GlobalTranz

MARCH 24, 2017

Are industrial manufacturers seizing all the opportunities of a more digital world? A recent article suggests that, by 2018, only 30 percent of manufacturers investing in digital transformation will be able to maximize the outcome. Changing Consumer Expectations. Harnessing Big Data. Possibly not. This is concerning.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 27, 2021

On the surface, it seems like the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry performed better than most during the COVID pandemic. Consumer goods e-commerce sales for example increased 91% year over year according to a NielsenIQ analysis. Anticipate Consumer Demand and Supply Chain Uncertainty with Probabilistic Planning.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides commentary relative to July’s global manufacturing PMI indices relative to data indicating declining momentum, and some contraction among specific global regions. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. Global Wide Production Activity. The July 2022 J.P.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It is time to bring Manufacturers, Retailers, and Distributors together with Technology Providers in order to better understand the issues and generate ideas to help build the “network of networks.” As a result, there is no system of record to synchronize changes, and the data takes one-to-three days to move from node to node.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

From demand planning to manufacturing to trade promotion optimization, data is essential for almost every aspect of consumer packaged goods (CPG) company operations. To avoid diving blindly into new endeavors and wasting resources by consequence, CPG brands need sales and media data to direct and inform their alterations.”[1]

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QAD

MARCH 30, 2023

Manufacturers may not think they have much in common with the retail companies beyond producing the products that stock store shelves, but there could be a lot to learn from the latter as the manufacturing headwinds of the last few years carry into 2023. RFID is a type of automatic identification and data collection (AIDC) technology.

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E2open

JULY 11, 2016

Turning Your Consumer Goods Supply Chain Into a Competitive Advantage. Today’s modern supply chains are multi-enterprise, starting with consumers, retailers, distributors; and flowing through an extended network of suppliers, contract manufacturers, and other third parties. Consumer Goods. Demand-driven.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We had the infamous toilet paper outage that began with consumers detecting small shortages of paper rolls, which triggered a paper shortage at the manufacturing companies. This led to hoarding behaviors that exacerbating the shortage and signaled manufacturers to produce more. Excel-based tools lack these capabilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

This cross-functional group (sales, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution) is an operational team to manage the day-to-day issues and exceptions in the supply chain. Figure 1 shows a market-by-market planning model by a sinus drug manufacturer. This type of planning needs to be deployed by all consumer manufacturers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Aera Technology offers a solution they call “Aera Decision Cloud” A key challenge for manufacturers is connecting integrated business planning (IBP) – a longer term plan – to operational planning and execution – what needs to be done in the near term. These crawlers never stop working. I believe this claim.

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crisp

JULY 12, 2023

Crisp’s resident supply chain expert Barry Bradley shares an update on the state of the consumer goods supply chain, offering insight on how companies can stay ahead of the trends and gain a competitive advantage. As more goods are manufactured domestically, there is a greater demand for domestic transportation services.

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DynaSys

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The same concept works for business and manufacturing. As the world sorts through life with COVID-19 and trying to plan for the aftermath, many Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers and suppliers are developing and implementing risk management policies and procedures. Prioritize Risk.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 2, 2023

Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. Morgan Manufacturing PMI® , compiled by S&P Global in association with ISM and IFPSM , halted a consecutive five-months of contraction levels to that of no-change. The S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI® had a February value of 47.3,

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RFgen

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The food and beverage industry’s future lies in smart manufacturing technologies that will automate operations and drive growth. True success for food companies will occur when smart manufacturing trends are integrated into critical business systems like ERPs. Perfect data collection is required in an age of smart manufacturing.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The food and beverage industry’s future lies in smart manufacturing technologies that will automate operations and drive growth. True success for food companies will occur when smart manufacturing trends are integrated into critical business systems like ERPs. Perfect data collection is required in an age of smart manufacturing.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 31, 2023

The food and beverage (F&B) industry has always been highly responsive to changes in consumer behavior, but rising food prices have brought about new challenges—pushing manufacturers to search for new ways to adapt and remain competitive in a rapidly changing market. Solutions to overcome challenges in: 1.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A MSCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a many-to-many architecture which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. Nulogy, for example, is a platform for collaboration between consumer goods brands and their copacker and comanufacturing partners.

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Manufacturing & Logistics IT

JULY 26, 2017

Struggles with the complexity of legacy systems are preventing consumer goods companies from achieving digital supply chain maturity and realising the benefits of end-to-end visibility and real-time access to data, according to research by EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 6, 2020

In any regular year, manufacturers of seasonal foods such as ice cream, beer and BBQ meat have to deal with uncertainty because consumption of their products are highly dependent on food trends and the weather. Demand planning, however, gets even tougher for manufacturers with the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Effective inventory management is crucial to reducing costs in any manufacturing business. This is particularly true in the food manufacturing industry, which characteristically has a high volume of products stored, and an urgent need to fill existing client orders to match ongoing consumer demand. Working with fresh food.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. In consumer goods industries, better forecasting leads to lower fines from retailers for late or incomplete deliveries. This increases sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 31, 2023

Unilever (NYSE: UL) is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. S-curves have been applied to product development, returns from an IT project, a new manufacturing process, and other business activities as well. Unilever has over 20 ERP platforms that the new SCP solution needed data from.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 16, 2020

The relevance of digital transformation in manufacturing. PWC predicts that out of every 2,000 manufacturers, 86% will benefit from cost reductions and revenue gains from their digitization efforts over the next five years. As more and more manufacturers adopt digital technologies, industry 4.0 is gaining higher traction.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 16, 2020

The relevance of digital transformation in manufacturing. PWC predicts that out of every 2,000 manufacturers, 86% will benefit from cost reductions and revenue gains from their digitization efforts over the next five years. As more and more manufacturers adopt digital technologies, industry 4.0 is gaining higher traction.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 16, 2020

The relevance of digital transformation in manufacturing. PWC predicts that out of every 2,000 manufacturers, 86% will benefit from cost reductions and revenue gains from their digitization efforts over the next five years. As more and more manufacturers adopt digital technologies, industry 4.0 is gaining higher traction.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But weather data adds a more granular time-sensitive signal. Weather can drive demand: like heat and beach goods, rain and umbrellas, or snow and shovels. But forecasting demand for weather-dependent goods can be challenging because it can be more difficult to predict. across all five nations and as high as 5.8%

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RFgen

JANUARY 2, 2019

Key Takeaways: Process and discrete manufacturers face increased pressure in today’s highly competitive, volatile marketplace. Shop floor data collection offers the capability to gain visibility, predictability, improve efficiencies and reduce costs. Manufacturing is the backbone of the world economy. trillion) of the $75.2

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Due to the pandemic, e-commerce growth accelerated and manufacturers’ interest in direct-to-consumer (DTC) consumer sales also increased. ’ Too often … brands leap into a d-to-c journey with no real plan or goal other than to ‘get more data’ and to do what they feel their competitors are doing.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Justin Honaman , Head of the worldwide Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Food & Beverage organization for Amazon Web Services, reports that the term “digital twin” may be newly coined, but the concept has been around for years. Honaman explains that the digital representation is a model and requires data.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

And — in what could be boon or bane for manufacturers and retailers — today’s consumers are quite willing to abandon their once-preferred brands in favor of new ones that offer value or novelty.”[1] ”[6] According to Groh, the first step in mastering omnichannel operations is having access to the right data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2023

Organizations that embrace and use data outperform. While companies build Supply Chain Centers of Excellence, most are not clear on what good looks like. The responsive volume can vary from 5-10% in consumer goods to 80-90% in agroscience. The other issue? Many companies have 30-50% of their volume as seasonal items.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 30, 2020

The global economy rebound from COVID-19 hinges on the discovery and manufacture of an effective vaccine. However, supply chain leaders well understand that drug discovery, manufacturing, and distribution are all necessary to deliver the vaccine to a willing arm. Rethink Manufacturing. We need to face facts. The impact?

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Enterra Insights

JULY 20, 2021

The staff at Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) explains, “If 2020 was a Dickens novel about consumer goods, it might be called a tale of two categories: essential and non-essential. The former saw the better of times in which the belief in their products gave consumers hope. on a two-year basis. ” #2.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Nowadays, big data is a ubiquitous topic in the business media; everywhere you look, the financial newspapers and magazines are filled with articles telling you how big data can be transformed into valuable insights. Over recent months, big data analytics has started to creep into the supply chain media too.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Andrew Lynch is President and co-founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. About Zipline Logistics. Zipline Logistics was selected as an Inc.

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Silvon Software

JUNE 4, 2019

While the 2 percent increase doesn’t seem like much, mid-sized or smaller manufacturers may have a tough time stepping up to the higher standard. Because it requires pulling data from several sources to try to determine why a delivery missed its window. Using Operational Analytics and a Modern Data Hub to Drive The Supply Chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer. Depending on the product, their customers are consumer goods companies, retailers, food service distributors and restaurant chains. An RFP is a data intensive exercise. This made the data analysis easier. This made the data analysis “painful.”

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