GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2016

We conclude this two part series about manufacturing operations excellence by consultant Chuck Intrieri, by outlaying why manufacturers should focus on a critical component that will help sustain manufacturing operations excellence for years to come. What is Driving Sustainable Manufacturing Operations Excellence?

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

China’s zero COVID policy leads to severe recession. In general, Andrew pointed out that although some reshoring is happening, especially in rich Western countries where the government’s ambition is to est targablisheted industrial policies and subsidies that promote domestic manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. Companies can win with an IT standardization policy. The focus of the conference is on Supply Chain 2030.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

The increased cost of working capital and supplemental inventory levels to mitigate fulfillment risk is likely to revert back to just-in-time inventory management. Global Trade Volumes- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in its latest forecast update was not encouraging or optimistic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions. Tracking Progress.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

If the word collaboration was listed on a card as a drinking game at supply chain conferences, we would be drunk at many. Inventory, in this time of uncertainty, is the organization’s most important buffer to protect against variability. However, organizations are not good at managing inventory. Inventory.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. What would this “next generation solution” be?

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides a side panel supplementary update to our prior posted blog highlighting the latest reported September and Q3 global and regional PMI indices that indicate manufacturing contraction has begun. Further Warning of Recession. dollar this year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

With the downturn in the financial markets, the looming recession, and the fundamental shifts in demand—less travel and stay at home work policies—demand is changing. Simplistic thinking of trading-off customer service, inventory and cost became much, more complicated with the shifts in asset strategies. Presentations are hand-picked.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

This was the first time in two years that this conference could be held in person. And industrial policy – backed with lots of state cash – is no longer a dirty word.” each positioning their own forms of industrial policies. In rich countries, it provided consumers with a seemingly endless supply of cheap goods.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

I am deep in research analysis of a couple of efforts (wrapping up our first year of supply chain planning benchmarking for ten clients, writing reports for the Supply Chain Insights newsletter and finishing some work with a couple of manufacturing clients) that are all telling me the same thing: companies are feeling supply chain pain.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 9, 2023

The biggest retail challenges from the NRF and Appriss survey include the following: Self-service returns Damaged returns or policy abuse Re-processing goods at a warehouse on digital returns Indeed, a lot of work still needs to be done in reverse logistics. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

As we discussed this drawing the dialogue flowed in the conference room. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. It is about much, much more than Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI ) or Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment. (The Order Policy. Channel Sensing. Cost-to-Serve.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

Inventory will remain bloated for the first half of 2023, – and supplier relationships will be tested. These kinds of behaviors by buyers will come back to bite them in the future… Despite having more inventory – we won’t stop having shortages. Inflation is indeed going down slowly– but not as fast as the markets would like.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Daphne Howland ( @daphnehowland ) reports, “[Amazon’s decision] is influencing retailers of all sizes to mull similar policies, in light of their own rising problem of escalating returns, according to a report from omnichannel retail management firm Brightpearl. Some 61% of U.S. ”[3]. Some 61% of U.S. ”[3]. ”[5].

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights select June and Q2-2022 global manufacturing and supply chain indices, with the data indicating increased headwinds and challenges in the months to come. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. Global Wide Production Activity. Select Regional Highlights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

Benchmarking is a measurement of the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs or strategies against standard measurements. However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. 4) Best Forecasters do not Have the Best Inventory Results.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Like oil prices, interest rates impact supply chain policies and decisions, especially with regards to inventory. Or will any rate increases, if they actually occur, be short-lived? Abercrombie & Fitch Inc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

In the words of a person that I once heard speak at the conference,”It is much easier for a supply chain team to run downhill than uphill.” The translation of demand across reorder points and order policies distorts the demand signal across the parties. Yes, the manufacturer made more green Volvo cars. Move quickly!

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 6, 2016

Interestingly, both teams wound up with high excess inventory in the chain. Yet it appears that in most of the world wholesalers and manufacturers still create their own forecast and pay scant attention to any forecasts they get from retailers. Within the teams some tried to ply their supply chain expertise to attain these goals.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

I also had the opportunity to speak at the GHX conference and facilitate a leadership workshop on the required changes for implantable devices. Medical Device Manufacturer. Buckle to sales tactics and conventional relationships policies. Be sure to not overlook the inventory carrying costs and the impact of demand latency.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 1, 2022

Friedman went on to articulate that transit times to move inventory from Asia to the U.S. Regarding claims that the supply chain would have recovered by now: “ I’ve never seen it so chaotic, honestly, from an execution point of view, whether its construction, sourcing, manufacturing, shifting supply chains or freight.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

I also provided an early look at one of the supply chain physics laws that I will be working on with my colleague Tom Linton, who also presented at the conference: Supply Chain Physics Law 3 : Shorter distances between parties in the supply chain improve efficiency, communication, and speed of execution. and will operate more efficiently.

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BlueYonder

JULY 15, 2015

Manufacturers have lived in an Omni-channel world for some time. Omni-channel is really not a new thing for a manufacturer. In continuing the discussion from the first blog post , in this post we focus on the manufacturer with an emphasis on B2B markets. (We So for manufacturers, it’s really an Omni-everything world.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 19, 2012

The conference format and size were just right to allow comfortable sharing of ideas and lessons learned about various topics from S&OP and supply chain planning, to inventory optimization and transportation. For example, one of the participants in the session shared that his company has four supply chains. Are these on target?

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. It measures the cost incurred by an organization to manufacture a quality product. Cost of quality. On-time and complete shipments.

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Supply Chains Rock

JUNE 4, 2008

I mean, the iPhone has been sold out in stores for months and while that make create strong demand and create buzz, it certainly doesnt bode well for the planning inventory and demand system. I actually was at the AMR conference when Kevin announced the list and many people were estonished to see Apple number 1. Manufacturing Central.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The organization is not clear on accepting special requests and expedited shipping policies, often resulting in a lower margin. I called the customer service line for the manufacturer and was told that the only thing I could do was call a maintenance specialist. The response is a long sigh. Customer Service Failure.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

So let’s get this new roundup underway with a look at the COVID situation in China since the nation shifted away from a zero-COVID policy. Indeed, there is cause for concern about Chinese factories’ ability to fulfill orders, given the massive uptick in COVID cases since the harsh policy was lifted.

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Logility

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Presented at our Connections customer conference, the SAILS Awards recognize companies who significantly improved their business processes, deployed an innovative solution to address their supply chain challenges, or demonstrated an on-going commitment and leadership role in the expansion of supply chain improvements.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period studied. Orbit Chart of VTech for the Period of 2006-2015 at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns . The North American operation is the top manufacturer in the US cordless market. Operating Margin.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 26, 2014

To oversimplify a bit, in this initiative, the retailers and manufacturers compared their own forecasts and worked to come up with a consensus forecast. These collaborative forecast initiatives had positive impacts on inventories and service levels. The most prominent was Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR).

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

In the past, supply chain professionals are trained to handle the service issues through a planning of inventory , service level and after-sales operations. In general, it focuses on supply chain management of non-manufacturing companies such as those in the logistics and distribution, consulting and hospitality industries.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Whirlpool Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, with annual sales over $19 billion, more than 80,000 employees and more than 60 manufacturing and technology research centers globally. Whirlpool has not always considered logistics a competitive advantage.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2022

Recently, I presented at the Informs Analytics Conference in Houston and challenged companies to “ think out of the box” and define outside-in processes in Supply Chain Planning. As a recent college graduate, he was chartered with running manufacturing discrete event simulation for an automotive company. He was frustrated.

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Precoro

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recall how manufacturers had to limit their on-site staff due to coronavirus safety regulations; more recently, food production in Ukraine was disrupted, which in turn affected the sales channels of Ukrainian products and everyone around the world who uses or distributes them. Is your inventory optimized ? Do you overstock ?

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