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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #10 Failure to adequately train your supply chain planning staff

Kinaxis

Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. A bad decision can result in missed orders, significant inventory, or scrapped materials. By doing this, they could potentially save the company millions of dollars in excess inventory.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. Within a week of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, the benchmark for thermal coal prices reached a record high of $446 per metric ton.

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Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Wholesalers in 2019: Drop Those Bad Habits from 2018

EMERGE App

If you’re still not convinced about using inventory management software , then perhaps the benefits might sway you over. South-East Asian nations such as Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines are ready with substitutes or alternative suppliers. Value Your Inventory. Technology can give you a competitive edge.

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How Microsoft & ThroughPut are helping Global Manufacturers increase Output during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how every Operations Professional can help

ThroughPut

South Korea has reported the lowest number of new cases in 4 weeks , leading the way on the containment execution roadmap. This is where leveraging your data to improve management around Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Output, and On-Time-In-Full Inventories matter like never before in human history.

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How Microsoft & ThroughPut are helping Global Manufacturers increase Output during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how every Operations Professional can help

ThroughPut

South Korea has reported the lowest number of new cases in 4 weeks , leading the way on the containment execution roadmap. This is where leveraging your data to improve management around Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Output, and On-Time-In-Full Inventories matter like never before in human history.

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Global Manufacturing PMI Levels Rise in January 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Quicker declines in finished goods inventories and a softer reduction in pre-production stocks were noted. Renewed Expansion in South Korea The S&P Global South Korea Manufacturing PMI® was headlined with a reported renewed expansion in the country’s manufacturing sector at the start of 2024. increased 1.3

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Revenue: JP¥ 1,829 billion/ $16.5