The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

We can help business leaders by providing insight on the environment benefits or disadvantages of their different sourcing options to start with, but after that comes the physical moving of goods. Solarisation of warehousing is possible. Train, ship and airline technologies are lagging behind, but there are steps happening.

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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. Retailers have been used to long lead times over the last two decades, especially for the categories they source from Asia.

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IQMS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Bottom Line: It’s time to transition the role of warehouses from cost centers to revenue centers that support new digitally enabled supply chains and business models that require greater accuracy, speed, and scale than ever before. A Warehouse Management System is the tool that can make that happen.

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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. In the chemical industry, certain chemicals can be dangerous if stored or transported close to each other. Variable end-products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Refractories are products that have been chemically engineered to resist high temperatures. They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries. The company needs a very complete product line.

Optimal Sourcing 157

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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. Once the cargo has shipped, there is no “backsies.” goods is more complex than it used to be.

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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.

Material Savings 52

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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. It improves shipping optimization.

Inventory Reduction 104

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Such real-time data and visibility functions allow for supplier comparisons as well as overall emission source contributor identifications, which can be focused on for improvement. In one case the fuel and emissions per kilogram shipped was actually halved for a customer! It can be done via EDI, API or via a web portal.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

While there are many types of visibility (see Figure 1), the most common use case is either sourcing or transportation visibility. When they built the project, they did not realize that they did not have access to daily data daily for their third-party warehouses and contract manufacturing locations. Visibility. 3) Granularity.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The key to this lies with sourcing. Before diving further, let us define what sourcing is. Sourcing is the practice of finding and selecting suppliers for a range of services (e.g., transportation, warehousing) or materials – direct, indirect, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations), goods for resale.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Potential Sources of Disruption. Identifying sources of risk and developing a plan are only part of the story. What alternative plants/factories/sources of supply do they have at their disposal? West Coast Port Strike Disrupts Shipping Lanes. Unplanned IT or telecommunications outage. Cyberattack and data breach.

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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. … Beijing’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid has idled factories and warehouses, slowed truck deliveries and worsened container logjams. Hospitals from the U.S. ”[4]. .”[7] Footnotes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

” Or alternatively, “Is there data that could be sourced to help?” Most companies cannot get to data by customer on orders shipped incomplete to understand root cause analysis. Orbit Chart for the Chemical Industry for the Period of 2010-2017 at the Intersection of Inventory Turns and Operating Margin.

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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. It is safe to say that if a warehouse operation is not implementing Lean, it is falling behind its competition. But, it can be overdone.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 11, 2023

When it comes to supply chains and logistics management, warehousing is a crucial aspect of the operation. Most people think of a warehouse as simply a large commercial space with products scattered throughout. Factors such as capacity, costs, and location are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to choosing the right warehouse.

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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. Each container — the kind commonly seen on trains, trucks or ships — costs $85,000, not including shipping.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Potential Sources of Disruption. Identifying sources of risk and developing a plan are only part of the story. What alternative plants/factories/sources of supply do they have at their disposal? West Coast Port Strike Disrupts Shipping Lanes. Unplanned IT or telecommunications outage. Cyberattack and data breach.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Only beauty, chemical and Over-The-Counter (OTC) Drugs made progress in operating margins. Traditional supply chains ship cases, pallets and trucks; but not the EACH. With the dawn of eCommerce, companies must now ship the EACH. We how have the endless aisle with the need to ship the EACH. What is the EACH?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Forty years ago as a chemical engineering student, I learned the tedious craft of chemical plant design. Getting good at factory design is a merit badge of sorts for the chemical engineer. Getting good at factory design is a merit badge of sorts for the chemical engineer. In this position, we designed real-world plants.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 30, 2022

This approach is especially effective in areas such as sourcing optimization, managing replenishment and inventory strategies, and last-mile network design. Give more consideration to sources of risk and uncertainty and incorporate risk-mitigation and resilience measures into analytical decision-making tools.

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AFFLINK

JANUARY 13, 2020

In the past, supply chains were often harmful, with high carbon footprints due to shipping and packaging processes that focused more on the bottom line rather than sustainability. Safer cleaning products will also be less chemically caustic and less likely to cause potential injury to employees—while still being extremely effective.

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2023

With production planning, you can not only create a capacity plan for your production facilities, but also make a warehouse plan that dictates how you should be transferring and storing products to meet demand signals at each distribution center. If some products are set to expire in three days, you can avoid shipping them to a customer.

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RFgen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Industry expert Shannon Vaillancourt told the news source the complicated nature of the supply chain is making big data particularly valuable because the analytics strategy helps companies gain insights into underlying problems. Wireless signal is inconsistent, and the warehouse regularly goes dark.

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RFgen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Industry expert Shannon Vaillancourt told the news source the complicated nature of the supply chain is making big data particularly valuable because the analytics strategy helps companies gain insights into underlying problems. Wireless signal is inconsistent, and the warehouse regularly goes dark.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Belgium is bordered by France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands, and has a robust shipping infrastructure including multiple ports, making it a perfect location for trade both within the EU and with other geographic regions. It serves as Europe’s second largest seaport and the world’s second largest chemical cluster.

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OptiProERP

JANUARY 7, 2020

If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. – Jack Welch, Former General Electric CEO, author and chemical engineer. Deliver insight into point-of-sale transactions, shipping data, procurement and production data – all from one source of intelligence.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 1, 2015

Latest Versions of SAP® Transportation Management, SAP Extended Warehouse Management and SAP Event Management Now Available. Ports See Costly Delays as Cargo Ships, Volumes Grow (WSJ – sub. Ports See Costly Delays as Cargo Ships, Volumes Grow (WSJ – sub. Infor Announces Major Enhancements to Supply Chain Management.

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OptiProERP

JANUARY 7, 2020

If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. – Jack Welch, Former General Electric CEO, author and chemical engineer. Deliver insight into point-of-sale transactions, shipping data, procurement and production data – all from one source of intelligence.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Companies that take advantage of these tools can use data collected through barcode scanner software to create huge databases of information that can be fed into an ERP system for making calculations about product mixes and shipping decisions. For example, companies that ship to consumers often face stressful times in the holidays.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Companies that take advantage of these tools can use data collected through barcode scanner software to create huge databases of information that can be fed into an ERP system for making calculations about product mixes and shipping decisions. For example, companies that ship to consumers often face stressful times in the holidays.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. Image source: Financial Times.

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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.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When it comes to the state of working in America, warehouses have seen a huge increase of workers with over 1,000,000 total since the start of 2018. Warehouses, often full of moving machinery carrying heavy loads, are inherently one of the most dangerous places to work. Safe warehouse processes aren’t just the responsible bar to set.

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USC Consulting Group

AUGUST 26, 2019

Organizations that cultivate and maintain reliable yet malleable logistics channels can source the material needed to produce impactful products with minimal overhead and deliver these items swiftly to anticipative consumers. Back in August 2018, Amazon earned a patent for a fantastical ecommerce innovation: the floating drone warehouse.

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Unleashed

MAY 7, 2023

Raw materials you might find in a manufacturing facility include: Food ingredients Plastic Metal Wood Glass Fabric Chemicals and gases Coal Oil Minerals 2. For the candle manufacturer, this means candles that are formed, stickered, packaged and will either be moved into a warehouse or head straight out to retailers or individual customers.

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