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Ease the Burden of Labor Shortages and Increase Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

Organizations must use every means at their disposal to keep goods moving while at the same time preventing their most important resource – their talent – from jumping ship at an alarming pace. resigned from their jobs in durable goods manufacturing. How Labor and Talent Shortages Affect Supply Chains.

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Planned Obsolescence in the Durable Goods Industry

Logility

To some extent durable goods manufacturers can predict aggregate demand based on the average useful life for their products. Disposable income can ebb and flow abruptly due to natural and man-made disruptions, leaving durable goods manufacturers scrambling to dispose of excess inventory. Fluctuating Capacity Requirements.

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Planned Obsolescence in the Durable Goods Industry

Logility

To some extent durable goods manufacturers can predict aggregate demand based on the average useful life for their products. Disposable income can ebb and flow abruptly due to natural and man-made disruptions, leaving durable goods manufacturers scrambling to dispose of excess inventory. Fluctuating Capacity Requirements.

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Creating an analytics organization for supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve been leading a few calls for the International Institute of Analytics, as a faculty lead for the manufacturing group. There is also a huge need for analytics in the area of talent management for supply chain and manufacturing. We have heard from people on both sides.

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The Renewed Importance of Production Planning and Scheduling in the New Normal- The Talent Challenge

Supply Chain Matters

This update addresses the equally growing importance for securing and retaining needed talent for companies who are considering or have invested in more responsive Cloud based software technology supporting tactical and operational planning supporting process and batch manufacturing process environments.

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State of Supply Chain Management

MIT Supply Chain

Strategies such as near-shoring – where manufacturing operations are brought closer to home markets – are among the SCM responses to distribution’s shifting kaleidoscope of delivery options. Take, for example, the introduction of 3-D printing or additive manufacturing.

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Robotic Process Automation and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Quirk cites a 2017 study published by the Information Services Group (ISG) that concluded, “This kind of automation technology is allowing for a 43 percent reduction in resources needed for order-to-cash processes, 34 percent for invoicing, and 32 percent for vendor and talent management.” ”[6].