Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Ever since COVID hit, supply chain executives have embraced supply chain risk management. Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. Supply Chain Chaos is the New Norm.

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ShipBob

MAY 6, 2022

Wholesale ecommerce requires good supply chain management to function effectively, especially since there are large amounts of goods involved. However, there are a number of challenges standing in the way of effective supply chain execution among wholesale businesses. What is meant by wholesale supply chain?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

I continue to think about the COVID-19 recovery and how to help clients. Restarting the Supply Chain. Will the start-up of the supply chain be a reboot or a need to reformat? Figure 1 shows a market-by-market planning model by a sinus drug manufacturer. Step #5 Safe Manufacturing. Manage Supply.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At the time, we were both deployed as consultants for Manugistics to help a manufacturing company to implement end-to-end planning. My goal was to implement demand and supply planning. Examples include alternate sourcing, bill of material changes or alternate modes/routing between the planning, procurement and transportation.)

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2014

Natural disasters like the Japan earthquake, product shortages due to quality issues, the impact of currency rates on product costs and demand, and disruptions caused by IT service failures or security breaches are just a few examples of the risks supply chain executives face every day. The same is true for CEOs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 11, 2021

While organizations construct their cybersecurity fortresses, there are many weaknesses at contact with manufacturers, suppliers, worldwide partners, and other service providers to consider. Supply chain breaches pose a substantial danger to businesses, potentially interrupting operations and harming their reputations.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2016

Natural disasters, product shortages due to quality issues, the impact of currency rates on product costs and demand, and disruptions caused by IT service failures or security breaches are just a few examples of the risks supply chain executives face every day. CFOs rarely know anything about supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 29, 2015

Collaboration: The Cornerstone of the 21st Century Supply Chain. Europe’s annual meeting of the leading supply chain executives featuring the biggest names at leading retailers and manufacturers. Here is a selection of supply chain executives that will be sharing their insight in 2015.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In his current role, he is accountable for several strategic functions, including corporate engineering; capital and infrastructure strategy; corporate real estate; risk management; operations research and global procurement. He is a member of the company’s executive ESG committee, as well as a Board member of the Gilead Foundation.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

For those industries that buy a lot of their supply from China, Beroe Live developed a very insightful set of analyses related to specific category-level impacts , as entire industries and provinces in China are shut down. In the report I proposed four stages of planning: Supply Chain Team Governance.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Each route starts with one of our 32 manufacturing plants where we produce either finished or semi-finished lenses. Like a lot of manufacturers, the standard S&OP process needs to adapt to the pandemic. How are things today, and what has changed? Today we focus ourselves on the digitalization of the S&OP execution.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

Medical Device Manufacturer. Does everyone realize how bad the problem is? New Supply Chain Leader of a Regional Children’s Hospital. But, the tune has changed, and they are unsure how to dance together. Hospital supply chains have matured. Generalize procurement of materials.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 23, 2021

Many companies focus solely on their tier one suppliers when it comes to supply chain sustainability. Yet to holistically tackle ESG performance, procurement teams must evaluate their operations at tier two, three, and beyond, as each level of the supply chain carries different risks. Cotton is a great example.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Impact: This is resulting in procurement teams scrambling to find new supply sources, while engineers are looking for substitutions alternatives, and other company leaders are figuring out how to bring more in-house for a vertical integrated approach. Foreign trade policies are weakening.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In our conversation, Radu provides a unique perspective from the lens of working on C-Suite focused recruitment needs derived from global based organizations for senior leadership needs spanning overall supply chain, manufacturing, transportation, logistics and E-commerce leadership needs.

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Precoro

MARCH 22, 2023

Keep reading to find out more about: What supply chain disruptions are Causes of supply chain disruptions Examples of supply chain disruptions Impact of supply chain disruption How to overcome disruptions in the supply chain What are disruptions in global supply chains?

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

The argument is one stated by this blog along with others, namely that the longer that higher global-wide ocean transportation cost increases exist at 2021 levels, the more compelling is the requirement for manufacturers and retailers to consider reshoring or nearshoring sourcing strategies.

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AFFLINK

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

With machine learning, algorithms provide the framework, but the computers figure out the “how” and “what” themselves. Think of the old analogy of giving a man a fish vs. teaching him how to fish.) The manufacturing and supply chain sectors already understand and capitalize on the primary benefit of the IoT: real-time visibility.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

On the supply side, however, there is less and less room for manufacturers to absorb additional costs as volatile input prices put the squeeze on margins and the marketing investment required to differentiate branded products from private-label competitors continues to rise.

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ThroughPut

MAY 14, 2024

By harnessing real-time insights from this operational data, supply chain performance and visibility can be significantly improved. That said, data is not a new element in supply chains. Systems like the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) have been producing operational data for decades. Did You Know?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 19, 2013

A large global manufacturing company has frozen their travel budgets due to concerns over revenue. For supply chain executives, there is a need to recognize that this may indeed be the new normal. This includes demand management – looking to the future, and how might we do this.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

What are the main differences between the thinking in supply chain in the 1990s and the 2020s? In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper. Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. Basically, Flex runs supply chains.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 21, 2021

This blog is based on an article that recently ran in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Procurement, “ Supply chain agility: An imperative in an unpredictable world.”. Learn more about how to fulfill this vision. The Improved Way. Available at [link]. [6]

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

The school had nothing else for us to do so they directed us to a teletype-style computer and suggested we learn how to program. We achieved recognition both internally and externally for our sourcing and procurement accomplishments in the spend management area. How has the Supply Chain changed over the course of your career?

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Learn more on how to overcome today’s supply chain challenges by securing the free guide, 8 Winning Strategies to Combat Supply Shortages. And, to all of our supply chain friends – we thank you for your endless efforts to keep the supply chain in motion! Consultancy UK). Source: Consultancy.UK.

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Requis

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

They want to know how their supply chains can be improved and how to be prepared for disruptions. Our McKinsey report: Risk, Resilience and Rebalancing in Global Value Chains , showed that we have a major disruption of global supply chains every three to seven years. Supply chain is a new topic.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 26, 2020

I would call myself an accidental supply chain executive! Like many of your readers I suspect we started out in something else before finding ourselves in supply chain careers. Tell our readers a little about your background and experience?

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Our 40 th Bi-Annual Supply Chain Resource Cooperative meeting was a great success, culminating with the student gallery walk, featuring 27 undergraduate and MBA supply chain projects. The meeting was attended by over 80 executives, as well as numerous students and faculty. This may not be the case in every company.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

I would call myself an accidental supply chain executive! Like many of your readers I suspect we started out in something else before finding ourselves in supply chain careers. Tell our readers a little about your background and experience?

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Unleashed

APRIL 20, 2020

How to build resilient supply chains. The health of manufacturers is a good indicator of the health of the economy. A PMI score above 50 means manufacturing is growing. Global manufacturing data shows the pandemic impact: US manufacturing PMI fell to 48.5 Eurozone manufacturing PMI crashed to 44.5

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2018

“Based on a company’s supply chain segmentation goals and business objectives, a CoE can be designed to support any portion of a company and the fulfillment needs of its product portfolio,” Lewis says. “It The decision about how to proceed is a bit more complex. Source: GEODIS.

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ShipBob

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This process allows you to fully optimize your supply chain for greater efficiency at a lower cost. It outlines how your supply chain can benefit from it and how to implement this principle into your processes. As a result of this improved forecasting precision, you can plan your procurement more accurately.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Say you’re a manufacturer , refining your production and capacity planning. If you’re a manufacturer , have you produced enough? Having real-time visibility across your supply chain and understanding how your stock is positioned is vital to accurately assessing the health of your inventory and streamlining order fulfillment.

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synchrono

MARCH 23, 2017

By applying demand-driven methods and synchronizing processes, manufacturers are reaching new levels of communication, profitability, and customer responsiveness. Demand-Dr iven Manufacturing incorporates the best of Lean manufacturing, Theory of Constraints (TOC), and Lean Six Sigma principles.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In their 2021 State of Supply Chain Execution Report, as mentioned in part 1, Blue Yonder and Reuters Events found that 63% of retailers and manufacturers have been affected by the availability of labor over the past year. In Part 3, we will continue to explore how to improve sustainability. And with good reason.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2017

After publishing a series of reports on visibility, I facilitated a dinner between two major manufacturers. We laughed at the mess we are in, and drew options on napkins on how to unstick the supply chain. In supply chain, we spend hours upon hours negotiating terms and conditions of contracts. Background.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

. “In my opinion, the biggest challenge in supply chain management is…” Overcoming downstream effects from delays caused by one partner/supplier. Our supply chain involves a contract manufacturer, a third-party testing facility, warehouses to store inventory and a freighting company.

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