article thumbnail

Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

When the product has a defect after its production, it is sent back to the inventory to reuse or recycle it. It is done by Logistrap in Mexico, they reduced their space within the warehouses and container ships to transport more within the same number of trips (Logistrap, 2020). Retrieved from Triple EFF. consulting. EM Ojo, C.

article thumbnail

When local problems go global

DELMIA Quintiq

Transportation times and relationships between multiple plants and warehouses. Flexible inventory buffer windows. Balancing sometimes contradictory business goals such as maximizing on time delivery while minimizing inventory. Complex resource capability rules.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Use of third-party data for transportation lane and drayage times by day/time of week. Monthly design of the supply chain including form and function of inventory and inventory placement.

article thumbnail

Starbucks Appoints New Supply Chain Chief

RFgen

Investigations showed that one main cause of the loss in revenue was that less than half of deliveries arrived on time, driving up costs, and over 50% of their supply chain budget went to outsourcing delivery to third party transportation services, leading to cost inflation. Plant in Columbia, South Carolina in 2009.

article thumbnail

Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

When companies look at singular metrics (labor costs or inventory), they have moved backwards. It is often reduced to be the Supply Chain Department that has been functionally defined to ONLY focus on a part of the supply chain like transportation, customer service or distribution planning. There is no substitute for leadership.

article thumbnail

Starbucks Appoints New Supply Chain Chief

RFgen

Investigations showed that one main cause of the loss in revenue was that less than half of deliveries arrived on time, driving up costs, and over 50% of their supply chain budget went to outsourcing delivery to third party transportation services, leading to cost inflation. Plant in Columbia, South Carolina in 2009.

article thumbnail

What Caused the Baby Formula Shortage + 7 Ways Consumers and Companies are Coping

ToolsGroup

Like the chicken shortage and other issues surrounding the supply chain crisis , infant formula shortages originated with COVID-19 disrupting the supply chain , triggering the lack of labor , transportation, and raw materials. And when lockdown hit, fear of the unknown led many parents to stockpile formula.