GlobalTranz

JANUARY 16, 2018

Manufacturing is on the cusp of an explosion in growth and innovation in 2018. These facts set the stage for exponential manufacturing growth in 2018. These facts set the stage for exponential manufacturing growth in 2018. Check Out the Top 2018 Manufacturing Trends. Green Manufacturing Will Go Viral.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Supply chains, which facilitate the movement of products from manufacturers to consumers, have historically encountered issues such as inefficiency, fraud, and a lack of transparency. Companies find it difficult to fully trust the data from suppliers, complicating efforts to ensure product authenticity, safety, and ethical sourcing.

Supply Chain Software 217

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Resilinc

JUNE 9, 2025

In Orlando, thought leaders, procurement professionals, and supply chain executives came together under the theme of building resilient, responsive supply networks. Both scenarios carry hidden dependencies, but overreliance on single or sole sourcing is increasingly a hidden challenge.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 13, 2023

Trey is the Co-founder and CEO at Amplio , an Atlanta based tech firm that predicts and prevents material and parts shortage for companies in the electronic manufacturing space. Trey Closson is the Co-founder and CEO at Amplio, an Atlanta based tech firm builds supply chain resilience for electronics manufacturers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 12, 2025

and lower manufacturing activity were reported in the months preceding the talks. This includes easing restrictions that had affected procurement, licensing, and customs processing. In the U.S., companies accelerated shipments to avoid tariff increases, leading to short-term logistical bottlenecks. firms with operations in China.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 25, 2024

My definition of a network is the bi-directional information exchange of manufacturing, procurement, quality, and transportation signals across multiple tiers of trading partners in a many-to-many trading partner information exchange with minimal latency. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) does not meet this definition.

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QAD

MARCH 31, 2020

It’s a niche industry, but also one of the cornerstones of discrete parts manufacturing. They’re complex machines assembled from thousands of parts, many purchased from highly specialized manufacturers. Inevitably, the procurement process is complex and challenging to manage. Purchasing for Complex Products.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 30, 2022

Disruptions like the pandemic, supply shortages, global trade barriers, high customer expectations and inflation all add tremendous pressure on the procurement process. According to SYSPRO Research 70% of manufacturing businesses experienced material handling and supply chain disruptions during the pandemic.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 30, 2022

Disruptions like the pandemic, supply shortages, global trade barriers, high customer expectations and inflation all add tremendous pressure on the procurement process. According to SYSPRO Research 70% of manufacturing businesses experienced material handling and supply chain disruptions during the pandemic.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

Home Introducing Freightos Enterprise: End-to-End Procurement, Benchmarking, and Management Freightos Enterprise unifies market intelligence, tender management, and shipment operations into one solution, enhancing logistics efficiency for large import-export businesses.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 18, 2017

What makes or breaks a new technology in manufacturing? Mostly, manufacturers demand technologies that can boost their output without causing an additional strain on resources, and the final five technologies changing manufacturing in 2016 did just that. In other words, some manufacturers continue to resist the trend.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

The Manufacturing Supply Chain Journey through AI and Automation Manufacturing Supply Chains Explained The manufacturing supply chain comprises all the processes a business uses to turn raw materials and components into final products that are ready to be sold to customers, whether these are consumers or other businesses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 13, 2024

The three steps in realizing the vision are 1) flexible, reconfigurable plant; 2) global manufacturing networks of flexible, configurable plants; 3) the integration of the previous step with digital, certified, encrypted product definitions. flexible manufacturing in fast-moving products. both in the process and discrete industries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 26, 2023

Primed for transactional efficiency, these legacy architectures based on relational databases drive order-to-cash and procure-to-pay efficiencies. Or a unified data model across source, make, and deliver for planning? Demand latency (the time from purchase by the customer to order visibility by the manufacturer) is weeks and months.

Optimal Sourcing 369

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Precoro

OCTOBER 6, 2022

With the global market expansion and deepening supply chain complexity, the roles of procurement leaders have evolved from tactical to strategic. Nowadays, procurement departments not only focus on the day-to-day buying operations but also search for the most efficient ways to go about them. How often do purchases happen?

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Arena Solutions

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This creates a continuous flow of information between design tools, simulation environments, and manufacturing systems allowing all stakeholders to access a single source of truth. This will result in minimal changes to the design and BOM while still allowing purchasing and manufacturing to continue with minimal delays.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 9, 2022

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Procurement operations are the backbone of every company’s supply chain. Fundamental to procurement is the acquisition of goods and services from a party that’s further up the supply chain. This document is the first legal contract in the operational procurement process.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

How AI is Transforming Manufacturing: Strategies, Benefits, and Use Cases Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a huge topic and one that is constantly changing as research and development efforts push out the boundaries of whats possibleand whats already happening! Manufacturers now generate and own vast volumes of it.

Inventory Reduction 52

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RFgen

JANUARY 16, 2025

Keeping track of all your moving parts in manufacturing is a tall order. That’s where manufacturing inventory management software comes in. We’re talking real-time tracking, automated purchasing, and a whole lot less stress. Its your single source of truth for inventory, constantly updated and readily available.

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IQMS

JUNE 9, 2023

When we think about the critical requirements for a manufacturer to succeed, productivity, quality, and inventory management immediately jump to mind. But another factor can play an equally strong role in making or breaking a manufacturing business: communication. Design-Through-Manufacturing Efficiencies.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

A Manufacturer’s Guide to the Evolution of ERPs Lets start by declaring an interest. Most JAGGAER installations in the manufacturing industry specifically, and in product-centric businesses in general, involve integration with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system of one sort or another. So, we have skin in this game!

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Precoro

MARCH 27, 2025

According to McKinsey & Company, procurement accounts for 50% to 80% of a company’s cost base. That’s why organizations zero in on strategies to achieve procurement cost reduction.    The key thing to remember is that cost reduction in procurement isn’t just about slashing expenses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2024

Over the years, individual locations—the company has several manufacturing locations in Europe and North America—have behaved increasingly autonomously. Meanwhile, customers’ procurement operations were seeing a new generation of talent come of age who were pushing for better value-added services and shipment visibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 21, 2023

Procurement managers are now asked to address ESG issues in their sourcing and foreign manufacturing operations. Meanwhile, trade compliance managers are tasked with ensuring that the procurement department is following the rules. This trade regulation is designed to protect the world’s forests.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

The regulation is designed to provide European consumers with extensive data about the provenance of the items they purchase, all the way back to the sourcing of raw materials. Beyond the promotion of ethical sourcing, it’s also about “how we can extend the life of products,” Balaam says.

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Precoro

AUGUST 14, 2023

More and more companies are acknowledging the importance of centralizing and optimizing their procurement operations. One of the ways to accomplish this is to establish a procurement team to streamline ordering by centralizing purchases and improving supplier relations. What are the duties of a procurement manager?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 23, 2021

The larger the number of industry participants on a network, the better the solution is at sourcing and onboarding. The LevaData solution, for example, speeds up sourcing significantly. But this is particularly in the electronics industry, where the majority of their customers hail from. Certain message types are still uncommon.

Optimal Sourcing 293

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 30, 2022

Many businesses use some form of Total Cost of Ownership model to support their Procurement and sourcing decisions. In fact these models are not just used casually, but they often are designed to inform and make optimal sourcing choices. Typically and historically sourcing decisions were predominantly based on unit price.

Optimal Sourcing 105

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QAD

APRIL 27, 2023

Earlier this year, QAD hosted a live webinar to explore and analyze the trends that are likely to dominate the procurement world over the coming months. It’s no secret that procurement teams have an amplified role within their businesses and that many are left with questions — our goal was to offer answers.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

According to PLS Logistics , global companies will install procurement managers in China for entire organizations by 2025. There was a time when buying a computer was considered a once-in-a-decade purchase, if not once-in-a-lifetime. They are not susceptible to drowsy driving, and they are not subject to electronic logging mandate.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 2, 2022

To deal with the new challenges in managing and planning the supply chain , the procurement department is one of the functions that should look at changing. It is no longer sufficient for procurement to focus just on supplier costs, placing orders and ensuring goods are received. Risk management. Supply chain control tower.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. But Molex, a global electronics and connectivity solutions company, has been investing in their intelligent digital supply chain strategy to improve their supply chain agility and customer experience. It is part of Koch Industries.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The company explains, “The growing reliance on artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) devices is creating vulnerabilities across supply chains, with manufacturing and electronics sectors identified as particularly at risk. Third-party logistics providers are expected to face heightened cybersecurity threats.”

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

Canada 98

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 31, 2022

This also includes delays in local manufacturing as well as inflationary pressures due to escalating costs because of the increased fuel prices – increases are already at 10% and shipping is about 30%. Industries such as high-tech electronics and semiconductors, and rare earth minerals are highly susceptible to unpredictability.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. Throughout a genuine and collaborative cooperation with business vendors, they produce innovative approaches to current procurement difficulties.

Vendor Strategies 141

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At the time, we were both deployed as consultants for Manugistics to help a manufacturing company to implement end-to-end planning. There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. Manugistics is now owned by JDA.).

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