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The Remedy for Inefficiencies in Contract Manufacturing

QAD

Our health care industry depends on the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, and they, in turn, depend on contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) for their outsourced manufacturing. Like other manufacturers, CMOs lose efficiency due to the ongoing effects of disruption on their operations.

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3 Trends Drive Supply Chain Capacity Planning

Logility

The effective art and science of supply chain capacity planning has quietly been pushed to the back burner for many companies. Frankly, I am baffled by how many global, relatively mature supply chain organizations are not paying attention to how they balance supply and demand given capacity and material constraints.

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Multi-echelon Inventory Optimization vs Inventory Optimization

ToolsGroup

There are many pieces of the modern manufacturing supply chain. All manufacturing echelons–raw materials suppliers, factories, distribution centers, and wholesalers–need to ensure that the right stock is in the right place at the right time to truly serve the end customer. This is no easy task.

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Added Manufacturing Milestones for Tesla

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights recent manufacturing milestones achieved by electric auto and truck maker Tesla. Both facility capacity and lingering supply chain supply challenges have contributed to the delay. Manufacturing output amounted to 305,407 vehicles. The newly opened $5.5

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Quality Management in Supply Chains: Performance and Conformance

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Quality Management in Supply Chains: Performance and Conformance. With the increase in outsourcing practice since the 1990s, supply chains have become very complex, involving many intermediaries. Managing quality in such fragmented supply chains is indeed extremely challenging. By Guillaume Roels.

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A New Decade: Give Science A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

A Hard Look at Corporate Performance. Strangely, in the last decade, while companies had the opportunity to use technology better, supply chain performance declined. Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns.

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Strategy. Strategy. Wherefore Art Thou Strategy?

Supply Chain Shaman

The techniques to improve agility are improving data transparency/insights, use of attribute-based planning, design of push-pull decoupling points, pooling of inventory, and configure-to-order/make-to-order manufacturing. The management of these items is an area where supply chain planning excels. Multi-year View.: