The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

The Circular Economy aims to change the way products are manufactured and used. Presently, raw materials are mined or farmed and subsequently manufactured into products. This linear approach requires substantial amounts of new raw materials and capacity in landfills to store waste.

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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. The EU is working on a due diligence law, and Germany has already passed one.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 2, 2018

2 from China, Germany, France, Italy and the U.K. Shrinking capacity may mean companies have to hire or invest more to avoid overheating, yet it could also force them to push up prices, propelling inflation enough to squeeze the expansion. “A Germany’s gauge rose to a record and France improved. China Growth.

Manufacturing Procurement 58

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Elementum

JUNE 4, 2015

Manufacturing Agendas: So Hot Right Now. Months after Modi and India introduced their ‘Make in India’ campaign and a full three years after the unveiling of Germany 4.0, China has joined the manufacturing revolution party. Manufacturing Revolutions have 10 Planks, Too. Martin Abegglen/ Flickr.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 26, 2016

Read on to find out what the main challenges faced by seed manufacturers are and how they can overcome them to boost efficiency in areas they have control over. A seed manufacturer processes and mixes seeds according to customer demands and growing environments. Is your agriculture business dependent on what nature is giving you?

Optimal Sourcing 120

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Logility

MARCH 21, 2017

I am constantly amazed that an automotive manufacturer will design and market vehicles with top-end speeds of 180+ MPH and 0-60 speeds in the sub 4 second range. This leads to the need to consider many constraints including: Supplier Constraints : capacities and order minimums/maximums. Hemi engines so I love powerful vehicles.

Supply Chain Optimization 100

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Unleashed

MAY 22, 2022

It may sound simple, but it’s not – and lead times and shortages will need to be tracked and updated constantly. As Ben Vear puts it: “Business is keeping up with category growth, and category growth keeping up with manufacturing bases? Dairy alternatives haven’t, so they’ve outgrown the capacity globally of manufacturers.”

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 30, 2017

It brings to light just how badly disasters can set us back. Food, water, fuel — it all ends up scarce just before and after a major event. This is the time when strong supply chain partnerships and relationships come in handy. Luckily, she slowed from a Category 5 down to a 3 or 2 before hitting the bulk of land in her path.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 5, 2023

Supply chains as social entities Supply chains are more than just faceless corporations and transactional flows. We had a hard negotiation and then a really good dinner and spent time together, and we’re always seeing each other at different events. and the Future of Work.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Belgium is bordered by France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands, and has a robust shipping infrastructure including multiple ports, making it a perfect location for trade both within the EU and with other geographic regions. Manufacturing in Belgium. Manufacturing accounts for about 22 percent of the GDP.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since 2004 the city of Wuhan, at the center of the outbreak and in lockdown since January 23, has been a focal point of the Rise of Central China Plan, making it one of the country’s key inland hubs for advanced manufacturing. A businessman, who caught the virus at a conference in Singapore, was linked to several other cases.

Supply Chain Network Software 88

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QAD

APRIL 11, 2019

With a total area just slightly smaller than the U.S., Manufacturing in Brazil. Brazil also has the third largest manufacturing sector in the Americas. Manufactured products in Brazil include shoes, textiles, chemicals, cement, aircraft, motor vehicles and machinery and equipment. Other Important Industries.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Each leaf acted alone, unaware of time and place, like me in the quiet house, watching leaves fall from the trees. In 3PL news, XPO Logistics announced that it has acquired Optima Service Solutions, LLC, “a leading non-asset provider of last-mile logistics services for major retailers and manufacturers in the United States” for $26.6

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Just-in-time delivery of finished goods and components has been put under tremendous strain. She predicted that shoppers would see more restricted ranges on supermarket shelves “to allow more throughput from suppliers and manufacturers of food”. Harvest time is approaching fast in many countries in the northern hemisphere.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

” I recall that manufacturing an electric car battery consumes as much energy as the car itself. Source: ICCT (2018), effects of battery manufacturing on greenhouse gas emissions over the life cycle of electric vehicles. Nicolas regularly participates in several think-tank reflections on the energy transition.

Transportation 52

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The manufacturing sector covers such a broad spectrum of products and processes that any discussion about industry trends must take place at a very high level. One of the megatrends that has been driving manufacturing for over a decade is digitization. Manufacturing Trends. And the manufacturing sector overall looks strong.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 14, 2014

A new car needs a stunning new look and at the same time the components need to be durable, functional and lightweight. But getting it just right, scaling up production and ensuring that the supply chain will be in place to meet demand for a new car launch can take a couple of years. By Helen Armstong (Supply Chain Movement).

Negotiating Skills 87

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Requis

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

He is based in Germany, and, as a founding partner of the supply chain practice at McKinsey & Company , consults on a variety of supply chain-related business problems, including S&OP and advanced analytics. He is also a professor at the University of Karlsruhe where he teaches supply chain management. We expanded into automotive.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

A growing global warehouse capacity crunch. Already reeling from the effects of the two-year COVID-19 pandemic, supply chains around the world, encompassing a wide range of industries, are now seeing increasing disruption caused by another massive crisis of our times, Russia’s war on Ukraine. The grain blockaded in Ukraine.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As President and CEO of AutoForecast Solutions, he has been advising tiered suppliers, vehicle manufacturers, government agencies, financial institutions, and the academic community fo r over 25 y ears. “We To which he adds, “I’m not anti-EV, I am pro-reality, and there’s just a new type of consumer out the re.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Particularly affected are routes from Asia to Germany, experiencing a remarkable 55% increase in transit times, resulting in an average delay of 12 days. These disruptions significantly impact just-in-time inventory systems and cause substantial upheaval in the supply chain schedules of numerous organizations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2022

I just read about a different take on facial recognition software that uses artificial intelligence in a little different way. China is home to nearly one-third of all global manufacturing, so a prolonged shutdown could certainly have major ramifications on global supply chains. Certainly sounds like interesting technology.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

I got started just as the dotcom craze was taking off, with new logistics startups coming to market every day (all of them announcing they were “The world’s leading provider of X” even though they were just a few months old). I’ve been an industry analyst for over 20 years, which is hard to believe sometimes. Source: Google.

Supply Chain Design Software 20

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2023

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he would not commit to putting Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, saying, “People have been on the bills for a long period of time. The February reading in the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index was -0.26, reaching negative territory for the first time since August 2019.

Logistics 213

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 31, 2022

Our goal was just this – to clearly capture the solution’s means of delivering value. Locanis is a Germany-based company with headquarters in Berlin and offices and representatives in a variety of countries including Turkey, India, Singapore, and the US. Not just forklifts, AGVs, pickers, etc., Locanis and Site Optimizer 360 0.

Optimization Software 41

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DELMIA Quintiq

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Business leaders are getting nervous as time is very short. The United Kingdom (UK) imports the most goods by far compared to other European countries, not just final products but also parts and components for further production and assembly. The customs controls would therefore be a very time-consuming process.

Automotive 136

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Resilinc

JANUARY 19, 2022

For the first time in 90 years, Toyota has become America’s top-selling automaker. It also marks the first time a non-domestic automaker has taken the top spot in the U.S. Thus emerged the system later known as just in time,” McLain wrote in May 2021. Was it Toyota’s marketing? Its reputation for quality?

Sourcing Strategies 62

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Resilinc

JANUARY 18, 2022

For the first time in 90 years, Toyota has become America’s top-selling automaker. It also marks the first time a non-domestic automaker has taken the top spot in the U.S. Thus emerged the system later known as just in time,” McLain wrote in May 2021. Was it Toyota’s marketing? Its reputation for quality?

Supply Chain Visibility 62

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Resilinc

JANUARY 17, 2022

For the first time in 90 years, Toyota has become America’s top-selling automaker. It also marks the first time a non-domestic automaker has taken the top spot in the U.S. Thus emerged the system later known as just in time,” McLain wrote in May 2021. Was it Toyota’s marketing? Its reputation for quality?

Inventory Reduction 62

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Elementum

OCTOBER 5, 2015

We take a look at how new vehicles are changing the manufacturing game. With its new gigafactory centralizing the manufacturing process, Tesla Motors is one of the largest automotive employer in California. It’s been a long road, but electric vehicles are quickly becoming the future of the auto industry. hybrids in the nation to date.

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Jaggaer

AUGUST 18, 2020

In recent years , the sector has become highly dependent on deliveries from the Asia Pacific region and in particular China, where capacities in the transport chain between inland plants and the ports collapsed by 70% at one point. Supplier management is, of course, challenging at the best of times, and for a variety of reasons.

Pharmaceutical 98

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2021

Specifically, the top countries most impacted by the Suez Canal blockage include the UK, Germany, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, and Austria. On top of that, there is a severe shortage of railcars in Los Angeles-Long Beach is causing rail container dwell times to double.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 5, 2018

Speeking to and interacting with a little machine in my living room, that has the capacity to both understand and create communication, is a great example of how Artifical Intelligence has infiltrated our lives. Natural language: the capacity to both understand and create communications, both written and spoken.

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USC Consulting Group

MARCH 3, 2020

By just about every measure, natural resources such as these are significantly more efficient than legacy sources like coal, natural gas and oil. Germany is hoping that by 2030, approximately two-thirds of its energy will derive from sources like wind and solar. Tied with Germany, receiving 75.5 Tied with Germany, receiving 75.5

Sourcing Strategies 52

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 30, 2021

And with customers expecting solid commitments on when their orders will be delivered the need for high order precision in understanding vehicle route times has never been more critical. The movement of goods between manufacturers, distribution centres, warehouses, retailers and consumers is happening at unprecedented levels.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

The semi-conductor industry is strongly affected by the state of the economy, but 2014 was an excellent year for ASML, manufacturer of systems used to produce integrated circuits or ‘chips’. 60 service points in 16 countries support the installation and supply of chip manufacturing systems and parts. By Caroline Linssen.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

A shift to manufacturing critical goods like pharmaceuticals in the United States would lead to higher production costs, for instance. Berry explains that imported goods may be subject to more active monitoring and testing or treatments designed to kill pathogens, increasing both processing time and costs.

Cost Reduction Strategies 98

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