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ERP’s Response to Advances in Additive Manufacturing

QAD

Army opened The Center of Excellence for Advanced and Additive Manufacturing at the Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC) in Illinois. As third-party contractors create AM prototypes and then approved production parts, integrated supply chain management and communication are essential.

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Ooh, Scary Stuff, Kids. Tales from the Supply Chain Crypt.

Kinaxis

The reason: Illinois produces about 90% of sugar pumpkins each year. But when Mother Nature (in the form of heavy rains) hit Illinois hard, half of the crop was wiped out. Fortunately, Libby’s, which has an estimated 80% of the canned pumpkin market, had enough canned inventory to make it through Thanksgiving.

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Rivian’s Q2 Production and Delivery Performance Impresses Wall Street

Supply Chain Matters

Improved Operational Performance Earlier this month, EV automotive and parcel van start-up producer Rivian Automotive announced that in the latest quarter, the EV maker produced 13,992 vehicles at its manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois and delivered 12,640 vehicles during the same period. and Europe. billion as compared to $4.7

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Resilient and Cost Efficient Supply Chains

Operations and Supply Chain Management

The problem, according to the authors, is that protective measures can be at odds with supply chain managers’ goal of improving cost efficiency. Addressing the risk of a fire in a supply plant may require a company to hold additional inventory, which it can’t do “without a substantial loss in cost efficiency,” the article says. “By

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

This is leading to an inventory pile-up of processors and memory chips used in PCs. As a result, shortages are alleviating across the board, and supply constraints caused by record demand for chips during the pandemic are less widespread. Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories.