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ANCA Streamlines Procurement with the QAD Supplier Portal

QAD

ANCA builds CNC tool grinding machines. It’s a niche industry, but also one of the cornerstones of discrete parts manufacturing. These machines produce the cutting tools other machine tools use to cut metal. They’re complex machines assembled from thousands of parts, many purchased from highly specialized manufacturers.

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Will Trucking Challenges Transform JITS in North America?

QAD

JITS has been established as an optimal material ‘pull’ system that has significantly enhanced the automotive OEM’s ability to optimize their production capabilities and utilize the same production lines for multiple products with no change-over. Trucking Challenges in North America. But why just in North America?

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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC defines the warehouse automation market according to a number of qualifications and dimensions to deliver a well-defined measure, with numerous segmentations, allowing those that purchase the research to understand what is being measured, and to easily extrapolate the findings to support their strategic planning needs.

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Logistyx Technologies Talks Parcel Shipping, Holidays, and Returns

Logistics Viewpoints

In a very short period of time, the Logistyx customer base went from “hold everything” to “we need to move quickly, and we need access to better carriers, faster systems, and better e-commerce technology.” The key is to make sure all the costs are transparent up front during the purchasing process. The Holiday Season. Industry Trends.

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Happy Groundhog Day

Supply Chain Shaman

When the groundhog sees his shadow, the belief is that North America will experience an additional six weeks of winter. Defining a solution to close the gaps are not so easy. As a result, there is no system of record to synchronize changes, and the data takes one-to-three days to move from node to node. Business Models.

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US Food Manufacturing Success: Outsourcing MRO Supply Chain

Synovos

They were a new company that had taken over an existing manufacturing plant and lacked the infrastructure needed to keep the facilities in good working order, whether that was buyers to order parts or an accounts team to manage the purchasing process. It’s a juggling act between the finance and manufacturing side of the business.”

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Goods move through 25 ports of entry into North America and 10 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. VF had committed itself to largely selling goods to consumers in the same region they are manufactured in. VF sources many US bound items in Central America; the woeful performance at US ports is still a problem.