Innovation, Shipping, Six Sigma and Sourcing

Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Seen optimistically, this challenging trade environment is a catalyst for a slew of innovative measures and creative tactics to mitigate tariff costs – although one could argue that supply chain optimization from a cost and performance perspective is something that firms should already be doing on an ongoing basis. This practice is illegal.

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Time to Rethink Sourcing Rare Earth Elements

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 17, 2020

Strategic National Stockpiles and Sourcing for the National Interest! These Rare Earth Elements have long ago been abandoned for mining and processing here in the United States and are part of our reliance on Chinese sources of supply. Lead by innovation. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer.

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25 Lean Manufacturing Tools – 5S, Six Sigma & Beyond

Unleashed

MARCH 24, 2024

More satisfied workers can lead to greater business innovation and agility. Lean Six Sigma Six Sigma is a set of methodologies first devised by Motorola in the 1980s, designed to improve the quality of Motorola’s products to the point where defects were so rare as to be statistically insignificant.

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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

Amazon and other ecommerce innovators have been the leading agents of disruption. Any company shipping physical products today – whether to consumers or to other businesses – needs to meet higher service expectations, including faster order turnaround in the DC. The Transformation Imperative.

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Warehouse Cost Reductions: 3 Understandings Driven By Inventory Management & Lean Principles

GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Carrying slow-moving inventory or shipping damaged/incorrect product hurts customer relationships. Source: [link]. For instance, if the customer and employee feedback show that product quality issues are prevalent, Lean Six Sigma has to be improved. Locating lost inventory wastes and an enormous number of man-hours.

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7 Reasons Why You Should Reduce Inventory

SCMDOJO

AUGUST 4, 2023

Try thinking of it this way, if you plan to make big profits, you would need to invest and diversify your portfolio into several sources to improve your chance of success. This reduces the chances of lost sales and the associated costs of rush orders or expedited shipping. But when should you consider reducing inventory?

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Analytics Leaders Discuss the Internet of Things

CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 5, 2015

These innovative assets, built and driven by harnessing big data and predictive analytics, create consumer and business environments where “I Want What I Want When I Want It” (“IWWIWWIWI”) is not only justifiable, but increasingly the societal standard. Analytics Leaders Discuss the Internet of Thingsg.

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Tracking Shipments with IoT

Logichain Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Next came innovation and dropping prices in cellular and satellite technology that enabled the widespread use of GPS to provide location data in real-time. Barcode labels and RFID were some of the early tools to track shipments, albeit without providing real-time and remote monitoring capabilities. Challenges of IoT.

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Tracking Shipments with IoT

Logichain Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Next came innovation and dropping prices in cellular and satellite technology that enabled the widespread use of GPS to provide location data in real-time. Barcode labels and RFID were some of the early tools to track shipments, albeit without providing real-time and remote monitoring capabilities. Challenges of IoT.

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Tracking Shipments with IoT

Logichain Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Next came innovation and dropping prices in cellular and satellite technology that enabled the widespread use of GPS to provide location data in real-time. Barcode labels and RFID were some of the early tools to track shipments, albeit without providing real-time and remote monitoring capabilities.

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Tracking Shipments with IoT

Logichain Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Next came innovation and dropping prices in cellular and satellite technology that enabled the widespread use of GPS to provide location data in real-time. Barcode labels and RFID were some of the early tools to track shipments, albeit without providing real-time and remote monitoring capabilities.

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Tracking Shipments with IoT

Logichain Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Next came innovation and dropping prices in cellular and satellite technology that enabled the widespread use of GPS to provide location data in real-time. Barcode labels and RFID were some of the early tools to track shipments, albeit without providing real-time and remote monitoring capabilities.

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CommerceHub Hires John Hinkle as Executive VP of Production Systems

Supply Chain Network

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

CommerceHub has ambitious plans, and as we continue to rapidly grow our network of retailers and suppliers, it is critical that we continually innovate our platform to ensure scalability and reliability for our customers,” said Frank Poore, Co-Founder and CEO of CommerceHub.

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23 warehouse pros reveal the best ways for warehouses to control & reduce fulfillment costs

6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

It’s also very efficient, meaning it will allow your employees to process more orders on a hourly basis with virtually impossible odds of shipping the incorrect products to your customers. Dave is a Certified Master Black Belt, subject matter expert and trainer in Strategy Deployment and Lean, Six Sigma design.

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The Failings of Lean Manufacturing Principles

Elementum

JUNE 22, 2022

Lean Manufacturing may be the best known of these broad “cost-only” process management philosophies, but other common methodologies like Just-in-Time, Kaizen, and Six Sigma similarly endorse a “ cut at any cost” mindset. Single Sourcing: A Dangerous Way To Save Let’s take an example like single-sourcing. Dual sourcing?

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Outsourcing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Lessons from Nortel Networks

NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

PCB’s were outsourced in the 1990’s, and final assemblies not long after, but the system house where it was all consolidated, putting it through your systems test and shipping it – was all outsourced to Penang.” They put everything on stop ship – would ship nothing. We have to continue to ship to get paid by customers.

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Why a Product-Centric Approach to Quality Matters

Arena Solutions

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

As the founder of the Product Realization Group, Michael helps guide the world’s most innovative companies to accelerate delivery of their products from concept to full market scale. Angenette has more than 24 years of experience in quality assurance, quality control, Lean Six Sigma, and supply chain.

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

It took us three years to right the ship. They were growing fast and were innovative; but, my intuition was that their approach was fundamentally flawed. Very early on, I made it mandatory for all supply chain leaders to study Six Sigma to a green belt level. The second presentation given in 2004, shared the results.

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Inventory Management Strategies of 7 Successful Firms

Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2021

By offering support to its partner companies through innovation, communication and corporate social responsibility, Samsung has been able to ensure sustainability and security in its supply chain – which is seen as one of its leading competitive advantages in the marketplace.

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24 supply chain experts & business leaders reveal the #1 challenge of supply chain management (and how to solve it)

6 River Systems

JUNE 26, 2020

“They have multi-sourced key commodities or strategic components to reduce their reliance on any one supplier, and they had considered inventory strategy to buffer against supply chain disruption.” This both reduces the risk of error and improves speed to create a smoother shipping process. How to solve it?

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Navigating Automotive Disruption: Eliminate Bottlenecks in your Supply Chain and Lean-out Operations to free-up Working Capital for R&D

ThroughPut

MAY 23, 2019

Of course, data may be “the new oil”, but if not refined properly through analysis, and not put into the right tank for action by domain experts, then it’s never going to propel the motors of corporate innovation forward. Yet industrial-scale disruption on multiple fronts requires lots of innovation. With Industry 4.0

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Supply Chain Brief

Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains

Time to Rethink Sourcing Rare Earth Elements

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25 Lean Manufacturing Tools – 5S, Six Sigma & Beyond

Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

Warehouse Cost Reductions: 3 Understandings Driven By Inventory Management & Lean Principles

7 Reasons Why You Should Reduce Inventory

Analytics Leaders Discuss the Internet of Things

Tracking Shipments with IoT

Tracking Shipments with IoT

Tracking Shipments with IoT

Tracking Shipments with IoT

Tracking Shipments with IoT

CommerceHub Hires John Hinkle as Executive VP of Production Systems

23 warehouse pros reveal the best ways for warehouses to control & reduce fulfillment costs

The Failings of Lean Manufacturing Principles

Outsourcing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Lessons from Nortel Networks

Why a Product-Centric Approach to Quality Matters

VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Inventory Management Strategies of 7 Successful Firms

24 supply chain experts & business leaders reveal the #1 challenge of supply chain management (and how to solve it)

Navigating Automotive Disruption: Eliminate Bottlenecks in your Supply Chain and Lean-out Operations to free-up Working Capital for R&D

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