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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. Their goal was to visualize excess capacity and make it available to enable their sales teams to offer upstream opportunities to their clients. Food manufacturers, over the course of the last decade, have pushed costs and waste backwards in the supply chain.

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Marion Kohlmeier: ‘Expansion in our global footprint has been a big step’

Supply Chain Movement

In this edition: Marion Kohlmeier, Head of supply chain planning and project purchasing at Weidmann Plastics Technology. Weidmann Plastics Technology is part of the Techniplas Group and I am responsible for three teams: Logistics planning; pre-series scheduling; and project purchasing. The third team is project purchasing.

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The things we’ve seen, in 2019

DELMIA Quintiq

Our corporate mission is to provide business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. We expanded the 3D EXPERIENCE Lab : our open innovation laboratory and accelerator program. Helping Our Customers Sustainably Innovate. we at Dassault Systèmes want to take some time to reflect on our 2019.

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The Virtual Twin Experience: How to Use it for Maximum Benefit

DELMIA Quintiq

While the worst of Covid-19 seems to be over, manufacturers are still reeling from the after-effects of the disruptions caused by the pandemic. This could mean reducing fuel consumption, machine CO 2 emissions, or transitioning their energy to hybrid, electric or hydrogen sources. Supply Chain Instability.

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The Best Time to Kick Off a Continuous Improvement Initiative

synchrono

Prosperity is perhaps one of the greatest obstacles to continuous improvement in manufacturing. For example, instead of focusing on removing waste in our factories to become more cost competitive, we might opt to add capacity so we can keep up with demand. This is especially true in manufacturing. Things Are Looking Up.

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Unleashing the Power of Cloud to Accelerate Growth and Build Resilience

BlueYonder

In this blog, we’ll walk you through the key steps you should take to increase supply chain resilience and profitability by shifting to the cloud and taking full advantage of the technology innovation available today. You also gain the ability to consume innovation faster and cheaper. No more cliff events.

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23 logistics professionals share the #1 way to reduce logistics costs

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Rising costs mean that companies must continue to innovate and implement strategies that can help reduce logistics costs and boost the bottom line. A shift to manufacturing critical goods like pharmaceuticals in the United States would lead to higher production costs, for instance. trillion and motor carrier costs rose 10.1%