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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. Finished goods are planned weeks or even months in advance yet shippers are the last to know, often finding out as orders cross their desks. Consumer Goods. MORE
Today’s driver shortage is helping to drive transportation costs higher. On top of all these factors, the driver shortages, an almost 100% driver turnover rate, and increased demand further jam up the supply chain and limit transportation options. The chart below (courtesy of Peter Boockvar ) illustrates historical truck transport cost and consumer goods cost movement. The white line is consumer goods, minus food and energy. MORE
The supply chains for consumer goods in the U.S. billion, a drive that relied on efficient transportation. remain under strain months after pandemic lockdowns triggered a range of sudden and surprising shortages. MORE
Consumer Goods Technology recently released its 2012 Consumer Goods Technology Reader’s Choice survey results. " Aggressive competitors, margin erosion, and quickly changing consumer preferences and behaviors pose serious challenges to the consumer goods industry. In Supply Chain Planning, Logility was voted highest in customer experience of all solution providers. MORE
Consumer goods article and permission to publish here provided by Wouter Nederkoorn. We all know and regularly purchase Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG, often also referred to as Consumer Packaged Goods, or CPG). Subscribe Here! Email Address. MORE
This means a shift from retail store-based supply chains to a more dynamic personalized one, based on the consumers. The rapid adoption of virtual personal assistants changes shopping habits, just as Uber changed transportation. Traditional calendar-based sales and operations planning (S&OP) is blown out of the water, as there will always be the requirement to adapt to what consumers want. Supply chain management consumer goods supply chain CPG supply chain MORE
We’ve gone through several iterations of how to effectively balance supply and demand in the retail/consumer goods supply chain. Historically, a consumer goods firm did forecasting based upon historical shipments. Various forms of retail/consumer goods forecast collaboration have emerged to help cure the disease. Featured Flowcasting Inventory Retail Supply Chain Supply Chain Planning consumer goods flowcasting inventory retail MORE
QAD provides full-featured manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, on premise or via the cloud, with very deep functionality for the Automotive, Food & Beverage/Consumer Goods, High Tech, Industrial, and Life Sciences industries. Just for Fun QAD Quality Management risk management supply chain transportation managementQAD is far better known for their manufacturing than supply chain solutions. MORE
One area where significant waste exists is transportation management. Simply put, many oil and gas companies manage their transportation operations in a highly decentralized and fragmented manner with little or no technology. In response, oil and gas companies are starting to take action to improve their transportation management capabilities, with many of them looking at implementing a transportation management system (TMS) for the first time. MORE
The 2014 UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper study reports what truly affects shopper satisfaction: This presents new opportunities to retailers who are quick to offer what consumers want. And now for the good news…. 1 McKinsey CPG: Trends that will shape the consumer goods industry. Transport & LogisticsRetailers are still debating the logistical and financial feasibility of same-day delivery while racing to offer it – in equal measure. MORE
Earlier this year, PwC conducted a global survey of Consumer Goods and Retail CEOs to get their thoughts on the economic outlook for their marketplace, the key issues they face, and the importance of their supply chains in a multi-channel world. The German marketplace is also in a good place when it comes to other economic fundamentals—it has a low unemployment rate, about six percent, and it has inflation well under control at about three percent. MORE
Situation: Headquartered in San Diego, the client is a leading provider of consumer audio/video electronics and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Challenge: As the consumer electronics market saw increasing price competition and margin compression, the client was left looking MORE
Challenge: A consumer goods company was missing on-time, in-full delivery targets and incurring additional transportation costs because of delayed deliveries from distribution centers, stock-out problems, and a lack of data to track OTIF targets. MORE
Here are the top trucking trends that all shippers should be aware of, according to The American Transportation Research Institute. Coming into 2019, issues like the tariff wars, driver shortage, and rising freight rates were high on transportation managers’ radar screens. Growing demand for truck transportation over the past year has exacerbated industry capacity constraints as carriers continue to struggle with recruiting and retaining a qualified truck driver workforce. MORE
Manufacturing/Auto/Industrials – Raw material and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) supplier networks, along with factory outputs tied to industrial equipment, automotive products, and consumer goods. Freight and Transportation Services Flatbed shipping Truckload services MORE
Think about the supply chain of virtually every consumer good. Transportation can be a significant part of a business’ logistics costs— potentially upwards of 55 percent. Fuel price is driven primarily by five factors: demand, refinery maintenance costs, transportation constraints, crude oil prices, and geopolitical disruptions. In an attempt to reduce the length of transportation for products in the supply chain, several industries have taken to nearshoring. MORE
But when PwC asked CEOs in a recent survey ( Global Retail and Consumer Goods CEO Survey: The Omni-Channel Fulfillment Imperative ) what areas most needed their additional attention to achieve omni-channel fulfillment, 88 percent said it is their transportation and logistics operations. Transportation is an Afterthought. Even more surprising, 31 percent have no transportation optimization capabilities, or use only faxes and phone calls for this purpose. MORE
On today’s episode we welcome Andrew Lynch, Co-Founder & President of Zipline Logistics, an award-winning logistics service provider that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods and food and beverage products. Transportation Metrics that Matter the Most for Shippers to Track to Improve Performance. Capacity Crunch Carrier Relations Freight Logistics Transportation Management Right Carrier Mix MORE
Interviews with executives at 10 companies across the food, consumer goods and commodities sectors reveal that many are grappling with how to defend their profit margins as transportation costs climb at nearly double the inflation rate. Labor Department reported earlier this month that underlying consumer prices in January posted their biggest gain in more than a year. MORE
Situation: Headquartered in San Diego, the client is a leading provider of consumer audio/video electronics and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. MORE
Transportation TIP List: Week of December 16 th , 2018. This year’s final list includes stories on the value of a TMS for supply chains and automation’s impact on transportation. Transportation Management and The Promise of Machine Learning : Transportation management systems (TMS) have a proven ROI; primarily, a TMS can save companies money by lowering their freight spend. The post Transportation TIP List: Week of December 16th, 2018 appeared first on. MORE
Although exports are increasing, Turkey remains a net importing country specifically for energy, high tech, industrial and consumer goods. Reports 3PL distribution DSV Solutions economy Istanbul Loder logistics logistics service providers Outsourcing supply chain transport Turkey The heydays of 2009 to 2011 may be over but Turkey is still a very attractive market for European manufacturers. MORE
Our research, carried out in collaboration with a major consumer goods manufacturer, suggests the problem is significantly worse and costlier than many retailers assume. The culprit is “phantom inventory”—goods that […]. Featured Strategy managing missing inventory MIT Center Transportation & Logistics phantom inventory retailers' inventory problems Supply chain research why products go AWOL in stores MORE
Think about the supply chain of virtually every consumer good. Transportation can be a significant part of a business’ logistics costs— potentially upwards of 55 percent. Fuel price is driven primarily by five factors: demand, refinery maintenance costs, transportation constraints, crude oil prices, and geopolitical disruptions. In an attempt to reduce the length of transportation for products in the supply chain, several industries have taken to nearshoring. MORE
While electronics, automotive, and consumer goods’ supply chains promote their products, the food supply chain represents a basic human necessity–food. The post The Ever-Expanding Role of AI and AR in Food Logistics appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis. The food supply chain is unlike any other. MORE
Consumer goods and electronics manufacturers are busy figuring out what they’re going to do in December when President Donald Trump’s 10 percent tariff on an estimated $300 billion worth of Chinese imports takes effect. Blog Feature Transportation consumer durables fleet modeling fleet optimization freight benchmarking freight transportation last mile consultant last mile consulting Last Mile Delivery Network Design Supply Chain Network Design Transportation Benchmarking MORE
Currently, there are more than 500,000 over-the-road drivers delivering goods across the U.S. Implications for other industries Demand for consumer goods continues to experience aggregate growth, and with it industrial output. As higher labor and fuel costs ripple through the economy, the pressure is mounting on manufacturers and retailers to raise costs — costs that could eventually be passed on to consumers. shipping Logistics transportation fuel costs trucking MORE
In Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industries, we’ve conditioned the customer to respond to predictable price movements at predictable intervals following the product landing on the shelf (real or electronic). This approach, taken from Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industries, is applicable not only to industries functioning like FMCG – for instance, fashion, consumer electronics, so on – but to any industry. Transport & Logistics MORE
Up until now, investing in shipment tracking solutions was like buying travel insurance - it was usually purchased in the last step of the transportation contracting process. Much like insurance, you would add it at the last step in the cart as an optional item when purchasing your air ticket, and often only if the firm had previously bitter experiences. However, COVID-19 is changing the way companies are looking at investment into visibility. MORE
The right software, such as DELMIA Quintiq, can empower retailers to adjust to a new set of constraints and requirements in real time such as: New pick-up locations Sudden changes in volume New or additional modes of transport Changes in network of stores Traffic congestion. Consumer Goods Food & Beverage Logistics Planning covid19 DELMIA Quintiq food logistics MORE
If you want to know ahead of time the changes awaiting the pharmaceuticals supply chain it is useful to extrapolate experiences from the consumer and retail sectors, which were dealing with the same trends and pressures long before pharmaceuticals (for example, the proliferation of distribution channels). The post Pharma companies will increasingly take cues from retail and consumer goods… why? MORE
They’ve since been struggling to meet increasing demand for freight transport. Over 70 percent of consumer goods rely on transportation via highways to reach store shelves. Trucking fleets are now charging higher prices to haul goods across the country, and it still remains to be seen as to whether this increase will be accompanied by a corresponding rise in wages. Logistics truck drivers transportation women MORE
A product recall is the process of retrieving and replacing defective or unsafe consumer goods. Recalls create tension in the supply chain and test consumer relationships, affect sales, and can negatively affect a brand’s reputation. Transportation Supply Chain DisruptionsWhen a company issues a recall, the company or manufacturer absorbs the cost of replacing and fixing those defective or unsafe products. MORE
Kimberly-Clark, the $21 billion consumer goods company with brands like Huggies and Kleenex, is a major user of JDA’s TMS solution. Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Procurement Transportation Transportation Management Systems JDA Kimberly-Clark transportation managementJenni Stamps and Melanie Payne, the Domestic and International Pricing Managers respectively at the Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KCC), spoke at this year’s JDA Focus. MORE
I was a bit rusty when I started, but it felt good to be outdoors after riding in the basement all winter! We’ve raised almost $22K already — a good start to reaching our $75K goal! Freight Costs Weighing on Earnings at Consumer-Goods Makers (WSJ – sub. Manhattan Updates its Visionary TMS Solution to Address the Transportation Industry’s Biggest Challenges. MORE
PLS Logistics is partners with a consumer goods manufacturer who has multiple locations. When the client was pressured by its retailer buyers for lower costs, they needed to optimize transportation management to find cost savings. The client felt they could decrease overall transportation spend, but they had no visibility into the shipping processes and could not identify any inefficiencies. MORE
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Consumer goods article and permission to publish here provided by Wouter Nederkoorn. We all know and regularly purchase Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG, often also referred to as Consumer Packaged Goods, or CPG). Subscribe Here! Email Address.
The Network Effect
OCTOBER 23, 2014
If you want to know ahead of time the changes awaiting the pharmaceuticals supply chain it is useful to extrapolate experiences from the consumer and retail sectors, which were dealing with the same trends and pressures long before pharmaceuticals (for example, the proliferation of distribution channels). The post Pharma companies will increasingly take cues from retail and consumer goods… why?
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Logility
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
Consumer Goods Technology recently released its 2012 Consumer Goods Technology Reader’s Choice survey results. " Aggressive competitors, margin erosion, and quickly changing consumer preferences and behaviors pose serious challenges to the consumer goods industry. In Supply Chain Planning, Logility was voted highest in customer experience of all solution providers.
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. Finished goods are planned weeks or even months in advance yet shippers are the last to know, often finding out as orders cross their desks. Consumer Goods.
DELMIA Quintiq
MARCH 26, 2020
The right software, such as DELMIA Quintiq, can empower retailers to adjust to a new set of constraints and requirements in real time such as: New pick-up locations Sudden changes in volume New or additional modes of transport Changes in network of stores Traffic congestion. Consumer Goods Food & Beverage Logistics Planning covid19 DELMIA Quintiq food logistics
Kinaxis
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
This means a shift from retail store-based supply chains to a more dynamic personalized one, based on the consumers. The rapid adoption of virtual personal assistants changes shopping habits, just as Uber changed transportation. Traditional calendar-based sales and operations planning (S&OP) is blown out of the water, as there will always be the requirement to adapt to what consumers want. Supply chain management consumer goods supply chain CPG supply chain
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Roambee
APRIL 30, 2020
Up until now, investing in shipment tracking solutions was like buying travel insurance - it was usually purchased in the last step of the transportation contracting process. Much like insurance, you would add it at the last step in the cart as an optional item when purchasing your air ticket, and often only if the firm had previously bitter experiences. However, COVID-19 is changing the way companies are looking at investment into visibility.
PINC
OCTOBER 14, 2019
Here are the top trucking trends that all shippers should be aware of, according to The American Transportation Research Institute. Coming into 2019, issues like the tariff wars, driver shortage, and rising freight rates were high on transportation managers’ radar screens. Growing demand for truck transportation over the past year has exacerbated industry capacity constraints as carriers continue to struggle with recruiting and retaining a qualified truck driver workforce.
Talking Logistics
JUNE 23, 2015
But when PwC asked CEOs in a recent survey ( Global Retail and Consumer Goods CEO Survey: The Omni-Channel Fulfillment Imperative ) what areas most needed their additional attention to achieve omni-channel fulfillment, 88 percent said it is their transportation and logistics operations. Transportation is an Afterthought. Even more surprising, 31 percent have no transportation optimization capabilities, or use only faxes and phone calls for this purpose.
Aborn and Co.
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Situation: Headquartered in San Diego, the client is a leading provider of consumer audio/video electronics and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Aborn and Co.
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Situation: Headquartered in San Diego, the client is a leading provider of consumer audio/video electronics and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Challenge: As the consumer electronics market saw increasing price competition and margin compression, the client was left looking
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BlueYonder
AUGUST 26, 2014
We’ve gone through several iterations of how to effectively balance supply and demand in the retail/consumer goods supply chain. Historically, a consumer goods firm did forecasting based upon historical shipments. Various forms of retail/consumer goods forecast collaboration have emerged to help cure the disease. Featured Flowcasting Inventory Retail Supply Chain Supply Chain Planning consumer goods flowcasting inventory retail
BlueYonder
JULY 1, 2014
Earlier this year, PwC conducted a global survey of Consumer Goods and Retail CEOs to get their thoughts on the economic outlook for their marketplace, the key issues they face, and the importance of their supply chains in a multi-channel world. The German marketplace is also in a good place when it comes to other economic fundamentals—it has a low unemployment rate, about six percent, and it has inflation well under control at about three percent.
Elementum
JUNE 11, 2018
Think about the supply chain of virtually every consumer good. Transportation can be a significant part of a business’ logistics costs— potentially upwards of 55 percent. Fuel price is driven primarily by five factors: demand, refinery maintenance costs, transportation constraints, crude oil prices, and geopolitical disruptions. In an attempt to reduce the length of transportation for products in the supply chain, several industries have taken to nearshoring.
Elementum
JUNE 11, 2018
Think about the supply chain of virtually every consumer good. Transportation can be a significant part of a business’ logistics costs— potentially upwards of 55 percent. Fuel price is driven primarily by five factors: demand, refinery maintenance costs, transportation constraints, crude oil prices, and geopolitical disruptions. In an attempt to reduce the length of transportation for products in the supply chain, several industries have taken to nearshoring.
Savi
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Today’s driver shortage is helping to drive transportation costs higher. On top of all these factors, the driver shortages, an almost 100% driver turnover rate, and increased demand further jam up the supply chain and limit transportation options. The chart below (courtesy of Peter Boockvar ) illustrates historical truck transport cost and consumer goods cost movement. The white line is consumer goods, minus food and energy.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 11, 2015
QAD provides full-featured manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, on premise or via the cloud, with very deep functionality for the Automotive, Food & Beverage/Consumer Goods, High Tech, Industrial, and Life Sciences industries. Just for Fun QAD Quality Management risk management supply chain transportation managementQAD is far better known for their manufacturing than supply chain solutions.
Cerasis
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
While electronics, automotive, and consumer goods’ supply chains promote their products, the food supply chain represents a basic human necessity–food. The post The Ever-Expanding Role of AI and AR in Food Logistics appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis. The food supply chain is unlike any other.
PLS Logistics
DECEMBER 6, 2016
A product recall is the process of retrieving and replacing defective or unsafe consumer goods. Recalls create tension in the supply chain and test consumer relationships, affect sales, and can negatively affect a brand’s reputation. Transportation Supply Chain DisruptionsWhen a company issues a recall, the company or manufacturer absorbs the cost of replacing and fixing those defective or unsafe products.
Cerasis
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
On today’s episode we welcome Andrew Lynch, Co-Founder & President of Zipline Logistics, an award-winning logistics service provider that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods and food and beverage products. Transportation Metrics that Matter the Most for Shippers to Track to Improve Performance. Capacity Crunch Carrier Relations Freight Logistics Transportation Management Right Carrier Mix
Talking Logistics
JUNE 17, 2015
One area where significant waste exists is transportation management. Simply put, many oil and gas companies manage their transportation operations in a highly decentralized and fragmented manner with little or no technology. In response, oil and gas companies are starting to take action to improve their transportation management capabilities, with many of them looking at implementing a transportation management system (TMS) for the first time.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 18, 2015
Kimberly-Clark, the $21 billion consumer goods company with brands like Huggies and Kleenex, is a major user of JDA’s TMS solution. Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Procurement Transportation Transportation Management Systems JDA Kimberly-Clark transportation managementJenni Stamps and Melanie Payne, the Domestic and International Pricing Managers respectively at the Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KCC), spoke at this year’s JDA Focus.
CH Robinson Transportfolio
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Manufacturing/Auto/Industrials – Raw material and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) supplier networks, along with factory outputs tied to industrial equipment, automotive products, and consumer goods. Freight and Transportation Services Flatbed shipping Truckload services
Transplace
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Transportation TIP List: Week of December 16 th , 2018. This year’s final list includes stories on the value of a TMS for supply chains and automation’s impact on transportation. Transportation Management and The Promise of Machine Learning : Transportation management systems (TMS) have a proven ROI; primarily, a TMS can save companies money by lowering their freight spend. The post Transportation TIP List: Week of December 16th, 2018 appeared first on.
DELMIA Quintiq
OCTOBER 6, 2015
The 2014 UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper study reports what truly affects shopper satisfaction: This presents new opportunities to retailers who are quick to offer what consumers want. And now for the good news…. 1 McKinsey CPG: Trends that will shape the consumer goods industry. Transport & LogisticsRetailers are still debating the logistical and financial feasibility of same-day delivery while racing to offer it – in equal measure.
PLS Logistics
DECEMBER 8, 2015
PLS Logistics is partners with a consumer goods manufacturer who has multiple locations. When the client was pressured by its retailer buyers for lower costs, they needed to optimize transportation management to find cost savings. The client felt they could decrease overall transportation spend, but they had no visibility into the shipping processes and could not identify any inefficiencies.
Supply Chain @ MIT
JANUARY 5, 2017
Our research, carried out in collaboration with a major consumer goods manufacturer, suggests the problem is significantly worse and costlier than many retailers assume. The culprit is “phantom inventory”—goods that […]. Featured Strategy managing missing inventory MIT Center Transportation & Logistics phantom inventory retailers' inventory problems Supply chain research why products go AWOL in stores
DELMIA Quintiq
DECEMBER 14, 2015
In Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industries, we’ve conditioned the customer to respond to predictable price movements at predictable intervals following the product landing on the shelf (real or electronic). This approach, taken from Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industries, is applicable not only to industries functioning like FMCG – for instance, fashion, consumer electronics, so on – but to any industry. Transport & Logistics
Talking Logistics
APRIL 27, 2018
I was a bit rusty when I started, but it felt good to be outdoors after riding in the basement all winter! We’ve raised almost $22K already — a good start to reaching our $75K goal! Freight Costs Weighing on Earnings at Consumer-Goods Makers (WSJ – sub. Manhattan Updates its Visionary TMS Solution to Address the Transportation Industry’s Biggest Challenges.
Elementum
JANUARY 23, 2018
They’ve since been struggling to meet increasing demand for freight transport. Over 70 percent of consumer goods rely on transportation via highways to reach store shelves. Trucking fleets are now charging higher prices to haul goods across the country, and it still remains to be seen as to whether this increase will be accompanied by a corresponding rise in wages. Logistics truck drivers transportation women
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Interviews with executives at 10 companies across the food, consumer goods and commodities sectors reveal that many are grappling with how to defend their profit margins as transportation costs climb at nearly double the inflation rate. Labor Department reported earlier this month that underlying consumer prices in January posted their biggest gain in more than a year.
Supply Chain Movement
APRIL 7, 2014
Although exports are increasing, Turkey remains a net importing country specifically for energy, high tech, industrial and consumer goods. Reports 3PL distribution DSV Solutions economy Istanbul Loder logistics logistics service providers Outsourcing supply chain transport Turkey The heydays of 2009 to 2011 may be over but Turkey is still a very attractive market for European manufacturers.
Operations and Supply Chain Management
AUGUST 24, 2020
The supply chains for consumer goods in the U.S. billion, a drive that relied on efficient transportation. remain under strain months after pandemic lockdowns triggered a range of sudden and surprising shortages.
Elementum
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Currently, there are more than 500,000 over-the-road drivers delivering goods across the U.S. Implications for other industries Demand for consumer goods continues to experience aggregate growth, and with it industrial output. As higher labor and fuel costs ripple through the economy, the pressure is mounting on manufacturers and retailers to raise costs — costs that could eventually be passed on to consumers. shipping Logistics transportation fuel costs trucking
CHAINalytics
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Consumer goods and electronics manufacturers are busy figuring out what they’re going to do in December when President Donald Trump’s 10 percent tariff on an estimated $300 billion worth of Chinese imports takes effect. Blog Feature Transportation consumer durables fleet modeling fleet optimization freight benchmarking freight transportation last mile consultant last mile consulting Last Mile Delivery Network Design Supply Chain Network Design Transportation Benchmarking
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