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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Those shipments can move directly to customers or move to several regional distribution centers (DCs) that serve as forward inventory locations and consolidation hubs servicing customers and channel partners. The data from Infor Nexus also helps the transportation teams do better carrier sourcing.

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Resilience and Agility in Supply Chains: Navigating Change in a Dynamic World

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Demand changes refer to shifts in customer preferences, market trends, or unexpected spikes in demand. These changes can significantly impact supply chains by affecting sourcing strategies, trade routes, and market access. Geopolitical changes encompass alterations in international relations, trade policies, tariffs, or regulations.

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Mass Customisation: What It Is and How Companies Are Using It

Unleashed

Learn more: 12 Benefits of Additive Manufacturing and 5 Disadvantages Why is mass customisation trending? Automated inventory management platforms then help manufacturers organise and monitor their new, modular product ranges. The entire manufacturing sector is seeing a shift towards personalisation.

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Supply Chain Resilience Core Capacities

MIT Supply Chain

For example, the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption in Iceland caused a primary loss of freight transportation capacity, but that loss also robbed many companies of supply capacity. Source: James B. Often, backup inventory and garden-variety expediting measures can ensure that the supply chain maintains continuity.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

To anticipate and respond to high customer demand, a modern Transportation Management System (TMS) needs to optimize inventory allocation. By consolidating at the source, several shipments can be combined into one, thereby reducing the number of shipments even before the shipments arrive at the Logistics Service Provider (LSP).