Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

It was precisely the industry’s inability to make real-time decisions (based on real-time data) that was at the root of depleted store shelves, clogged ports and warehouses overflowing with excess inventory. Some examples: Procurement and Co-manufacturing : What is the impact of inbound transportation issues on materials?

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Now the strike covers 21 states and 41 distribution centers, including two new, crucial plants: Ford’s Chicago assembly plant and GM’s Lancing Delta Township plant. The Chicago assembly plant is Ford’s largest and oldest plant , opened in 1924. Small Businesses Feel the Effects of the UAW Strike There are 4.8

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

” E2E also means being able to see things when they are not in transit, such as raw materials upstream, inventory in a warehouse or yard, products in retail outlets, or shipments stuck in customs. According to McKinsey, an auto manufacturer, on average, has around 250 tier-one suppliers – and 18,000 across the full value chain.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Target, Q3 2021 : “ This year’s gross margin rate reflected pressure from higher merchandise and freight costs, increased inventory shrink, and increased supply chain costs from increased compensation and headcount in the Company’s distribution centers. ”. Take a global manufacturer and retailer of mattresses.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 31, 2014

Manufacturing teams used to manage the supply chain group. Today, in most organizations, the supply chain team manages manufacturing. The irony is that fewer and fewer people within the supply chain team understand manufacturing. Instead, many of these teams just accept manufacturing strategy as a constant.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

In my work with manufacturing companies recently, I am thinking a lot about the need for diagnostic testing. 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. inventory turns.

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6 River Systems

MARCH 19, 2020

And this made sense when warehouses were truly pass-through for inventory. It used to be that you would source, manufacture, store, send to a store and then the consumer would access that inventory. Inventory now has to be much more nimble and therefore supply chain nodes can no longer resemble their static nature of old.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Raw materials are in short supply, many manufacturers have temporarily mothballed production lines, transportation costs are rising, and labor is getting tight on our roadways , railways and ocean vessels. Until we have this kind of pervasive visibility, inventory management will continue to be largely an exercise in futility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2019

Manufacturing companies are statistically less satisfied with their S&OP processes in 2019 than they were in 2016 at a 90% confidence level. A manufacturing company with annual revenues greater than 5B$ operates seven S&OP processes and is dependent on five technologies. The Research. . Businesses are complex. Fire Fighters.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

An extreme example of this is a ride from Chicago to Colesburg, Tennessee taking 18 days, 13 hours, and 57 minutes! This has led to increased costs, not to mention all the inventory stuck in-transit. For example, let’s say you modeled the lead time from “supplier A” to your manufacturing facility as 7 days.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. The two primary buffers in the supply chain are manufacturing capacity and inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2019

Stuck, the company struggled with customer service levels and high inventory write-offs. The process helped World Kitchen manage inventories through bankruptcy filing in 2002. World Kitchen’s supply chain– with significant manufacturing and distribution operations throughout North America and Asia– was complex.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. Tonight, I am stranded in a hotel in Chicago.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Their job is now to help these contract manufacturers maintain the correct inventory levels throughout the complex distribution network. Additionally, they are responsible for redistribution of inventory between the distribution centers when it becomes apparent that they will need more Barbies in Chicago and more Legos in Ft.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Next week, I’ll be speaking at the Ryder Innovate Forum in Chicago and the Elemica reveal 2014 conference in Frankfurt. UPS said…that nearly 300 outlets, including dry cleaners, convenience stores and pharmacies, in New York and Chicago would serve as access or pickup points. Life is good in freight transportation.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

“Partnering with project44 allows us access to true lead time data, which complements how we recalculate material and inventory needs from a demand change perspective,” said Ali Raza, CEO of ThroughPut Inc. As a result, many businesses are unable to optimize a crucial part of their working capital – their inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2018

In attendance are manufacturing representatives from BASF, BerryGlobal, Corning, Covestro, Grace, Evonik, Intel, Monsanto, and Smith’s Detection. Technologists and manufacturers working together to try to define multi-tier processes to redefine B2B. Stuck, only 10% of manufacturers are driving improvement. (90%

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

So, as I sit in this uncomfortable seat, fighting sleep, winging my way to Chicago, I am asking myself a simple set of questions. Those without any chutzpah define the “supply chain” as an organizational function that focuses only on distribution, manufacturing and procurement. My circular logic goes like this.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I spent time at the conference listening to members’ research needs and, best of all, their willingness to share data so that we can size the total, global, and regional returns market, figure out the average returns volume by type of business (retailer, manufacturer, etc.), by industry and lots more. collecting more than 2.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

While consumers may see some short-term benefit in the form of discounted goods, many retailers have had to reset investor expectations , reflecting the expected hit on margins from carrying so much inventory. Inventory management is challenging enough in normal times. So, what is it going to take to enable better inventory management?

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 1, 2021

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic , ecommerce businesses quickly discovered that their supply chains were not agile enough to keep up with sudden spikes in demand or major delays from manufacturers, carriers, or even at ports. Reduce inventory waste. 6 tips for lean supply chain management.

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Vanguard Software

JUNE 18, 2021

Inventories of lumber, aluminum cans, tires, cardboard and plastic all running low. The New York Times – The pandemic boom in bicycles is a boon to Portugal’s manufacturers. Chicago Tribune – Starbucks supply shortage: Plenty of customers, but it’s running low on ingredients. These Companies Are Best Prepared.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 16, 2023

They can track everything at rest, all the inventory that might be sitting at a warehouse, and their supplier and cross-dock locations. For example, as Salim mentioned, real-time tracking of products will give the big picture through a control tower managing everything in motion across that network, from a centralized perspective.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The logistics industry is made up of a highly interconnected supply chain network that manufactures raw materials into finished products and connects producers and consumers through various channels. Inventory management. With Cin7 , business owners are able tailor inventory and order management to suit their respective needs.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

BOSTON (Sept 5, 2019) – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, shared details of its participation with Optimas Solutions, a leading global industrial distributor and service provider, in the North American Supply Chain Summit (NASCES19), taking place September 10-11 in Chicago. . On September 11 at 11:40 a.m.,

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this blog, Andy discusses the health of the manufacturing industry, manufacturing technology orders, and setting benchmarks for company performance. The State of the Health of The US Manufacturing Sector & Manufacturing Technology Orders. USMTO is managed by AMT, The Association For Manufacturing Technology.

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ShipBob

MARCH 30, 2020

Ecommerce logistics refers to the processes involved in storing and shipping inventory for an online store or marketplace, including inventory management and the picking, packing, and shipping of online orders. Fulfillment is one of the most critical pieces of ecommerce logistics, which includes: Inventory management.

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

ShipBob can only fulfill orders for CBD products from our US fulfillment centers that meet the following criteria: Products are manufactured by a US-based company. From that information, build a list of products that you know are legal for you to sell and stick with your regular inventory to avoid any legal mishaps.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I have to go to the grocery store again today to replenish our inventory (yeah, I don’t shop for groceries online; as the son of a bodegero, I’m old fashioned that way.). I’ve learned a lot this week: my kids eat a lot, they dirty their clothes a lot, they have to be driven to many places a lot. Did I mention they eat a lot?

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Last Friday the labor union elected to target the Ford Motor assembly plant in Chicago that assembles the Ford Explorer SUV , and a General Motors final assembly plant in Lansing Michigan that assembles the Chevrolet Traverse SUV. Both facilities included an added 7,000 workers.

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6 River Systems

MAY 8, 2020

Governments will have to rethink how they act within our interconnected global supply chains: how they allow the flow of goods, how they monitor areas where products are sourced and manufactured and how they regulate cross-border labor. But have we taken too radical a view when it comes to inventory levels? Safety stock is “bad.”

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ShipBob

JANUARY 10, 2020

Since you likely don’t have the funds to pay for warehousing or have massive amounts of products to store, you’re going to store your inventory however you can. You have full control over your inventory and how orders are packed. You have to store your inventory yourself (e.g., You’re at the mercy of your manufacturer.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 22, 2016

Feeding America is a national human services agency that distributes food donated by large food manufacturers (such as Kraft) to a nationwide network of food banks (Figure). At each food bank, 20% of the foods is provided by Feeding America and the remaining 80% is donated by the local food manufacturers and distributors. In the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

I also think that Quintiq’s leadership in concurrent planning to solve new problems is promising, especially in the design of transportation and inventory flows. We produce there because the regulations say that you need to manufacture there to sell there. Interview of a Supply Chain Leader: Redesigning for Value.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) announced that the company has acquired Tampa, Florida -based Syft® , a provider of AI -enhanced inventory control and end-to-end supply chain management software and services. Global Health Exchange Acquires Syft. Financial terms of this transaction have not been disclosed.

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BlueYonder

JULY 20, 2018

I discussed how even though the business processes of demand planning, supply planning and inventory planning remain the same, what has changed in this new digital world is an exponential increase in the volume, frequency and speed of data. As part of the Intelligent Manufacturing survey , JDA collected responses from 271 U.S.-based

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BlueYonder

JULY 20, 2018

I discussed how even though the business processes of demand planning, supply planning and inventory planning remain the same, what has changed in this new digital world is an exponential increase in the volume, frequency and speed of data. As part of the Intelligent Manufacturing survey , JDA collected responses from 271 U.S.-based

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