Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

With more consumers pushing for supply chain transparency, Chipotle will be testing out RFID tags at its Chicago distribution center and at 200 Chicago stores to improve the traceability of its inventory systems. At the same time, the number of suppliers in China that received procurement bids declined by 9 percent in 2021.

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RFgen

APRIL 18, 2025

Tariffs are reshaping sourcing strategies, forcing tech upgrades, and making inventory planning a lot more complicated. For global businesses relying on real-time logistics and lean inventory models, the question is how prepared is your supply chain when tariffs hit? ports may now route through Mexico.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Hunt, BNSF and GMXT Launch Intermodal Freight Delivery Service in Mexico More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations look for reducing dependencies on concentrated sources of supply, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and South Asian countries will start providing viable alternatives to the current manufacturing powerhouse countries. Design Centers of Excellence will aid such frequent assessments and executing on design decisions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Run” will include using the platform for inventory optimization and to support interesting internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. The company has 18 plants and operating locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico as well as plants and labs in the UK, China, and Indonesia. HWI Has a Complex Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 22, 2025

It might mean setting up plants in Mexico or elsewhere in Latin America, aa means of cutting transit time and responding more quickly to changing patterns of demand. But for many, rising tensions between trading partners, coupled with higher labor and logistics expense, have made that strategy untenable.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that organizations without formal SRM programs report 121 percent longer supplier lead times. Reducing lead times from suppliers can help turn inventory faster, freeing up cash and ultimately satisfying customers. These are three examples: Rule 3.1:

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2025

This in the second half of 2024, businesses front-ended added inventory purchases to mitigate higher costs of goods. That has generally driving up safety stock inventory levels and warehousing costs. percent in inventory storage and carrying costs, and 2.8 As the results of the U.S. percent in other costs.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

Regulators are seeking “to put pressure on fashion brands to make sure they’ve got better inventory control in terms of not over-ordering.” Hunt, BNSF and GMXT Launch Intermodal Freight Delivery Service in Mexico Freight Forwarding/Customs Brokerage The Top 8 EDI Myths - Debunked!

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BlueYonder

MAY 1, 2025

The completed engine is then sent to a vehicle assembly plant in Mexico, traveling through the U.S. Finally, the assembled vehicle crosses the Mexico-U.S. market in Mexico. Enhanced end-to-end tracking from procurement to distribution allows organizations to measure and quantify the real impact of tariffs.

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2016

Mexico offers a skilled and affordable work force. Some companies have found success by nearshoring to Mexico instead of going with traditional options for offshoring facilities. Forbes explained how Mexico is currently undergoing manufacturing growth that makes the country an ideal candidate for production. Ford is a U.S.

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2016

Mexico offers a skilled and affordable work force. Some companies have found success by nearshoring to Mexico instead of going with traditional options for offshoring facilities. Forbes explained how Mexico is currently undergoing manufacturing growth that makes the country an ideal candidate for production. Ford is a U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This prediction was our view that direct materials sourcing and procurement organizations by their role would continue to provide a de-facto presence and accountability for investment in and enhancements of supplier risk management and controls. Evidence of Mexico as an alternative nearshoring action remains mixed this year.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 14, 2025

Interestingly, despite its critical importance, MRO is frequently treated as a procurement function rather than a strategic lever. The consequences are familiar: excess inventory, chronic stockouts, urgent purchases, high logistics costs, and little visibility into whether supply is aligned with maintenance demand.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories Ship Traffic Through Red Sea Remains Sparse, Despite Houthi-U.S. Truce Ocean Transportation J.B.

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BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2024

Previously, logistics was invisible to sales as long as dealers had sufficient inventory. Anu Goel from VW Group of America emphasized the benefits sharing and collaborating on demand and supply plans across long, medium, and short terms with carriers, and integrating operations in Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 13, 2025

Hunt, BNSF and GMXT Launch Intermodal Freight Delivery Service in Mexico Freight Forwarding/Customs Brokerage The Top 8 EDI Myths - Debunked! Issues Food Alert on Jolly Ranchers Candy More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox. Featured Product Popular Stories J.B.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2021

The department educates students to succeed in careers such as procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and customer service. In 2040, the skillet will most likely be manufactured in the USA or Mexico. In 2020, the skillet was manufactured in China using Australian or Brazilian iron ore.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

It appears that operational and procurement risks for beneficial cargo owners or shippers, in the short term, are minimal. The areas that will be deliberated in future articles are ocean shipping market landscape, freight procurement, reliability & visibility and the competitive landscape.

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Taulia

MARCH 31, 2025

AI-powered tools can provide predictive insights into potential tariff changes, identify vulnerabilities within supply chains, and optimize, for example, inventory levels to ensure adequate stock without excessive overheads. However, as we have seen with the tariffs levied against Mexico and Canada, nearshoring is not always the answer.

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Resilinc

APRIL 30, 2024

Outlook for hurricane season 2024 This year, hurricane season starts June 1, 2024, and ends November 30, 2024, and will primarily affect the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. Discover why experts predict robust storms and how to safeguard your supply chain. What sets this year’s hurricane season apart?

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JDA software

MAY 10, 2019

Sprint was using spreadsheets and databases to forecast and plan its network inventory purchases. With this strong foundation, Sprint can move from a monthly Network Inventory & Operational Planning process to a bi-weekly or weekly process if desired. Part of JDA’s formula for customer success is to work with world-class partners.

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Resilinc

APRIL 17, 2024

While it may seem smart to simplify procurement and lower costs, single sourcing can actually expose businesses to risks that can jeopardize their operations and bottom line. Single sourcing and sole sourcing are two different procurement strategies in supply chain management. What is single sourcing and sole sourcing?

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Low-cost country sourcing is a procurement strategy that falls under a broad category of procurement efforts called global sourcing. Sourcing internationally can create a complex supply chain that complicates your inventory? ?control However, this shouldn’t be a problem when you have great inventory management software.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, US-based companies may be quite fortunate if they have access to manufacturers right on their doorstep in Mexico, a country with far lower labour costs than the rest of North America. Through collaboration with your procurement partner, you can reduce inventory levels and then potentially downsize your warehouse capacity needs.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

front that retailers and certain businesses may have procured too much inventory , and now that these inventories have arrived, the challenge will be not to exposed to a decline in consumer buying activity in the months to come. There is further growing evidence on the U.S. percent of GDP to 6.2 percentage points from Q1 to Q2.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 11, 2022

Businesses need to inventory the risks, as well as materials and products, in their supply chains in order to plan for and, in theory, mitigate those risks. 10] When it comes to moving inventory into disaster-prone areas, historical data can help. You need to have alternatives worked out if things don’t go according to your first plan.

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QAD

APRIL 4, 2023

In this area, enhancements include: An uplifted user experience for co- and by-products across engineering, production and inventory capabilities to boost efficiency and help manufacturers succeed in today’s digital world. With the recent acquisition of Redzone, QAD Redzone Connected Workforce joins the QAD Adaptive Applications portfolio.

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QAD

JULY 18, 2024

For example, it is common to incentivize procurement organizations to lower a product’s purchase price variance. While this lowers the actual product cost, it may result in increasing transportation, inventory, warehousing and Customs costs.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

All of the above (and other down-stream KPIs and processes) are heavily influenced by the accuracy of a demand forecast: if the demand forecast is much more accurate, a company is more likely to have the right product, in the right quantities in inventory and will have less of the products in inventory that is not required.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 18, 2022

Countries like China, India, and most other Asia countries, along with Eastern Europe and Mexico became the preferred location for manufacturing. With responsibility for Global Commodity Management and Procurement, and the sourcing of billions of dollars of goods and services, I saw this dynamic play out first hand.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

Cut inventory costs Be it a brick and mortar store or an online business, inventory is always present and it costs money. To avoid skyrocketing inventory expenditure, you need to keep accurate inventory count. To avoid skyrocketing inventory expenditure, you need to keep accurate inventory count.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 16, 2022

Reliable financial analytics across the enterprise — including branches, plant assets, fleets, and inventory — are required. McCrea reports, in response to the current situation, “some companies are procuring materials from more U.S. Disparate or siloed systems will make consolidating capital harder.”

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2023

Bloomberg reported in November 2022 that shipments of motor vehicles, computer parts and boats, manufactured in Mexico and destined for U.S. the strategies were exploring nearshoring of prior foreign production, diversifying supplier networks and adding additional contingency inventories. Mexico is near the U.S.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. China ranks number one as the country from which companies are reshoring, followed by Mexico, Canada, India, and Japan. Manufacturing in Mexico today is at least 20% cheaper than China. are: Germany, China, Japan, Canada, and Korea.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This time the disaster was in Mexico. We focussed on establishing Vendor Managed Inventory programs and improving our Lead Times and Parameter Management. Ordering extra inventory is a stop gap solution which will cause other problems down the road. SCM #SupplyChain #Logistics #Distribution #Procurement.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

When the product has a defect after its production, it is sent back to the inventory to reuse or recycle it. Sustainable procurement: consists of environmentally friendly purchasing that carry reduction, reuse, and recycle.

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