Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Last Friday the labor union elected to target the Ford Motor assembly plant in Chicago that assembles the Ford Explorer SUV , and a General Motors final assembly plant in Lansing Michigan that assembles the Chevrolet Traverse SUV. Both facilities included an added 7,000 workers.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, as the founder and managing partner of USM Supply Chain Consultants she has put her expertise in supply chain, procurement, finance and project management to work to help her clients achieve greater profitability. In the end-to-end supply chain there’s procurement, logistics, operations, and warehousing.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 27, 2017

Recently I had the opportunity to go to Llamasoft headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan to play the game they have programmed for Supply Chain Insights around supply chain strategies and inside-out versus outside-in processes, SCI IMPACT! Screenshot of SCI IMPACT! Results Example. Like the beer game, SCI IMPACT!

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Elementum

MAY 17, 2018

Schools like MIT and Michigan State have adopted programs that help students make the tricky move from studying supply chain and logistics to building a career in them. We can imagine how things are made, and we can imagine buying them. When it comes to what happens in between, things fade to black. Make university programs more accessible.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

With 40 percent of GSK’s carbon footprint coming from the procurement of raw materials, the company recognised that tackling its own emissions wouldn’t be enough to reduce its carbon footprint – it would need to support suppliers to do the same.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 9, 2016

An excerpt from our book “The Procurement Value Proposition” got a nice section of CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly edition this week. As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative, led by Professor Robert Monczka.

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Elementum

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Schools like MIT and Michigan State have adopted programs that help students study supply chain and logistics with the promise of career, or a simpler way to go through the program. We can imagine how things are made, and we can imagine buying them. When it comes to what happens in between, things fade to black.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Over the last 12 months, Ivalua has delivered a significant number of rapid procurement transformations with the help of its expanding ecosystem of advisory and implementation partners. Empowering Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders Across the Globe. 2019 revenue is expected to continue to grow rapidly and exceed $100M.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2016

The shift from complicated, on-premise systems to hosted, SaaS-based solutions has made everything from procurement to implementation much simpler thanks to: Cost – No longer do you need to get buy-in from your bosses on the big capital outlays that come with on-premise solutions.

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Requis

JUNE 12, 2020

They will have profound implications for manufacturing, energy, aerospace, health care, and even urban planning. Much later, in 2002, Michael Grieves of the University of Michigan used the concept of “mirrored systems” for a product lifecycle management course , and coined the term “digital twin” in a 2011 book on the topic.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 26, 2022

manufacturing facility somewhere in Oklahoma as well. Many related announced investments point to what shaping-up as concerted strategy for both domestic market and nearshored supply network investments geared to support the region’s EV vehicle market and manufacturing needs for the coming decade.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. Flex is the biggest company you’ve never heard of— with over 120 factories worldwide, they are contract manufacturers to companies like Nike, GE, Intel, and Apple. For example, there are around 200 startups for procurement analytics.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In this second Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight the ongoing supply chain and manufacturing implications of the labor strike involving the three U.S. He has further been a former faculty member at the University of Michigan. unionized auto companies. Specifically for the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ford and China based Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATX) have plans to build a domestic sourced battery production facility in Michigan. billion facility will be located in Marshall, Michigan , about 100 miles west of Detroit. domestic manufacturing presence because of the need to both access the significant potential of the U.S.

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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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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 19, 2015

In this guest commentary, Dr. Tobias Schoenherr from Michigan State University will share some insights. Professor Schoenherr is the expert in procurement and decision making and he will provide some guiding principles that practitioners can use to create more sustainable competitive advantage.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 8, 2016

As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University in 1992, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative. Many of these principles also coincided with the introduction of “lean manufacturing”, based on the “just-in-time” thinking pioneered by the likes of Toyota.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2016

But with a global TMS on a SaaS platform, you can connect your procurement relationships with suppliers and the costs all the way through your network and your customers – and then tie that data back to a single platform to get real business intelligence with a global perspective.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2023

In a previously published Supply Chain Matters commentary in February, we highlighted Ford’s plans to operate and manage a battery production plant in Michigan , with technology collaboration from South Korea based battery producer CATL who will license its intellectual properties for battery technologies to Ford. powered EV’s.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

The next-gen supply chain model is a networked ecosystem – suppliers, partners, manufacturers, distributors and retailers will all have access to relevant cloud-based data to make the best decisions based on real-time signals.” China trade war has already put regionalization of manufacturing back on the table.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Supplier driven innovation was also a major theme at the Procurement Leaders meeting in Miami this spring. In a podcast discussion with Kathryn Kelly, who leads the Ohio State University Manufacturing Network, we talked about some of the big impacts that the LIVING Supply Chain will have on small business.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this third Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight the ongoing supply chain and manufacturing implications of the labor strike involving the three U.S. unionized auto companies. Background The UAW has elected a two-fold strategy. The existing labor disruption includes all three of the U.S. Specifically for the U.S.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2023

Before the clouds appeared, building software required finding “on-premise” servers or databases with capacity for a new application or service, or it required a lengthy process of procurement, design, installation, and administration. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1997. So what happened?

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Resilinc

APRIL 27, 2021

While the pandemic has given procurement managers fresh ammunition to advocate for greater resiliency within their corporate supply chains, geopolitical experts and a bipartisan coalition of legislators argue that the U.S. There are high risks in depending so heavily on East Asian manufacturers, even if they are close U.S.

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