Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our readers with a further update on the ongoing Red Sea shipping disruption including added context and implications. Background Just before the Christmas 2023 holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption. East Coast.

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QAD

OCTOBER 11, 2022

From integrated multi-currency, multi-GAAP and multi-entity financials to best practice purchasing, from shared services to real-time data and flexible data analytics, Effective Enterprise Management ensures that manufacturers operate from a trusted set of essential enterprise processes that meet today’s and tomorrow’s needs.

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AIMMS

MARCH 8, 2016

In Europe, V&D , a major Dutch department store, and Brantano , a large footwear retailer operating in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK, have officially declared bankruptcy. To match demand, retailers will need to adapt their volume and service requirements, boost store delivery frequency and explore new avenues like same-day shipping.

Price Reduction 156

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 20, 2022

where the various parts were sourced, what are they made of, etc.) We are working hard to help our customers meet their sustainability needs. As a result, they have reduced their spend on air freight, a costly remedy for shipping delays, by almost 90%. This shows that sustainability concerns are only growing.

Waste Reduction 83

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AIMMS

MARCH 8, 2016

In Europe, V&D , a major Dutch department store, and Brantano , a large footwear retailer operating in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK, have officially declared bankruptcy. To match demand, retailers will need to adapt their volume and service requirements, boost store delivery frequency and explore new avenues like same-day shipping.

Optimal Sourcing 120

Optimal Sourcing Sourcing Strategies Price Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies 120

BlueYonder

JANUARY 11, 2021

Pfizer has chosen to work with logistics provider to ship vaccines directly from their plants (in Kalamazoo and Belgium) to the various states and specified DCs. Temperature control, such as Pfizer’s vaccine needing to be kept at -70C may/will present the need for local sources such as dry ice. So that is on the make side.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Demand for ocean freight was lower than anticipated, and Hanjin Shipping, another top ten ocean liner, was already teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping.

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