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Will Trucking Challenges Transform JITS in North America?

QAD

As the trucking industry experiences rising industry change, just-in-time-sequence (JITS) supply chains are starting to feel the effects. What is JITS (Just-In-Time-Sequence)? The advantage of a ‘pull’ system, over more traditional push based manufacturing, is that we only produce what is needed when it’s needed.

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Medline is the Largest User of the AutoStore Robotics Solution in the World

Logistics Viewpoints

Medline is a medical supply manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider. Medline is a medical supply manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider. AutoStore in action at a Medline Distribution Center AutoStore has a lot of buzz surrounding it. The company continued to grow during COVID even as the industry shrank.

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Scenario Modeling Is Now Crucial for Supply Chain Network Design

AIMMS

Evaluating different scenarios helps you gain much-needed network flexibility in these times of stress and can help you prepare for a resilient future. At the same time, they faced new constraints on the resource side. Another use case we see for scenario modeling in the current context is evaluating new sourcing locations.

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Unilever’s Relentless Commitment to S-Curve Transformations

Logistics Viewpoints

This multinational operates 280 factories and 500 warehouses, that source raw materials from 52,000 suppliers in over 150 countries, processes 25 million customer orders annually, that are then shipped to customers in over 190 nations. Once the results from a transformation begin to slow, it is time to kick off a new transformation.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes. HWI employed a crawl-walk-run methodology. The company is still somewhere in the “crawl/walk” phase.

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Scenario Modeling Is Now Crucial for Supply Chain Network Design

AIMMS

Evaluating different scenarios helps you gain much-needed network flexibility in these times of stress and can help you prepare for a resilient future. At the same time, they faced new constraints on the resource side. Another use case we see for scenario modeling in the current context is evaluating new sourcing locations.

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Cardinal Health’s Perfect Implementation

Logistics Viewpoints

Cardinal Health, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical, surgical and laboratory products, is focused on continuous improvement of service. The Cardinal Health Supply Chain Cardinal Health’s medical segment manufactures, sources and distributes Cardinal Health branded medical, surgical and laboratory products.