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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

Logistics Viewpoints

Malcolm McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, was tired of waiting. He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. If you’re a business leader, why do you care about better math?

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How Can Paper Producers Rise to the Production Challenge?

USC Consulting Group

The novel coronavirus has produced a lot of uncertainty, and for manufacturers in the pulp and paper industry, that includes uncertainty related to demand. Purchases for such virus protection products – including hand sanitizers and disposable gloves – jumped 807% in March, USA Today reported from the data. and worldwide.

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New Student Projects Suggest Greater Focus on Analytics

Supply Chain View from the Field

Center for Environmental Farming Systems (1) – Dairy Farming Project – Helping to create a transition plan to Austin Family Dairy Farm, a 75-Jersey cow conventional dairy farm located in Yancey County, North Carolina. These preferences and skills must then be matched with a partner company project.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

The retail giant plans to take out 50 million metric tons (MMT) by 2030, which is equivalent to the emissions associated with the average annual electricity consumption of 40 million Chinese households. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Warehouse Automation. Media Type.

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5 Lessons from the Desert for the Future of Supply Chain Resiliency

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chains must be connected and collaborative so all links can align to business strategy and oriented toward a common set of the most important metrics (and not functional metrics that drive siloed behavior). But to operate at the board level we need to be able to speak the CFO’s language. Spike up to protect against attack.

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How to implement a supply chain management system

Unleashed

A manufacturing production planning and scheduling solution, Orchestrate is designed for day-to-day scheduling, capacity planning and ‘what if’ analysis – a feature that lets users investigate how best to increase production efficiencies, while still improving delivery. Manufacturing complexity. Orchestrate. A mobile sales app.

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Dealing with Supply Chain Uncertainty After Covid: Insights from the Experts

NC State SCRC

I helped to set the stage by providing an overview of the disruptions occuring in manufacturing, ports, transportation, carriers, and the resulting increases in material, labor, and transportation costs. What are the implications of not just focusing on cost anymore in global supply chains? What if instead we focused on FLOW?”