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Supply Chain Planning Solutions are Not Just for the Big Boys

Logistics Viewpoints

Myers Industries (NYSE: MYE) is headquartered in Akron, Ohio in the United States. They source plastic pellets and then use injection, blow molding, rotational molding, and thermoforming to produce their finished products. Typically, supply chain planning drives significant reductions in inventory.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. Also insufficient pay to attract truckers, longshoremen, etc.

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Supply Chain Basics with Jason Miller

The Logistics of Logistics

Jason Miller (PhD The Ohio State University) is a tenured Associate Professor of Logistics and the John D. The department educates students to succeed in careers such as procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and customer service. Inventory management. About Jason Miller. and Dortha J.

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Peloton’s Supply Chain Strategy Turnabout

Supply Chain Matters

Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor. The company lacked visibility to inbound inventory and a third-party logistics provider’s tracking systems were not aligned to Peloton ’s customer service support needs. The company’s inventory levels of unsold equipment have reportedly swelled to over $1 billion.

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Added In-Transit Inventory Exposures Add to Implications of Inbound Cost Inflation for Industry Supply Chains

Supply Chain Matters

merchants held a total of nearly $643 billion in inventories, described as being below pre-pandemic level, while the closely watched inventory to sales remained near its lowest point in 30 years. West Coast ports currently averaging over 100 days, more inventory is sitting on ships and not able to be sold. All rights reserved.

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Tech OEMS battle it out in the semiconductor value chain

Resilinc

Samsung follower SamMobile.com reports that Samsung is boosting its use of domestic Korean sources for expandable components in semiconductor manufacturing. in revenue growth over Q2 2021, TSMC acknowledged that a portion of its extraordinary growth arose from customers stockpiling large inventories.

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Plan your Supply Chain with Uncertainty

Adexa

In certain cases, they try to hedge with inventory that may not be necessary, adding to cost and inferior customer service. People have a higher incentive to increase the inventory than face the problem of running short, whether it is needed or not. Moreover, the incentive is to be safe than sorry.