Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, the lessons garnered during the pandemic will likely drive inventory management toward less of a dependency on global-wide sourcing and more toward product postponement sourcing and customer fulfillment strategies. Manufacturing and Supply Chain Activity Levels- Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 16, 2022

As a manufacturing or distribution management team you must make tough decisions on managing operations within the organization. The solution can be implemented in several manufacturing and distribution industries, with various efficiencies and opportunities unlocked in the process. Why upgrade your ERP system. Outdated technology.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 10, 2023

July is typically a month in which Chinese suppliers and manufacturers have ramped up production levels to support global-wide back-to-school and other holiday related demand for products that peak in the November and December surge period. reflects broader weakness in the entire chain of global manufacturing.”

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 29, 2023

With economic and non-economic shocks entangled all the way down, it is little wonder that an unfamiliar term is gaining currency — the polycrisis.”[2] ” Of course, avoiding a crisis is a better and more cost-effective strategy. and Europe, along with many companies, are pursuing a de-risk rather decouple strategy.

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Logility

AUGUST 23, 2021

To ensure long-term growth and protect customer loyalty, businesses need to strive for the automation of supply chain planning – from anticipating emerging demand and optimizing manufacturing capacity to adjusting inventory allocations, minimizing costs, and increasing efficiency when required. Minimizing Manufacturing Changeovers.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ensuring seamless collaboration among different business functions is fundamental to your demand strategy and, in the end, to meet customer demands. Using the same volume measurements, currency, values, and wording throughout the matrix is important. But once you’ve done this, you need to take the next step.

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Kinaxis

JULY 21, 2017

Competition is using pricing or niche assortments as a means to compete with branded manufacturers. Amidst lessening brand loyalties, CPG brand manufacturers are being forced to become more cost competitive. Word of mouth, good or bad, is now spreading much faster in online channels.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, one woman was trading foreign currencies, and took a strong position on Eurodollar. She lost $10M – and the next week Mars made her the head of trading for foreign currencies! We talked about the sugar market, the currency market, and traded ideas about how to do hedging and trading. It is appropriate that it do so.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pricing Strategy Relative to overall pricing business and industry media reports note that this year, Apple has avoided across the board price hikes in the U.S. However, there are price hikes involving certain model iPhone 15 phones sold in China , India and Japan to reportedly offset currency value changes related to the U.S.

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QAD

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Does your e-commerce platform align with your business goals and strategies for the next one, five and 10 years? Manufacturers need intelligence and analytics to deliver the improved customer experience B2B e-commerce buyers expect. Are you getting the data you need?

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

The value of the US Dollar consistently increasing during 2022 against other global currencies, providing added headwinds to counties and businesses globally in the form of added inflationary cost pressures. CFO top three concerns focused on inflationary cost implications, labor quality and availability, and ongoing supply chain strategies.

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ivalua

JULY 22, 2015

Leading manufacturers have proven that best-in-class strategic sourcing can create measurable and sustainable shareholder value by contributing to top line growth and bottom line profitability. Financing, hedging, and currency plays. The first two signs dealt with goal alignment and understanding internal customer needs. Geographic.

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Gravity Supply Chain

JANUARY 19, 2023

As suggested by experts, the very first step in identifying these barriers is to understand the various components of the supply chain, which includes understanding the roles of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and customers. Labor Shortage The labor shortage has become a major barrier to efficient supply chain management.

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Bristlecone

APRIL 8, 2019

Here are three common vulnerabilities supply chains face — and strategies on how to turn those liabilities into strengths. With innovation and disruption becoming the norm, you need to constantly look around corners to anticipate changes — because clinging to the status quo is not a winning strategy. Lack Of Visibility.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. If your supplier decides that you need to pay more or global currency exchange rates drive up the cost of a component (and you have no alternatives ready to go) your margins can be significantly impacted.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The very next day I called Jim Hull, our Senior Industries Strategy Director, to share my frightening shopping experience, and he confirmed my worst nightmare — everything I needed for an enchanting All Hallows’ Eve was somewhere on a ship in one of the many port logjams. Too many red candies produced at Christmas?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

I find senior executives love to throw around superlatives like customer-centric, agile, efficient and responsive but lack the understanding of how the words translate to supply chain strategy in the real world. Managing a supply chain requires big feet—grounding in real-world experience—coupled with big wings—conceptualization of strategy.

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EC Sourcing Group

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

If you’re executing your procurement strategies efficiently, you’re also continually running spend analysis reports. Manufacture or refine these goods into basic components. You’re using all the same currency. As there are many steps in the supply chain, there are many steps in procurement and procurement management.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Is it possible these things have impacted the sourcing, manufacturing, and delivery of my cologne? For example, has my country’s sanctions or tariffs impacted the supply chain of the manufacturer, impacted when and how they receive the ingredients for my cologne and at what cost? Is the foreign country’s currency stable?

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Professionals in this field often find themselves venturing into manufacturing, IT, technology, ERP systems, and even commercial roles. These include: Capacity Planning: Ensuring timely availability of resources, such as manufacturing capacity and distribution center capacity, to meet logistics and supply chain needs.

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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. Noted was that 90 developing countries have seen their currencies weaken against the high U.S. dollar this year.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friend Allison Wilkinson, a freelance writer in the industry, who shows us why Reshoring or Insourcing Manufacturing can boost your profits. While reshoring has always been a debated topic in the manufacturing industry , the subject earned the national spotlight in the 2016 presidential election.

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BlueYonder

MAY 16, 2018

During the conference, 90 executives from the manufacturing, retail and logistics industries attended the Executive Exchange, sponsored by KPMG LLP (KPMG). The survey found that trying to keep up with customer expectations is driving retailer investment in the supply chain, while agility and innovation is driving manufacturer investment.

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BlueYonder

MAY 16, 2018

During the conference, 90 executives from the manufacturing, retail and logistics industries attended the Executive Exchange, sponsored by KPMG LLP (KPMG). The survey found that trying to keep up with customer expectations is driving retailer investment in the supply chain, while agility and innovation is driving manufacturer investment.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 18, 2019

Coordinating regulatory approvals with the ability to manufacture could make or break capturing market share. Early approvals could cause a struggle to ramp up manufacturing capabilities. Late approvals may give you more time to prepare manufacturing but could leave you with high capital resources sitting idle.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2015

The phrase “Made in China” embodies cheap labor, the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs, and China’s transformation into one of the world’s economic superpowers. However, it seems the end of the Made in China manufacturing era may be in sight. has shrunk to less than 5 percent (5%).

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Material Handling & Logistics

MARCH 25, 2018

To succeed in today’s digital age, brands need a supply chain that can deliver on these demands and is empowered by a fleet of valuable supply chain partnerships—from manufacturers and logistics managers, to contact center representatives. That way, when strategy does change, the supply chain isn’t holding execution back with old habits.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Despite carrier hopes of volume normalization as the market contracts in 2023, FreightWaves warns, “ 2023 is likely to be another year of sub-replacement level builds due to parts and components shortages as well as Europe’s struggles with sourcing energy to power vendor manufacturing site. ”. YoY Volume Lapses Worry Air Cargo Companies.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, Ganguly, vice president of manufacturing and general manager of the company’s Research Triangle Park operations, says the Jenkins MBA program prepared him for the challenges he faces from day to day. Supply chain has a big focus on the currency of today’s theories being implemented here. There were four options: 1.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 6, 2015

While US manufacturing has been hit hard by nearly two decades of policy failures that have damaged its international competitiveness, it remains a vital part of the U.S. The US manufacturing sector employed 12 million workers in 2013, or about 8.8 On average, non-college-educated workers in manufacturing made 10.9 employment.

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Also, soft skills such as communication, the ability to collaborate effectively, change management, and creativity are gaining in currency. The algorithms help program managers to formulate intervention strategies. The same is true for the ability to keep updating these skills given the pace of technological change.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 30, 2017

When a 100-year-old toy company collaborates with a leading automotive and technology manufacturer, the possibilities are limitless. Evolving markets need evolving strategies. Global markets are continually changing and successful global operations require a strategy that exceeds those changes.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 11, 2022

One of the latest ways CPG manufacturers have opted to interact with consumers is with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Fungible’ means that something can be traded, like physical currency or cryptocurrencies. An NFT isn’t a currency; it’s basically a certification of authenticity for a digital asset. ”[1] What? ”[5].

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Locus

DECEMBER 7, 2021

With the pandemic and political instability, businesses in the Middle East have begun to reconsider supply chain strategy to improve their resilience. Process risks : These are risks associated with supply chain strategy and its implementation. Oil price fluctuations. Optimize sourcing decisions.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Over the years, we’ve branched out into a wide range of janitorial, industrial and Food & Beverage Plant cleaning chemicals that are either imported or manufactured at our ISO9001 Certified Manufacturing Plant in Napier. Since then, we have embarked on an aggressive growth strategy. An end-to-end business solution.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

In the maritime example I cited above, the lack of a centralized management strategy for our nation’s port system puts us at a competitive disadvantage. There are many other areas where a centralized strategy is needed. Manufacturers have responded to these efforts by stepping up the production of PPE.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

An interview with Toygar Narbay, Chairman of the Board at clothing manufacturer Narkonteks. Effective supply chain management has been vital in building a compelling offering – both as a manufacturer for leading international brands and in developing its own brand. Narkonteks Yönetim Kurulu Ba?kan? na göre uzatman?z, z, küresel haz?r

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