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The Future of Supply Chains Post COVID-19 – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

But companies will have to go beyond the usual inventory optimisation. . Such simulations would enable to assess the impact of a decrease/increase of demand, a capacity excursion in a factory or distribution centre. . Regular contributor to supply chain publications and a speaker at regional and global seminars and conferences.

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Lean versus EOQ? What’s best for your organization?

Kinaxis

EOQ attempts to optimize lot size by balancing manufacturing cost ( Fixed + variable costs) with things like inventory holding costs and capacity utilization. Lean relies on minimization of, among other things, lot sizes, inventory and waiting. of that plan. You’ve ‘gone lean’ but aren’t!

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The Value of Logistics and Supply Chain Education!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages, ventilators, testing, staffing, and critical care unit capacity were among the issues studied by the students. But it’s not as easy as, say, cutting inventory costs. Many academics have found that online seminars focus on math problems. COVID-19 could change that.

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

As the logistics industry reexamines capacity challenges ahead of the 2022 holiday shipping season, SupplyChainDive gathered a group of transportation experts to discuss how shippers should prepare for a potentially tough peak season. So the shortage will continue, but for some sellers, the problem will be too much inventory.”.

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Central Planning Engines: Lessons from Leibniz

Arkieva

I had the unique opportunity to attend the Dagstuhl Seminar “Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor Supply Chains” , which focused on managing the end to end supply chain or demand supply network, as Intel refers to it. Which Solver for the Central Planning Engine?

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Why Your Supply Chain Isn’t Best in Class

Logistics Bureau

I’m actually going to go into each of these 8 Tips in a lot more detail at our next Free Breakfast Seminar. 4 – Fixing Warehouse Capacity Issues. Many companies start to worry that as their warehouses start to reach capacity, that they’ll need to start planning for new ‘larger’ facilities.

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26 warehouse pros reveal the most important factors to consider when moving to an automated warehouse

6 River Systems

Warehousing effectiveness depends upon the accuracy of the physical inventory in the warehouse with the respect to the inventory indicated in the computer system. This discrepancy between the physical and electronic inventories is dependent on the reliability of the warehouse processes.