Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Every day, retailers and manufacturers are challenged to balance ambitious customer service promises with profit margin protection. Supply chain technology investments were once delegated to a specific function such as procurement or logistics. But the on-demand concept does not end with transportation, labor and warehousing.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

The logistics landscape is evolving rapidly as more manufacturers relocate production closer to domestic markets. China trade tensions driving businesses to reconsider offshore manufacturing. States like Texas, Georgia, and the Carolinas are attracting EV battery and semiconductor manufacturers. Midwest U.S. Midwest U.S.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Former McKinsey analyst Markus Zils adds, “The circular economy aims to eradicate waste — not just from manufacturing processes, as lean management aspires to do, but systematically, throughout the life cycles and uses of products and their components. Procurement. ” Supply Chain Elements of a Circular Economy. Product design.

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QAD

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Manufacturers know all the issues: U.S. Fund the Georgia Port Authority pop-up container yards project by reallocating more than $8 million . Recommendations for Manufacturers. QAD Sourcing manages the electronic RFQ process with suppliers. As one headache is eased, another pops up. Production Execution.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Introduction: Procurement Planning for Distribution-Intensive Businesses Procurement planning is not a widely recognized category of supply chain software, but it should be. The resulting plan should maintain adequate safety stock levels for each purchased item while reducing inventory costs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 2, 2020

As an experienced business professional, he has served in diverse roles ranging from Marketing and Strategy, to Procurement and Supply Chain. Several articles and reference books have highlighted Joe’s procurement transformation accomplishments at Lucent Technologies, Juniper Networks, and in the area of Supply Chain Risk Management.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, this led to the creation at Georgia Tech of the Production and Distribution Research Center, the Material Handling Research Center, and the Computational Optimization Center. SCM #SupplyChain #Business #Leadership #Logistics #Distribution #History #Procurement.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 18, 2019

Savannah, Georgia. ProMat is where manufacturing and supply chain professionals come to find their supply chain WOW. At this event, you will get the opportunity to be part of a huge network of more than 2,500 global supply chain and procurement professionals. Atlanta, Georgia. www.scmworld.com. Mar 10-12, 2019.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 5, 2024

The storm track is expected to meander on a course headed for Georgia and the South Carolina and North Carolina coastal regions. That amount has the potential for major along with catastrophic flooding levels in certain of the impacted areas which are currently expected to be Georgia , South Carolina , and possibly North Carolina.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 18, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports that Rivian Automotive fell short of its 2022 vehicle production goal and that several top executives have departed the company, including the company’s purchasing head. production facility to be located east of Atlanta, Georgia.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides another update on ongoing strategic sourcing and operational developments occurring among electric vehicle focused supply and production networks. can spur added interest in battery manufacturing circular networks. Rivian Automotive Initiates Key Strategic Partnership with Mercedes.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2024

Announced Acquisitions Aptean Acquires Principal Logistics Technologies Manufacturing and distribution industry specific technology provider Aptean has announced the acquisition of Principal Logistics Technologies ( PLT ), a provider of purpose built warehouse management and supply chain optimization software technology.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 13, 2023

Background In a mid-January posting, we alerted our readers to reports that Rivian Automotive fell short of its 2022 vehicle production goal and that several top executives had departed the company, including the company’s purchasing head. Reported net operating loss for the fiscal year was $6.8 billion as compared to $4.7 billion in 2021.

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Hybrent

MARCH 6, 2019

The company is based in Atlanta, and its holding company, Extremity Healthcare, operates 35 podiatry clinics, and owns or manages seven surgery centers across Georgia and Tennessee. Now, the Hybrent solution provides the accounts payable department with a confirmation of the purchase order from each designated vendor.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

based Alabama and Georgia production facilities. Communication among supply chain procurement, planning and logistics teams is thus essential in ensuring that material and customer fulfillment times can be consistently maintained. The move will reportedly increase existing hourly wage rates 25 percent by 2028.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. PST on December 22, and shipped to Fayetteville Georgia in-time for Christmas opening. Procurement Blog. Automotive. Communication Services. Healthcare.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

If you can use new technology to enhance communication with suppliers, manufacturers and more, you will have a tighter grasp on everything that is happening around your company. He has worked with 300+ clients in manufacturing, IS selection and implementation and project management. and Design 2 Part.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 25, 2017

So many thoughts in my mind… Yesterday, I signed a contract for Robert Gordon, author of the book, Rise and Fall of American Growth to speak at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 5th-8th in Lake Oconee, Georgia (north of Atlanta). The same holds for contract manufacturers. There is a market quandary.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia sit squarely in the storm’s path. Each state has a rich manufacturing economy. To prepare, stratify your suppliers into strategic, single source and high volume flows. As a manufacturer, stay close to market signals. ” The answer is not so easy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2024

The main event happens behind closed-door meetings between manufacturing sales teams and retailers. Over the last year, I worked with Georgia Tech to build predictive models by industry using market capitalization by employee as the definition of value. The study is based on data sourced from Y charts for the period of 1982-2023.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 17, 2020

Strategic National Stockpiles and Sourcing for the National Interest! The Covid19 global pandemic has cruelly exposed the utter dependence of the US and the world on China’s mass manufacturing capability and supply of critical medical equipment and materials. If any part of manufacturing is to move back to the U.S., Future U.S.-

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The storm then rapidly moved up to the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina , to include coastal areas that include the Ports of Savannah and Charleston. As many of our readers are aware, the coastal Guangdong region and a major hub for high tech and electronics production among other industry related manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ford and China based Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATX) have plans to build a domestic sourced battery production facility in Michigan. and the subsequent Biden Administration efforts to have legislation enacted to favor domestic sourcing of production as well as technology providers deemed favorable to U.S. This planned $3.5

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The sentence comes as a result of the late 2008-2009 salmonella outbreak linked back to PCA plants in Texas and Georgia. They were sued at least twice in the 1990’s for providing manufacturers with shipments found to have high-levels of contaminants. The effects of a rotten supplier. Trust but verify.”. You bet they will.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 6, 2025

We observed that the overall April data not only points to a state of global wide contraction in production and procurement activity but qualitative indicators of cutbacks in new or export order levels not seen since the initial time of the global pandemic in 2020. Among the stated key takeaway points are that a U.S. export shipments.

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