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The Mexican Recession Impact on CaliBaja!

Supply Chain Game Changer

What is Big Data? CaliBaja is a North American manufacturing powerhouse. For Mexico, it’s a big boon, offering the community an enormous number of stable, well-paying jobs. At face value, CaliBaja is a healthy community that is significant both for the Country of Mexico, and the rest of North America.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Manufacturing equipment lead times were 19 months. Instead, most companies manage based on functional metrics—lowest manufacturing, procurement, or transportation costs.

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Innovations that drive business decisions forward

DELMIA Quintiq

Main stage speakers, Dr. Victor Allis of Quintiq and Noha Tohamy of Gartner discussed the revolution in big data, elaborating on how companies can begin to leverage the enormous amount of business intelligence now available in order to make critical decisions for their operations and supply chain.

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Supply Chains in Recovery Mode: Forcing C-Level Focus on Digitally Transforming Their Supply Chains for 2022 and Beyond

BlueYonder

Coming out of Y2K, more logistics operations focused on improving labor management, transportation management and green initiatives such as advancements in lighting technology, safety features with automated dock ramps with trailer locks and more. Investments in Transportation solutions is imperative.

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Supply Chain Movement 20 – Trends & Consulting

Supply Chain Movement

At the same time, the supply chain specialists are expanding across Europe and even into North America. A Boston Scientific medical device is used somewhere in the world every two seconds, but the company is much more than a medical device manufacturer. Manufacturers find themselves at a crossroads.

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There Are Not Enough Women Supply Chain Leaders!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Logistics Managers, Manufacturing Directors and other Supply Chain leaders often rose from the shop floor, from front-line warehousing and transportation positions. Only 17% of Chief Supply Chain Officers in North America were women. However a new survey shows that the percentage of women in leadership roles is still low.

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Join BVL International at the North American chapter kickoff on August 12, 2013

Supply Chain View from the Field

However, the survey shows that costs are on the rise, greater than 8 percent on average in manufacturing industries. Two out of three respondents stated that their company’s logistics capability is negatively influenced by poor transportation infrastructure, which is a problem particularly in emerging markets. 4. Globalization.