SCMDOJO

MARCH 8, 2024

By working closely with suppliers to shorten lead times, businesses can minimize the time inventory sits idle in warehouses. Let’s explore the pros and cons: Pros: Reduced Lead Time: Implementing blanket orders can significantly reduce lead times, allowing for faster procurement and delivery of goods.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Combined with more activity at their regional hub in Germany , Amazon has clearly become a major global cargo airline. On the flip side, Amazon sellers are already nervous about the potential for Amazon to copy their product; providing more insight into manufacturing may be too much transparency. One goal, two different motivations.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Supply Chain Matters further highlighted an announcement by electric automaker Tesla’s management in Germany who unveiled a package of hourly wage hikes for 11,000 factory workers at the automaker’s gigafactory operations in that country. This report cites data from the U.S.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. 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? That’s good news.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest quantitative data related to global manufacturing PMI activity levels for April. Global Manufacturing Output Levels Declined. The Global Manufacturing Output sub-index reportedly dropped to a contraction value of 48.5 Manufacturing Indices. in March to 46.0

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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. Fulfill and ship customer orders You’ll need a system for warehousing your CBD products and managing inventory over time. Products exclude vapes. Products contain <0.3%

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Define your procurement response strategy. On top of this, a growing number of truck and van drivers are off work, often with symptoms of the virus, while many warehouse workers are unhappy about the risks posed. Adapting to the present and future challenges of COVID-19. And, assuming it can, how will it adapt to the new realities?

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 26, 2015

A new global Manufacturing structure with new operating models has been created. Product Line Managers, Procurement, Product Development) and external suppliers ensuring product availability against agreed business policies and service level agreements (SLA’s). Your role as Global Supply Chain Director. What do we have to offer you?

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Freightos

JANUARY 12, 2016

Prior to that, Phil held a variety of other logistics roles in both Germany and the United States. Supply chain volatility, increased procurement vendors, agile manufacturing and an on-demand economy. Taking on warehousing, and offering contracted service offerings are two obvious examples. And getting it.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 19, 2016

In the last three years we’ve developed our strategy, centralised procurement, purchasing and manufacturing aligned our portfolios across all categories globally and developed our exclusive brands portfolio. My role includes purchasing, product development, product management, category management, supply chain and manufacturing.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 22, 2015

It is also defined as the procurement, maintenance, distribution, and replacement of personnel and material. The supply locations for German armed forces were inflicted with serious damages and Germany was not able to wreak the same havoc on its enemy. Outsourcing makes better financial sense.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Supply chain optimisation helps manufacturing businesses drastically reduce operational costs to improve revenue and customer satisfaction. In our latest Supply Chain Roundtable, four experts share their advice and experience around optimising the manufacturing supply chain. And you’d be right – they’re certainly a factor.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 8, 2020

It saw leaders from around the world pledging new initiatives to address the ongoing climate crisis, including a $60 Billion renewable energy commitment from Germany, and 15 countries including Britain, Norway and Costa Rica pledging to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. In September 2019, the U.N. climate summit convened in New York.

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

I can claim to have been a nuclear rocket engineer for a couple of years, looking after nuclear rockets in West Germany during the end of the Cold War. People are still worried about having efficiencies in their warehouses, making sure they’re laid out properly, and having the right processes. That’s been a massive trend.

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Requis

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

He is based in Germany, and, as a founding partner of the supply chain practice at McKinsey & Company , consults on a variety of supply chain-related business problems, including S&OP and advanced analytics. I found logistics, hardware logistics, and warehouse planning very interesting. Supply chain is a new topic.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Slight Rise in Global Wide Production Activity Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® was headlined with back-to-back expansion levels in February. India again led all other regions, while Germany and Austria remain at highest levels of PMI contractionary levels.

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Arena Solutions

MARCH 8, 2024

So, creating Yook and the vision that we have with it is to empower manufacturers to effortlessly track and reduce their product carbon footprint just came naturally from that understanding that we need a different way to enable this for organizations and to really leverage data to drive decarbonization. On to next. Thanks, Kate.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 14, 2023

When Germany began to ruthlessly target European shipping routes, ships previously used for commercial trade were recalled and redirected to support the war effort, leading to an increased demand for U.S. merchant vessels only carried 10 percent of ocean trade. WWI only exacerbated the downturn and disruption of trade between the U.S.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 15, 2015

Until June of this year, Tecniplast, an Italian manufacturer of laboratory equipment and specialised plastics, did not have a formal supply chain. The business and the mind-set of the company had already moved from one that used to sell products to one that manufactures and delivers complex solutions.

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