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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. Owens Illinois provides glass products and Sonoco Products provides flexible packaging. ” As a supplier three to four levels back in the supply chain, life as a packaging provider is tough. Here I contrast their results. So, what can we learn?

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Shipping Perfection Unlocked: The Insider’s Playbook to Outsmarting Misships and Winning Customer Loyalty

RFgen

Overhead swells in direct proportion to misships, adding greater expense for return shipping fees, overnight and same-day ordering, wasted inventory, chargebacks , wages, and loss of customers. Both help assure that packages are correctly labeled and addressed. Both help assure that packages are correctly labeled and addressed.

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Can we re-shore and create a US semiconductor industry? Maybe…

NC State SCRC

This is an interesting area that might allow companies (even if they are not re-shored), the opportunity to have different components in inventory, and to mix and match them to create customized systems into printed format. The workshop brought to bear a whole different lens on this topic of re-shoring semiconductors.

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What is Inventory Management?

EMERGE App

What is Inventory Management? Inventory management, in a nutshell, describes your efforts to manage, assess and report on the flow of your stock of goods. You might be using pencil-and-paper, spreadsheets or sophisticated inventory management software to do this. Two Essential Features of Inventory Management Today.

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Logistics Experts from SSI Schaefer Implement Automated Deep-Freeze Warehouse in Manila, Philippines – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Up to 37% of the food produced worldwide spoils due to poor packaging, storage and handling. Thanks to SSI Schaefer’s energy-efficient technology and innovative solutions, ORCA could offer its customers end-to-end cold chain solutions with first-class customer service, higher efficiency standards and transparent inventory tracking.

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Shopee ECommerce Booster Package

Vinculum

Shopee’s E-commerce Booster Package. In Singapore, Shopee’s E-commerce Booster Package is one step to help SMEs leverage financial relief. The E-commerce Booster package will help offline retailers establish their online business in Singapore and provide them with information and tools on how to get started.

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My Busy day at the Richmond Supply Chain Forum

DynaSys

For this event we also took the opportunity to run a 1 hour workshop which everyone had the option to attend. These are typically doing well in terms of revenue growth but they are starting to struggle to continue to meet the growth and have either very high inventory, capacity issues or both. It was titled “Is forecasting really dead?