Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 27, 2020

The move from China, even if to other more reliable-in-a-crisis countries like India, Mexico or Singapore, will come at considerable cost. Loss of manufacturing know-how is a loss of leverage. China is more than a point of manufacture; they are also a large global consumer. Manufacturing. Not so fast….

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 27, 2013

Last week I had the opportunity to travel first to New York and then Monterrey, Mexico, and speak with a number of people to explore perspectives on the current economic situation we find ourselves in.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this Part 2 blog post, we will continue to explore how automotive manufacturers are carrying out effective supply chain initiatives and their innovative solutions. In the Part 1 blog post last week, we addressed key imperatives and attained benefits. Terence: What about in the medium-term?

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Supply Chain Opz

APRIL 16, 2015

The primary focus was to make a manufacturing system became more flexible and could adapt to changes. published the article entitled " Leagility: Integrating the lean and agile manufacturing paradigms in the total supply chain " to describe how agility and lean concept are related. Leagility In 1999, Naylor et al.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

During the quarter, SaaS subscription and/or software license agreements were signed with customers located in the following 10 countries: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Empresa Siderurgica del Peru SAA, Intertape Polymer Corp., Mustad Netherlands B.V.,

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

billion metric tons—the emissions have rebounded in 2021 and 2022. Hurricane Ida struck the Gulf of Mexico in August 2021, destroying industrial installations for pharmaceuticals and plastics. In the case of manufacturers, it means procuring green and sustainable raw materials. Safety management ensures a sustainable workforce.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The Texas freeze and the power outages brought the world’s largest petrochemical complex to a standstill, forcing more plants in the Gulf of Mexico region to shut down than during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Gulf Coast export PVC prices were assessed at $1,900 a metric tonne for the week of Sept. However, worse was to come.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I will be speaking and working with clients in wonderful locations in Brussels, China, Germany, London, Mexico, Peru, and South Africa. Is my opportunity in the area of digital manufacturing? “ (The use of Internet of Things and 3D Printing to transform manufacturing.) For the next 18 weeks I will be in the air.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

It’s the reason why On Time In Full (OTIF) is a critical supply chain metric today. billion in gross revenues from more than 1,000 customers), employees (2,000+), scope of services, industries served, and locations (25 offices across the United States, Canada, and Mexico).

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. I am a manufacturing gal by training. Include the supplier’s warehouse and manufacturing locations. This work is important to me. What drives my passion?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. Top Manufacturing Blog Posts for 2014. Finally, the top 10 list was rounded out safety and metrics. Read Full Post. Read Full Post.

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Requis

MARCH 23, 2021

I spent a long time with Bechtel doing large projects all around the world including Mexico, Thailand, Egypt, and India. I joined BP a year before the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. During that whole life cycle, 40% of the carbon is the material extraction and manufacturing phases.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

I started my career in Automotive parts manufacturing as a shift supervisor and can remember when my boss asked me to come off shift and become a master production scheduler. One of the proudest achievements I recall is related to fixing a warehouse operation in Mexico. Have balanced, relevant and valid metrics.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As the new year unfolds, manufacturers are continuing to learn lessons from 2020’s pandemic and looking for 2021 manufacturing trends. If 2020 taught manufacturers anything, it’s to find nimble answers to make course corrections during an emergency, a nearly impossible feat. Predicting 2021 Manufacturing Trends.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

For example, a vaccine manufacturer increased their order size by a factor of four in one weekend; a video call company wanted to receive ten times as much product as they initially forecast with just a month’s lead-time. Pure Storage’s manufacturing is done at three contract manufacturing sites, two in Texas and one in the Czech Republic.

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QAD

JUNE 22, 2023

No manufacturer ever wants to deliver a product that’s anything less than exceptional. That’s simply the nature of modern manufacturing. They also have large manufacturing bases with multiple facilities, each of which may be using different technologies and moving toward digital transformation at varying rates.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

My first Monday in, I asked for a full report of all our supply chain metrics, and my analyst told me he could get it to me by Friday. A post-global world is actually good for supply chains, as it drives proximity of resources closer to customers and suppliers, as organizations seek to manufacture locally.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 3, 2021

The survey results highlight the growing importance of sustainability, with 59% of logistics executives (and within that group 71% of those in consumer manufacturing industry) planning to offer flexible delivery windows for online orders to maximize sustainability. Canada, or Mexico. How do I deliver better customer experiences?

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DynaSys

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We adapted the metrics put in place by QAD in order to measure our activity, which helped us in understanding what we could do, how we could improve, and what were our limits. QAD acquired DynaSys in 2012. We demonstrate our continuous will to improve by frequently reviewing our organization and our methods.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

2009: H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico. However, the logic Cisco uses to manage the disruption is very robust and details are summarized into the infographic below, Note: metrics data is for illustrative purpose. Metrics look very simple and its kind of nice to have something like these. And according to the U.S. 2011: Thailand Floods.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. The traditional manufacturing job defined the middle class. Each time, I turn on the channel, manufacturing jobs frame the global debate.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

“I need you to go down to Mexico right away. Our manufacturing lines are going to stop. And they were dealing with Invoices and issues from every site around the world, not just the one in Mexico. We got on the phone with the Supply Chain team in Mexico to try to get our arms around the problem and develop an action plan.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They performed some light manufacturing activities to transform those materials into products that were ready for sale in retail, through a variety of channels. On the surface it sounded like a typical manufacturing, logistics, or distribution operation. The company had two dozen facilities around the world. They stored those goods.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Our supply chain involves a contract manufacturer, a third-party testing facility, warehouses to store inventory and a freighting company. For example, if my contract manufacturer is late with an order it can cause me to incur excess costs with the freighting and warehousing companies, respectively.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

We may want to review their manufacturing facilities and perform some sort of quick assessment (for example, explore their process capability and yield of the product and how they handle returned parts). Include elements of the processes, technologies, organizational needs, control philosophy and metrics to analyze along the way.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

One of the most noted promises put forth by the incoming President is the construction of an enormous wall across the entire southern border between the US and Mexico. These changes will impact calculations of such critical transportation and logistics metrics as lead times, delivery schedules, routes, mileage and a host of others.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Mexico and Canada are heading into 2018 with no clear plan for saving the North American Free Trade Agreement,” states a Bloomberg article published on December 15. More stringent customer delivery requirements is another factor that’s driving demand for real-time visibility, with On-Time In-Full (OTIF) becoming a more critical metric.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Ardent Partners Procurement Metrics That Matter, Feb 2021. We had a shift away from NAFTA, and new agreements with Mexico and Canada were signed into law about a year ago.” and other countries who believe that for basic security, certain goods should be manufactured domestically,” Bartolini said. “So, There are many in the U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2018

If upstream partners fail, as in the case of Thai computer disk drive manufacturers (factories hit by flooding) or Japanese semi-conductor producers (the 2011 tsunami), supply chains running too lean may have no fallback solutions. While the lean concept was born from the world of manufacturing, agility came largely from software development.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Production/manufacturing. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. There is really nothing wrong with capturing a lot of metrics, especially with today’s powerful analytics software solutions to help.

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