Remove Inventory Remove Just-in-Time Remove Logistics Remove Raleigh
article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (September 15-19, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Menlo Logistics Opening New Multi-client Warehouse in Ladkrabang, Thailand. Kuehne + Nagel inaugurates North America’s regional Integrated Logistics Control Centre in Raleigh, NC, USA. It’s clear from this week’s long list of news that the pace of change and innovation in supply chain management continues to accelerate.

article thumbnail

Rethink Your Approach to Business Through the Lens of Anti-Brittle and Optionality!

Supply Chain Network

My entire career has been focused on first finding AND THEN implementing logistics and supply chain innovations both large and small. Almost two years ago now I joined MonarchFx after recognizing it as the fast, flexible inventory deployment, fulfillment and replenishment solution the market needed.

Raleigh 60
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

Post-mortem on Christmas Logistics Chaos: On Customer Commitments and Transparency

NC State SCRC

Most logistics companies are still far from being able to fully integrate data and analytics to better manage. But it’s also extending from the big box retailers into the logistics providers today. But it’s also extending from the big box retailers into the logistics providers today. Not always. But guess what….

article thumbnail

A “Swiss Army Knife” of Supply Chain Talent Requirements: Views from a Former Wolfpack Student

NC State SCRC

He then went into global imports for the central purchasing group in Raleigh. He became a director at that point, working with sales planning, inventory planning, and financial planning, and pulling together the Sales and Operations Planning team, as well as introducing new products and eliminating obsolescence. Today, we are at 5.5M

article thumbnail

Omni-Channel Supply Chains Are Changing Everything You Ever Learned in School…

Supply Chain View from the Field

His insights and presence were most appreciated by everyone, especially given the snowfall we were experiencing in Raleigh last night! This view of the supply chain is focused primarily on how we get inventory to the customer. This led to Omni-Channel sales. This is the major crux of the problem. This is rapidly changing.

article thumbnail

SCRC Meeting – Tom Linton’s “Supply Chain Eight” and Golden Winged Warblers : Questions Every New CSCO Should Ask Their CEO

NC State SCRC

When it is not in motion, it is classified as inventory. And the fundamental issue is about TIME as a foundational concept for running a company. I identified four options to executives given these uncertainties: Passive Approach – “do nothing”. Wait and See” – make intangible resource commitments. and will operate more efficiently.