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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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Different Strokes for Different Folks (to Yield Better Results?)?

Supply Chain Shaman

They were very proud of their work in planning with a number of pharmaceutical manufacturers. With the purchase of Terra Technology and Orchestro, E2open is experimenting with an approach termed Long-term Demand Sensing (LDS). The barrier for all is traditional thinking. Let me share a story. P&G is testing this approach.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

These interviews are often the best source of information and are not published. Secondary data sources are published available databases, reports, websites, and so on. Examples might be a “state of the industry” report purchased from a consulting company or a publicly available database such as the Census of U.S. Descriptions.

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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. For Europe, operations are now resuming from the extended production breaks.

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

These developments impact Original Equipment Manufacturers, both at strategic level and at operational level within their supply chains. The way by which consumers purchase, use and share technology is changing rapidly. The sourcing department is challenged by increasing compliancy issues. Guinea-bissau. Isle of Man. Kazakhstan.

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How the Bakken Oil Boom Impacts U.S. Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

For those of us in neighboring states, North Dakota is the source of a clichéd “giant sucking sound,” the likes of which this generation has never experienced. A neighbor of mine’s relative was recruited to the Bakken to help develop manufactured home communities. And it has all happened incredibly quickly.

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Mindmap for Supply Chain Execution 24/7

Supply Chain Movement

Sourcing from far-flung countries such as China is leading to growing uncertainty about the actual supply of purchase orders. Guinea-bissau. Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands. Holy See (Vatican City State). Iran, Islamic Republic of. Isle of Man. Kazakhstan. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of. Korea, Republic of. Kyrgyzstan.