Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. In one article , Mr. Sorenson points out that IBP works better for small manufacturers than large ones. GEON, headquartered in Westlake Ohio, has about 1000 employees.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Jason Miller (PhD The Ohio State University) is a tenured Associate Professor of Logistics and the John D. The department educates students to succeed in careers such as procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and customer service. Manufacturing strategies. About Jason Miller.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

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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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2021

Jason Miller (PhD The Ohio State University) is a tenured Associate Professor of Logistics and the John D. The department educates students to succeed in careers such as procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and customer service. The manufacturing process will be highly automated.

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EC Sourcing Group

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. 9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing.

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EC Sourcing Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. 9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 30, 2016

As shippers of all sizes expand their global sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution operations, they have to navigate the complexities involved with global transportation management. What are the main challenges global shippers face today? “It

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

A modern, multi-modal Tier 1 TMS can now take data from all sources, cleanse it and use it. With the ELD mandate, some companies are plugging into ELD manufacturers and retrieving data off the ELD or the carrier’s system (which gets it from their own ELD devices). Small but mighty. There are more than 500,000 TL carriers in the U.S.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Once a tainted food source is discovered, it’s important to know where it came from and where else it might be found. “It’s a dreaded word that no food manufacturer wants to hear,” writes the staff at Road Scholar Transport, “RECALL.”[3] Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 24, 2021

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products, and a provider of performance and data solutions for healthcare facilities. The company, with revenues of over $150 billion, is massive. domestic deliveries every day.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 8, 2020

From the woman director controlling over a half a billion dollars worth of global spend in the fast moving consumer goods industry in the ‘big city,” to the little guy ordering replenishment stock for a small chain of regional tire repair shops in Piqua, Ohio. Practice responsible and ethical sourcing. Sharpen the saw.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Here are some details from the article: Leasing 20 jets would be a significant expansion of an Amazon trial operation out of Wilmington, Ohio, operated by ATSG on Amazon’s behalf, sources said. Well, the ink is barely dry on the Final Rule for electronic logging devices (ELDs) and already a lawsuit has been filed.

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Resilinc

JULY 26, 2022

Not coincidentally, the company opened its first in-house European manufacturing facility in Budapest in June. Samsung follower SamMobile.com reports that Samsung is boosting its use of domestic Korean sources for expandable components in semiconductor manufacturing. Lenovo, the largest PC maker by unit sales, saw 12.5%

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As the demand for PPE has soared manufacturing capacity has become constrained, and some distributors are citing supply concerns. The State of Ohio, for example, is buffering its PPE inventories, for example. Manufacturers have responded to these efforts by stepping up the production of PPE.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

Also, traditional logistics focuses its attention on activities such as procurement , distribution, maintenance, and inventory management. However, topics such as logistics, logistics, physical sourcing and supply chain management are not included in these courses. NAPM published a new magazine, Purchasing Magazine, in 1965.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 29, 2022

A great deal of hoopla is being made of Intel’s investments in its new $20 billion semiconductor chip plant near Columbus, Ohio, which Intel claims could expand into a $100 billion complex with eight fabrication plants. From the 2017 Economic Census Jason pulled data on industry concentration in semiconductor manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 8, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting we provide highlights of manufacturing and supply chain developments involving electric vehicle automotive producers at the 2022 mid-year point. An added challenge has been the ramp-up of new manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas and Berlin Germany. Volkswagen.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. In this Q&A, Chaturvedi shares his views on rebuilding American manufacturing, reshoring, nearshoring, and other topics of the moment in supply chains. Resilinc: What’s the current status of reshoring manufacturing? That’s good news.

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RFgen

JULY 9, 2017

the equivalent of digital transformation for manufacturing , and explained that adopting Industry 4.0 Looking down the road, this could even allow for machine autonomy within the manufacturing sector. Ned Hill, an economist at The Ohio State University, told Network World that Industry 4.0 goes well beyond connectivity.

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RFgen

JULY 9, 2017

the equivalent of digital transformation for manufacturing , and explained that adopting Industry 4.0 Looking down the road, this could even allow for machine autonomy within the manufacturing sector. Ned Hill, an economist at The Ohio State University, told Network World that Industry 4.0 goes well beyond connectivity.

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RFgen

MARCH 28, 2016

Health is a primary concern for consumers who purchase meal supplements and other nutritional products. Many of these items advertise their all-natural ingredients and simple manufacturing processes to attract the eye of people wanting to live a healthy lifestyle. Consumers want to trust the labeling on supplements. Supplement Recalls.

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RFgen

MARCH 28, 2016

Health is a primary concern for consumers who purchase meal supplements and other nutritional products. Many of these items advertise their all-natural ingredients and simple manufacturing processes to attract the eye of people wanting to live a healthy lifestyle. Consumers want to trust the labeling on supplements. Supplement Recalls.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 21, 2022

In our prior commentaries related to supply network strategic sourcing, we, along with many others, have noted that the ongoing global-wide shortage of semiconductor devices needed for automotive, high-tech electronics and other industries have been elevated to strategic geo-political policy dimensions. Supply Chain Matters Perspectives.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2024

Jeff Erwin, VP of manufacturing at G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers , has been helping to accelerate the digital transformation while aligning with the company’s goals and mission to improve its operational efficiency and meet customer requirements and regulatory compliance challenges by tracking and measuring performance.

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BlueYonder

JULY 1, 2022

The majority of fireworks are manufactured in China, and between the COVID-19 shutdowns and sky-high shipping costs, most importing American cities either can’t get the fireworks supply or can’t afford it. Many cities across the U.S., To add insult to injury, there’s a meat shortage, which may affect your holiday grilling plans.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 29, 2022

billion facility is expected to be located in the state of Ohio where Honda operates an auto final assembly complex in Marysville, Ohio , but that the companies have not as yet disclosed a specific location. battery production facility. The Journal report indicates that the $4.4

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6 River Systems

APRIL 23, 2019

Rupy Sawhney is the Heath Fellow in Business and Engineering at the University of Tennessee, combining both fields through his knowledge of lean manufacturing, the optimization of production without a drop off in quality or worker health. Rupy Sawhney. mccarterenglish. Charlie Wilgus. Lucas_Group. Amber Fullerton. AmberFullerton3. Rob Miller.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 6, 2015

While US manufacturing has been hit hard by nearly two decades of policy failures that have damaged its international competitiveness, it remains a vital part of the U.S. The US manufacturing sector employed 12 million workers in 2013, or about 8.8 On average, non-college-educated workers in manufacturing made 10.9 employment.

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Bristlecone

JULY 25, 2019

Here’s a scenario: You, the Chief Supply Chain Officer, just received a call from your flagship store in Ohio saying they are running short of inventory. If your company had supply chain visibility, you would be able to track and trace your shipment from the source of production to each of its destinations. Sound like a utopian dream?

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some states are limiting corporate access to renewable energy, making it difficult for manufacturers to meet energy goals. Yet many of these manufacturers now face a challenge in accessing the clean energy they want and need, due to state policies that limit corporate renewable energy procurement.

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Adexa

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As described earlier, these are assumptions made about operational parameters such as manufacturing cycle times, supplier lead-times, transportation times in summer vs. winter, or even setup times and yield factors. Internal uncertainty has to do with how the digital twin, or the digital model, of the supply chain behaves.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

We indicated that the implications of unprecedented, elevated levels of inflation levels will vary by specific industry, but taken as a whole, they present a number of complex product management, procurement and supply chain planning challenges that will need to be tackled. The report observes that in December 2021, U.S.

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Modern TMS solutions are designed to help shippers make such trade-offs, with analytics platforms that take data from multiple sources and present the shipper with a single access point for calculating total landed cost. East Coast to Columbus, Ohio—as opposed to the traditional option of using West Coast facilities—are negligible.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Implement supply chain actions, including with internal procurement teams, with suppliers and through broader collaboration, and develop measurable targets for these efforts. “Users can easily now look at your global or regional supply situation and quickly source alternates when required, but the key here is to practice your response.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In addition to cutting the need for outsourced manufacturing, this move could give the company a leg up on the competition by making it possible to get products in the hands of consumers faster. Additionally, the company’s manufacturing expertise will enable the reduction of production costs. manufacturing facility in 2014.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

We were proud to host a group of 20 contract officers from a number of different US Air Force bases across the country, including Wright-Patterson (Ohio), Hill (Utah), Pope (NC), Charleston (SC), and several others.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 27, 2019

Unlike a lot of the old school Procurement managers who tried to rule with an iron fist Ron approached his job, and people, in a much different way. It’s given me the opportunity to learn one heck of a lot, travel around the globe and experience things you never thought a guy from Girard, Ohio ever would. All Rights Reserved.

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