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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. Located in Mexico but close to the California border, it serves as a vast hub of industrial jobs, making significant contributions to the production of products that ship all over the world. Big data can also help anticipate supply chain threats.

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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. Source E2open Shipping Index). The two most significant factors were a rise in time between the booking to gate in at the port, up 43%, and the ocean transit time, up 36%.

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Top Automotive Mobile Barcoding Software Success Stories

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Companies in the automotive industry can’t afford to waste money rush shipping out-of-stock or lost inventory parts or letting parts sit unused on the shelf. One solution is to automate data collection with mobile barcoding software. Toyota Data Collection Offers Lessons for Operational Resilience. Improved customer service.

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Experts Reveal Top Transportation Trends to Watch

Supply Chain Opz

James Winebrake, Dean of College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology There are a number of important trends happening in the freight industry, spanning all modes of transportation: trucking, shipping, rail, pipeline, and air. In North America the low hanging fruit for long-haul loads is rail. In the U.S.,

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There Are Not Enough Women Supply Chain Leaders!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The rise of big data in various manufacturing and logistics industries, the development of sophisticated ERP systems, and end-to-end Supply Chain visibility has made it a crucial strategic function for companies looking to get an edge in highly-competitive industries like Consumer Goods, Food Production and Pharma. What’s more?

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Supply Chain Movement 20 – Trends & Consulting

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At the same time, the supply chain specialists are expanding across Europe and even into North America. A decade of internal costsaving measures at Boston Scientific has led to creative, state-of-the-art solutions such as a genetic algorithm that calculates the optimum packaging size to minimise the amount of empty space being shipped.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

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These technologies also contribute to a rise in big data and analytics in the logistics field. “Data science can bring great gains for…” Logistics efforts of retailers and manufacturers. Big data analytics is promising too: it enables predictive maintenance for better fleet management.