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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. In addition, the warehouses are full and containers are being used for overflow storage.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. Companies that tightly tether to enterprise transactional data will never buy the right stuff.

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How Manufacturers Can Take Control of Inventory with RFID Technology

QAD

The PolyGAIT Center at California Polytechnic State University also provides students with practical RFID and IoT education (including 150+ industry collaboration projects), producing scores of hireable and RFID-knowledgeable engineers every year. This isn’t a task for an Excel spreadsheet.

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You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Pandemic demand for goods, and the shifts from a service economy, drove the increase in southern California ports where 40% of ocean carriers unload for entry into the United States. The California landlocked ports struggled with unloading the larger ships. The average purchase order changes 3-4X before shipment.

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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

6 River Systems

Sebastian Jungels @seb_jungels Sebastian is a co-founder at KAPUA , an enterprise SaaS provider, where he helps companies to improve their forecasting accuracy and speed. So, my answer would be the single biggest supply chain problem is forecasting accuracy as part of S&OP. Here’s some research on this topic.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

Logistics technologies such as robotic warehouse systems make automation a reality, while drones improve last-mile delivery capabilities and better tracking with tools like RFID tags improve visibility throughout the supply chain. Companies can accurately forecast demand, timely order raw materials and manage inventory more efficiently.

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How to be Productive during the Global Lockdown: The ThroughPut Playbook to Maintain your Output Levels

ThroughPut

California has over 40 million people on lockdown with New York following suit today. Government bailout money might buy well-connected businesses and specific verticals more time to survive, but not necessarily any additional output or leaner operations. The deaths in Italy have surpassed those in China.