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Auto Supply Chain Prophets Podcast Wrap-up: Eps. 1-5

QAD

His depth of experience at GM started on the engineering side before moving into manufacturing operations, at a time when GM was newly focusing on lean manufacturing and just-in-time inventory processes modeled by the Toyota Production System. From manufacturing, he moved into supply chain.

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How to Weather the Hurricanes of 2017 (and more) with a Heavy-Duty TMS Platform

Supply Chain Collaborator

Houston, one of the top six freight transportation hubs in the US is still struggling to recover and this affects the distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables from the Rio Grande Valley. Reduced exposure to the spot market – especially when spot rates spike during times of extreme demand.

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What Agile Manufacturing Means for Your Warehouse

RFgen

According to the Houston Chronicle, while lean and agile manufacturing processes have different qualities, both have helped manufacturing companies achieve reduced costs , quicker response time and improved customer service. Ultimately, according to the Houston Chronicle, agile manufacturing is focused on business sustainability.

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What Agile Manufacturing Means for Your Warehouse

RFgen

According to the Houston Chronicle, while lean and agile manufacturing processes have different qualities, both have helped manufacturing companies achieve reduced costs , quicker response time and improved customer service. Ultimately, according to the Houston Chronicle, agile manufacturing is focused on business sustainability.

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Answering the Call in Times of Disaster

Material Handling & Logistics

Behind the scenes during the tumultuous disaster season of 2017, building materials manufacturers leaned heavily on dynamic digital tools to supply recovery efforts. Recent estimates suggest that Hurricane Harvey destroyed a minimum of 100,000 homes in the Houston-Beaumont, Texas, area. That translates into some $1.8

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Enabling Innovation Groups To Sell More Effectively to Operations Leaders

ThroughPut

We do it throughout entire industries, enabling leaders to smooth-out their Supply Chains, lean-out their Logistics, optimize their Operations, and maximize their Manufacturing throughput, all with their existing teams and often disaggregated data sources.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

percent year on year in June, driven by double-digit surges in New York/New Jersey, Houston, and Savannah, Georgia. According to The McCown Report, imports to the top 10 US ports rose 5.9 percent year on year to 2.16 million twenty-foot equivalent units in June, exceeding the 3 percent year on year gain in May and 5.1 percent gain in April.