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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

Logistics Viewpoints

Malcolm McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, was tired of waiting. He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Work planners previously did manually can be calculated by software.

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The Greenest Mile: Planning’s Role in Supply Chain Sustainability

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Similarly, UPS has strong commitments to sustainability and invests in many options, such as alternative fuel vehicles, e-cycles in dense cities, and carbon offsets for purchase with shipping. We must plan, source, make, and deliver differently for supply chain sustainability. But what about the role of planning?

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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

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Even if this retailer had used AI to forecast my purchase, AI that creates a perfect plan but fails to execute it only results in a highly-efficient silo, as Northeastern University professor Nada Sanders says. The table needs to be able to be manufactured and delivered to meet demand on time in full (OTIF), to achieve customer satisfaction.

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What is Inbound Logistics and How Can a 3PL Help?

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If you’re a manufacturer, you likely know the answer. See, there’s a big difference between handling inbound logistics yourself and outsourcing it to a trusted North Carolina third-party logistics (3PL) provider that knows the manufacturing industry. Third-party procurement. What is inbound logistics?

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Peloton’s Supply Chain Strategy Turnabout

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This week, the company announced a reversal in manufacturing and supply chain strategy, as well as a major turnabout. The company will henceforth outsource the manufacturing of its stationary exercise bikes and treadmills to a Taiwan based contract manufacturer. Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor.

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What value-added warehousing services can a 3PL provide?

Kanban Logistics

With these services, your 3PL partner can perform – within the warehouse – many services that go beyond basic pick, pack and ship. Manufacturing logistics services Following are some of the key inbound logistics services – also known as manufacturing logistics services – that 3PLs can perform to support the flow of goods into a factory.

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More than storage: What warehouse services can a 3PL provide?

Kanban Logistics

For example, let’s say your product is manufactured and packaged in China and is shipped to you in North Carolina for distribution here. You can ship the products back to China to be reconfigured and then shipped back to the U.S. Manufacturing logistics services. Third-party procurement.