Supply Chain Matters

JULY 28, 2023

Background On July 19, a devastating tornado with reported winds of upwards of 150 miles-per-hour devastated an area in eastern North Carolina. million square foot Pfizer life-saving drug production facility located in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Pfizer drug manufacturing facility.

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American Global Logistics

JULY 14, 2023

Understanding the Economic Impact of Supply Chains In a report titled "Understanding the Economic Impact of North Carolina's Supply Chain: Conduit for Prosperity and Economic Development," researchers Dana Magliola, Lindsay Schilleman, and John Elliott shed light on the economic impact of supply chains in North Carolina.

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Kanban Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2020

See, there’s a big difference between handling inbound logistics yourself and outsourcing it to a trusted North Carolina third-party logistics (3PL) provider that knows the manufacturing industry. This includes the procurement and delivery of the parts used to build the finished product. Third-party procurement.

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Third-party procurement. Your 3PL can procure boxes, nuts, bolts, and other consumable parts and materials, store and manage that inventory, and invoice you only for the parts you need, when you need them. For example, Kanban’s distribution campus in Rocky Mount, North Carolina is served by CSX rail.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

North Carolina State Poole College of Management recently produced this 28 page report entitled “ 2019 Supply Chain Data Quality and Governance Study ”. Because Procurement had started the earliest, they were at the eighth-grade level, while everyone else was at the third-grade level – and the goal was to get everyone to high school!

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 12, 2024

The center fuselage and other structural components for the wide body Airbus 350 are produced at Spirit’s facilities in Kinston , North Carolina and in Prestwick, Scotland. Reportedly, supply contracts involve the wing structures for the Airbus A220 aircraft family that are produced in a facility in Belfast, Ireland.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2023

is being established cooperatively by OCEMA , Georgia Ports Authority, Jacksonville Port Authority, North Carolina State Ports Authority, SACP, and CCM. with more than 75 locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina , and South Carolina. No financial details were disclosed regarding this acquisition.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In his current role, he is accountable for several strategic functions, including corporate engineering; capital and infrastructure strategy; corporate real estate; risk management; operations research and global procurement. Procurement, when embedded into the operating fabric of ESG can add tremendous value. He earned an M.S.

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Third-party procurement. If your buyers spend a good percentage of their time negotiating with, and procuring goods from makers of boxes, nuts, bolts, and other consumable parts and materials, that time can be better spent on your core business. Lean on Kanban for Logistics in the Manufacturing Industry.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 10, 2013

At the Coupa INSPIRE procurement conference in San Francisco this week, the Chief Procurement Officer of Coca Cola Consolidated, Patrick Hopkins, shared his views on the “4 Truths of Procurement”, and how he has operationalized his views through the deployment of Coupa procure to pay software. Data must be right.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Step 1: Use e Procurement Systems as a Potential Source of Revenue. Thinking of procurement as a new source of revenue is certainly counterintuitive, but it fits the bill of thinking differently. However, a smaller subset of these states have looked at e Procurement as a potential source of revenue.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 21, 2022

A procurement collusion strike force has been partnering with law enforcement across the US to identify areas where procurement fraud cases are occurring, and the integration of this effort with the study of supply chains has increased significantly in importance.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Both pointed out some critical points that are indeed challenges for the seafood supply chain in North Carolina, as well as some avenues to explore that may drive solutions. First, Gary pointed out that 91% of the seafood in North Carolina is imported! ” Most of the fishermen in NC are “dayboat people”.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 22, 2024

The center fuselage and other structural components for the wide body Airbus 350 are produced at Spirit’s facilities in North Carolina and in Prestwick, Scotland. Supply contracts involve the wing structures for the Airbus A220 aircraft family that are produced in a facility in Belfast, Ireland.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Both of these assessments are described in the ratings description , as follows: “Through a process developed by North Carolina State University professor Robert Handfield, a review is conducted of publicly available information, as well as interviews and surveys of corporate procurement specialists.”

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

For example, let’s say your product is manufactured and packaged in China and is shipped to you in North Carolina for distribution here. Third-party procurement. Third-party procurement services from a 3PL can help. Third-party procurement services from a 3PL can help. retailers).

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MARCH 3, 2014

So the Chief Procurement Officer approached Texas Instruments and HP Micro, producers of the best analog chips at the time, and brokered a deal in which TI and HP would collaborate to create a chip set for Nokia. In 2003, Nokia was in a lawsuit and could not use Qualcomm chips in their phones.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 24, 2015

Met Life – Procurement Market Intelligence – The team will study how our current market intelligence and analytics offerings align to the needs of our Procurement teams, and study how other providers or additional services through existing providers that could fill these gaps.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 22, 2017

With the sheer volume of data projected to increase tenfold by 2020, the procurement and supply chain function is no exception to challenge of assessing better ways to leverage this dramatic increase in both structured and un-structured data. The goal of the study was to determine how Procurement can truly benefit from advanced analytics.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 30, 2013

These big companies, including Procter & Gamble, United Parcel Service, FedEx, and North Carolina based Lowes are all recognizing that the cost of natural gas has dropped to record lows, and is likely to stay there for some time to come.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 8, 2013

In addition, much of the power in decision-making lies in the hands of clinical trials scientists, who often have power over procurement decisions. Prior to 2009, support for PO&T sourcing and procurement was provided by a corporate sourcing group under a centralized business model.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

He cited the example of Stokes County in North Carolina, which has only three small towns: King, Danbury, and Walnut Cove. Restaurants are not independently operated and those rely on a consumer base that is not doing well, and margins are slim and don’t believe local procurement can be passed on the consumer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Workers from picking and packing to planning and procurement are in short supply, stimulating interest in increasing productivity of the existing workforce. IBM’s Institute for Business Value found that 75% of CEOs believe generative AI will be key to competitive advantage.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2018

Following a project we did last fall, Lenovo’s Data Centre Group (DCG) at Morrisville, North Carolina is seeking to identify and explore its opportunities for process improvement and supply chain efficiency by leveraging Blockchain. Lenovo Blockchain Analysis Part 2.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Thinking of procurement as a new source of revenue is certainly counterintuitive, but it fits the bill of thinking differently. Thinking of procurement as a new source of revenue is certainly counterintuitive, but it fits the bill of thinking differently. Step 3: Drive Value with State Procurement Agreements.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Research by NC State Poole College Professor Robert Handfield, director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative based Poole College, and Yung-Yun Huang, a recent graduate of North Carolina State University’s interdisciplinary doctoral program in operations research, supplied two of the 37 data inputs used in the Wall Street Journal’s inaugural “Management (..)

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

Precor provided upwards of 625,000 square feet of manufacturing capability in Washington state and North Carolina. The move was communicated as a means to boost market share and to gain access to domestic sources of manufacturing capability.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Through a process developed by North Carolina State University professor Robert Handfield, a review is conducted of publicly available information, as well as interviews and surveys of corporate procurement specialists. Supply Chain Resource Cooperative: Social Responsibility Rating.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 9, 2015

For the average customer in North Carolina, he or she pays about $3 a day for electricity. ” Corporate Social Responsibility Emerging Issues in Supply Chain Energy Supply Chain Oil and Gas Procurement Supply Chain Economics Supply Chain Management Sustainability' But this also has to be delivered at a reasonable price.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

DW: We did the procurement for the supplies that we sold on the ship, and we took on supplies for other ships that were in deployment. I am from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I served as a ship serviceman, which is a SH2 Petty Officer Second Class, and worked as a records keeper in the supply department. Your career?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Procurement will play a key role in monitoring supply base conditions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2022

Experts from North Carolina State University and GEP conducted a survey on supply chain, procurement and IT leaders to determine their challenges and priorities, focusing on examining gaps in the supply chain.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

DW: We did the procurement for the supplies that we sold on the ship, and we took on supplies for other ships that were in deployment. I am from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I served as a ship serviceman, which is a SH2 Petty Officer Second Class, and worked as a records keeper in the supply department. Your career?

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. For example, there are around 200 startups for procurement analytics. Inspired by this experience, he started the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) at North Carolina (NC) State University.

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Kanban Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Additionally, if you’re leaning on your 3PL partner for parts procurement , your 3PL may be purchasing for multiple customers to achieve economies of scale that you wouldn’t otherwise have on your own. This is no small perk at a time when warehouse associates are harder to find and more expensive than ever. Optimize your supply chain.

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