Alloy

JANUARY 6, 2021

In this Q&A with Brian Babbitt , Head of Solutions Consulting at Alloy, we discuss options for consumer goods manufacturers evaluating supply chain management solutions. RSi was acquired by IRI in October 2020 in hopes of helping customers actually optimize their supply chain. What led you to Alloy?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supply chain–takes longer to recover. The value chain supporting all industries is sick, requiring a leadership step-change. Time For Action. ” [link].

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supply chain–takes longer to recover. The value chain supporting all industries is sick, requiring a leadership step-change. Time For Action. ” [link].

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Exiger Perspectives

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Industries dependent on these metals, including defense , renewable energy , electronics, and manufacturing, may experience supply chain disruptions, including delays, price increases, and supply bottlenecks, due to China’s leading role in their production. It is not clear whether U.S. defense and technology.

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Unleashed

MAY 26, 2021

Ambitious manufacturing businesses that want to boost their R&D could turn to additive manufacturing. In this article, we’ll explore the different types of additive manufacturing, the benefits and weaknesses, as well as some industries that could benefit from additive manufacturing. Material jetting.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 13, 2013

A new tool enables procurers to negotiate product prices without bargaining away supplier goodwill. When bargaining with suppliers over a product price, how can procurement professionals secure the best deal without damaging a valued relationship by being overly aggressive? Identify the RM and manufacturing process for each sub part.

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Exiger Perspectives

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Manufacturing Sectors Client Alert Foreign adversaries are increasingly threatening vital domestic industries through current and potential future restrictions on critical mineral exports. government procurement of critical components. Background Nickel and titanium are critical to the aerospace manufacturing sector.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 17, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Strategic National Stockpiles and Sourcing for the National Interest! With the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, and the resulting supply chain fallout , many have speculated on how the U.S. If any part of manufacturing is to move back to the U.S., Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Reverse chain article and permission to publish here provided by Glen Munholland at circularsupplychains.com. Through advances in what became material science – and even more energy use – we accelerated the mining of metals, the development of alloys, and eventually plastics.

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Unleashed

JULY 27, 2023

How you assemble your products decides how efficiently your manufacturing business operates. The solution to high costs and inefficient production is to implement the best manufacturing processes for your requirements. In this list of manufacturing processes What are manufacturing processes?

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 18, 2023

In general, communications and data organization were highly unstructured ; there was no way for their supply partners to interact with the data in a live, responsive way. Attributes for over 40,000 detail parts and assemblies were normalized and loaded into SDX , a proprietary multi-tier supply chain platform.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Despite this growth, Resilinc’s half-year data for 2023 shows that Aerospace is one of the top five industries impacted by supply chain disruptions. This isn’t surprising, considering factory fires have been the leading supply chain disruptions across all industries tracked by Resilinc for five consecutive years !

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Alloy

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We welcomed members and guests to our San Francisco office in November to discuss “Implementing a Shared Supply Chain Control Tower.” A control tower that is shared across trading partners, including manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers, can unlock even more value. beyond what any one party can achieve on their own. —?beyond

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o9 Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

There is not a single day without the metals industry making the headlines: from targeted cyberattacks to price volatility to the semiconductor crisis impacting the automotive industry and consequently swinging supply and demand for metal manufacturers. The supply chain planning function is at the heart of these challenges.

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o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 17, 2021

There is not a single day without the metals industry making the headlines: from the Guinea coup to price volatility, to the semiconductor crisis impacting the automotive industry and consequently reducing the demand for metal manufacturers. The supply chain planning function is at the heart of these challenges.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Steel is a composite material created from iron and carbon alloys. Simply look for steel building manufacturing companies in your region and compare quotations to consider the ones with the best prices. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™. Subscribe Here!

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Resilinc

JANUARY 9, 2023

After managing a seemingly endless series of crises arising from the pandemic, supply chain managers face a fresh cycle of chaos from a COVID surge in the world’s largest manufacturing economy. While the humanitarian dimensions of this crisis are staggering, supply chains and the companies that rely upon them are also reeling.

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Alloy

JANUARY 29, 2021

Gautam is a Software Engineer at Alloy. Why did you join Alloy? I joined Alloy because it has a good mix of challenging technical problems, a hard-working team, and a great culture. When I first started at Alloy in the beginning of 2018, I joined as an intern. What do you do at Alloy?

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Alloy recently had the pleasure of joining the Slalom Digital Innovation in Supply Chain Summit , January 23–24 in Seattle. How do we set up a trusted single data source? identify a good data source, establish learnings, and then begin applying them to other data sources.

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Alloy

APRIL 30, 2021

Chia-Lun Wu is a software engineer in Alloy’s Berlin office. Before joining Alloy, he worked as a software engineer at Forto in Berlin and Vyond in Taipei, Taiwan. Why did you join Alloy? Not only was the message very well customised, but also what Alloy is building looked very interesting and challenging to me. .

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Alloy

APRIL 30, 2021

Chia-Lun Wu is a software engineer in Alloy’s Berlin office. Before joining Alloy, he worked as a software engineer at Forto in Berlin and Vyond in Taipei, Taiwan. Why did you join Alloy? Not only was the message very well customised, but also what Alloy is building looked very interesting and challenging to me. .

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Alloy

MAY 16, 2022

The candy and snacks category is probably the most challenging category in the supply chain, perhaps second only to floral. Marketing, sales and merchandising will need to coordinate with manufacturers as well as the retailer in question and account teams and planners will need to formulate a plan to meet demand.

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Alloy

JANUARY 24, 2019

IDC Study: Industry Trends and Why a Demand-Driven Organization is Critical Alloy recently commissioned IDC for a Market Spotlight on the future direction of consumer goods companies, which you can read here. Thus, the supply chain becomes a “critical competitive weapon,” according to the report.

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Alloy

MARCH 16, 2022

We sat down with Melissa & Doug’s Chief Commercial Officer, Dave Henderson, for a recent webinar unpacking the brand’s commercial success and journey to becoming a top 15 global toy manufacturer, sold in over 100 countries. #1 Now, we don’t have every account up on Alloy right now. We created one dashboard with Alloy.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Demand planning is a process just about every consumer goods company performs to keep their supply chain operation running smoothly. This necessary function can take on many forms, require numerous contributors from different departments, and be a key driver for the success of teams outside of the supply chain like sales and marketing.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

but it is also a significant opportunity to evaluate newer vendors, like Alloy, who can do a better job of meeting your holistic needs. Here are some of the advantages Alloy has over other retail analytics providers that make it the right partner moving forward. Alloy is more flexible.

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Alloy

JULY 30, 2019

Last month, Tile CEO and Alloy Board Member CJ Prober led an Alloy Executive Roundtable discussion on managing supply and demand in today’s retail landscape. We were honored to have him join us and share his perspective on modern obstacles and innovative solutions for manufacturers. GoPro was a category leader?—?they

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

You can rally colleagues across sales, marketing, supply chain planning and finance around them, and more easily break down silos that normally get in the way. . Leveraging a shared source of truth, you can target the most common sources of planning and execution error to ensure that peak consumer demand turns into dollars.

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Alloy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Drives 35% YoY Forecast Accuracy Improvement at Ember Alloy.ai’s software also helps Ember drive inventory efficiency, scale its access to retail point-of-sale data, and align internal functions around a single source of truth for sales, inventory and demand planning. The single source of truth that Alloy.ai This year, with Alloy.ai

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Alloy

JULY 9, 2019

The reasons behind an out-of-stock may range widely, from insufficient coordination between manufacturers and retailers, to extraordinary and unexpected demand, or even poor replenishment models. what consumers would actually like to purchase, and what you observe at the point-of-sale. What is the cause of the out-of-stock?

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2018

Metallic glass is essentially an alloy of the future. Alloys tend to behave and look like metals and their atomic structure consists of rigid geometric patterns. Normally, a few metals can be mixed together so that the ideal properties of each metal are ‘added’ together to make a ‘super-metal.’

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In India, the national Production Linked Incentive (PLI) is set to encourage domestic EV manufacturing—and this is just a glimpse of the latest policies worldwide. High-temperature alloys, created primarily using cobalt, are essential for advanced technologies like semiconductor fabrication, electric vehicle batteries, and aerospace products.

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Alloy

MARCH 29, 2022

The secondary impacts of the war are beginning to be felt more globally in supply chains, stock markets and other international operations. Supply chain professionals have a unique opportunity to get ahead of these ripple effects and take action now to help the global community cope with the fallout from the invasion.

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Resilinc

APRIL 19, 2022

Not only are these minerals necessary for a wide range of products and industrial processes, they are also essential for a transition to low-carbon energy sources (along with rare earth elements). went from a position of global dominance in REE supplies in the 1990s to heavy dependency on China within 10 years, according to Defense News.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It was the first metal to be smelted (about 5,000 BC, according to Wikipedia); the first to be shaped into molds; and the first to be alloyed with another metal—tin—to manufacture a sturdier cousin: bronze. Supply gaps might emerge after 2025 … with the expected rise in demand created by the energy transition.”.

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Resilinc

MAY 2, 2023

Since UFLPA went into effect in July 2022, the top three industries that had shipments stopped by CBP include: 1) Electronics; 2) Apparel, footwear, and textiles; 3) Industrial and manufacturing materials. In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at the supply chain impact of UFPLA and how industries are being affected. #1

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