Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

Dr. Alexandros Skandalakis – the Director Global Manufacturing Capacity, Strategic Assets and Capital Expenditures at Philip Morris Products S.A. This was done at a stock keeping unit level and for the entire manufacturing supply chain. Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. The demand caught off-guard those retailers and suppliers who relied on just-in-time inventory practices. Manufacturing and supply chains couldn’t ramp up fast enough.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

For example, the One Network platform for supply chain planning and execution is used by the Ministries of Health in Nigeria, Ghana, and Rwanda, providing comprehensive inventory visibility across all health facilities for real time supply demand matching and collaborative decision making. End-to-End and Real-Time Logistics.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2024

For the past 175 years, Carlsberg has continuously reinvented itself from a marketing, innovation and product perspective, while remaining true to its core values of enriching communities while manufacturing quality drinks. And, in recent times, this has made the critical notion of sustainability an equally vast challenge.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. COVID of course taught companies the need for agility. But even in more normal times, a supply plan usually can’t be fully executed. Stuff happens.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

If you’ve thought about switching gears and getting into the supply chain, now is the time to do it. We enable them by providing high-quality supply chain on-demand courses, guides, best practices, tools, and mentoring from industry experts. Lucky for you.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 22, 2021

Gain Control Over Your Production With Effective Capacity Planning. Perhaps, a process that matches your production capacity with sales demand can be the solution in this case. Perhaps, a process that matches your production capacity with sales demand can be the solution in this case.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 22, 2021

Gain Control Over Your Production With Effective Capacity Planning. Perhaps, a process that matches your production capacity with sales demand can be the solution in this case. Perhaps, a process that matches your production capacity with sales demand can be the solution in this case.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

And, more than ever, these decisions have to be made on the fly, in real-time. Even before the emergence of COVID-19, next-day and same-day delivery promises from mega retailers, as well as new delivery models such as store pick-up, were driving increasing customer expectations — not just in retail, but in every industry.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

China fully shutdown its manufacturing output during this phase affecting consumers globally. Manufacturing Planning. Agility and flexibility, capacity planning, shift from Just in Time to agile and resilient operations. Huge demand supply issues breaking the ever-so-fragile supply chain globally.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Survey results showed, “53% of large companies (250+ employees) said they have been forced to respond to these pressures compared to just 31% of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises).” Durbha notes, “Organizations need to revisit their supply chain design and dynamically course correct.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

Operational innovations like the invention of containers led to the huge growth in global value chains, and today 95% of manufactured goods move on ships. A plan is a point in time, so any solution must be paired with agility to adjust when the inevitable changes occur. The myth of the “perfect plan”.

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Logility

JUNE 30, 2022

Organizations must use every means at their disposal to keep goods moving while at the same time preventing their most important resource – their talent – from jumping ship at an alarming pace. resigned from their jobs in durable goods manufacturing. It’s time for decisive action. In February alone, 22,000 people in the U.S.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But more blatantly than ever, container liners – and especially Maersk – are on a collision course with the tech companies that provide digital infrastructure for selling goods. For a forwarder, refraining from working with Maersk today is expensive because it removes 17% of global shipping capacity. Accelerating the shift.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2022

Manufacturers and shipping companies assumed that because of layoffs, demand would drop. It is a time of uncertainty that has exposed weaknesses in the supply chain that are both difficult to solve and impossible to predict. Mistaken assumptions were made that only exacerbated the problem. As you know, demand for some items surged.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 26, 2023

Negotiation, a crucial skill in the realms of business and procurement, demands the ability to remain calm, collected, and confident even in the most challenging situations. These films were chosen to inspire and educate both aspiring negotiators and seasoned procurement managers.

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DynaSys

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Despite the disruptions of the past years, there are some emerging key trends in Supply Chains that provide both challenges but also opportunities for manufacturers. Decisions will be strongly influenced by sustainable product design and material sourcing decisions. . Mainly when they decided to change the sourcing or capacities.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Have you noticed how the clock speed of just about everything has sped up considerably in just a few years? Surveys have shown that consumers are 71% more likely to make a purchase based on social media referrals, and 47% of millennials’ purchases are influenced by social media1. retail stores. retail stores.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Under a VMI system the supplier, usually a manufacturer, is responsible for optimising the level of inventory held by the distributor. It may also be useful to use KPIs for your most important suppliers – for example KPIs for goods and services are delivered, whether they are on time, and whether they meet quality expectations.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

To date, most of our content has covered topics related either to logistics or manufacturing outsourcing. We’ve arrived at an age where, realistically, you can outsource just about any business activity, including all those involved in managing a supply chain. But just because you can outsource it all doesn’t mean you should.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2021

He writes, “Global supply chains were clearly in trouble before COVID-19 arrived on the scene, but when it did, the weakness of our time-honored strategies for procurement, production and delivery became shockingly evident. ” Robert J. Bowman, Managing Editor of SupplyChainBrain, agrees with Quasney’s assessment.

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QAD

AUGUST 4, 2021

When was the last time you had a package or food delivered to your doorstep? The increased demand for last-mile delivery has created scarcity for an already diminishing supply of trucks and drivers, making it difficult for companies of all types, not just B2C, to send and receive the items they need to do business.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The digitization of commerce created a path for giants like Amazon and Alibaba to dominate their respective storefront/fulfillment and sourcing roles in the market. The coronavirus outbreak has the whole global community concerned and hoping for the swift containment of this humanitarian crisis. . Coronavirus Impact.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Of course, love should be celebrated every day, not just one day a year. The multi-billion-dollar global industry associated to this one day of the year retailers/manufacturers need to deliver on their customer promise. Finding that perfect gift takes a bit of time and effort so you want to be sure that it will arrive in time.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most importantly for ThroughPut, manufacturing and logistics operations in the industrial world are about to pick back up until Christmas. I have now spent just as much time being a startup founder as I had being an operations manager. For Europe, operations are now resuming from the extended production breaks.

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Jaggaer

AUGUST 12, 2020

For the first three months after Covid-19 hit, virtually every sourcing project , in every sector , was put on hold while companies tried to assess the situation and how best to deal with the epidemic. Get the white paper on Sourcing Strategies: Why One Size Does Not Fit All , written by Michael Lamoureux of Spend Matters.

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Elementum

DECEMBER 1, 2021

lean manufacturing, Just-in-Time supply chain, etc.), In reality, it was just a matter of time before the global supply chain landed itself in gridlock. While some challenges still exist (e.g. What chance did they have against the world’s worst pandemic in over a century? left supply chains brittle.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

In particular, the landscape is being challenged with a number of fundamental drivers: The changing consumer preferences with the move towards fresh, natural/organic/healthy, convenience foods and locally sourced products but at the same time looking for value.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

In particular, the landscape is being challenged with a number of fundamental drivers: The changing consumer preferences with the move towards fresh, natural/organic/healthy, convenience foods and locally sourced products but at the same time looking for value.

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Proxima

AUGUST 21, 2020

Add a global pandemic to a market already brimming with volatility, and it’s no surprise the term unprecedented times has become ironically familiar. Demand at this level, however, is just a catalyst to disruption in an unprepared supply chain. But of course, these challenges have created opportunities too.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Learn more: The Ultimate Manufacturing Guide: SME Manufacturing Explained What is mass customisation? It’s a manufacturing process for customising goods at scale while keeping unit costs low – a middle ground between standardisation and personalisation. Mass customisation does what it says on the tin.

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Logility

APRIL 9, 2020

Just look back over the last couple of years. Error-prone spreadsheets were never designed to handle the multi-dimensional relationships and constraints involved in today’s supply chains or to provide the advance numeric or visual real-time analytics required to develop an optimal response quickly.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 20, 2022

Of course, Shanghai isn’t the only Chinese city affected by COVID-19 outbreaks. The Financial Times reporters observe, “[Supply chain woes] are likely to intensify if China digs its heels in and continues to pursue a zero-Covid policy that has left millions of workers across the country confined to their homes. ”[2].

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 29, 2022

This is of course great news, and pundits are now proclaiming that this is the rise of the new “Silicon Heartland”. But just how big a dent will Intel’s investments make in our foreign dependence on semiconductors? So this tells us that we are at full capacity already with our domestic producers. We will need to be patient.

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QAD

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As the trucking industry experiences rising industry change, just-in-time-sequence (JITS) supply chains are starting to feel the effects. What is JITS (Just-In-Time-Sequence)? The advantage of a ‘pull’ system, over more traditional push based manufacturing, is that we only produce what is needed when it’s needed.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You are not alone, especially as in the time since we first penned this article, one huge and unforeseen event has raised awareness of the global importance of this vital sector—and shown it to be an attractive career choice. So, you are thinking about a career in supply chain? Why Choose a Job in the Supply Chain Industry?

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