Zipline Logistics

JUNE 29, 2021

This recent trend also comes as Independence Day inches closer, and more drivers are pulled off the road to spend the holiday at home. As we enter grocery peak season, we could see this trend continue, especially as people return to gatherings and other warm-weather events. Inflation and Freight Market Conditions Driving Up Rates.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

One of my insights from doing the industry analysis for the Supply Chains to Admire each year is that smaller and less well-known companies outperform larger and better-known manufacturers. The analysis is biased toward large process-based manufacturers in the Gartner network. Is this success? I don’t think so. Learning Stalled.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our commentary and perspectives on published monthly global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. In our summary and perspectives focused on July 2022 reporting , we opined that July data reinforced a trending toward declining global supply chain production momentum. The August 2022 J.P.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 12, 2016

Furthermore, some data may be of minimal use without comparison to and identification of trends and collaborations between data from other transactions within a given warehouse or transportation system. However, most of today’s data goes unused and represents a lost opportunity to the company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

A balance sheet analysis shows that 95% of publicly traded manufacturers are stuck (when compared to peer group) at the intersection of growth and margin, margin and inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and growth. In Table 1, I share a comparison of the two methods. What do you think? I hope to see you there!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2018

Each year as I work with the team to compile the data, and sort through the winners, the growing strength in retail surprises me (despite the Amazon effect) and the slow decline in performance in manufacturing. In Table 3, I share a comparison of the two methodologies. Today, it is not. Wal-Mart is stuck.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

The focus on financial reengineering–elongation of payables, manufacturing outsourcing, tax-efficient supply chains, lean programs, IT standardization, tight integration to ERP, and business process outsourcing– only moved the deck chairs on the Titanic. Aggregate Results for Apparel Manufacturers for the Period of 2010-2019.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Reversing The Trend. How do we reverse the trend? While the input from sales on market trends is invaluable, sales should never be asked to forecast. Nvidia, PACCAR Inc, Ross Stores, Sleep Number, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur Sealy, TJX Companies, and Western Digital. The reason?

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Zipline Logistics

JULY 21, 2020

This change is most evident in the shift in retail trends that we have seen since late this winter. percent in a year-over-year comparison , which marks the first annual increase of the pandemic. Caine continued by saying that he expects this trend to continue even as the pandemic wanes. And this trend does not stop there.

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Logility

JUNE 10, 2020

Maintaining their market advantage came at the cost of great complexity – with more than 80,000 individual items for sale at any one time across nearly 150 retail outlets, monitoring individual performance across categories and regions, tracking trends and preparing clear, useful and timely reports were nearly impossible tasks.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 7, 2020

Restrictions on leaving the house, widespread closings or limitations of local and big-box storefronts, and exhausted e-commerce channels struggling to fulfill rapidly increasing demand levels have impacted retailers, manufacturers, and consumers alike. To better understand the consumer perspective, Blue Yonder surveyed over 1,000 U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company. Orbit Chart Comparison of L’Oreal and Estee Lauder. To understand the extent of the achievement, note the comparison to their industry peer group in Table 1. (Read more to understand the details on the Supply Chain Index ,).

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Now, we can do better than that by using advanced analytics, which can be extended to include more dimensions, such as trends, and provide further insights. Comparison of these profiles then gives us store clusters with similar demand, and based on these insights, assortment plans can be developed to address the difference.

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QAD

JANUARY 9, 2024

Globalization, international business and the trend towards world markets introduces complexity for business. If you manufacture or distribute dual-use goods or controlled substances, this is even more important. If the data is sensitive and shared, such as by email or USB, the risks are even greater in the event of a security breach.

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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. Build an industry peer group and gain insights on major trends. Ecolab was able to overcome the downward trend. Comparison of Pre and Post Recessionary Levels of Inventory by Industry Peer Group.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2021

Robinson’s last quarter earnings in North American Surface Transportation, up 10.8% – which many companies would be delighted with – seem paltry in comparison. The freight industry has long operated as a cyclical business, but we’re not relying on historical trends to hold in the post-COVID environment.” That makes C.H.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Manufacturing and cloud reluctance is not a recent issue. Recently, our company has generated some reports of internal data and surveyed a collection of companies to better get an idea of trends in the manufacturing industry. 51% do not use or plan to use cloud-based manufacturing software. In manufacturing?

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GlobalTranz

JULY 5, 2016

We continue our series on the top 5 blogs in our 4 main categories ( Freight , Manufacturing , Logistics , and Supply Chain ). e-Book] The Ultimate Guide to Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, & Freight Metrics & KPIs. 3 Logistics Technology Trends in 2016: Automation Leads the Way.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 19, 2023

Keep in mind that because China ’s economy was impacted last year by widespread Covid-19 lockdowns, economists are focusing on quarter-to-quarter or annual average growth rates as a yardstick comparison for economic growth. The recent Q2 GDP number is below the average 8 percent to 9 percent growth levels prior to the global pandemic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

For comparison, they spent $3.4 The US Postal Service is pointing to the recent passage of the Postal Service Reform Act (PSRA) for helping to push the agency to improved financial results in its latest quarterly earnings report, although pandemic trends and price inflation still weighed down its bottom line. That’s all for this week.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The best way to reduce costs in a manufacturing business is to target the three areas in which costs generally fall: direct labour, materials, and manufacturing overheads. What are manufacturing costs? Manufacturing costs are the sum of costs of all resources used in the process of manufacturing a product.

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IQMS

APRIL 15, 2021

Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) keep shop floors’ steady cadence beating on time while providing the valuable data manufacturers need to increase production efficiency and control costs. Every manufacturer wants to keep their word. Circumstances come up that are out of a manufacturers’ control, however.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 19, 2022

As shown in the chart below, Miller notes that the PPI for final demand finished goods (red), appears to have peaked on a year over year (YoY) basis as of June 2022 and is now trending down on the YoY comparison, but still up ~15% YoY. The projection is that it will take at least a year to return to 2018 levels.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 13, 2023

Plus, Americans’ spending spree during the earlier years of the pandemic, fueled by stimulus money, boredom and socked-away savings, have made for tough comparisons.”[2] And sales of big-ticket items like jewelry and electronics have weakened. ”[2] Nevertheless, she observes, “Retailers are more on edge.”

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QAD

JULY 23, 2020

This is especially true for manufacturers. To grow and thrive, manufacturers need to develop best practices, benchmark against those best practices and formulate action plans. What are the Benefits of Manufacturing Performance Benchmarking? Benchmarking Best Practices: Setting a Manufacturing Performance Benchmark.

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QAD

JULY 23, 2020

This is especially true for manufacturers. To grow and thrive, manufacturers need to develop best practices, benchmark against those best practices and formulate action plans. What are the Benefits of Manufacturing Performance Benchmarking? Benchmarking Best Practices: Setting a Manufacturing Performance Benchmark.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

Meaningless Comparison. I just don’t think the comparison of very different industries in a spreadsheet based on growth, inventory values, and Return on Assets (ROA) is meaningful. For the last three years, we have been plotting corporate financial data and studying the trends. However, here are my concerns: 1.

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Precoro

JUNE 6, 2022

Suppliers can provide raw materials for manufacturing products or act as an intermediary between the manufacturer and the buying company. In this case, the supplier receives a commission from both the customer and the manufacturer. Let's imagine a company A, that manufactures a finished product – sneakers. Blurred lines.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights two additional May 2022 indicators of supply chain volatility as well as logistics services trending. logistics trends reinforce a shifting tide along with concerns as to what to expect in the second half of 2022. higher than the same time last year, and 12.6 points higher than two years ago.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Now, all that manufacturing, logistics, pricing, customer engagement and general commerce data is obsolete.” ” Those trends are: 1. “The first [trend],” Shalabh states, “is that a large consumer block is buying the same products but using new channels. Consumers are using new channels.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

It is for this reason, that I discount the reporting by APQC, Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF) and Grocery Manufacturing Association (GMA) benchmarking data. While every company will agree that this data is VERY important, the lack of standard definition precludes comparison. A lag is the comparison against points in time.

Benchmarking 150

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Elementum

AUGUST 9, 2022

Executive Summary You’re probably familiar with the concept of Design for Manufacturing: taking manufacturing processes, scalability, and profitability into account as a product is being developed, and designing for optimal results given all of the known constraints. Like me, you may remember learning about them in college.

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crisp

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

What are current manufacturing and distribution lead times? You can plan manufacturing, inventory, distribution, and promotional efforts around this date, especially as warehouse space is limited and at a premium during these seasonal events. Do we have enough existing inventory and/or production capacity to match these sales plans?

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QAD

MAY 18, 2021

Every medical device manufacturer selling to the European Union or hoping to has been preparing and awaiting its arrival with a combination of anticipation and dread. A recent Emergo Outlook survey asked a similar question to manufacturing leaders regarding future sales (see figure below). The MDD, by comparison, uses it only 40 times.

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Elementum

MARCH 20, 2018

Now beyond the point of being mere buzzwords, these technologies are actively transforming the landscape of logistics and manufacturing networks across the globe. By linking networks of physical goods with sensors and software, IoT allows manufacturers to freely exchange data between their products and their internal systems.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Despite several positive trends toward better collaboration between retailers and their suppliers, there will always be a certain degree of competition for who gets the greater share of the consumer’s wallet. Consumer goods manufacturers have struggled to combat these private label incursions, with varying degrees of success.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 8, 2021

You may also consider introducing new products, which require deeper supply chain forecasting , especially at the supply and manufacturing levels. To put it simply, machine learning uses extensive algorithms to automatically analyze large amounts of data and learn to identify patterns and trends. Book a demo right away !

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