Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2021

Three years ago, my colleague Steve Banker wrote an article about the Amazon supply chain , asking if it was the most innovative in the world. And the company’s operations and technology have evolved over the last three years, with a focus on its trucking, warehousing, and air capabilities. Amazon Trucking.

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Unleashed

MARCH 24, 2024

Here we look at the most common tools and techniques used to bring the advantages of lean into the modern manufacturing workplace. In this guide to lean manufacturing tools: What are lean manufacturing tools? Indeed, these tools could be several different things, such as: New shop floor layouts. Big data frameworks.

Six Sigma 52

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DynaSys

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

How to Select a Supply Chain Planning Tool. As the Vice President of Supply Chain you know things need to improve, and now you need to figure out what to do next. You’re in good company considering almost all supply chain professionals feel that they need to make improvements. If so, you’re not alone.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2022

Dick’s Sporting Goods Beats Forecast in Q1 But Cautions on Inflation, Supply Chain. Walmart and Symbotic Expand Partnership to Deploy Automation System. This builds upon a prior agreement for 20 regional DCs, some of which have already begun implementing Symbotic’s technology. And now on to this week’s news.

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Logility

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A plan for achieving truly sustainable supply chain management — from the capabilities you’ll need, to the policies you should put in place, to the systems that will help you achieve it. . Supply chain sustainability is a company-wide effort that must also include your partners, customers, and other third-party actors.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Here, we’ll discuss how it becomes useful for SCMs and what are some blockchain supply chain examples. Understanding Supply Chain The production industry uses a variety of procedures to serve its consumers through the market; all these activities can be covered under one umbrella term: supply chain.

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ThroughPut

MAY 25, 2021

Supply chain-focused organizations like the food and beverages industry can turn the tide with an efficient S&OP process and improve their overall business performance. In the third stage of supply review, the objective is simply to create a supply plan that aligns with the consensus demand plan.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The ultimate goal of a supply chain planning practitioners is often to optimize the capabilities of the company’s supply chain to meet customer requirements while minimizing costs and maximizing company performance. Like those examples, predicting what supply chain challenges you will face in the future is problematic.

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Logility

MARCH 8, 2022

These best practices will help make supply chain sustainability part of your operations and culture. Sustainable supply chain best practices help the environment and the people of the world, but they also make your supply chain more agile, efficient, and resilient. Map out your supply chain.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 3, 2023

Manufacturers also need to be flexible with their initial plan to meet demands accordingly, and monitor the effect of these changes on the supply chain. This enables management to future-proof supply chain operations, maximize supply chain efficiency and agility while finding smarter, faster ways to optimize costs.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 16, 2023

The past few years have taught us a lesson or two in the importance of prepping conventional supply chains to face disruptions of any kind and magnitude. Supply chain planners and leaders have been on a roller coaster ride ever since and haven’t been able to overcome the impact just yet.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 16, 2023

The past few years have taught us a lesson or two in the importance of prepping conventional supply chains to face disruptions of any kind and magnitude. Supply chain planners and leaders have been on a roller coaster ride ever since and haven’t been able to overcome the impact just yet.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 3, 2016

by Bill DuBois I recently attended the LogiPharma conference in Princeton, NJ to hear a number of speakers give their thoughts on the state of the pharmaceutical supply chain. There was agreement among many at the conference that pharma is a bit behind the high tech and automotive industries when it comes to supply chain efficiencies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2024

The internally developed AI technology allows Walmart employees to scan produce like bananas to see how ripe the product is. The proposed changes would affect shipping consolidators, which handle and send customers’ parcels to Postal Service facilities for final-mile delivery, experts told Supply Chain Dive.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented global supply chain disruptions, impacting the flow of parts and finished goods around the world. The disruption caused by COVID-19 is unique in that it impacted supply chains across all industries.

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RFgen

APRIL 8, 2020

In the era of COVID-19, remote work and social distancing, investing in a digital supply chain is a necessity, not an option. Many manufacturers may only operate at 50-60% capacity, despite steady or increasing sales orders, with current worker shortages. The Manufacturing Supply Chain During the Coronavirus.

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DynaSys

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A lack of flexibility that endangered the supply chain process. It goes without saying that the Maroquinerie Thomas supply chain needed greater flexibility and adaptability to keep up with the challenges of the luxury and fashion sectors, allowing for seasonality (up to 6 collections per year) and the levels of precision they demand.

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Precoro

MARCH 22, 2023

A smooth-functioning supply chain is vital to meeting buyer expectations. Despite your best supply chain planning, supply chains get disrupted – sometimes moderately and at other times massively. The supply base, no matter how meticulously put together, depends on numerous external factors.

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Stord

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Atlanta, GA, November 16, 2022 – Stord , the Cloud Supply Chain leader, today announced Stord Parcel , a carrier-agnostic last-mile delivery solution with advanced modeling to automatically choose the most efficient and cost-effective carrier and service level that meets the expected delivery date for all packages.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 14, 2024

It can be undertaken manually or with manufacturing inventory management software tools that automate and streamline your operations. Bulk purchasing of raw materials provides manufacturers with a buffer against spikes in customer demand, and supply chain issues.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 16, 2023

This example illustrates how the need to understanding spending patterns can lead to other insights on how to better organize internal governance over spending categories of parts and services, including supply chain risk, vulnerability, and exposure. And what are you doing here?’,

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Arkieva

MARCH 17, 2017

In this week’s, Supply Chain Talk, Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh, outlines four effective strategies for creating a robust scheduling process. The S&OP process should optimize supply chain costs. To support the S&OP process, the schedule must adhere to the S&OP guidelines.

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QAD

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Because they focus on manufacturing in highly-regulated industries, they need to be even more technologically progressive and more adaptive than other manufacturers. Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain Continuity. But they also have to be a reliable partner that maintains tight governance over its end-to-end supply chain.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

This is crucial as businesses continue to be faced with supply chain and business challenges. A competitive and nimble supply base can assist organizations as they rapidly respond to challenges in cost and supply. Among some of the features and tools, we are equipped to support the following initiatives.

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ShipBob

APRIL 12, 2023

Use the following points as guidelines on how to measure the productivity and efficiency of your warehouse. Warehouse capacity used Making good use of available space in your warehouse is another indicator of how efficiently your warehousing operations are running. Unless the capacity is 100%, there’s room for improvement in this area.

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QAD

JUNE 8, 2021

The Guardian stated : “The technology industry faces a growing shortage of semiconductors and other high-tech components following a failure to invest in new manufacturing facilities during the recession, experts have warned.” As a result, automotive OEMs were not able to ramp-up demand requirements fast enough back up the supply chain.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Mass customisation is also known as: Made-to-order Built-to-order Increasingly popular in the retail goods sector – but also used in the automotive, software and finance sectors – mass customisation allows customers to purchase a product that is more ‘them’. What about mass customisation in software?

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QAD

MAY 4, 2023

The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and Odette International released the sixth version of the Materials Management Operations Guideline/Logistics Evaluation (MMOG/LE) assessment on April 1, 2023. The F3 criteria are core to the foundation of supply chain management. The number of F3 criteria has increased to 45.

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IQMS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Bottom Line: Providing connected workers and teams with the tools they need to excel onsite and remotely while enabling shop floor operations to transition from one manufacturing process to another is the essence of smart manufacturing today. In 2021, the combination of remote technologies increased training and development.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our readers with a further update on the ongoing Red Sea shipping disruption including added context and implications. Background Just before the Christmas 2023 holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption.

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RFgen

APRIL 8, 2020

In the era of COVID-19, remote work and social distancing, investing in a digital supply chain is a necessity, not an option. Many manufacturers may only operate at 50-60% capacity, despite steady or increasing sales orders, with current worker shortages. The Manufacturing Supply Chain During the Coronavirus.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

With new supply chain innovations , trends in logistics technology and advancements like automated robots making a big impact on operational efficiency, it seems that supply chain optimization is within reach for more companies than ever before. Brown @TheMichaelBrown Michael D.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Often the ultimate goal of a supply chain planning professional is to optimize the capabilities of the company’s supply chain to meet customer requirements while minimizing costs and maximizing company performance. Of course, we should never give up trying to optimize supply chain planning. Resiliency.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The current set of supply chain disruptions is bringing increased focus on the need for digital transformation of our supply chains. However, not every supply chain and procurement decision fits neatly into this category. Work activity is also typically influenced by how people are measured.

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OptiProERP

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Now they are grappling with more complex and global challenges, including supply chain disruptions, scarcity of resources, climate change, and a shifting regulatory environment. Economic sustainability provides incentives for businesses while adhering to sustainability guidelines. Why is Resilience Important for Manufacturers?

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Shipchain

AUGUST 24, 2018

The inception of blockchain technology for use in logistics and supply chain management represents one of the most significant innovations in the industry. Unfortunately, demand for capacity and more trucks has only grown, and the need for end-to-end visibility is a leading concern for truckers and shippers alike.

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QAD

AUGUST 3, 2023

They acknowledged the importance of supply chains in automotive manufacturing, meeting consumer expectations and collaboratively created APQP programs to ensure that component suppliers became partners in meeting holistic quality requirements. Let’s assume it is feasible and look at each of the APQP phases in more detail.

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