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Lean Logistics: Improving Efficiency in the Supply Chain

Unleashed

Lean logistics is a strategy designed to optimise supply chain efficiency by cutting out waste and maximising customer value. This approach to supply chain management is a child of Lean Thinking – a business methodology that originated in Japan in the late 1980s. The result is high costs and unsatisfied customers.

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Sustainable Food Waste Management for Food Industry SMEs

Unleashed

Let’s look at how smart food businesses can reduce their waste – and how the right food manufacturing software helps them do it. Sustainable food waste management therefore looks at strategies to reduce waste where it occurs, before it occurs. Improving food inventory control. What is food waste management?

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Technology – Shopify and Panasonic

Supply Chain Matters

The provider has placed a special effort in its business strategy to not compete with its merchants but rather seeks to be a ” one-stop ” platform technology provider for businesses including availability of customer buying intelligence tools that can identify what customers tend to buy and when.

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Visualizing Supply Chains in Distress

MIT Supply Chain

They collaborated with two service providers, Sourcemap and AIR Worldwide, to develop an interactive mapping tool that evaluates operational risk, and flags the relative importance of key suppliers and manufacturers to the integrity of a supply chain. A broader view. Mapping the risks.

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5 Ways to Reduce Your Inventory the Right Way

EMERGE App

Unlike Software as a Service providers such as EMERGE App, traditional businesses need to purchase and store stock before they can sell them, hopefully, for a profit. It is this time between purchasing stock and re-selling them that is critical for these businesses. What Does Reducing Your Inventory Mean?

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Critical Supply Chain Planning Capabilities Needed to Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Supply Chain Disruptions

Logility

A major fire in China has a different impact than a major earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a volcanic eruption in northern Europe or a category 5 hurricane in the southern United States. To help get started, I have highlighted a few strategies to improve your company’s ability to sense, analyze and respond to supply chain disruptions.

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Why JIT Isn’t to Blame for Broken Supply Chains

Unleashed

We’ll take a closer look at: Pull inventory systems. Pull inventory systems. A pull inventory system is a Lean approach to reducing waste in any production process. You generate a signal when you purchase a cup of coffee, effectively pulling materials through the coffee-making process. What’s next for businesses.