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10 Ways A Data Gateway Improves Time to Value Across Your End-to-End Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, with a data gateway, a supply planner gains accelerated access to customer orders, inventory levels, and transportation schedules, all in one place, to increase the user experience of making the right choice to identify inefficiencies and make better, more informed decisions.

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10 Ways A Data Gateway Improves Time to Value Across Your End-to-End Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, with a data gateway, a supply planner gains accelerated access to customer orders, inventory levels, and transportation schedules, all in one place, to increase the user experience of making the right choice to identify inefficiencies and make better, more informed decisions.

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Real-Time Mobile Inventory Powers Customer-Centric Supply Chains

RFgen

One RFgen customer in Indiana secured a global OEM deal only after demonstrating real-time tracking across their shop floor. A growing number of operations now adjust production schedules and inventory levels dynamically as orders arrive, slashing lead times and buffer stock while boosting responsiveness to disruption.

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Localizing for Profit: Making the Case for U.S.-Based Manufacturing

QAD

makes sense in the short term, as evidenced by their recent decision to move Civic production from Mexico to Indiana. Hondas recent shift in Civic production from Mexico to Indiana was a direct response to the new tariffs, but it comes at a substantial cost, potentially raising vehicle prices by up to $12,000.

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Noteworthy Example of Preloading Expensive Inventory to Avoid Tariffs

Supply Chain Matters

Customs data, that nearly all of this API had a final destination of the State of Indiana, and that GLP-1 drug maker Eli Lilly , maker of Z epbound and Mounjaro , is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. What especially caught our attention was this report indicating that according to U.S. All rights reserved.

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Building a Customer-Centric Supply Chain: Why Real-Time Mobility Is the New Profit Lever

RFgen

One RFgen customer in Indiana secured a global OEM deal only after demonstrating real-time tracking across their shop floor. A growing number of operations now adjust production schedules and inventory levels dynamically as orders arrive, slashing lead times and buffer stock while boosting responsiveness to disruption.

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Indiana Jones and the supply chain bullwhip effect

Kinaxis

A small shift in customer demand essentially cracks the whip, and the further a supplier is from the demand, the more significant the impact, which inevitably leads to increasing swings in inventory for suppliers. Many Indiana Jones wannabees emerged, due to the popularity of the film.

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