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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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Podcast: Susie Bodnar on the CSCMP and the New Directional Shifts in Supply Chain

Requis

It’s not just about procurement or warehousing, we go all the way to reverse logistics. Now we’re developing some excellent online platforms. At the start of the pandemic, all of my warehousing friends were saying that the warehouses were full of things like paper products. We’re experiencing the bullwhip effect.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? Boot Barn @bootbarn In 2016, Boot Barn improved operations at its distribution center in Fontana, California by implementing HighJump’s Warehouse Advantage WMS.

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Wine-ing About Today’s F&B Challenges and Opportunities

QAD

The new parameters of “How, When and Where” wine was consumed affected transportation, warehousing, distribution, and even packaging. Truck transportation continues to be challenged with driver shortages , tight capacity, and warehousing is likewise finding it difficult to source workers. That’s not all. That’s winemaking, too.

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

6 River Systems

Our supply chain involves a contract manufacturer, a third-party testing facility, warehouses to store inventory and a freighting company. For example, if my contract manufacturer is late with an order it can cause me to incur excess costs with the freighting and warehousing companies, respectively.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

The allocation of the right SKUs and volumes to different fulfillment centers has proven to be an excellent opportunity to apply AI. WILL: Drone development over the past several years has resulted in a variety of applications and more recently use in the inventory and tracking of items in warehouses. I asked in all innocence.