Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

Dr. Alexandros Skandalakis – the Director Global Manufacturing Capacity, Strategic Assets and Capital Expenditures at Philip Morris Products S.A. This was done at a stock keeping unit level and for the entire manufacturing supply chain. Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

One of my insights from doing the industry analysis for the Supply Chains to Admire each year is that smaller and less well-known companies outperform larger and better-known manufacturers. For example, Monster Beverages beats Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, while Celanese outperforms Dow Chemical. Is this success? I don’t think so.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

He is responsible for manufacturing, procurement, supply chain planning, logistics, quality, social responsibility and final product engineering. Prior to joining Starbucks, he worked at the executive leadership level in Europe, Latin America and North America at ICI, a global chemical company. What have you learned?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

A slight change within a function–in sourcing or manufacturing, or along the chain–can greatly impact the outcomes of cost, customer service, or working capital. Today’s supply chain—with greater outsourcing, global manufacturing, and complex bill of materials–requires synchronization of the links.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. Refractories are products that have been chemically engineered to resist high temperatures. But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. Research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that organizations without formal SRM programs report 121 percent longer supplier lead times.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Over the last decade, neither the pharmaceutical nor medical device manufacturer has been able to drive the revenue/employee productivity gains of their comparative peer groups. They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. For most, it is a sore point.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. In one article , Mr. Sorenson points out that IBP works better for small manufacturers than large ones. A one number plan, Mr. Herrin told me, “is like an Excel spreadsheet.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 30, 2025

Tips for Choosing Different Small Components for Your Big Construction Project Understand Your Construction Needs Before you purchase those small components, it pays to take a step back and reflect on the bigger picture! Also, select products from reputable manufacturers with a track record of excellence.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 28, 2025

Subscribe 10 Tips to Improve Industrial and Manufacturing Employee Safety! These could be acids, caustic chemicals, or other dangerous substances. It is best to purchase work boots that are comfortable and breathable yet sturdy and water and chemical-resistant to keep your feet protected in any condition.

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2023

It enables you to figure out the “what,” the “when,” the “where,” and the “how many” behind all your manufacturing activities: What: Determine the exact product mix you’ll need to produce to satisfy customer demand. Your master production schedule also enables you to understand the constraints across your entire manufacturing network.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. Our journey for supply chain excellence has changed and evolved over time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

They wanted to know, “ How was the market affecting the chemical supply chain?” DuPont as a chemical supplier to the market sits four-to-five levels back in the supply chain with extreme demand latency (about six months) and high volatility of the true market demand signal due to the bullwhip effect. Why is this important?

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Synovos

AUGUST 9, 2023

RS Integrated Supply’s Costanza Campi to speak at World Procurement Excellence Summit WARRINGTON, UK / RADNOR, PA 8 AUGUST 2023 – Costanza Campi, Senior Vice President of Global Procurement for RS Integrated Supply, has been selected to present at the upcoming World Procurement Excellence Summit in Cologne, Germany.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Customers are buying less. Manufacturers are Now Selling Directly to Consumers. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The majority of manufacturing and retail companies want better performing supply chains. Process industry leaders–chemical, consumer packaged goods, food/beverage–have greater issues using data, with software usability, and building effective connections to align and build effective relationships with trading partners.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

Can we build collaborative platforms for role-based discussions across commercial (sales and marketing) and operations (manufacturing, logistics, and purchasing) teams? Through work with Georgia Tech, the supply chain team can affect 70% of market capitalization in the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a continuous business process that enables firms from hospitals to chemicals to respond to emerging situations intelligently. We might use “availability in Excel directly or with Add-ons” as an “age metric’.). One pattern is a succession of short purchases in a location away from home.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Last Thursday, we published an in-depth analysis of the pharmaceutical industries and in May, we will focus on progress in the chemical industry.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are a number of excellent reasons circular economies are desirable, including less waste and better use of limited resources. Not much movement towards circular economies has taken place since then; especially in how consumers prefer to buy, use, and dispose of products.

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Unleashed

JULY 25, 2021

Let’s look at how smart food businesses can reduce their waste – and how the right food manufacturing software helps them do it. How can food and beverage manufacturers reduce their waste? The following five strategies can help food and beverage manufacturers to manage and reduce their food waste: 1.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Our supply chain involves a contract manufacturer, a third-party testing facility, warehouses to store inventory and a freighting company. For example, if my contract manufacturer is late with an order it can cause me to incur excess costs with the freighting and warehousing companies, respectively.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 15, 2018

For example, - In some industries such as steel, chemicals, and other heavy industries, products are highly commoditized. Those people you are dealing with every day is actually your "internal customer" (as in lean manufacturing or six sigma initiatives.) You start the whole customer acquisition process and cross your fingers. -

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

This includes companies like BASF, Clorox, Eastman Chemical, J&J, Kimberly-Clark, Mondelez, Nestle, P&G, and Unilever. Each are good at localized planning within a focused area of demand, supply, network design, transportation planning, material sourcing or finite scheduling. Buying From the Same Vendor Improves Integration.

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EcoVadis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Established chemical company and leading sustainability ratings provider address critical risks and establish high supplier performance standards. The global chemical company will leverage the EcoVadis platform to reduce risk, encourage innovation and drive sustainable procurement performance across its supply base.

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Claritum

JUNE 13, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. I took on the challenge of writing a condensed version of all the current Procurement challenges. I rapidly came to the conclusion that these articles were excellent at the helicopter view of the challenges, however seemed unable to apply categorisation to the challenges. Introduction.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Current State of Supplier Performance Management Nowadays, the interest in improving supplier performance management methods has increased due to the increase in global sourcing and that of the global economy in particular (Gordon Sherry R, 2008). They do not relate to any overall company procurement goals and objectives.

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

After all, a clear picture of the company's procurement process is necessary to develop a sustainable future strategy and to avoid pitfalls that hold your business back. Spend analysis involves spend visibility , spending review , and procurement process improvement. The answer is simple: spend analysis.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

The biggest career transformation for me was after leaving Dell when I joined Lucent in 2002 and entered supply chain in technology sourcing. We achieved recognition both internally and externally for our sourcing and procurement accomplishments in the spend management area. This was my first foray into the world of supply.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Over the course of four days, I heard some excellent presentations on cyber security, communication standards, artificial intelligence, machine learning, bots, supply chain, organizational anthropology and much more. Given the potential impacts across the supply chain, I was eager to listen to the speakers and learn as much as possible.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. Also, for whatever reason, Gartner limits the scope of the Top 25 to companies in the manufacturing, retail or distribution sectors. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

The clean energy technology sector achieved considerable growth with China’s low REE prices and advances in manufacturing technology , growth that some associated with low environmental and social sustainability standards. Nevertheless, over the last few decades the world largely relied on Chinese REE supply.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It is not necessary to buy them from a universal database (such as UPC) particularly if you are just starting out and testing the waters. Of course, products manufactured elsewhere may already come with barcodes, and you may choose to use these. For portable use, a wireless barcode scanner may be paired with a smartphone or tablet.

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