Remove Information Remove Logistics Remove Manufacturing Remove Philadelphia
article thumbnail

Is Workforce Planning the Weakest Link in Your Supply Chain Transformation Journey?

Talking Logistics

While many companies have invested significant time and money over the years to improve their demand, supply, and manufacturing planning capabilities, they have underinvested in workforce planning and optimization, and they’re now starting to feel the consequences. appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

article thumbnail

The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper includes southern New Jersey’s only Level I trauma center (Cooper University Hospital), which is the busiest trauma center in the Philadelphia region. Many of their suppliers were using the same sub-tier manufacturers. Hospitals throughout the region send the most complex and critically ill and injured to Cooper for treatment.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Supply Chain Matters Perspectives From Your Editor

Supply Chain Matters

They provide a series of ongoing themes: Production and supply chain activity levels continuing to reflect global manufacturing recession and by our lens, again at a crossroad for added shifts. Continued data and developments reinforcing recessionary conditions among global freight, logistics and online retail activity levels.

article thumbnail

Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Google did not acquire a third-party logistics (3PL) company or a logistics software vendor. Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target. Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. What will happen in 2016? Abercrombie & Fitch Inc. and L Brands Inc.’s

article thumbnail

ThankX Delivery Services!

Supply Chain Game Changer

In March 2020, Real Estate Investor/Tax Analyst Carlos Colon (a Philadelphia native, raised in Puerto Rico) decided to bring an idea of his to life; one which was building in his heart for a long period of time. Soon thereafter, the genesis of #ThankX was born: Concierge Community Couriers (based in our very own Philadelphia)!

article thumbnail

Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

The city of Philadelphia is eerily quiet this morning. I live in city-center Philadelphia. In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% PCA’s customers were larger food manufacturers. The manufacturers sourced the peanut butter primarily on cost. An example is the work on Performance Based Logistics (PBL).

article thumbnail

The 7 Best Events For Freight Shipping in 2015

GlobalTranz

Are you up-to-date with the latest events in freight shipping and logistics? Check out some of the country’s top freight shipping conferences and events for the rest of 2015: Can innovative technology, new business models and eCommerce re-boot the business of logistics? Download the Brochure.

Freight 120