Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 11, 2025

Wing , Amazon Prime Air , and Walmart are conducting drone trials for small-package deliveries. The economics of drone delivery suggest potential cost per package as low as one or two dollars once multi-drone operation scales are achieved. These drones reduce delivery time by bypassing road congestion and reaching remote areas.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

A manufacturing company, for example, can monitor real-time data from its suppliers, production lines, and distribution centers. In manufacturing, companies can track and report on carbon emissions, water usage, and waste generation, reducing their environmental footprint and improving sustainability performance.

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Kinaxis

MAY 29, 2025

Let’s take a closer look at how four key industries—automotive, consumer packaged goods (CPG), high tech, and industrial manufacturing—are navigating the tariff rollercoaster and adjusting to the shifting landscape. Learn how industrial manufacturers are navigating tariff disruptions. Ready to turn tariffs into opportunity?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

The resulting increase in demand may place pressure on agricultural producers and extract manufacturers to scale operations. Reformulation and Product Development The transition will require most affected manufacturers to reformulate products that rely on the targeted dyes. Reformulation is not a one-to-one ingredient swap.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 9, 2025

5 Advantages of Folding Boxes for Product Packaging! Packaging of industrial products is a part of today’s society. Just as readily as households and businesses have packaging material to keep food fresh, so do companies create certain packaging for items sold.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This ambitious initiative is set to transform various aspects of the supply chain, from manufacturing and job creation to research and development, infrastructure upgrades, and sustainability efforts. As part of this package of U.S. is a strategic move to enhance domestic production. is a strategic move to enhance domestic production.

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Logility

JUNE 9, 2023

However, when Angie Taylor, CSCP, Vice President of Sales Operations at PPC Flexible Packaging LLC (PPC), shared the stage, she reached the heart of every supply chain challenge. More importantly, everything PPC does has to be top-notch to deliver that value to customers while keeping food in that packaging safe. “At

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 16, 2021

In our pandemic research, we interviewed thirty manufacturers. To gain insights, we interviewed Alexandros Skandalakis, Director of Manufacturing Capacity, reporting to operations/manufacturing globally within Philip Morris. We wanted to find a better way to design our network and optimize future manufacturing outcomes.

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Locus Robotics

MAY 19, 2025

Automation in the warehouse provides a way to meet these demands and packaging automation stands out as a critical piece of the puzzle, driving efficiency, value, and sustainability across the supply chain. Both consumers and supply chain partners are increasingly looking for solutions that can improve sustainability and speed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Perhaps not surprisingly, the industries that reported they would see the biggest improvement in fulfillment rates if able to ingest real-time data and provide actionable insights to business users were automotive and aeronautics (55%), FMCG (44%), and manufacturing/CPG (43%).

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 8, 2025

In manufacturing, performance improvement, cost reduction and process optimization are crucial. Manufacturers have adopted innovative solutions and technologies to deal with these issues. There is no question that AI and ML will have important roles in shaping the future of manufacturing ERP. What is AI and ML?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 25, 2024

MODEX is the largest manufacturing and supply chain expo in North and South America, and shattered attendance records with over 48,000 participants this year. These solutions are flexible and versatile, and can be utilized for a variety of manufacturing and warehousing tasks.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Some manufacturers saw a complete devastation of their keg businesses. Beer manufacturers that mainly relied on on-premise consumption are beginning to rethink their business models. Instead of large-sized packs of beer, consumers demand smaller packages that are easier to carry. billion liters less than in 2019.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2022

It turns out they’re rethinking every part of their operations, from a single package to their distribution process. We found three key strategies that could serve as a blueprint for other supply chains: Rethink Packaging. Packaging has an incredibly big impact on supply chain sustainability. Rethink Partnerships.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2023

Note that in Figure 1, retail home improvements days of inventory increased 68 days, contract manufacturing days increased 48 days, retail apparel by 28 days, and containers and packaging manufacturing companies by 14 days. Despite investments in planning, today, industries hold 28 more days of inventory than in 2004.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

I must admit, new ideas on how to package anything more efficiently (and better yet, sustainably) is like catnip to me, a self-proclaimed tree-hugging logistics nerd. In a fully functioning circular economy, all packaging wastes should be recycled or re-used. The Singapore National Environment Agency calculated that in 2020, 1.14

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IQMS

MAY 15, 2024

Navigating the intricate web of modern manufacturing can feel like participating in an elaborate puzzle—complex, with lots of moving parts and a grand strategy that need to fit into a complete picture of the business. For midsize manufacturers, finding growth in a competitive landscape is a delicate balance between strategy and execution.

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Kinaxis

MAY 16, 2025

What food and beverage companies need to know about tariffs: Lessons from Canada sharkins Fri, 05/16/2025 - 09:53 Tariffs have been a constant threat since the beginning of 2025, but one sector has felt the impact more immediately than most: consumer packaged goods. Enter a Canadian supermarket today, and you will witness the transformation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Frank, the line manager for manufacturing, dominated the meetings. We had a choice to either install newer high-capacity machines for the Jell-O lines (CM Bartelts) running at over 1500 packages/minute or slower, more flexible equipment (IM Bartelts) at a rate of 650 pouches/minute. I remember one project quite well.

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QAD

MARCH 25, 2025

Recently, it has been popular to focus on major disruptive events that challenge manufacturing enterprises. Disruption is not new to manufacturing corporations that have and possibly may always deal with supply chain problems, productivity constraints, shifts in demand, evolving business models and a host of other dynamic issues.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Medical Device manufacturers face an increasingly dynamic and intricate landscape. Innovative personalized manufacturing approaches have emerged, yet many organizations struggle to fully realize their potential in this rapidly evolving race.

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QAD

JANUARY 23, 2025

This is the year that AI stops being just a buzzword and begins to evolve into an operational imperative for manufacturers, retail and supply chain companies. For manufacturers, early deployment can also open the door to monetizing the data they generate, especially when it comes to B2B sales. The global DaaS market was valued at $14.36

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 1, 2024

And that complexity complicates almost every business activity conducted by consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. The post Digital Twins in the Consumer Packaged Goods Sector first appeared on Enterra Solutions. The world is becoming ever more complex. 31 May 2024. [2] ” Supply Chain Dive, 25 January 2023. [5]

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Exiger Perspectives

MAY 20, 2025

Over 504 generic drugs, including 10 essential medicines, have only a single identified API manufacturing country, heightening the risk of supply shocks. More than 30% of all new FDA import alerts have been for sites in China, and 16% for sites in India, highlighting recurring manufacturing issues. Drug Supply Chains The U.S.

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Exiger Perspectives

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Exiger is the only company capable of identifying the holistic supply chain impacts of critical minerals from technical data packages. In our work with a large DIB manufacturer, Exiger identified additional impacted parts by analyzing technical data packages and master production schedules.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For 58 years, food and beverage and consumer goods manufacturers have battled for dominance, from chips and wings to soda, beer, party supplies, and even aluminum foil for food storage and DIY trophies. Manufacturers that dont plan ahead will lose the game.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

A Manufacturer’s Guide to the Evolution of ERPs Lets start by declaring an interest. Most JAGGAER installations in the manufacturing industry specifically, and in product-centric businesses in general, involve integration with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system of one sort or another. So, we have skin in this game!

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Körber Innovation Center showcases a full-scale, end-to-end setup of Körber’s advanced parcel and postal sortation handling equipment, trusted by the nation’s largest multinational supply chain companies to efficiently sort and deliver commercial mail and packages to end customers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Ronan Stephens, the Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management and External Manufacturing, explained how the company set out on a journey to improve customer service while also reducing costs. Manufacturing would not have been able to respond to that kind of event for two months. “We

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Logility

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Why Network Optimization Is the Key to Consumer Packaged Goods Supply Chain Resiliency It has been a few years since the onset of the pandemic exposed the tragic consequences of supply chain fragility within the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2021

As we’ve written about a number of times before, global companies are looking at various initiatives when it comes to sustainability, including energy efficiency, product packaging, alternative fuels, optimized routes, and returns management. The Circular Economy. The Circular Supply Chain. When an item cannot be salvaged, 60.7

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 14, 2021

With the right solution and strategy, food manufacturers have the potential to create a major impact in reducing the scale of our global food waste crisis. The first step requires food manufacturers to embrace two concepts: supply chain transparency and the circular economy. The Right Approach to Food Waste Reduction.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 7, 2023

About Supply & Demand Chain Executive Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the only supply chain publication covering the entire global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2023

Amazon began delivering packages with the vehicles in July, and Rivian last month touted 10 million packages delivered via the vans. helps it facilitate the rapid transport of packages. Several grocery chains have tested new case-ready meat packaging from Tyson Foods that’s more eco-friendly and extends product shelf life.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 4, 2023

Optimizing a vast and complex supply chain is a growing challenge for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) firms. Today, a business footprint touches everything from growers and materials suppliers to manufacturers, distributors, logistics providers, and consumers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2022

P&G uses life cycle assessment for sustainable packaging design. Consumers are increasingly demanding greater transparency and sustainability from the companies they buy from, especially when it comes to the household products they use every day and how they’re packaged. Amazon’s electric delivery vehicles from Rivian rolls out.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 23, 2025

Specialized offerings include subscription box fulfillment, custom kitting and assembly, and eco-friendly packaging solutions for D2C brands. The company takes a technology-driven approach, featuring real-time inventory tracking integrated with over 150 ecommerce platforms.

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