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What is Just in Time Manufacturing? Benefits & Disadvantages

Unleashed

Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing is a production management approach that helps you lift efficiency and streamline your operational processes. What is just-in-time manufacturing? The just-in-time approach contrasts with just-in-case strategies, where producers hold sufficient inventories to absorb maximum market demand.

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Carrier Capacity Management Levels the Playing Field in a Carriers’ Market

Logistics Viewpoints

Just two days before Thanksgiving, FreightWaves reported an “all-time-high 93 ships” were waiting there. Carrier capacity tops the list of parcel shippers’ challenges. E-commerce order volume keeps climbing, straining carrier capacity with shippers sending more parcels outbound and receiving more returns inbound.

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The New Significance of a Logistics Strategy: Role, Success factors, and Integration

Logistics Viewpoints

Logistics strategy as an enabler of new business models. They have changed the way they see logistics, and no longer view it as just a support process in their organization. A logistics strategy provides the competitive edge. There are clear advantages to be gained from giving a logistics strategy top priority.

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Navigating Uncharted Waters: SMB Importers, 2024 and Red Sea Crisis Lessons

Freightos

It took time for the situation to normalize, especially for complex products like semiconductors that require a lot of moving parts in the global supply chain. Just when it seemed that 2024 would be a very welcome year of “normal” supply chains, the Red Sea crisis proved that for global supply chains, there is no such thing.

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Blue Yonder Pivots to a Partnership Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

Blue Yonder recognized the need to transform into a Partner First organization as part of its core growth strategy. I talked with Umar Ausaf – Blue Yonder’s General Manager for North America Partner Success and Bill Beecher – VP for Global Alliances at Blue Yonder – about this change to their strategy. The transition is not easy.

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10 Steps to Surviving & Thriving in a Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

The capacity crunch is starting to take hold of the shipping industry. However, this capacity crunch is likely to exceed even the worst capacity crunches in history, says Karen Sage of Talking Logistics With Adrian Gonzalez. Know the Causes Is the Starting Point to Thriving in a Capacity Crunch. Click Here.

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Build Supply Chain Resilience with a Diverse Sourcing Strategy 

Logility

And they’ve had little to no time to recover from raw material and labor shortages, supplier and factory failures, transportation delays, and rising costs while encountering unpredictable demand. Feeling overwhelmed? You’re not alone. Since 2019, nearly 70% of supply chain leaders have been constantly responding to disruption.