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ERP Sustains Manufacturing during COVID-19

IQMS

Headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan, it has multiple local plants, as well as facilities in China, Hungary, and Mexico. Similarly, Mar-Bal relies on real-time remote access and production monitoring to keep production on track and inform its production, sales, and service teams on order status, shipping, delivery and service updates.

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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper. Years ago, I knew that information sharing and the whole supplier-purchaser relationship is one of the most important things in supply chain (I talked about it in Introduction to Supply Chain Management in 1999).

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Experts Choice Of Top Online Logistics Resources

Freightos

Shipping Gazette Daily News. One of the most comprehensive daily summaries, and by far the leading Asian-based summary, China’s Shipping Gazette provides daily information about carriers, forwarders and technology. Since 1974 with industry-leading expertise in, well, American shipping. Logistics Management. Paid Premium.

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It’s About Time for a new “World Class Supply Chain” Paradigm

NC State SCRC

As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University in 1992, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative. To drive centralized buying I had to dive down into the Bill of Materials and do a cross-tab.

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50 expert tips on supply chain management

6 River Systems

In the longer term, and dependent on the eventual scale and impact that COVID-19 has on consumer markets, it may speed up a re-think on how shoppers evaluate purchases and the benefits that they see as the key factors to consider.” ” — Understanding Supply Chain Excellence , Michigan State University; Twitter: @michiganstateu 33.

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50 expert warehouse order picking tips, strategies, and best practices

6 River Systems

The more orders that are picked, the more orders can be shipped, and that means more orders can be invoiced, hence picking directly increases the revenue for the distribution center. Throughput is the measure of inventory that is received into the inbound dock doors and shipped through the outbound dock doors by fulfilling orders.”

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This Week in Logistics News (February 27 – March 3, 2017)

Talking Logistics

And as I wrote two years ago, the larger challenge facing the ports, especially in the United States, is the need to increase port productivity as larger ships replace smaller vessels. million, aims to work with freight companies by year-end to test trucks without human occupants on highways in states such as Michigan, Nevada or Florida.