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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

This is the first post in a two part series on the “Changing Face of Manufacturing.” ” We have many manufacturing shipper customers, and we love to create content of value for them on such subjects as best practices in logistics or trends around the supply chain. Drop in the price of crude oil.

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SCRC Supply Chain Index contributes again to the 2021 Wall Street Journal Top 250 Best Managed Companies

NC State SCRC

This year, as in the past five years, our supply chain index contributed to the overall ranking of firms in the top 250 best managed companies , as ranked by the Drucker Institute. The top companies in 2011 included the following: Microsoft. Johnson and Johnson. Cisco Systems. Procter and Gamble. PG 1.42% , Alphabet Inc.,

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Different Strokes for Different Folks (to Yield Better Results?)?

Supply Chain Shaman

Yesterday I visited a company working on cognitive computing. They were very proud of their work in planning with a number of pharmaceutical manufacturers. “We are working with a company that can only take an incremental approach. We have spent two decades trying to optimize safety stock with little success.

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Quality Improvement in Manufacturing: Relief for Operations Manager

ThroughPut

Most importantly for ThroughPut, manufacturing and logistics operations in the industrial world are about to pick back up until Christmas. It’s an incredible period for the company. Fundamentally, Operations Managers and Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles to do better for their companies and better by their people.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Localized manufacturing. Shipment and manufacturing of the unit of one. As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. The back office started a forced march for ERP consolidation, standardized processes and linear optimization. Test and learn capabilities to understand customer preferences in vitro.

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How Consumer Behavior is Changing

Enterra Insights

Now, all that manufacturing, logistics, pricing, customer engagement and general commerce data is obsolete.” Kaul insists, “Consumer packaged goods companies who use artificial intelligence are finding a shortcut to the new normal.”. Prior to the pandemic, historical data provided some guidance. ” Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Google did not acquire a third-party logistics (3PL) company or a logistics software vendor. And more companies are treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise (see Supply Chain Design: Growing Scope, Community, and Collaboration ).