Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 22, 2020

AEI tags article and permission to publish here provided by Adrian Brito on behalf of Industrial Networks. In the shipping industry, automatic equipment identification (AEI) tags are the lifeblood of data collecting. What do AEI Tags Do? How AEI Tags Help Shipping Companies. Real-Time Tracking.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Rob Handfield and Tom Linton, motivate this notion in ‘Flow: How The Best Supply Chains Thrive’ by drawing on the unique work implemented by Resilinc, which has also featured in the book. Action is needed to verify multi-tier supplier networks and map out the risk associated with lower-tier suppliers.

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MIT Supply Chain

JULY 17, 2014

For example, Dell Corporation was the leading personal computer manufacturer in the world, earning accolades for its vaunted manufacturing postponement strategy. Twenty years ago who would have thought that a company called Amazon.com that sold books online would grow into one of the world’s top retailers?

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 8, 2014

Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma for chapter and verse on this kind of threat. The book is available from Amazon, of course). Amazon has arrangements with several manufacturers that actually fulfill orders directly from their own warehouses to consumers’ homes. Here are two “out there” possibilities. Bypass Amazon.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 2, 2014

The article generated a fair amount of discussion and I promised to follow up with separate notes on each of these macro trends. For example, Hamburger Helper, a product manufactured by General Mills, modified its formulation to create denser pasta shapes. Other companies focused on modifying the value density of the product itself.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For example, an email I received from Axios noted that one far-right clothing company was recently fined by the Federal Trade Commission for ripping out “Made in China” tags and replacing them with “Made in America” tags. Today there are 135 million service workers versus 13 million manufacturing workers.”[2]

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