challenge across a vastly extended supply network. Understand the risk in your network and how to mitigate it. Sharpen your inventory strategies.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Whether it was the US going to Asia or the EU going to Africa or the Eastern European countries to procure lower cost components, this concerted effort created a coordination challenge across a vastly extended supply network. Understand the risk in your network and how to mitigate it. Sharpen your inventory strategies.

Supply Chain Planning Software 100

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

” As Sandbu notes, the Trump administration has encouraged repatriating manufacturing to the United States — a strategy sometimes referred to as deglobalization. firms to bring manufacturing back to the states.”[2] 2] Geoffrey Gertz, “ How to Deglobalize ,” Foreign Policy, 24 July 2020. [3] Footnotes. [1]

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Jaggaer

AUGUST 12, 2020

Companies are starti ng to reengag e with key suppliers in an effort to reevaluat e sourcing strategies and how to approach the very uncertain future in this new Covid-19 environment. . A good example is Exide , the multinational lead-acid batteries manufacturing company. Now more than ever they are asking : .

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

To avoid the financial risks associated with planning errors, supply chain leaders and manufacturers should consider building an “insight-based” demand planning process, which brings together analytical tools and data with key human inputs across various functions. Measure where it matters.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most individuals understanding of the complexity of global supply chai designs is limited, and few realize how these global supply chains, and that re-shoring all manufacturing back to the US with the flip of a switch (or the passing of an Executive Order) is impossible in the context of global trade. In addition, some U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I will be speaking and working with clients in wonderful locations in Brussels, China, Germany, London, Mexico, Peru, and South Africa. Leaders know that massive change in supply chain processes is coming but they do not know how to get started. How to do this in the face of severe cost-cutting pressures? It is sad, but true.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Organizations around the world are now adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technology solutions to create smarter, leaner, safer and sustainable manufacturing systems. He has managed onshore / offshore / war zone logistics as well as batch, continuous, and discrete manufacturing setups. to measure and track my bottlenecks?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2014

Operational and executional planning processes are usually focused on geographic implementation by factories, distribution centers, and third-party manufacturers and distributors. It is much like a football team sensing what play to call based on how the other team lines up on the field. Out of Africa.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 3, 2020

According to shipping giant, Maersk, one shipment of refrigerated goods from East Africa to Europe can pass through roughly 30 people and organizations, involving more than 200 interactions. There are a number of approaches to how to design blockchains, and it will be important for those blockchains to connect.”

Supply Chain Network Software 100

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Elementum

AUGUST 2, 2022

Business leaders need to know what’s on the horizon and how to prepare their organizations. We review how those trends are likely to impact Supply Chain and what leaders can do to adjust. BRICS is an alliance between several countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) to do just that.

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

Manufacturers, with interdependent global supply chains, are faced with the challenge of employing effective global risk management strategies that encompass a full view of both external and internal risk factors. How to Get Started with Improving Your Supply Chain Processes Today! Read Full Article. Source: EBN.

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Requis

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Some of the OEMs in the automotive industry struggled with the end-to-end processing of leather, which came from South Africa. They could see the entire supply chain right from the first request for materials all the way to the source of the materials in South Africa. It was a seven tier supply chain. Supply chain is a new topic.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Organizations around the world are now adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technology solutions to create smarter, leaner, safer and sustainable manufacturing systems. He has managed onshore / offshore / war zone logistics as well as batch, continuous, and discrete manufacturing setups. to measure and track my bottlenecks?

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

He is one of the supply chain experts who can offer insightful advice on how to improve your supply chain operations thanks to his knowledge in logistics and transportation. You can access his course “How to choose and select Right Digital Procurement Technology” here! Paul Stephen Location: South Africa/ Remote Rating: 0/5.0

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