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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

Logistics Viewpoints

The order management system wasn’t effectively connected to the warehouse management system showing tables available or the transportation management system showing the carrier had returned my first table. Customer service couldn’t call the DC, only email them, and her emails weren’t getting responses.

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Wake-Call for Added Resiliency Within Healthcare Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

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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What is Inbound Logistics and How Can a 3PL Help?

Kanban Logistics

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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What value-added warehousing services can a 3PL provide?

Kanban Logistics

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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More Challenges for the Transportation Network: Day 2 of the SCRC Meeting

Supply Chain View from the Field

Speakers are the SCRC meeting yesterday and today continued to speak more on the topic of transportation strategy given increasing challenges in the transportation sector, and the need for an effective transportation management strategy. This is impacting how you think about managing the network, and in procurement.

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Logistics in the Manufacturing Industry: New report highlights 3PL benefits

Kanban Logistics

The six largest sectors – Computer & Electronic Products; Fabricated Metal Products; Chemical Products ; Food, Beverage & Tobacco Products; Transportation Equipment; and Petroleum & Coal Products – had moderate-to-strong growth. Third-party procurement. Positive takeaways for August include the following.

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Natural Gas is Cheaper and More Sustainable for Transportation….Just Ask Truckers!

Supply Chain View from the Field

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.