AB&R

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A Key to Manufacturing and Warehousing Success in Arizona The Phoenix metropolitan area and surrounding cities are booming with new warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing plants right now. AB&R helps thousands of companies across North America identify, track, and manage their critical assets and inventory.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The report specifically indicates : “ November’s dip was largely triggered by a decline in Inventory Levels (-9.1) The report specifically indicates : “ November’s dip was largely triggered by a decline in Inventory Levels (-9.1) The report authors context these moves as a return to just-in-time inventory management practices.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

So why do we feature content related to Vendor Managed Inventory? In a VMI model, part of the equation is the inbound & outbound flow of the inventory. Inventory is then put on pallets and shipped as freight. ” Vendor Managed Inventory Model: A Quick Back Story. We never ran out of or had too much inventory.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2023

With the Inventory Level index continuing to grow, the sense of the March report is that there was no inventory replenishment cycle in the first quarter, and there may not be one in the second quarter as well. Panelists reportedly indicated that inventories would continue to build moving forward, but at a more modest rate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

But the data could not support the promise. I wanted it to be data-driven. Instead, what I observed when I looked at the data, was that most companies that I had worked with (in my role as an industry analyst, I had worked with over 300) were going backwards on margin and inventory turns. I could taste it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

My desire was to make the rankings of the Top 25 supply chain report data-driven based on balance sheet results. Companies entered the pandemic with twenty more days of inventory than at the beginning of the great recession. When companies were growing, I also discovered that the cost and inventory metrics better aligned with peers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

This week, I am finalizing an agreement with Arizona State University to fund a PHD student in statistics under the guidance of George Runger to try to finish the work. We have found that nine out of ten organizations are stuck on their ability to make improvements on both operating margin and inventory turns in the same year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Supply Chain Improvement is based on the work that we completed with an Arizona State University Operations Research team to determine the Supply Chain Index. Can you help us with what you see in the data?” The use of channel data into advanced analytics to sense demand. ” Yes, I said. Outside-in Processes.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

The overall takeaway from the July data was that global production momentum had begun to stagnate and in some regions such as the Eurozone, Taiwan, and to some extent , certain manufacturing regions of China, PMI values had reached contraction levels. . Additional Data- U.S. Logistics Managers Index.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2023

That stated, Warehousing Prices and Inventory Costs remain expanding at accelerated rates and the authors caution: “.it Added Thoughts As Supply Chain Matters observed in highlights of February’s PMI data, the key interpretation right now is stabilization, in other words, the bleeding has possibly coagulated.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2023

According to the June report summary , the primary driver of the latest decline was the inventory metric, which reportedly contracted 6.5 Logistics Managers Index (LMI) that again dropped to an all-time low for June 2023. Further, the current LMI value has slid 21.5 percentage points on a year-over-year dimension. percentage points in June.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

The research is independent and data-driven. Industry-by-industry, I compiled data for the period of 2010-2018. The source data for the analysis comes from Ycharts.). It is not as simple as trading-off inventory, cost, and customer service. The Supply Chains to Admire analysis is a data-driven discovery by peer group.

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Kinaxis

MAY 30, 2017

One conference I recently attended is the Gartner Supply Chain Executive conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Use of drones ( EyeSee inside the warehouse for scanning and tracking inventory, Prime Air for delivery). Use of drones and robots in warehouses eliminates the need for humans picking, putting away, or counting inventories.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

In an update published earlier this month, we highlighted various quantitative data related to global and regional supply chain PMI indices for May. Our stated takeaway from the published May data that there were discernable signs of change occurring across the global supply chain landscape. Regarding the latter, the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

Our stated takeaway from for the Q1 data was that indices were no longer reflecting the optimism indicated in February, and instead that of growing headwinds and added geopolitical concerns related to effects of the Ukraine conflict and China’s potential economic stumble as a result of a strict COVID-19 isolation policy. s major retailers.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

The Logistics Managers Index Report® , compiled by researchers at Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University and the University of Nevada Reno , and in conjunction with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), reported an April 2023 value of 50.9,

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

March and now Q1-2022 data point to continued disruption, added cost inflation and elongated transit times continuing to be manifested in the months ahead. . Data published at the end of March indicates that for movement of ocean container shipping transit from Asia to North America , the average time had declined to 108 days, upwards of 15.4

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

I just don’t think the comparison of very different industries in a spreadsheet based on growth, inventory values, and Return on Assets (ROA) is meaningful. I think that the discussion on supply chain excellence should be a data-driven discussion. The methodology unfairly favors companies that do not have assets.

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AB&R

MAY 19, 2020

Phoenix, Arizona, May 11th, 2020 – AB&R® (American Barcode and RFID Inc.), Those solutions include asset tracking, inventory management, workforce mobilization, wireless networking, and managed services to support them all. Increasing Commitment to the Network of Companies Certified to Help Businesses Implement GS1 Standards. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. We calculate the results based on public data from the period 2012-2021. Why do we spend four months doing this?

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

One of those voices is Hitendra Chaturvedi, professor of practice in supply chain management at Arizona State University’s W. Chaturvedi: So far this year, Ohio, Arizona and Tennessee have seen the most job announcements associated with reshoring. Carey School of Business. Resilinc: What’s the current status of reshoring manufacturing?

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Logility

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our call was scheduled quite early for me in Arizona since Santa’s HQ had adopted GMT as the standard time. As you can imagine, the CESC is inundated with data from multiple, disparate sources. Santa also wants to take advantage of all the new information available through the SC planning platform to optimize inventory.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

Global wide production, transportation and logistics activity levels reported for February, but continued rather concerning data related to global transportation service levels and cost. Commentary related to January’s PMI and logistics data can be accessed at this web link. Global Wide Production Activity. reported for January.

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Logility

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I recently moved to Arizona and traded my lawnmower and snow-shovels for a salt-water pool. First, you need to have deployed the basic demand, inventory and supply components of an integrated supply chain planning & optimization system of record. A key foundational component for automation is high quality data.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

The July PMI report further pointed to current inventory levels being at their lowest point in the history of this index, and based on July data, is still an ongoing process. Maersk indicated that retailers continue to pare excess inventories in a destocking effort that is expected to continue through the second-half of this year.

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AB&R

MARCH 2, 2023

How to Get a New Arizona Facility Running Optimally in a Hurry If you’re setting up a new warehouse or manufacturing facility in Arizona, you will want to make sure you’re being as efficient as possible in everything you do. The same company also saw 60% fewer data capture errors. One technology to consider is RFID.

Arizona 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 6, 2015

I am busy finalizing a report on the current state of the inventory optimization market, rewriting and updating a report on Sales and Operations technologies, and penning a new report on Supply Chain Centers of Excellence. (We We are also finishing up quantitative studies on inventory optimization and Sales and Operations Planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. As a result of the research with ASU, I settled on the combination of growth, margin, inventory turns, and ROIC for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis. The question was, “What mattered? Analytics Deployment.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 19, 2017

To try to wrap my head around the way the winners were determined, I dug in to the data. The methodology was determined with Supply Chain Insights and Arizona State University in 2014. Strength looks at the trend of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns from 2010 to 2016. Supply Chains to Admire Methodology. Improvement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

On the 2nd of April, I sat before a board discussing how a company could exceed expectations in the delivery of Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and superior operating margins and fail at the delivery of customer service and inventory. An Orbit Chart of Customer Service (Case Fill) Versus Inventory Turns. Where are we failing?

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

To make the list, companies out-performed their peer group on operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital while driving significant improvement in financial metrics over the period.Supply Chain Improvement is based on a detailed analysis calculated factors for balance, strength and resiliency. Learn More.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 15, 2020

Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, writes, “The coronavirus has disrupted U.S. ” Reintegration into the supply chain : “Goods that can be repurposed should be repackaged, refurbished, placed back into inventory systems, and resold.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2013

As I sat at my kitchen table, I reviewed spreadsheet after spreadsheet of corporate performance data on supply chain financial ratios. While the formulas are different and the supply chain financial ratio correlations vary, there is a strong trend for balance and alignment (management of Days of Inventory and Payables).

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The redirected perishable brewery inventory destined for bars and sporting venues into producing more 12-packs and other best sellers to meet anticipated growth in online sales. An efficient way to manage brewery inventory is with cloud-based brewery software. Data-driven decision making in beer manufacturing [expert Q&A].

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AB&R

DECEMBER 10, 2018

We covered hot topics in 2018 such as RFID container verification , employee mustering , and RFID in the data center. Plus, thanks to our great employees, we were named as one of the Top Companies to Work for in Arizona for the fourth year in a row. We expect the Windows to Android migration to pick up in 2019. 4) Locker Systems.

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RFgen

JANUARY 24, 2017

Take for example, voters in Maine, Colorado and Arizona, who approved a ballot measure to incrementally increase their state’s minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020 , according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Calculating the ROI of an Automated Data Collection System.

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RFgen

JANUARY 24, 2017

Take for example, voters in Maine, Colorado and Arizona, who approved a ballot measure to incrementally increase their state’s minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020 , according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Calculating the ROI of an Automated Data Collection System.

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