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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

ivalua

During this time, he managed consulting engagements, worked with customers to implement lean processes, and managed SaaS implementations for global manufacturing enterprises. in Marketing / International Business from the Pennsylvania State University and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. Doug has a B.S.

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Only as Good as Your Data: Why Supply Chain Digital Twins Require Real-Time Data Unification

ToolsGroup

Digital Twin Applications For instance, say you’re a manufacturer or distributor. With a digital twin, you could run scenarios to see how a new distribution center would affect your logistical costs, or how fulfilling an order from your warehouse in Pennsylvania would be more efficient than fulfilling from Kansas.

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ERP Sustains Manufacturing during COVID-19

IQMS

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed manufacturers to rapidly shift gears, from addressing work-from-home policies to managing extreme swings in demand and uncertain supply chains. In the process, it has highlighted an aspect of manufacturing ERP that is not as visible in more normal times— business continuity.

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The Appointment of Hershey’s First CTO

Supply Chain Matters

One of the areas that the Supply Chain Matters blog has focused on since our inception is bringing visibility to how a background in the many functional areas that make-up supply chain management can lead to other senior business leadership roles. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

We first started writing about and featuring reshoring content back in September of 2013, and have since added 10 more reshoring related posts in our reshoring blog category. Many off-shore manufacturers have returned to the U.S., 70% of manufacturers indicate that volatile energy costs are a major concern.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- October 25 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Technology. IFS specializes in contract manufacturing, contract packaging and assembly, display engineering, product launches, multichannel programs, and club store programs and has operations among 15 U.S. All rights reserved.

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The Supply Chain’s Groundhog Day Experience

Enterra Insights

The movie is about a cynical television weatherman named Phil Connors (played brilliantly by Bill Murray) who is assigned to cover the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The Covid nightmare also exposed how dependent many countries are on Chinese manufacturers and suppliers. ”[3] The China Problem.