GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As we close the year of 2015, we want to take a look at some manufacturing trends for 2016. We look at 6 core areas that manufacturing companies will take a long look at as they gear up for a successful 2016. E-Commerce for Manufacturing. Manufacturers will seek custom (or specifically tailored) e-commerce solutions.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). 49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market. Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. Consultancy UK).

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2023

The Announcement Commercial aircraft designer and manufacturer Airbus announced plans t o double the production of the company’s final assembly production capabilities within China. This facility has been operational since 2008. At the same time, it is likely that these orders stipulate that aircraft must be assembled within China.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 21, 2020

The short answer is that it is indeed possible to re-shore manufacturing but it will take a change in government policies as well as sizeable state incentives to private enterprise to turn the ship around. Can Australian Manufacturing be Brought Back Home from China? How Would Re-shored Manufacturing Impact Consumers?

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Logility

APRIL 30, 2020

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008–2010, CSR again became a focus for evaluating corporate behavior. With every participant in your global supply chain — retailers, brands, vendors, manufacturers, suppliers, contractors, agents, brokers, carriers and freight forwarders – on the same page, quality management is better executed.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 12, 2014

by John Westerveld Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. One very good source of supply chain training is APICs (American Production and Inventory Control Society). However, better supply chain planners might question that recommendation.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

We managed the supply chain for China’s largest manufacturer with close to US$500m in logistics spend. Sourcing, manufacturing and consumption models will continue to evolve and the supply chain industry is positioned as a strategic partner to support companies in rationalising future decisions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 17, 2013

In 2008, 762 people became dangerously ill in 48 states from contaminated peanut butter in the United States. The PCA factory that manufactured the peanut butter was certified as safe by the American Institute of Baking (AIB). Walmart has worked hard on ethical sourcing. The factory had recently passed an ethical sourcing audit.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The company, which also makes military jets, rockets, spacecraft and Air Force One, is a global symbol of America’s manufacturing strength.” The Times report observed that the last labor strike in 2008 lasted 50 days and if the current stoppage extends that long, it will cost Boeing at least $3 billion according to estimates.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

These rising prices can cut into the profits of manufacturers, distributors, and retailers who are reliant on this form of energy for powering their facilities. In terms of trade, these are not critical, single-sourced Tier 1 inputs needed in manufacturing. Natural gas has become increasingly important in generating electricity.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Meanwhile, ocean carriers were preparing for an economic slump similar to 2008 which negatively impacted the ocean shipping industry, so they were initially limiting activity to save costs. However, since buying goods manufactured primarily in Asia increased so significantly, demand quickly outpaced supply. Start shipping now.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said it was essential to prevent Tokyo, where the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant was spreading, from becoming the source of another wave of infections. This was part of the reason the company missed its 2008 goal to reduce aircraft emissions by 20 percent by the end of 2020. Rob Spilman Jr.,

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Wall Street Journal in its reporting indicated (Paid subscription), that the history of Boeing , after the prior contract negotiated in 2008, elected to source final assembly of the wide body 787 Dreamliner production to the non-union Charleston, South Carolina facility.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

Since our inception in 2008, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group has annually published a series of supply chain management focused predictions. Global manufacturing activity as depicted by the J. Morgan Manufacturing PMI® which began 2022 at an expansionary conditions value of 54.2, Background. a 30-month low.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

Resilience Project, its methods has been tested under many extreme circumstances such as, - 2008: Chengdu Earthquake in China. Cross-functional team, part standardization, back-up suppliers, dual-sourcing, supplier collaboration are the basic foundation that is tried and true. And according to the U.S. 2009: H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

Rubio and Chamorro 2008 explains about the current state of reverse logistics research in their paper " Characteristics of the research on reverse logistics (1995–2005) " that major research stream is, - Development of math algorithm in a production planning and design of optimal reverse logistics network. Literature Review.

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Unleashed

APRIL 20, 2020

The last global recession was in 2008, leading some economists to believe the next one is overdue. The health of manufacturers is a good indicator of the health of the economy. A PMI score above 50 means manufacturing is growing. Global manufacturing data shows the pandemic impact: US manufacturing PMI fell to 48.5

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In this second Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight the ongoing supply chain and manufacturing implications of the labor strike involving the three U.S. Today, China based EV automakers and suppliers have notable cost advantages in materials sourcing, production and labor costs. unionized auto companies. Thus, some U.S.

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Vinculum

AUGUST 30, 2022

Epicor deals in providing Manufacturing solutions. As per the report, manufacturing companies top the list for accessing ERP software. Epicor has expertise in 13 different industries involving Medical Devices, Construction, Aerospace and Defence, Furniture, Electronics, Machinery, Electronics, and other relatable sources.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. In our recent analysis of supply chains that are “working well” , we find higher performance when companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the supply chain organization. The period of 2007-2008 was the great recession.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 30, 2017

Not soon afterward, independent research companies like Vision Chain/Orchestro (now e2Open), R3, Retail Velocity and Retail Solutions, Inc (RSi) began acquiring direct POS data from hundreds of retailers and reselling the data to the consumer products manufacturers. These are aptly named Demand Signal Repositories or “DSR’s.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. While the rest of the world was deep in a recession in 2008, and manufacturers were struggling with payroll decisions and layoffs, Hadoop innovation was in full swing.

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RFgen

JUNE 16, 2016

Melotte previously served as the Chief Logistics Officer for Johnson & Johnson, and all involved hope that he continues to update their supply chain management since their major overhaul in 2008. Starbucks made waves when they completely revolutionized their supply chain. Gibbons’ goal was to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

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RFgen

JUNE 16, 2016

Melotte previously served as the Chief Logistics Officer for Johnson & Johnson, and all involved hope that he continues to update their supply chain management since their major overhaul in 2008. Starbucks made waves when they completely revolutionized their supply chain. Gibbons’ goal was to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 4, 2017

Over the last two decades, increased competition and a globalized economy has led firms to deploy outsourced manufacturing and captive offshore policies across multiple industries. This supply chain design has increased the risk of contamination or substitution of active ingredients, as in the case of the 2008 heparin incident [1].

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

In 2008-2009, nine died and hundreds became ill. The PCA Corporation lost their case in the court of public opinion in 2008, but the federal conviction is seven years later. In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% PCA’s customers were larger food manufacturers. The food recall is the largest in US history.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 13, 2020

The housing bubble pop and the subsequent recession in 2008/2009 caused a demand-side slowdown that was novel for most folks, but retail spending only slowed by about 10% and unemployment topped out around 8.5%. When the dotcom bubble burst in the early 2000s, that was much more a Silicon Valley and Wall Street issue than it was for us.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Now, all that manufacturing, logistics, pricing, customer engagement and general commerce data is obsolete.” AI can evaluate multiple data sources, such as internal company data and publicly available information like anonymized mobile or text data. Prior to the pandemic, historical data provided some guidance. ” Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 29, 2020

Therefore, the challenge to establish the ranking method is to find a more economical data source and the unbiased metrics. In short, Nielsen provides the point of sales data from various retail outlets and gross sales quantity will be summarized. Anyway, the access to this database costs an arm and a leg. The links below are #paid links.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 28, 2017

The 2008 downturn hit suppliers extremely hard, putting some out of business. Components sourced in one region are being consumed by demands in other regions. Configurability: No two global manufacturers have the same requirements and processes. The supply chain is more interdependent than ever.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

Since the inception of this blog in 2008, Supply Chain Matters has provided perspectives and takeaway thoughts from each annual report. GDP level, and a level not seen since 2008. Our perspectives stem from an outside-in end-to-end business process, management and cost adsorption lens vs. that reflected by logistics industry media.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides a side panel supplementary update to our prior posted blog highlighting the latest reported September and Q3 global and regional PMI indices that indicate manufacturing contraction has begun.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2024

It is no exaggeration to say that the future of the 107 year-old manufacturer hangs in the balance.” After the existing contract was negotiated in 2008 after a 58-day labor stoppage, there have been two multi-year contract extensions, that reportedly did not involve open bargaining. locations rather than Puget Sound.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 3, 2019

The type of contract of interest in this report is for Development and Manufacture contracts in the Aerospace and Defense industries. The subcontract efforts feature the majority of military and part of commercial aviation, systems are outsourced by the overall airframe manufacturer, known as “primes” (Boeing, Airbus, Sikorski, etc.)

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USC Consulting Group

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Because the vast majority of small-business owners and major corporations require power to provide, manufacture, or deliver products and services, the grid’s failings are forcing companies to evaluate their current processes and develop workarounds so service interruptions are minimized. .

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Resilinc

JANUARY 18, 2022

Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany is Volkswagen’s HQ and site of a massive manufacturing complex.). Toyota’s thinking about supply chain risk management began to shift in the wake of the 2008 financial crash that bankrupted many important automotive suppliers. Recession and Fukushima prompt focus on resiliency.

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