Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2022

The irony of excess inventory. ”[3] He continues, “The past two years have been blighted by supply shortages — with just-in-time retailers struggling to ship their goods, electronics manufacturers staring down a shortage of computer chips, and supermarkets struggling to fill their shelves. ” Optimizing inventory. .”

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Raising interest rates leads to manufacturers deciding to forego capital investments; construction slowing down; declining sales of white goods, cars and trucks; and pressure on banks. This is an 80% drop year on year drop. When the Federal Reserve (the Fed) believes inflation is too high, they raise interest rates.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

The Manufacturing Supply Chain Journey through AI and Automation Manufacturing Supply Chains Explained The manufacturing supply chain comprises all the processes a business uses to turn raw materials and components into final products that are ready to be sold to customers, whether these are consumers or other businesses.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 31, 2022

The further disruption caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could cause major disruptions to the global supply chain and impact South Africa. Supply chains over the years have predominantly focused more on minimising end-to-end costs, reducing inventories while driving up asset utilisation. Supply chain challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2023

These scrubbers (there’s one in each store) are equipped with inventory intelligence towers that take more than 20 million photos of everything on the shelves every day. crumbling infrastructure and manufacturing. funding before starting new production for Ukraine. The Pitney Bowes report also indicates a slowdown from the 10.8

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2022

It’s a complex problem, but you can successfully optimize inventory levels with the right approach and technology. With all of today’s supply chain disruptions, and new ones no doubt lurking around the corner, companies without optimized inventory are risking overpaying and underperforming. Start With the Customer Experience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

A company can choose to maintain a high level of costly inventory to ensure short lead times, and a family can decide to live farther away from work and school but buy a bigger house. Last year multiple companies needed to urgently relocate their employees and their families from Russia and Ukraine. Let’s continue with this analogy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Our lives became more interesting with the onset pandemic, followed by labor shortages, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, rising oil prices, and the oncoming recession. In the meantime, the inventory data quality has evolved, and the supply planning teams have been reorganized in some countries.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you boil it down, a product’s shelf life is very short and if you don’t sell it, that inventory will be discounted shrinking already razor thin margins. Good for someone that wants to buy Halloween candy for 75% off the day after Halloween, but not so great for the candy manufacturer or retailer.”[5] ”[6]. .”[8]

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Elementum

AUGUST 29, 2022

Recent shortages have highlighted the need for robust, future-proof supply chain management systems that far exceed the capabilities of conventional inventory control processes. Today, we will look at the importance of supply chain management in food production and some solutions to prevent further crises.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the following economic sanctions spiked energy prices and created new sourcing challenges for certain agricultural products and raw materials. Returns management involving the implications on inventory and reverse logistics is emerging as an integral part of the end-to-end supply chain planning challenge.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

and European companies may last longer than expected as they try to sell off their bulging inventories in an economic climate where demand is stalling. Full-to-bursting warehouses means fewer orders for manufacturers, which translates into lower levels of business activity and, ultimately, weaker growth. That’s all for this week.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The past two and half years have certainly brought a variety of challenges and opportunities that have made innovation not just a preference, but essential for manufacturers and distributors to thrive into the future. Optimizing the use of data for manufacturers. The escalation of the war in Ukraine. A new phase of the pandemic.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides commentary relative to July’s global manufacturing PMI indices relative to data indicating declining momentum, and some contraction among specific global regions. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. Global Wide Production Activity. The July 2022 J.P.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Finn-Tack, with an international customer base with growing global demand, has two production plants in China, and the Ukraine, manufacturing riding equipment and clothing. Optimiza inventory management software was developed to enable companies to build an inventory model that simulates the unique characteristics of their business.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

-China trade tensions, Covid-19 measures and the Russia-Ukraine crisis. It is prime time for visibility / inventory management tools and outsourcing. But Asia will continue to grow as a manufacturing base and consumer market. These have brought resilience and near-shoring back on the agenda. But what will really happen?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

With the crisis in Ukraine and sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation, fuel and energy prices are now soaring. And this was before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. In fact, global freight rates have increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic. GLOBAL CRISES DRIVE PRICES SKY-HIGH.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

In this, the first of our supply chain news posts, you’ll find updates on the following current stories in global supply chain and logistics operations: The Ukraine war and its impact on global supply chains. The grain blockaded in Ukraine. Ukraine War and its Supply Chain Impact. A growing global warehouse capacity crunch.

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Logility

APRIL 29, 2022

Too much inventory means demand constraints, too little causes supply constraints. It’s far from an uncommon situation, but the pandemic served as a wake-up call as manufacturers realized they didn’t have the visibility into their supply chain to identify risks and get the commodity intelligence they needed. It’s a balancing act.

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Logility

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Prior to the pandemic, efficiency meant just-in-time manufacturing, but disruptions exposed the flaw in this approach. Then came Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Between them, Ukraine and Russia account for approximately one-third of global wheat production. By 1979, China was one of the globe’s fastest-growing economies.

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Logility

APRIL 19, 2022

Product shortages have plagued the supply chain since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, affecting goods from garage doors to computer chips to lumber, and businesses from car manufacturers to home improvement centers. With a lack of neon, the manufacturing backup will just increase. Key Takeaways. Should you be concerned?

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 22, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest OECD global economic forecast in the ongoing light of the Ukraine conflict and provide some additional industry supply chain implications. . In addition, supply chains around the world are dependent on exports of metals from Russia and Ukraine. and perhaps other regions.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 14, 2022

Data plays a huge role in the ability to manufacture companies to draw powerful insights and create transformative experiences for customers and business growth. Many manufacturers just aren’t maximising its value and missing out on the unmatched efficiencies it provides. Collecting data for effective usage with business intelligence.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 12, 2023

“Out of the chip pan and into the fire” must be a recurring feeling among manufacturers – across 2022 and into 2023 – as a proposed rebound following the eye of the COVID-19 pandemic storm has been usurped by a host of new and evolving challenges that have hindered both sides of the supply-demand equation.

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BlueYonder

MAY 29, 2025

A previous blog post focused on the many challenges created for the worlds automotive manufacturers by demand uncertainty, especially related to electric vehicles (EVs). EV batteries get a lot of attention in the industry for their use of innovative materials, as well as manufacturers evolving designs and power technologies.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2022

Manufacturers and shipping companies assumed that because of layoffs, demand would drop. It’s been a whirlwind, as manufacturers have been left scratching their heads about what’s going to happen next. And the world has now been rocked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, altering global supply chains forever.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 19, 2022

There are a variety of ongoing disruptions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting economic Russian sanctions coming from other countries. Russia and Ukraine supply critical materials for industrial production, the development of advanced batteries, and other items related to making industrial applications greener.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters March 23 rd edition of our COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule, we provide updates to ongoing industry supply chain developments and disruptions of concern to our reading audience. importers are resetting inventory ordering strategies to avoid any contentious contract talks this summer.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

Our annual predictions advisory began with a summary of prevailing global economic, financial and manufacturing outlooks. percent for this year, two percentage points lower, warning of the effects of high global wide inflation, the war in Ukraine and continued supply chain disruptions will impact real GDP growth. percent of GDP to 6.2

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Manufacturers and distributors will need to rethink their use of lean manufacturing strategies that minimise their inventory held by optimising the inventory mix required to protect customer service in their global supply chains. In other words, local manufacturers should start finding partnerships with local suppliers.

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QAD

AUGUST 16, 2022

Unpredictability is undoubtedly the major issue manufacturers face when dealing with fragmented supply chains. As the supply chain breaks, manufacturers must find new suppliers and new transport routes and find them rapidly, so that production doesn’t come to a halt. So, how can manufacturers respond to these challenges?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

And as consumers are beginning to think about their Halloween plans, retailers and manufacturers are looking much farther ahead to the holiday season. Focal Systems’ solution is integrated with Walmart Canada’s existing inventory systems to automatically detect availability concerns and direct store teams to replenish products.

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All Things Supply Chain

MARCH 4, 2022

Brands sever supply chain ties with Russia A growing list of corporate giants in various industries have decided to cut ties with Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine. Airbus…

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Unleashed

JUNE 22, 2022

It’s been a long two years for manufacturing and logistics businesses at the sharp end of rapidly-changing global events. Grain and sunflower oil are currently in short supply due to the Ukraine conflict, while the global appetite for electric vehicles is driving demand for lithium and semiconductors.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

The current war in Ukraine will further destabilize the global supply chain. Instead, businesses have focused most their investments on inventory control and order requirements. Many individuals and organizations blame Lean and just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing for the situation we find ourselves in today.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Supply chain disruptions during the pandemic highlighted global dependence on Chinese manufacturing — and those dependencies raised serious concerns among China’s trading partners. Near-shoring and Re-shoring Of course, one way to lower risks from trade with China is to move manufacturing elsewhere.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Clogged ports, a shortage of raw ingredients, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, fires, and floods have all served to challenge the smooth flow of goods. Major can manufacturers also cater to large companies, such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. This means that smaller manufacturers were left out in the cold. A shortage of carbon dioxide.

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