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Driving Responsiveness and Profitability via Flexible Production Planning: Three Customer Case Studies 

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Many of the challenges faced by the world’s automotive and equipment manufacturers can be mitigated via flexible production planning. Enabled by artificial intelligence (AI), modern planning solutions enable manufacturers to create smart, flexible production plans that are continuously updated in response to real-time data.

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Tariff Implications for Industrial Manufacturers

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On the positive side, companies such as a small manufacturer of advanced plastic components used across various sectors, such as medical, industrial, automotive and consumer products has experienced increased interest from clients eager to purchase American-made goods. Where do industrial companies focus to prepare for tariffs?

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Blue Yonder’s Key Takeaways  from the 2024 Gartner® Supply Chain Planning Summit

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Across its nearly 200 markets, HEINEKEN needs to use a common data source and planning platform, apply the same standardized processes, ensure the same analytic rigor and achieve consistent financial results. They explored how AI can improve forecasting and decision-making, reducing inventory and lead times.

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Redefining Supply Chain Excellence in the AI and Digital Network Era

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Today’s digital networks enable continuous real-time optimization where demand signals update instantly across all nodes, inventory positions adjust dynamically, and transportation and warehouse plans reconfigure automatically in response to changing conditions. Warehouse operations are being similarly revolutionized.

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The Five “Must Haves” for an Advanced Production Scheduling Solution 

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Todays large-scale manufacturing supply chains are more geographically distributed than ever. And manufacturers are facing unprecedented demand volatility. Automakers and other large-scale manufacturers are often challenged to match their traditional lean production approaches with todays complex business landscape.

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Mitigating Tariff Impacts: The Digital Supply Chain Advantage

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Companies importing and exporting goods, be it finished retail products, manufacturing components or materials, now face substantial cost and price pressures that squeeze margins and force difficult pricing, sourcing, operations and distribution decisions.

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The Pressures of Omni-Channel Fulfillment and Returns Are Growing

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And it provides retailers and direct-to-consumer (D2C) manufacturers with limitless access to shoppers around the world. The explosive growth of e-commerce also creates significant logistics challenges for retailers and D2C manufacturers. In achieving omni-channel optimization, at scale, LSPs face big challenges What can LSPs do?