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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

The original AMR Research analysis focused on a benchmarking sample of over 70 companies. To gain competitive economies of scale and drive the segmented response, the back office operations–procurement, manufacturing and transportation–are automated and effective. The issue? Trying to Right a Wrong.

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Top Transportation Management and Transportation Articles of 2015

GlobalTranz

We continue our series on the most read articles from the Cerasis blog for 2015 today by featuring any of the blogs in the transportation management or transportation categories. . We've already listed the top 10 manufacturing articles, the top 10 supply chain articles, and yesterday, the top 10 logistics articles.

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The State of the Health of The US Manufacturing Sector & Manufacturing Technology Orders

GlobalTranz

In this blog, Andy discusses the health of the manufacturing industry, manufacturing technology orders, and setting benchmarks for company performance. The State of the Health of The US Manufacturing Sector & Manufacturing Technology Orders. USMTO is managed by AMT, The Association For Manufacturing Technology.

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Top 6 Supply Chain KPIs: Keep Your Dashboards Simple

Logistics Bureau

Calculate cash-to-cash cycle time by adding the number of days that inventory is on hand to the number of days (on average) that customers take to pay for their orders and deducting the number of days it typically takes for your organization to pay for its purchases. Customer Order Cycle Time. Lower-tier KPIs in Action: An Example.

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8 Truckload Market Trends for 2018

CH Robinson Transportfolio

According to FTR Transportation Intelligence , it’s been common to see truckload utilization over 95%. When securing transportation, you’d do best to align your favorable freight attributes with carrier goals. GDP and manufacturing indices continue to show strength in the economy. New trucks entering the market.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

IBP can support a company’s vision by positively influencing its values and behaviors, thus actively shaping the company’s culture (Van Hove, 2017). In my benchmark survey (Van Hove, 2017), only 25% of survey participants answered yes to the question ‘ We have a relentless focus on only what is important for long term business objectives ’.

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A Conversation with Stuart Whiting, Schneider Electric

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Holds a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and holds a Global MSc. In 2017 I also assumed responsibility for Field Services and in 2019 Data Excellence & Analytics embracing digital transformation driving our Tailored, Sustainable and Connected 4.0 Stuart is a British national, married with three children.