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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

Supply chain optimisation helps manufacturing businesses drastically reduce operational costs to improve revenue and customer satisfaction. In our latest Supply Chain Roundtable, four experts share their advice and experience around optimising the manufacturing supply chain. It’s a constant headache for our purchasing manager.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. Supply Chain Complexity 1 – Plan/Source/Make/Deliver/…. Today we face a comparable optimism and belief in Big Data and Manufacturing 3.0. Read More ».

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Warehousing, the Rise of IT, Automation, and Now… Robotics

Logistics Bureau

Affected by changes in production, procurement and distribution methods, warehousing has continually been pushed and pulled in different directions. Just-in-time techniques have led to more products arriving directly from manufacturing to the end-customer, shrinking warehouse use. Automation has also become significantly more popular.

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Supply chain software demands continual attention

Supply Chain Movement

The food and drinks manufacturer and owner of brands including Lay’s, Duyvis and Quaker has been using that ERP system since 1 November 2013. We’ve grown strongly over the past ten years, particularly in France and Belgium, and that’s one of the reasons for us to make that investment now. Inheritance. Google-level. Critical path.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift. The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle. The Next Steps.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Of course they need to be SMART. Purchasing and supplier management. Production/manufacturing. It’s an issue I see again and again in the course of my consulting activity. Many people get really confused about KPIs or Key Performance Indicators in Logistics and Supply Chain operations. Which ones to use?…

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