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When Designing the Right Manufacturing Plant, Small Can Be Beautiful

Supply Chain Brain

manufacturers have spent the last few decades consolidating production at gigantic offshore plants, especially in China. Such a model, based on prioritizing unit economies and production at scale, doesn’t prepare manufacturers and retailers for the waves of disruption that are washing over global supply chains today.

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Top 15 Logistics Blog Posts of 2014

GlobalTranz

We’ve already listed the top 10 manufacturing blog posts and the top 10 supply chain blog posts last week. When a manufacturer’s product normally moves through the supply chain network, it is to reach the distributor or customer. Any process or management after the sale of the product involves reverse logistics.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. More and more cargo shifted to ocean transport until the container imbalances resulted in issues with “rolling the freight” from ship to ship despite confirmed bookings. In addition, build a planning master data management system.

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Demand Forecasting: A Complete Guide to Supply Chain Excellence

ToolsGroup

Whether you’re in manufacturing, retail, or another industry, navigating the uncertainties can feel like solving an intricate puzzle. Companies can also reduce overhead due to overtime and expedited freight by more than 50%. Lower Obsolescence: Improved demand accuracy reduces overstocking and discount-driven losses.

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Demand Forecasting: A Complete Guide to Supply Chain Excellence

ToolsGroup

Whether you’re in manufacturing, retail, or another industry, navigating the uncertainties can feel like solving an intricate puzzle. Companies can also reduce overhead due to overtime and expedited freight by more than 50%. Lower Obsolescence: Improved demand accuracy reduces overstocking and discount-driven losses.

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The Rise of Outsourced Logistics: What it Means for LSPs

BlueYonder

As the size and scale of their worldwide supply chains increase, many manufacturers, retailers and distributors are finding themselves constrained by shortfalls in resources, capacity and specialized knowledge. As freight carrier rates and fuel prices rise, and competition for customers heats up, their margins are shrinking.

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AI: Real or Hype?

Supply Chain Brain

As a result, users may receive decisions that are not objective in terms of identifying specific suppliers, customers, manufacturing facilities or distribution methods. Solving AI Challenges To solve such challenges, companies should implement a strong data-governance framework. SPECIAL REPORT AI: Real or Hype?