Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

For example, inflationary costs, lead time variability, conversion rates, etc.) Through work with Georgia Tech, the supply chain team can affect 70% of market capitalization in the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. Note in Liam’s example that only 22% of the turn items are forecastable through conventional means.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Singapore for example has allowed for delivery to ships in its waters. While delivering medicines, food and spare parts, Skyports electric drones by design also eliminate all of the carbon emissions and much of the danger in ship to ship cargo transfers. We can hopefully expect more and more growth in this sector.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

As an example, a major retailer whose market presence is in the Americas realized that several of their shipments that originate in China pass through Russia to make their way to the west and are now subject to shipment backlogs. Some may have believed themselves to be immune at one point, but now their perspective is shifting.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

While this is wrong for manufacturing in general it is especially wrong for process manufacturers – companies that produce food and beverages, paints, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. For example, the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals vs. processing liquid waste in the mining industry. Types of process manufacturing.

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Bulk Connection

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When you partner with a transportation provider for chemical shipping services, your goals are to ensure that your products are shipped safely, reliably and at a reasonable price. What you may not realize is that safety, reliability and pricing hinges on the information you provide at the outset.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 21, 2022

A global chemical manufacturer recently had to replace ships that transported bulk materials to ports. These materials were then transferred to barges and rail cars for delivery, and finally to terminals where they were packaged into shipping containers for final delivery by rail.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 21, 2023

In the US for example, it is estimated that 57% of the workforce is considered as “front-line” meaning that they would need to commute a fairly significant amount, with little opportunity to use technology in order to work remotely. There are cost savings when office space is reduced as a result of staff working remotely.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

An example of an incremental change would be what Coca-Cola is doing for its plastic bottles. Train, ship and airline technologies are lagging behind, but there are steps happening. He crafted delivery solutions for e-commerce clients and managed supply chains for several chemical and freight forwarding companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

For example, the goal is not track truck location, but to provide insights on location in context with a delivery appointment. For example, will the truck be late to arrive against a pre-established appointment. I was at a customer last week that shipped to distributors and did not know the site of customer facilities.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 3, 2019

You can’t just turn around a giant cargo ship. Even at some of the world’s best supply chains, redirecting chemicals and other products is a Herculean effort. And when shipping to volatile countries, it becomes even harder. companies with global operations, one of the most effective ways to mitigate risk is to ship smarter.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2022

At the beginning of June 2022, a 40-foot ocean container cost about $10,000 to ship from southeast Asia to Northern Europe This is compared to about $1,500 for the same route about 2 years ago. Customer spending patterns are changing with hyperinflation. There is only so much retailers can do to absorb higher costs. He received his Ph.D.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

The company ships directly to customers and also to distributors. SK Capital is a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals sectors. For example, while GEON has over 2000 customers, initially they are manually building forecasts for 600 customers and 1200 ship-to locations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

As shown in the map, the company has 4 distribution centers wherein each location is shipping to several places across the US (for the sake of simplicity we are not showing the manufacturing and sourcing locations here). For example, forecasts are generated using the past three years of history, implicitly assuming history repeats.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Herman Woltjes, Shell Chemicals – “Logistics Execution”. “Vendor Interaction Portal – A practical Example for Business Process Management at BASF,” Ralf Kahre and Patrick Gött, BASF, Elemica reveal 2014. “Elemica Logistic Tools in Shell Chemicals,” Herman Woltjes, Shell Chemicals, Elemica reveal 2014. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

Most companies cannot get to data by customer on orders shipped incomplete to understand root cause analysis. Let’s take an example. In Figure 1, we show the aggregate trend of the chemical industry in an orbit chart format showing year-over-year results at the intersection of two metrics operating margin and inventory turns.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 16, 2014

We are seeing many developments in the chemical industry. At the Chemical Logistics Forum, held by the German Logistics Association (BVL) in the Höchst district of Frankfurt, participants got a first-hand look at current trends in the chemical logistics field. Production facilities can thus be scaled back.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 3, 2018

“When you think about it, we’re living in the age of Amazon.com,” Bazzetta added, “so it perplexed us to understand why we could receive an email notification that a package was on our porch but we couldn’t have [the same visibility and notification] when a shipment of chemicals was being delivered to a customer.”.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Ship Smarter: How to Avoid Bottlenecks in Your Global Operations. You can’t just turn around a giant cargo ship. Even at some of the world’s best supply chains, redirecting chemicals and other products is a Herculean effort. And when shipping to volatile countries, it becomes even harder. By Ali Hasan Raza.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Amazon, for example, uses most of the hundreds of thousands warehouse workers they employ to support their retail operations, not their contract logistics division. In chemical warehouses, safety is prioritized over speed. That is because it is not just the contract logistics sector that hires labor for their warehouses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Refractories are products that have been chemically engineered to resist high temperatures. For example, the bricks in a pizza oven are refractory bricks. They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. Making refractory products is complicated and challenging.

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QAD

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Turkey’s merchant marine boasts 1,234 vessels, including 57 bulk carriers, 54 container ships, 363 general cargo ships, 124 oil tankers and 636 other vessels. Regardless of the shipping mode required, it is easy to move goods to and from Turkey. Turkey also has 24,082 km of paved roads, so transportation by truck is easy.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

u can’t just turn around a giant cargo ship. Even at some of the world’s best supply chains, redirecting chemicals and other products is a Herculean effort. And when shipping to volatile countries, it becomes even harder. Take the Netherlands, for example. Once the cargo has shipped, there is no “backsies.”

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

For example, an analysis carried out by AIR on the potential impact of Hurricane Harvey on regional manufacturing found that, based on percentage of the total potential revenue loss, the top three subsectors are petroleum and coal products manufacturing (37%), chemical manufacturing (13%), and oil and gas extraction (12%).

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

How Shipping Can Help Save The Planet. But to be honest, the shipping industry is as much of a culprit. Meanwhile, reports estimate that shipping contributes 3%, or a staggering 1 billion tonnes of CO2. Meanwhile, reports estimate that shipping contributes 3%, or a staggering 1 billion tonnes of CO2. Size Matters.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Singapore is one of the largest fuelling stations of the world (over 20% of ship fuelling happens here), so capacity for sustainable fuels is critical for global sustainability efforts. In Q1, 2023for example an expanded Neste Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) refinery will be coming online in Singapore.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 20, 2022

to Australia are wrestling with a shortage of chemicals used in X-rays, while real-estate projects are held up by delayed materials. On average, global container shipping rates have more than quadrupled since 2019, and schedule delays have risen. The pandemic is only the latest example. Hospitals from the U.S. ”[4].

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 13, 2018

Beyond cars and machine tools, 3D printers are now making spare parts to order for the US Marine Corps, container ships, and beverage filling plants. But even with improvements, 3D printing is not a cure all – including limitations on size, material and chemical composition. First, let’s take a closer look at each of the three groups.

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4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

What we do is we ship that liquid, that conductive material in the liquid state, we ship that to Korea, where it’s coated, almost like a printing press coats a material, this coats it in an atmosphere–versus the vacuum that I had described as our competing material. It’s a liquid form. Cliff: It depends.

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4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

What we do is we ship that liquid, that conductive material in the liquid state, we ship that to Korea, where it’s coated, almost like a printing press coats a material, this coats it in an atmosphere–versus the vacuum that I had described as our competing material. It’s a liquid form. Cliff: It depends.

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Manufacturing Material Savings Just-in-Time Detroit 130

MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 30, 2022

The white paper offers four primary examples: Extend the scope of supply chain design beyond cost minimization to embrace a broader set of factors including the diversity of global markets, value creation, and sustainability. MIT CTL helped a chemical company adapt to customers’ demands for shorter delivery lead times.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 7, 2019

A cold chain is a temperature-controlled supply chain for perishable food products, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals in order to maintain their quality and increase their shelf-life. FSMA applies to: Food transported in bulk, where the food touches the walls of the vehicle (Example: juices). What is the cold chain?

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Stord

MARCH 19, 2019

Today, cold storage warehousing is a critical part of the supply chain for companies that ship groceries, medicine, and many other temperature-sensitive products. If you ship inventory that needs dry space, you need to ask potential warehouse partners how they control humidity levels and moisture buildup.

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Savi

AUGUST 30, 2019

This image from Savi Visibility shows the eye of the storm, literally and figuratively – those red dots are shipments whose ETAs have been delayed because of the storm’s impact on shipping. If you are a pharmaceutical manufacturer , for example, what is the new ETA for your shipment to arrive at the distribution center?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 21, 2016

a Global Logistics Manager at a specialty chemicals company after he discovered the podcast version of our episodes: Wow, this podcast is fantastic and it hits on everything I have been looking for. It Isn’t That Simple: Managing the Complexities of Parcel Shipping. The Impact of SOLAS on Ocean Shipping and Data Management.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This should cheer anyone who wants organic produce that has been grown without pesticides and other chemicals, and which has not been driven hundreds of miles in refrigerated lorries or flown thousands of miles in the belly of a plane. For example, Ewing-Chow discusses an Israeli agricultural technology company called Seedo.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 19, 2016

This is done by capturing the approximately 40% scrap metal from the vehicle body panel stamping process, separating the aluminum alloy scraps and sending them back to Novelis, which reprocesses the aluminum and ships giant coils of aluminum back to Ford’s stamping plants where the vehicle body panel stamping process begins again.”.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel), for example, a multi-product, multi-divisional and multi billion dollar global chemical company, ship a wide array of polymers, inorganic and organic chemical products from their 43 factories worldwide, with an annual container usage of 55,000+ TEU’s.

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