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Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014

Talking Logistics

The value of peer-to-peer learning and networking was evident at last month’s Ryder Innovate conference — “an exclusive gathering of senior leaders in transportation, logistics, and supply chain seeking strategic insight, new ideas, and thought leadership to improve their supply chain and fleet operations.”

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Ease the Burden of Labor Shortages and Increase Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

These include transportation and material moving, warehouse and fulfillment center workers , truck drivers, call center agents, delivery services, and manufacturing workers. You have the seemingly uncontrollable supply chain disruptions along with a labor and talent shortage.

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Planned Obsolescence in the Durable Goods Industry

Logility

percent in May as demand for transportation equipment fell 1.0 Disposable income can ebb and flow abruptly due to natural and man-made disruptions, leaving durable goods manufacturers scrambling to dispose of excess inventory. Expanding Consumer Product Preferences and Resulting Explosion in Inventory. That followed a 1.0

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#15 in 15 years ….not bad! NC State breaks into the Gartner Supply Chain Program Rankings

Supply Chain View from the Field

Our program engages our 20 top corporate partners to develop projects across a wide variety of different areas, including market intelligence, logistics, inventory, value stream mapping, cost management, supply management, transportation, performance metrics, and others (see Project Breakdown ,).

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Planned Obsolescence in the Durable Goods Industry

Logility

percent in May as demand for transportation equipment fell 1.0 Disposable income can ebb and flow abruptly due to natural and man-made disruptions, leaving durable goods manufacturers scrambling to dispose of excess inventory. Expanding Consumer Product Preferences and Resulting Explosion in Inventory. That followed a 1.0

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Is There a Third Option for SCM Executives Looking to Revamp their Supply Chain Management Operations?

Kinaxis

Many organizations with established SCM operations have been working with third-party logistics firms for decades, largely eliminating the use of in-house transportation fleets. Does a company fitting this description have the focus and priority to dedicate the resources they need to inventory management, forecasting and supply planning?

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Creating an analytics organization for supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

analytics group noted that a lot of what they had done was in constraint management and inventory and demand. In the supply chain area, we are certainly seeing a strong need for analytics in areas like collaborative forecasting, inventory management, production planning, and logistics network design.