The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Focused on logistics, manufacturing, and distribution channel strategies, Jonathon helps organizations make confident decisions for bold growth. Sarah is a 40 Under 40 recipient, a certified Innovative Leadership Coach, and an active board member in the Ohio community.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 10, 2016

In this post, Adam discusses the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation or NNMI and how it relates to the Made in China 2025 initiative. . model, aggressively integrating Internet of Things technology into manufacturing and targeting specific advanced industries in which they hope to succeed. The Rise of Chinese Manufacturing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

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. Dean Sorenson concurs. Mr. Sorenson has studied integrated business planning for many years. The company has 11 production facilities across North America and China.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 5, 2022

Industry 4.0 – Smart Manufacturing of the Future! The manufacturing industry has been changing rapidly, aided by the newest software systems and machinery. Manufacturers have been forced to look hard at their production methods, labor costs, and transportation expenses, among numerous other areas throughout the organization.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

The logistics landscape is evolving rapidly as more manufacturers relocate production closer to domestic markets. China trade tensions driving businesses to reconsider offshore manufacturing. States like Texas, Georgia, and the Carolinas are attracting EV battery and semiconductor manufacturers. Midwest U.S. Midwest U.S.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

2018 new customers include industry leaders such as Ericsson, Strabag, the State of Ohio , Saab, Dole, Baylor Scott & White Health, Bpifrance, America Movil , Danieli, Michigan State University , Orange and over 40 other of the most admired brands. 2019 revenue is expected to continue to grow rapidly and exceed $100M.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Retailers, manufacturers, and distributors all have warehouses. And Sleep Number is offering sign-on bonuses of as much as $1,000 at distribution centers in Ohio and California, plus free mattresses for all new hires.”. That is because it is not just the contract logistics sector that hires labor for their warehouses. last year.

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IQMS

MAY 27, 2020

Mar-Bal operates four manufacturing facilities in North America and a sales office in Shanghai, China. They manufacture thermoset composite products essential to the appliance, electrical distribution, and industrial marketplaces. Mar-Bal continues production under the guidelines set forth by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2022

Redwood City, 17 August, 2022 – Ivalua, a global leader in spend management , today announced that O-I Glass Inc, an American Fortune 500 company headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio, has selected its solution to streamline its Global Direct and Indirect Source-to-Pay (S2P) Processes. in 2021 and 24,000 employees. in 2021 and 24,000 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. and Dortha J.

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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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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Supply chain disruptions during the pandemic highlighted global dependence on Chinese manufacturing — and those dependencies raised serious concerns among China’s trading partners. Near-shoring and Re-shoring Of course, one way to lower risks from trade with China is to move manufacturing elsewhere.

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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. Pivot Toward Internal Manufacturing Presence.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

based middle market manufacturing industry regarding what this segment has accomplished in 2022, and the challenges viewed for 2023. Middle Market Manufacturers Survey Results first appeared on The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group / Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Matters highlights results of a study conducted among U.S.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market. Intel is investing over $20 billion to build two new chip factories in Ohio. Unfilled jobs and a manufacturing skills gap are expected to cost the United States as much as $1 trillion by 2030.

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QAD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Transportation, scheduling and on-time delivery are important for any manufacturer and inventory manager to keep manufacturing and supply chain businesses running smoothly. Unforeseen disruption can cause unexpected delays, but there are many operations in the manufacturing industry that can be streamlined through automation.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

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). He holds degrees in transportation & logistics and marketing from The Ohio State University.

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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.

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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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Locus Robotics

DECEMBER 20, 2022

By Eric Whitley, Director of Smart Manufacturing, L2L. Although robots were originally developed to do difficult tasks that can pose risks and hazards to humans in the manufacturing industry, Industry 4.0 As a result, robotic technology is an ongoing trend in the manufacturing and supply chain industries. million by 2028.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Let’s look at the agreement with GM, whose Ultium Cells plant in Warren, Ohio, is already UAW. It is important to note that this joint venture cell plant provided in late August a significant wage hike for workers at the Warren, Ohio plant by an average of 25% after paying workers as little as $16 an hour.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2022

”[3] He continues, “The past two years have been blighted by supply shortages — with just-in-time retailers struggling to ship their goods, electronics manufacturers staring down a shortage of computer chips, and supermarkets struggling to fill their shelves. Excess inventory was also caused by the Bullwhip Effect.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 16, 2015

The example below is from a large energy management equipment manufacturer study where almost all of their demand was not normal/smooth (less than 0.2 One large manufacturer of latches, screws, and hinges needed to set inventory targets at a monthly planning level. This process was inefficient and not scalable. He received his M.S

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QAD

MAY 25, 2021

The new cell-to-pack design also makes it easier to streamline and scale the production of the new batteries—further dropping investment and manufacturing costs. billion factory in Ohio. Tesla’s new “4680” battery pack has dropped battery costs as low as $57 (USD) per kW/h—$40 less than the needed $100 per kW/h to reach cost parity.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

. “It’s a dreaded word that no food manufacturer wants to hear,” writes the staff at Road Scholar Transport, “RECALL.”[3] According to a study conducted by Ohio State University’s Robert Scharff, food recalls cost an estimated $55.5

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Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 18, 2021

Results thus Far are Mixed

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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.

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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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Enterra Insights

JUNE 28, 2022

.” The staff at CAF Worldwide agrees that logistics is subset of supply chain management; however, they describe the differences this way: “ Think of a supply chain as a network — of manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, etc. rather than a series of specific functions. But that was not the only support.

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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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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. This week, as reported in The Seattle Times, Amazon is negotiating to lease 20 Boeing 767 jets for its own air-delivery service.

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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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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 23, 2022

plans to spend $20 billion on a chipmaking hub on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, which the company expects to grow to be the world’s biggest semiconductor-manufacturing site. Intel Corp.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 24, 2015

In the warehouse automation realm, Swisslog announced that it has acquired FORTE Industries, a warehouse automation system integrator based in Mason, Ohio. Finally, JDA developed a Supply Chain For Dummies® e-book that “provides basic supply chain definitions and offers an overview of the manufacturing, distribution and retailing functions.

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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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AB&R

JANUARY 10, 2019

In addition, several agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require unique device identifiers (UDI) usually in the form of barcodes to contain information such as manufactured date and lot number to provide traceability. Massachusetts. Mississippi. New Hampsire. New Jersey. New Mexico. North Carolina. North Dakota.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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? The top countries that are investing in manufacturing sites in the U.S. That’s good news.

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