Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

Across our many blog posts, videos, webinars, eBooks, and other shared content, you’ll find a wealth of information about various aspects of outsourcing in the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. In our monthly webinar last Wednesday, I presented these results.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 29, 2019

For example, Generation Z uses the internet and blog articles to educate themselves, while Generation Alpha can beat your high score on My Manufacturing Company before they even know how to read. Newer generations are accustomed to learning from videos rather than books. Also, I attend webinars to gain new skills and knowledge.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

They had seen my videos on the website and needed a speaker for their global kick-off meeting. The team was organized around the functional silos of source, make and deliver. Proudly, I had led my division to have the lowest manufacturing costs with the highest Return on Assets. It was a large multinational company. I was wrong.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is the second part of Chuck Intrieri's series on how procurement and suppliers can avoid issues with their contracts. Procurement and suppliers often assume that small print is highly complicated legal jargon that is both boring and largely irrelevant. How to Begin Your Terms. Intellectual Property Rights.

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Manufacturing sites have been rationalized in terms of, “we don’t need five factories in this country, we only need three, then two, then we don’t need them at all, we’ll move them to China”. Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

At heart, the circular economy and circular supply chain refer to a transition from raw material to manufacturing center to distribution center to consumer to trash process. For some manufacturers and supply chain entities, the push towards a circular supply chain comes from the federal government. What is the Circular Supply Chain?

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 28, 2016

Picture of traditional job in manufacturing. Each setting is an accurate image of manufacturing from different time periods in history, the past and the present. Manufacturing has changed a great deal over the last 100 years, and manufacturing today is dramatically different than what was “normal” in 1990.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It’s never been easier to customize the shopping experience — from product personalization to a myriad of purchasing and delivery options — to meet your specific needs. Manufacturers are also taking notice; Bear Naked Granola and NIKEiD are just two examples of manufacturers going direct to consumers via e-commerce.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

We kick off today a month-long focus on trends in the following categories: Manufacturing, Manufacturing Technology, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Transportation Management. We have already covered the top 6 trends for 2016 in manufacturing. 2016 Supply Chain Trend #6: Procurement’s New (read Bigger) Role in the Supply Chain.

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Vinculum

APRIL 22, 2020

Here are the patterns we’re witnessing in the E-Commerce Industry during COVID-19: Panic purchasing, stocking of essentials is on the rise. This can be in 2 basics yet, exciting ways: Change your product of sales/ manufacturing. However, now is a great time to build on other sources of income like: Hosting digital events.

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Arena Solutions

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The next phase could be to include suppliers—your manufacturing experts—for design for manufacturing (DFM) input early in the new product introduction (NPI). For example, how do your supply chain partners participate in design for manufacturing or design for supply chain initiatives? You aren’t using all you purchased (e.g.,

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 30, 2019

We launched a video series called Making a Difference to tell stories about people who are improving the world with Dassault Systèmes solutions. Through the acquisition of IQMS , we extended the 3D EXPERIENCE platform to small and midsized manufacturing companies seeking to digitally transform their business operations. Out and About.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 2, 2015

We have written several posts on this technology and how it will change manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and transportation. For quick reference here are those posts: [VIDEO] The 10 Most Important Things You Need To Know About The Internet Of Things. Powered by the Internet of Things & Digital Manufacturing.

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Procurement Academy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It can be hard to guarantee – and measure – a team’s involvement when they are watching a slideshow delivered over a video conference! In addition to this provision, all employees who have access to this training program were invited to attend onboarding webinars to get them started on their training journey.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2016

2) Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management at Western Washington University. The website provides all needed studying material, short teaching videos, assignments, quizzes, etc. Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Design. This program is 48 months long and its cost is around $7,000. 3) OnCampus Texas. Logistics Systems .

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 1, 2016

One of the most surprising parts of the episode showed a warehouse worker using a voice-automated picking system (see video below), and the worker would then scan the product with a scanner on the tip of his finger. Use of Wearable Technology in the Supply Chain and Manufacturing. How Do Wearables Improve the Supply Chain?

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 21, 2016

Therefore, more shipping providers will turn to Bluetooth technologies to ensure a source of data is available that can integrate seamlessly within a company's existing applications. The cost of manufacturing Bluetooth devices and beacons have decreased dramatically. This process is further shown in the video below.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 6, 2015

The world has changed from the oil days of machine assisted assembly lines and manufacturing processes as more robots have entered the workforce. Robotics is not just a way to help companies, but many manufacturers have recognized how robots can improve their supply chain processes, benefit the company, and drive their future success.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Today is National Manufacturing Day ! This infographic was sent to us by our friends over at Manufacturing Stories, who is always adding great maker movement infographics to their Pinterest board here. . We hope you have a great manufacturing day! Learning in the Making.

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ShipBob

MAY 21, 2020

Employees who can work from home are most likely spending their work days on video conference calls. The video game industry is also seeing record numbers, especially with students and teenagers being stuck at home. That’s when we went out of our way to update messaging on our site about being open, which increased conversions.”.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

McLean purchases a steamship and a railroad terminal company. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. More types of goods are traded economically, and much manufacturing is transferring to developing economies. Containers are now also re-purposed for disaster relief, and even backdrops for K-pop videos.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

Automotive manufacturers are remobilizing to produce ventilators. Our constraint is not our ability to help global manufacturing at scale, but to help global manufacturing in time. The Defense Production Act has been invoked to meet PPE demand in the United States.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As the Pfizer vaccine is rolling out across the country this week, Major Dan Finkenstadt and I delivered a webinar, in which we identified a list of possible concerns and “hiccups” that may lie in store for distribution of the COVID vaccine. You can view the recording of the webinar and our key takeaways below.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As I worked for and was involved with various enterprises over my career, some manufacturing, some service related, retail, etc. I saw how core S&OP concepts could be applied in various types of businesses, outside of the traditional legacy industries where S&OP was initially applied (manufacturing businesses).

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Arena Solutions

JUNE 5, 2023

Quality and Regulatory Alignment for Audit Readiness Full transcript below: Wendy Levine Welcome to today’s webinar, exploring “Quality and Regulatory Alignment for Audit Readiness.” If you’d like to take a minute to let us know where you’re joining us from, you can use the chat feature that’s in your webinar toolbar there.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Manufacturing Operations Management Community. Manufacturing Process Intelligence – Skills Management can do more! New Source, Transform and Sink for Virtual Commissioning. A new source & sink functionality is now available in the Robot Virtual Commissioning apps. Watch the video in the Community.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Global supply chains are fundamentally rearranging and there’s a lot of reflection on how the urge to optimize efficiency (whether it was offshoring manufacturing to keep labor costs down, or making supply chains very lean to cut inventory costs) made supply chains more fragile.

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Slimstock

MARCH 26, 2019

Andrew Thomas, founder of Skybell Video Doorbell, reports that it takes roughly 40 positive customer experiences to undo the damage of a single negative review. Though it’s often overlooked as an element of customer satisfaction, procurement is an essential component for delivering that satisfaction. 4 Ways to Improve Procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In manufacturing-based companies, 70-80% of costs are in the processes of source, make and deliver. While the practices of finance are over 200 years old, in contrast, supply chain as a cross-functional practice (the combination of make, source and deliver) was recently defined in 1982. Is talent a cost or an asset? Talent Gaps.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Expertise: Sourcing, Supply Chain Analysis, Logistics & Transportation, Logistics Management Consulting, Freight (Maritime, Land, or Air), Logistics Technology Solutions. He can lead your company through the complex procuretech industry because of his specialization on procurement technology.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Today we bring you a great infographic and video about 3D Printing. View both the video and inforgraphic below. Our goal is to stay abreast and keep readers abreast of all the latest trends which affect the manufacturing industry. . What is Additive Manufacturing? from our friends over at Shapeways.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s why it seemed a good idea to highlight some very practical and in most cases, inexpensive ways your company can keep employees hungry to learn, and to satisfy their appetite with readily accessible sources of supply chain education and knowledge. Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management, by F.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Another important choice you’ll have to make when you’re deciding on what hardware to purchase is: Should you use a cloud-based or an installed inventory system? Alternatively, if you purchase your own server this could cost anywhere from US$1200 to more than $10k – again, depending on your needs.

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Arena Solutions

MARCH 8, 2024

So, creating Yook and the vision that we have with it is to empower manufacturers to effortlessly track and reduce their product carbon footprint just came naturally from that understanding that we need a different way to enable this for organizations and to really leverage data to drive decarbonization. On to next. So we have that.

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ShipBob

APRIL 17, 2020

As long as the COVID-19 pandemic is in effect, ShipBob is hosting a weekly “Moving Your Business Forward” webinar series. Being able to connect with them has helped keep our customers purchasing.” subscription discounts, bundles, or large supplies at a discount) for people who are engaging in ecommerce COVID-19 shopping to purchase.

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Unleashed

MARCH 22, 2022

Here we get inside the NoLo industry boom – from what’s behind it, to how brewers and beverage manufacturers are taking advantage of it, to what the future looks like. beer & wine) that traditionally include alcohol, but are manufactured so that alcohol is either eliminated or reduced significantly. Play Video. CAGR (IWSR).

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