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Medline is the Largest User of the AutoStore Robotics Solution in the World

Logistics Viewpoints

Medline is a medical supply manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider. Medline, with revenues of over $21 billion annually, is headquartered in Northfield Illinois. Medline is the largest supplier of clinical supply chain services to US medical surgical establishments. Why AutoStore?

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Two Automakers Make Senior Supply Chain and Procurement Executive Leadership Changes

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters readers are well aware that the looking glass for an organization’s overall supply chain performance is intense right now, especially when C-Suite executives feel the heat from investors and board rooms. Rivian Automotive. Thus far, $13.7

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Rivian Automotive Learns Another Important Supply Chain Focused Lesson

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides perspectives on an emerging supply chain management focused lesson occurring at Rivian Automotive. When a product is billed as providing breakthrough technology and performance, the stakes are even higher, since the price point is premium on the auto side.

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Rivian Has Done its Supply Chain Basics Homework

Supply Chain Matters

Rivian Automotive ’s recent report on quarterly financial performance provides evidence that this EV start-up is showing signs that the company has done its homework in supply chain and production operations industry basics. Plans established for 2024 were to increase production capacity to 85,000 vehicles. Having burned through $6.6

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Plant-location decisions and potential supply chain risk

Kinaxis

by Melissa Clow This guest post comes to us from Jim Fulcher , Blogger on the Supply Chain Expert Community. The outcome is expected to either significantly impact an existing automotive supplier network or prompt manufacturers and suppliers to move or begin operations. What supply chain risks do you see?

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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last five years, I have helped two companies, Sonoco Products and Owens Illinois (OI) with their selection of technologies to improve Sales and Operations (S&OP) planning. Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. Owens Illinois (OI), a $6.3 Owens Illinois (OI), a $6.3

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Rivian’s Q2 Production and Delivery Performance Impresses Wall Street

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights Rivian Automotive’s reported operational performance in the latest quarter, but at the same time continued challenges in the months to come. Part of Q2’s deliveries involved its contract with online retail platform provider Amazon to supply custom EV parcel vans in the U.S. and Europe.