Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Is supply chain inventory the problem?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. It can also mean “which companies make my stuff,” tracing parts or components all the way back through multiple tiers of suppliers back to raw materials. Agility to act on transparency.

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AB&R

JANUARY 10, 2019

Supply chain compliance may include things such as employee labor laws, hazardous material handling, and environmental concerns. Recommendations on the type of material or label to use (which we’ll talk about in the next section). It’s one of our top six trends we’re following in 2019, and we have decades of experience in this area.

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Tompkins Blog

MAY 5, 2014

In 2011 Virginia Commonwealth shocked Kansas. In 2010 Butler overthrew Kansas State and Syracuse. What innovative approach can you take to reducing costs, increasing inventory turns, and growing revenue? Report: Aligning Supply Chains with Business Strategy. Lesson learned: intimidation works. More Resources.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Perhaps even more surprisingly, efforts to reduce healthcare supply chain costs were slow to gain momentum, at least compared with the inroads made in other industries. Vendor-managed Inventory. VMI can be applied to many material categories, including pharmaceutical supplies, consumables, food, medical devices and pathology supplies.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 3, 2015

Mark Bogucki, our general manager in Kansas City, recently announced he would retire at the end of 2015. They priced their services based on tariffs without discounts—yes, truckloads of product moved under full tariff. Keep in mind that, prior to deregulation, just in time inventory hadn’t even been thought about.

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Resilinc

JULY 20, 2021

The quest for greater supply chain resilience will involve some re-shoring of manufacturing to the United States, as advocated by the Biden Administration in its recent recommendations for securing supplies of key materials and products. That has dramatically increased the cash tied up in inventory,” said Rogers.

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