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Leveraging Technology to Achieve Operational Excellence | Panel

DELMIA Quintiq

Or, the importance of digitalized manufacturing and how digitalization has enabled companies to pivot faster to new and more innovative products, processes or never-produced products needed to save lives in the pandemic. . At that time the audience was the Association for Corporate Growth Chicago (ACG Chicago).

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

The supply ecosystem connects over 630,000 manufacturers and suppliers. FourKites is a private company headquartered in Chicago in the US. But, if a company wants to work with a new supplier, and that supplier is in the network, metrics on that carrier also exist. project44 is a private company headquartered in Chicago.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. two in the Greater Chicago area and one near Denver ?

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” A common issue in financially-driven companies is the heavy utilization of manufacturing assets past reasonable limits throwing the supply chain out of balance. Background. 4 Maximize Buffers.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

“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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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

In the last decade, many companies, especially those with manufacturing operations, have evolved direct materials sourcing from an administrative function to a strategic procurement process. Adopt performance metrics for carriers. Meanwhile, ocean carriers continue to deal with overcapacity; rates for Asia-U.S.

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Guest Commentary: Tight Transportation Capacity, Not Flagging Demand, Behind ISM Report Showing Slowing Activity

Talking Logistics

Analysts point to the steep decline in orders for new transportation equipment as evidence that manufacturers are seeing weakness. In reality, it may not be softening demand at the root of manufacturers’ slowdown in the bookings for new trucks, trailers and other equipment. No fewer than three major transportation hubs in the U.S.

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