Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

The announcement came on May 15th at the company’s annual user conference, Momentum. Manufacturers refer to it as the “shop floor to top floor disconnect.” The same disconnect can happen in the warehouse and in transportation. The BOM transformation creates a feasible plan for procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. 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.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Supply chain and procurement executives should urgently pay heed to the need to make sure it is distributed to them, said Jay Koganti, vice president supply chain at the Center of Excellence of Estée Lauder , during a presentation titled “ AI Trends Transforming Supply Chain – and How Leaders Should Respond,” at the DPW New York conference June 11.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2024

As an old gal attending multiple conferences (more than I would like at times), I have listened to speakers waft eloquently about the value of concepts like networks, big data, industry 4.0, similarly, over 95% of manufacturers invested and implemented supply chain planning, but their primary tool today is Excel.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a two part series featuring Chuck Intrieri, who along with providing excellent insights over at his industry leading The Lean Supply Chain blog, is also a consultant who works with companies for Cost Reduction, Supply Chain Optimization, Logistics, Manufacturing, and 3PL Selection. What is Manufacturing?

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

In a similar vein, a major 3PL that I spoke to last week at Eye for Transport is considering discontinuing the traditional storage of spare parts and initiating a new service to do 3D printing of parts on demand. These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together. And, in our Digital Manufacturing Study.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

, spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. This global, Tier 1 manufacturer is headquartered in Stockholm and had revenues of over $8 billion last year. in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. The implementation was not trivial.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The team was organized around the functional silos of source, make and deliver. Proudly, I had led my division to have the lowest manufacturing costs with the highest Return on Assets. It is one of the primary reasons why nine out of ten manufacturing companies are stuck at the intersection of operati ng margins and inventory turns.”

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Anthony’s clients varied from construction, trucking, industrial, software, manufacturing, and retail industries. FreightWaves.com, the company’s news site, is the leading provider of news and commentary for the transportation and logistics space. FreightWaves is made up of three interconnected pillars: FreightWaves’?

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Jeff Tucker and Joe Lynch discuss the Breakbulk Americas conference. He is the former chairman of the board of directors for the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA). He is on the board of directors for the National Industrial Transportation League and chairs its Highway Transportation Committee.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 12, 2015

A global marketplace is emerging that represents a huge opportunity for manufacturing. But the market is segmented, demanding specialization that will be tough for traditional manufacturers to handle. Technology and Manufacturing: It is a Part of the Cerasis DNA & How we Empower our Manufacturing Shippers.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 10, 2023

Jorge is Co-CEO of The Nearshore Company , where he helps North American, European, and Asian manufacturing companies to successfully establish reliable manufacturing operations in Mexico. About The Nearshore Company The Nearshore Company is a manufacturing services company that was founded in 1992. Jorge holds a B.A.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2025

As our Supply Chain Matters readers may have noticed from various social media feeds, this week has been one that featured two supply chain technology focused conferences and a noteworthy product release announcement. The application was initially configured for furniture manufacturing and design company MillerKnoll.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The jobs reduction will save $1 billion this year, Tomé said on an earnings conference call with analysts on Tuesday. Department of Transportation, which has selected 37 projects to be given funds made available by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (BIL) Mega Program and the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2024

The international inbound transportation service is only available to Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) sellers that source or manufacture goods in China, and all cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports. are then directly transported to a Walmart fulfillment center. Cargo imported into the U.S.

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BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2024

As vehicles become more connected, autonomous, electric, and customizable, automotive manufacturers are increasingly evolving into technology companies. Unlike traditional manufacturers, technology companies operate with greater agility and responsiveness. As we heard at the conference, the vehicle logistics industry is responding.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Barry is the Founder of Bear Ventures , a transportation advisory that helps shippers develop high-performance carrier networks. About Barry Aumiller Barry Aumiller ‘s 18-year transportation journey began as an intern at North America’s largest refrigerated trucking company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

We were also joined by over 1,500 people from around the world who attended the conference virtually. The theme for the conference was “Ready. It began with the sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution of necessities for life. At the conference, the first two Amplifiers were introduced: Demand.AI and Supply.AI.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

Companies are the most satisfied with warehouse and transportation management and the least satisfied with demand planning. Previously, the focus was on a more siloed approach to improving manufacturing, procurement or logistics. The traditional technique is to forecast what manufacturing should make.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was certainly another strange year, but the in-person conferences I usually look forward to were a mixed bag this year. I attended my first in-person conferences and attended a number of virtual ones as well. Senior Isaiah Saunders-Brevner and his manufacturing and machining classmates are going to space, sort of.

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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.”. Source: LLamasoft.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This year the annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26) was held at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, United Kingdom, from 31 October to 13 November 2021. In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The first Z – Zero emission road transport: Global MOU for ZE-MHDVs .

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Having an agent detect how long it takes to ship from a supplier site to a manufacturing facility, and then doing a running calculation on how the average lead time is changing, is trivial math. That is every machine, factory, DC, mode of transportation, supplier, product, material, etc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2014

Yesterday, I spoke at the Eye for Transport conference on the Big Data opportunity in supply chain. When I go to an analytics conference today, I feel like the dumbest person in the room. The second company reads market data through syndicated sources. They are paving a way for manufacturers to rethink their processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2018

I find as I attend conferences that the word “planning” is bantered about, but few technologists dive into the details. There are natural processes that require tactical horizon for procurement buying and transportation sourcing, and Sales and Operations Planning. Descriptive analytics. Prescriptive analytics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 5, 2017

This ended when Gartner purchased AMR Research in 2010. Sitting in a SAP presentation, using the term demand-driven at the recent SAP Insider conference, without grounding in the definition is painful for me. 2) Demand-Driven Manufacturing. I am also working to get two case studies for cognitive computing at the conference.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 10, 2025

The Supply Chain Matters blog alerts readers to the opportunity to attend the upcoming MIT Center for Logistics and Transportations (CTL) annual Crossroads event. The Event The MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) will host its 12 th annual Crossroads event on Tuesday, March 19. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

Looming transportation shortages in the United States with the adoption of AB5 and the redefinition of the owner-operator are risks. To make the point, let us start with a discussion on Consumer Products manufacturing. For example, a “buy plan” for procurement. The focus of the conference is on Supply Chain 2030.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?”

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I speak at many industry conferences throughout the year, where the majority of the audience are shippers — that is, supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing and retail companies. How do you plan for the future of transportation? There’s a similar focus on the carrier side.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. In the traditional supply chain world, the processes of sell, deliver, make, source, and plan are separate and distinct. I am a product of traditional, silo-based thinking.

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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. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order. Here I share perspective on cash-to-cash abuse.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 27, 2015

That’s how JDA Software’s CEO, Baljit Dail, summarized the feedback he was getting from customers and partners at FOCUS 2015 , the company’s user conference held last month in Orlando, FL, which had more than 2,000 attendees from 30 countries. “It feels like a new JDA.”. The value of IT is in how you use it.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 17, 2025

My goal of consistently writing weekly was short-lived due to back-to-back conferences, but I’ll get back on track this week with two articles. However, transportation and logistics costs can be prohibitive. As such, many SMBs turn to online platforms to sell products and for transportation and logistics assistance.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel. Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Last week, I spoke at the CPHA supply chain conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Companies that are good at demand management understand the need for design–form & function of inventory and push/pull decoupling points –and the orchestration of demand to make better decisions in sourcing, transportation and delivery.

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