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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

This is the first post in a two part series on the “Changing Face of Manufacturing.” ” We have many manufacturing shipper customers, and we love to create content of value for them on such subjects as best practices in logistics or trends around the supply chain. Drop in the price of crude oil.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Google did not acquire a third-party logistics (3PL) company or a logistics software vendor. Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target. Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. What will happen in 2016? Of course, what happens in the U.S.

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Quality Improvement in Manufacturing: Relief for Operations Manager

ThroughPut

Most importantly for ThroughPut, manufacturing and logistics operations in the industrial world are about to pick back up until Christmas. Trips to places like Iraq during 2015 made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state. A lot of what I thought was “life” was essentially, a luxury.

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How Consumer Behavior is Changing

Enterra Insights

Now, all that manufacturing, logistics, pricing, customer engagement and general commerce data is obsolete.” Despite the disruption of major global events in the 21st century — 9/11, the Iraq invasion, the financial crisis of 2008 and the Arab spring afterwards — the difference is that those all had regional epicenters.”[4]

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Who said supply chains are boring?: How would you ship 500 trees.

Supply Chains Rock

How would you ship 500 trees to Iraq? Basically, her organization worked with a nursery and collected 400 trees from Long Island, New York and 100 from California and had them shipped via DHL to the US troops in Iraq. About.com - Martins Logistics Blog. EU Logistics Hub Blog. Latin American Logistics. Subscribe To.

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. Localized manufacturing. Shipment and manufacturing of the unit of one. My speech also focused on how current technologies are rapidly becoming obsolete due to market demands to do more with less and make better decisions.

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Tarik Toprak: “Growth brings its own challenges.”

Supply Chain Movement

The confectionary market in Turkey is saturated yet we are achieving more than a 20% rise in sales and we have switched from importing all our products to manufacturing locally so there’s always something new and exciting to do. Manisa is not the optimum place in terms of supply chain logistics, such as for man power and transportation.

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