Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2024

The Masters has a notoriously unforgiving cut, allowing only the top-50 players from the first two days to advance into the weekend, where most PGA events mark their cut at the top-61. Now 27 ships navigate the Panama Canal each day, compared with 39 previously. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s good to see these companies recognizing the impact of climate change, and changing their policies, sourcing, and manufacturing practices to reduce emissions. Now, the EU has decided to phase out the free allowances, and the taxes will depend on where a company manufactures its goods. But coastal sea levels are not the only issue.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 12, 2024

Manufacturers of consumer products — including packaged goods, food and beverages, and life sciences — face both opportunities and challenges. Consumer products manufacturers want nothing more than to accurately predict future demand. But much of this growth can be attributed to price increases.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2024

In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long The end result of the loss of propulsion was the ship crashing into the bridge. mile-long span. An estimated 11.5

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BlueYonder

APRIL 1, 2022

So instead of a prank, we’re going to take a stroll down memory lane and share five weird supply chain events that seem unreal but actually happened. Shipping container costs went from $2,000 to $20,000. But one of the biggest factors in inflation right now is shipping container costs. Yes, another container ship got stuck.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

There is a belief that manufacturing is a mechanical process with not much thinking involved. While this is wrong for manufacturing in general it is especially wrong for process manufacturers – companies that produce food and beverages, paints, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. What is process manufacturing?

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Apple conducted its annual product line-up event this week, tagged as “ Wonderlust.” In addition to new product hardware and some services announcements, the lead up to the event has provided some supply chain related news. The inference is that pricing strategy is compensating for declines in iPhone demand. All rights reserved.

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Silvon Software

APRIL 8, 2022

To achieve this growth, successful manufacturers today are relying on key performance metrics and automating many aspects of their data management processes to gain valuable business insights that can be used to meet their organizations’ performance goals. The Basics of Manufacturing KPIs. 40 Manufacturing KPIs That Drive Results.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

A multi-enterprise supply chain network provides visibility to upstream and downstream events that can affect a company’s supply chain. As the new events that have occurred are analyzed and a new plan is created, the financial implications can be seen. Visibility to Events. Event Intelligence.

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Unleashed

MARCH 24, 2024

Many manufacturers use lean methods to cut costs and improve efficiencies in their business. But ‘lean’ is a very broad concept and the ways that manufacturers ‘go lean’ vary considerably. Here we look at the most common tools and techniques used to bring the advantages of lean into the modern manufacturing workplace.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Today, more than 1% of the world’s container ships are stuck off major ports. Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Each year, we ask attendees to rate the event based on a 1-5 score (with five being the best). Global Summit.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 23, 2022

In today’s global economy, Australian manufacturers must transition to a more sustainable and ethical business environment if they want to stay profitable. These events have highlighted the importance of sustainable, resilient, transparent, and legally compliant supply chains. The impact of ESG for manufacturers.

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Stord

MARCH 24, 2020

The demand spike for some goods leaves certain manufacturers and retailers scrambling to keep up, while others aren’t able to ship out inventory at all as e-tailer resources are rerouted toward emergency supplies. How do you prepare your supply chain for events that you can’t forecast?

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QAD

APRIL 1, 2021

Manufacturers continue to face potentially indefinite remote work policies, new health screening and safety protocols, unexpected demand swings, potential supply disruptions and more. Digital manufacturing couldn’t be more important or necessary for maintaining business continuity and responding to change.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

RFID, which usually comes in the form of a miniscule chip that utilizes radio waves in the identification and tracking of specific people, objects, tools or vehicles, offers a number of benefits to the manufacturing industry in general. It’s also useful in enterprise resource planning and shipping logistics. . As the U.S. As the U.S.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice! Significance.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 13, 2022

We’ve compiled the data and identified the top 5 cloud manufacturing trends for manufacturing SMEs in the UK for 2022, so you’re ready to get ahead of the curve in the new year as the sector continues its recovery. If your business is in a related sector such as wholesaling or distribution, these trends will be of interest to you too.

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ShipBob

JULY 14, 2022

While your customers can track their parcels from their smartphones down to the block the delivery truck is on, the best you can hope for is a phone call when the ship leaves port and one when it arrives on the other side of the world. Our ability to ship, store, and trade goods remains fragmented — and key logistics data remains siloed.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

The History of the Shipping Container. 26 April 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy. But the modern shipping container has changed much more than one industry. Category Key.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Understand how the recent Red Sea ship attacks are impacting global supply chains and how to mitigate potential risks. Ships are avoiding Egypt’s Suez Canal, the shortest maritime route from Europe to Asia and one of the world’s most important waterways, which accounts for about 12% of the world’s shipping traffic.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 29, 2020

When you are a manufacturer, your lead times are the times between when an order is presented to you, and when that order is fulfilled, shipped and no longer on your present task list. However, it is not simply the time taken to manufacture the product, but also includes other factors that inevitably affect the total lead time.

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QAD

APRIL 4, 2024

Updated: April 4, 2024 Published: July 17, 2021 In today’s competitive food and beverage marketplace, events occur and challenges arise that impact the normal course of business. In essence, today, these are for the most part just part of the normal day to day business of food manufacturing. Why keep a secret?

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ToolsGroup

JULY 19, 2023

They ingest information like transportation plans or shipment delays and model the implications of unexpected events. Digital Twin Applications For instance, say you’re a manufacturer or distributor. Are you a manufacturer wondering how best to leverage real-time data to elevate your business performance?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when a negative event has occurred or may be about to occur.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the past weeks, ocean freight rates have risen as much as $10,000 per 40-foot container, as container ships seeking to avoid the attacks embarked on long detours around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, diverting more than $200 billion of cargo away from the critical trade artery. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Management practices such as lean manufacturing and just-in-time inventory management, along with globalization, have made tremendous impact on cost and service, but have accentuated risk. Inflation, pandemics, railway strikes, adverse weather events – the supply chain disruptions keep on coming. are most exposed to risk?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer. Then we are pulling out of an animal nutrition production facility and taking those finished products to a pet food manufacturing facility. That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop.

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Arena Solutions

JANUARY 3, 2022

Whether it’s a new regulation, part shortage, or a newly released product from a leading competitor—manufacturers must react quickly to stay ahead in today’s volatile market. The COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, and other unforeseen events are creating a wave of supply chain shocks across the globe that impact all sectors of the economy.

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Vanguard Software

APRIL 2, 2021

Throughout 2020, manufacturing supply chains took a hit because of constraints around the COVID-19 pandemic. We expect to see four trends in 2021 as manufacturing supply chains respond to demand and adjust to the new realities of this uncertain time. Local Manufacturing Will Grow. lower than those from November 2019.

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Unleashed

MARCH 30, 2022

If you’re a manufacturer looking to boost efficiency, control charts are a simple but effective way to monitor and improve your production processes. So what is a process control chart, why are they so useful for manufacturing businesses , and how can you start using them? We take a look. What is a process control chart?

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Precoro

MARCH 22, 2023

A supply chain disruption is a force majeure event or unexpected situation that significantly interrupts or constrains the free movement and distribution of products, services, inputs, and raw materials. Worse, new waves of infection in China show manufacturers may not be out of the woods yet.

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Locus Robotics

MARCH 9, 2023

By Geoff Whiting, Senior Writer, Red Stag Fulfillment Applying automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to supply chain management is an excellent way for manufacturers to increase the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of operations. In some settings, IoT devices can detect defects and notify staff of quality control issues.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 16, 2021

In order to keep up with the unprecedented volume in such a short time span, it’s important you have the right shipping strategy and fulfillment processes in place. In this article, you will learn about the common challenges DTC brands face during peak shipping season, and how you can prepare your online store for success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. To put this in perspective, if they had no planning system and no planners and just assumed that they would ship based on prior shipments, the forecast would be better, and the inventory levels more accurate. My take away? SAP and IBM failed the market.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights this week’s announcement from athletic footwear designer and manufacturer New Balance of the grand opening of this company’s fifth production facility in North America. In a published Supply Chain Matters at the time , we pointed out that despite knowledge that manufacturing shoes in the U.S.

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C3 Solutions

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As a supply chain specialist, you are without a doubt following along with events in the Middle East. The conflict in Gaza and Israel has spilled over into the world’s busiest shipping lanes, making travel hazardous for vessels trying to pass through the Suez Canal to transit between Asia and Europe.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 17, 2021

There is a range of manufacturing software now available to help businesses streamline their processes and maximise efficiency. Here we look at 15 types of manufacturing software, and for each answer three questions: What are the main functions of this software? What are its advantages and disadvantages?

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