Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Run” will include using the platform for inventory optimization and to support interesting internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. HWI employed a crawl-walk-run methodology. Monolithics are unshaped refractory products.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A manufacturer in China doesn’t read the specs on an order. A supplier in Mexico mixes up two similar parts. Ethereum shares some common features with Bitcoin, including how it’s mined by computers and codifies unique data that can be used to track everything from transactions to an exchange of goods (more on that below).

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Logility

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Prior to the pandemic, efficiency meant just-in-time manufacturing, but disruptions exposed the flaw in this approach. Rethink just-in-time inventory policies: There could be another pandemic or another war. Or you could near-shore to Mexico, Latin America, or other countries in Southeast Asia or the north of Europe.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Belcorp Corporation, headquartered in Peru, manufactures cosmetics and personal care products for women in 14 nations across South and Central America. In Belcorp’s case they have four factories located in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador. In 2018, they implemented a LLamasoft inventory optimization solution.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

based companies had indicated in survey data and in concerted actions that termed China Plus sourcing strategies that either explored alternative, nearshoring, or reshoring efforts were being undertaken. Last month we made reference to a published report by The Wall Street Jour nal: As China Risks Grow, Manufacturers Seek Plan B and C and D.

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IQMS

MARCH 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed manufacturers to rapidly shift gears, from addressing work-from-home policies to managing extreme swings in demand and uncertain supply chains. In the process, it has highlighted an aspect of manufacturing ERP that is not as visible in more normal times— business continuity.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

The increased cost of working capital and supplemental inventory levels to mitigate fulfillment risk is likely to revert back to just-in-time inventory management. Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® ended 2023 on a noted lackluster footing.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 24, 2019

Manufacturing was transformed into a global enterprise. The Economist says that more companies are sourcing with proximity to their major markets – for instance servicing the EU from Eastern Europe and Northern Africa or the US from Mexico. A decade ago it was unrealistic to compete with “the China price”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 31, 2014

Manufacturing teams used to manage the supply chain group. Today, in most organizations, the supply chain team manages manufacturing. The irony is that fewer and fewer people within the supply chain team understand manufacturing. Instead, many of these teams just accept manufacturing strategy as a constant.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

However, the effectiveness of FTZs just got a lot clearer as the US released a five-year study on the operations and impact of the US FTZ program and similar FTZ-type programs in Canada and Mexico. However, the data shows that two benefits are by far the most important to current FTZ users: duty reduction and duty exemption.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The August numbers once again signal a continued downturn in global manufacturing conditions as output and new order rates continue to fall. From our lens, the August data further reflects ongoing shifts in production sourcing within specific industry sectors. That stated, global output levels fell for the third consecutive month.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In this Q&A, Chaturvedi shares his views on rebuilding American manufacturing, reshoring, nearshoring, and other topics of the moment in supply chains. Resilinc: What’s the current status of reshoring manufacturing? The top countries that are investing in manufacturing sites in the U.S. Resilinc: It looks like the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

Our annual predictions advisory began with a summary of prevailing global economic, financial and manufacturing outlooks. Reported research from Bloomberg Intelligence indicated that the retail industry is holding at least 20 percent more inventory than they have on average over the past three years. percent of GDP to 6.2

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In our prior highlights and perceptions of September and Q3-2023 published indices , we observed that the numbers once again signaled added contraction in global manufacturing output and product demand levels. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. down from the 49.2

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

On this episode of Supply Chain Next, Rob speaks with host Richard Donaldson about technology, data, supplier relationships, what’s changing as a result of COVID-19, and up-and-coming supply chain talent. On every screen there were moving graphical visualizations of material inventory. The next step is to look at the data.

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Logility

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In the interactive “ Top Halloween Candy by State ” map, CandyStore.com shows my beloved candy corn is the favorite candy for trick-or-treaters in Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa, Michigan and Alabama. Digging deeper into the data, CandyStore.com has identified America’s top 10 Halloween candies for the past 11 years. Reese’s Cups.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

Con-way Freight Raises the Bar on Mexico Service, Adds Door-to-Door Tracking, 24-Hour Customer Resource Center, Enhanced Web Tools. LLamasoft Launches Data Services to Provide Reference Data for the Supply Chain Design Community. In this week’s news, new products and services and a couple of acquisitions top the list.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this Part 2 blog post, we will continue to explore how automotive manufacturers are carrying out effective supply chain initiatives and their innovative solutions. While Excel is a great data analysis and rendering tool, it leads to manual siloed processes, which is really not sustainable in today’s connected, synchronized world.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 28, 2021

According to the survey, “Organizations have struggled to respond rapidly to disruptions and to restore operations to a steady state (for instance, restoring inventory levels and the availability of manufacturing and logistics capacity), which further highlights the lack of resilience in supply chains today.” ” 2. .”

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

Business and supply chain focused media reports already point to increased supplier and manufacturing investment in regions such as Mexico, Eastern Europe, India, Vietnam and other regions as responses to added supply network resiliency or agility. Canada or Mexico. based manufacturing facilities had soared by over 116 percent.

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QAD

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The trouble is, manufacturers and the supply chains they rely on can’t keep up. Fortunately, implementing a digital transformation strategy can help, and manufacturers today have plenty of options at their fingertips. Manufacturing a Magical Holiday Season. The situation is only expected to worsen leading up to Christmas.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2020

Blue Yonder understands the need for data to help our customers plan and respond to the supply chain not only in routine times, but also in times of crisis, such as now with the exponential spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19). Lucky are the companies that can shift production to other countries like Mexico or Vietnam.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 25, 2022

the industrial AI supply chain pioneer, as its preferred supply chain data partner. This decision is driven by Church Brothers’ initiative to leverage its data to better serve its customers, and to guide its decision making process to optimize profitability. and Mexico. and Mexico. PR Contact. Church Brothers Farms.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights select June and Q2-2022 global manufacturing and supply chain indices, with the data indicating increased headwinds and challenges in the months to come. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. Global Wide Production Activity. United States.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 6, 2023

Getting the basics right Improving forecast accuracy Accurate demand forecasts can help you stay on top of inventory and improve strategic planning for different risk scenarios. For example, one tool updates your ERP system with a delivery time, which the ERP then sends to your inventory optimization software.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 6, 2023

Accurate demand forecasts can help you stay on top of inventory and improve strategic planning for different risk scenarios. For example, one tool updates your ERP system with a delivery time, which the ERP then sends to your inventory optimization software. ABC/XYZ analysis can help identify the most valuable items to your business.

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Logility

AUGUST 25, 2021

Omega Pharma International Nv, TBC DE Mexico S.A. During the quarter, SaaS subscription and/or software license agreements were signed with customers located in the following 8 countries: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, United Kingdom, and United States. Trinseo S.A., and WEG Equipamentos Elétricos S.A.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In this second Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight the ongoing supply chain and manufacturing implications of the labor strike involving the three U.S. automakers were forced to formulate production or component alliances with Asia based suppliers either in China or operating in in Mexico in order to support U.S.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

These methods help companies take massive data sets and turn them into digestible, actionable insights for their supply chain practices. delivers affordable, easy-to-use supply chain planning solutions designed to increase forecast accuracy, improve customer service and reduce inventory to maximize profits and lower costs.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 25, 2016

While omnichannel retailing is in the spotlight these days, lurking in the shadows is another big challenge and opportunity many retailers (and manufacturers looking to sell direct to consumers) have been struggling with for years: cross-border e-commerce.” percent of the value of freight to and from Mexico. percent from 2015 to $82.4

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

Offshoring is basically when a company moves manufacturing to a foreign country in an attempt to save money. For a time, this model of manufacturing seemed to be the paragon of effective business. Reshoring Vs. This may include research and development, product manufacturing, product packaging, and shipping processes.

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the past, stores had to supply a wide variety of paint colors and finishes based on consumer demand estimates, building inventory and tying up working capital. For example, let’s look at a cloud-based infrastructure company that outsources its manufacturing to two contract manufacturers. while growth is expected in Asia.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. I am a manufacturing gal by training. It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns.

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Freight Plus

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Industrial production accounts for 55%-60% of ODFL’s mix and domestic manufacturing overall is in contractionary territory. This, along with many other leading indicators (transportation data, inverted yield curves, lower GDP) still make the possibility of a recession in 2020 a real possibility.

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

ShipBob can only fulfill orders for CBD products from our US fulfillment centers that meet the following criteria: Products are manufactured by a US-based company. From that information, build a list of products that you know are legal for you to sell and stick with your regular inventory to avoid any legal mishaps.

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RFgen

MARCH 28, 2016

Many of these items advertise their all-natural ingredients and simple manufacturing processes to attract the eye of people wanting to live a healthy lifestyle. In their rush to stand out in an ever-growing marketplace, businesses may exaggerate the benefits of their products or lose sight of their inventory management policies.

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RFgen

MARCH 28, 2016

Many of these items advertise their all-natural ingredients and simple manufacturing processes to attract the eye of people wanting to live a healthy lifestyle. In their rush to stand out in an ever-growing marketplace, businesses may exaggerate the benefits of their products or lose sight of their inventory management policies.

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