Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This week, global automaker Toyota indicated that the company would nearly double its investment in a planned battery production facility being constructed in the state of North Carolina. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Prior to Gilead, Joydeep spent 10 years at Biogen, in roles of increasing responsibility in the areas of process sciences, manufacturing and supply chain. He also serves on the Board of Advisors for Culture Biosciences, as well on the Advisory Council for NC State University’s Supply Chain research program.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 9, 2020

An article in the Wall Street Journal discussed the emerging technology of automation in the meat packing industry. This is no doubt a harbinger of more automation to come not just in this industry, but in all industries where human labor works in close quarters.

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QAD

JULY 20, 2021

I live on the coast of North Carolina and in my part of the world it is officially hurricane season. At the writing of this blog, Elsa has passed by as a small, relatively uneventful rain storm and Fred has yet to form. My colleague Terry Onica recently wrote a great blog on avoiding the next semiconductor shortage.).

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 30, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides a follow-up automotive industry perspective focusing on Toyota Motor and its inherent abilities to continuously adapt to consumer and market dynamics. based battery production facility being constructed in the state of North Carolina. Two broad influencing developments have since occurred.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 31, 2024

That alone is a testament to the industry’s ongoing dilemma of investing and transforming component supply and production networks to all electric powered, while industry demand levels continue to favor combination electric and gasoline hybrid powered models.

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Kanban Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2021

The pandemic has led many companies to reconsider the amount of ‘safety stock’ they have on hand in the event of supply chain disruptions, particularly those involving imported goods. To learn more about 3PL labor management in the wake of COVID, check out our recent blog article on warehouse staffing challenges.

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IQMS

MARCH 27, 2020

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. Today it stands out as a critical tool for production continuity with a minimum of onsite workers.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For shippers, this year’s overly-active hurricane season in the US is raising alarm bells for supply chain logistics operations. How do TMS platform and other transportation logistics & supply chain solutions help shippers overcome the challenges posed by natural disasters like the hurricanes of 2017?

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AB&R

JANUARY 10, 2019

The great news about supply chain compliance is that AB&R® makes it a breeze. Supply chain compliance may include things such as employee labor laws, hazardous material handling, and environmental concerns. Labels and Supplies. A compliant barcode is just the first step to supply chain compliance.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2018

In a prior post on 2018 supply chain predictions, I shared how NC State’s Poole College of Management engages directly with industry through student-led projects. And everyone I know has issues and challenges with their supply chains! Our students are executing and making them happen in these projects.

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AFFLINK

JANUARY 26, 2017

Proper hospital inventory management can be tricky: administrators and healthcare supply chain professionals must make sure their facilities have enough product to meet demand from doctors and nurses, but not too much that it negatively impacts the hospital’s budget or takes up too much space. Collect Data from the Supply Chain.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 14, 2020

And like last year, the ratings put forth by the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative remain an instrumental component of the ratings, and are the only two major indicators used in the rankings for assessing the strength and maturity of the company ratings as it relates to its supply chain performance. Dell Technologies.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 26, 2014

UCLA Anderson School of Management Blog. UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog. The MBA Insider’s Blog. Riordan Programs Blog. Times Technology Blog. For blog inquiries: UCLA Anderson Marketing & Communications. Subscribe to this blogs feed. Easton Technology Leadership.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Retailers use a control tower with technology for visibility into inventory on the move and across their store locations. To support coastal communities 24/7, the command center is constantly armed – enlisting support from merchandising, operations and supply chain teams. They monitor the storm in real-time.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 8, 2013

Second, the nature of Germany’s supply chain is focused on near-shoring. If Germany is able to provide high quality, high technology products using local, more expensive suppliers, why can’t the US do so? German supply chain Global Distribution Logistics Supply Chain Talent'

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 9, 2015

Industrial customers also demand a continuous flow to operate the many robotic and computer-driven technologies that drive their business and create uptime. For the average customer in North Carolina, he or she pays about $3 a day for electricity. But this also has to be delivered at a reasonable price. Second is innovation.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 17, 2015

I am delighted to share with readers of my blog, the announcement of a new report completed by Jay Golden from Duke University and myself, that was released today at 11 AM and announced by Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture. Bioproducts Industry”, is the first to examine and quantify the effect of the U.S.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 14, 2020

This morning, the SCRC and ivalua released the latest report on the state of data governance in supply chains, which provides insights into some of the key trends in this rapidly shifting area. This year’s study was conducted with the support of several global and national professional supply chain and contracting associations.

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JDA software

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

She talks to us today about how an early pivot in her career in elementary education brought her toward her passion for teaching and technology and she’s never looked back since! I grew up in North Carolina but was born in Guam as my dad was in the Air Force at the time. From healthcare to pharma to education to software.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 21, 2019

In fact, North Carolina , Texas and Georgia are three of the most impacted states in terms of direct employment affiliated with the biobased products sector! This is a great study that you should read if you’re at all interested in sustainable supply chains.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 5, 2020

The Nonwovens Institute in the North Carolina State College of Textiles has stepped in to convert much of its equipment over to production of a new material that involves just a single ply mask, an important innovation that will allow the team to begin production of massive amounts of materials for masks.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

She talks to us today about how an early pivot in her career in elementary education brought her toward her passion for teaching and technology and she’s never looked back since! I grew up in North Carolina but was born in Guam as my dad was in the Air Force at the time. From healthcare to pharma to education to software.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

NC State’s Supply Chain Resource Cooperative has played an important role in the development of these ratings, since the early days of its development. Based on several iterations of discussions, reviews of metrics, and benchmarking, the team settled on a system for assessing two important indications of supply chain performance.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

DW: I have been with JDA Software for five and a half years, and I am an enterprise solution architect. I am from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The post Apply Yourself to Everything You Do appeared first on Supply Chain Nation Blog. Self portrait of Donna – solution architect and U.S. Your career?

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Despite this growth, Resilinc’s half-year data for 2023 shows that Aerospace is one of the top five industries impacted by supply chain disruptions. This isn’t surprising, considering factory fires have been the leading supply chain disruptions across all industries tracked by Resilinc for five consecutive years !

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Some of the recommendations I made to the group are discussed here in this blog, and published in the latest edition of Industrial Biotechnology journal. The global apparel sector’s effort resulted in the development of the Higg Index, a universally accepted LCA tool and life cycle inventory database.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 20, 2016

Author’s Note: Below is an excerpt from Moving Up the Supply Chain Maturity Curve: The Process Industry Executive Agenda for 2016 and Beyond , a white paper recently published by Elemica with research conducted by Adelante SCM. When it comes to supply chain management, however, many companies are far from achieving that swing.

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EC Sourcing Group

APRIL 7, 2020

A crisis will shine a light on the weakest links in your supply chain. Wouldn’t we all like to have a supply chain built to withstand a ramming like the cruise ship RCGS Resolute? The current Corona virus pandemic will impact the supply chain of virtually every company. Expect shortages.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2022

A small group of executives enjoyed a particularly interesting set of insights yesterday at our first Supply Chain Resource Cooperative meeting since December, 2019. However, he also pointed out that automation is not likely anytime soon – as I’ve pointed out in previous blogs , the technology is simply not safe yet.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 29, 2020

This Wednesdays for Women blog highlights Deb Cupp, corporate vice president, Worldwide Enterprise & Commercial Industries at Microsoft. What advice do you have for young women seeking a career in technology? Deb and her husband Sam at their favorite home away from home (Outer Banks North Carolina).

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 29, 2020

This Wednesdays for Women blog highlights Deb Cupp, corporate vice president, Worldwide Enterprise & Commercial Industries at Microsoft. What advice do you have for young women seeking a career in technology? Deb and her husband Sam at their favorite home away from home (Outer Banks North Carolina).

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As the global environment is shifting based on political debates, EU/British negotiations, tariffs driven by the Trump administration, as well as the sudden shifts in country-level policies, supply chain executives and planners are working to plan for future uncertainties. However, some categories are capacity constrained.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2023

The following is a guest blog from Craig Lukasik , one of my former MBA students from the Poole College of Management’s supply chain program. I was really pleased when he contacted me about this blog, and am delighted to feature it here. Supply Chain Metrics!?!? Thanks Craig!

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