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It’s Turkey Time!

Kinaxis

Unlike other manufacturing industries, it’s a lot harder to make up for a miscalculation in raw material needs when you’re dealing with living, breathing animals that only reproduce at a specified rate. While there is the possibility of sourcing from a secondary supplier, there’s no guarantee they’ll have enough stock available.

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). Localized manufacturing. Shipment and manufacturing of the unit of one. Two million sailors died between the age of Columbus and the invention of steam engines. This includes: Sensors coupled with data from the Internet of Things (IOT). 3D Printing.

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5 Future Applications of the Industrial Internet of Things in Manufacturing & Logistics

GlobalTranz

Manufacturers are set to invest up to $70 billion in the Industrial Internet of Things ( IIoT ) by 2020, reports John Greenough of Business Insider. Previous Applications of the Industrial Internet of Things in Manufacturing. Previous applications of the IIoT in manufacturing have led to a savings of 12 percent across the industry.

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New Panama Canal Options: Running the Numbers with a TMS

TMC

A transportation management system (TMS) can help shippers weigh the pros and cons of each option. For example, a higher cost could be part of a strategy to win market share and align product transportation with that mission. For two product types, pumps and t-shirts, transportation constitutes just 3% of revenues at most.

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When Government and Business Global Supply Chain Forces Can Collide

Supply Chain Matters

Turning to the domestic side, among the various topics addressed were specific supply chain and manufacturing focused areas. The President acknowledged that the pandemic disrupted global supply chains and that there is an added sense of restoring added manufacturing and supply chain capability domestically.