Cathy Roberson

MAY 19, 2021

As shippers move past COVID-19 related closures, inventory replenishment has become a focus. To satisfy inventory needs, demand for imports has been on the rise since June of last year. No matter the mode of transportation a shipper uses, the shipper is paying more for it, that is, when they can find space.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 15, 2022

Inventory Glut of Bicycles. In retrospect, they collectively ordered too much finished goods inventory from offshore supply sources. Cited are interviews with dealers who indicated multiple lost sales during the initial lockdown periods, because of not having any new bikes in inventory. Reader Takeaways.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2022

Noted in a published Shopify blog was the following statement: “ With the addition of Deliverr’s world-class software, talent, data, and scale, SFN aims to become the most robust end-to-end logistics platform that gives merchants greater control of their inventory across all sales channels.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

According to the April report commentary , the industry remains hopeful in new signs indicating that retailers and manufacturers are getting closer to working off the overall glut of inventories that resulted in 2022. Further indicated was: “ whether or not we have hit bottom of rates is unclear.” Imports among the U.S.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

To coordinate, contracts can be made with direct links in the supply chain, but how can organizations coordinate with the suppliers’ suppliers or the customers’ customers? However, commonly used KPIs used by supply chain executives are usually focused on logistics performance (e.g.,

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Impact: Transportation leaders are looking to expand private fleets and control more of their supply lanes for cost containment and sustainability, while distribution leaders are more open to carrying higher levels of inventory and more. Good supply chains help you resolve problems. Foreign trade policies are weakening.

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Kinaxis

MAY 9, 2016

The voting categories are Financial (ROA, Revenue, Inventory Turns), and Voting (Peer and Analyst). Inventory turns, mostly, will follow Revenue. There’s been some increased supply chain executive movements in 2015, which could alter the Peer votes, but the one factor that drives Peer voting is the conference speaking.

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Shipsy

JUNE 20, 2017

In the last five years there has been a triple-digit growth in the implementation of industrial robots in manufacturing and warehousing especially in North America, Europe and Asia. Net income/total assets Inventory turns?—?Cost Cost of goods sold/quarterly average inventory Revenue growth?—?Change

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Industry professionals have put in tireless hours and taken strategic measures to keep the supply chain moving and meet customer demand. Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 26, 2020

I was in the Supply Chain organization and Derek Panchyshyn was the Executive in charge of the EMC Account. Our interactions spanned the full range of Customer-Supply Chain activities: materials costing, planning, materials availability, inventory, delivery performance, and logistics.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 15, 2011

Inventory carrying costs increased 10.3 percent last year due to higher costs for taxes, obsolescence, depreciation, and insurance, which were offset by a further drop in the inventory carrying rate and warehousing costs. A panel of supply chain executives and government representatives from the U.S.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 9, 2015

The costs of logistics and inventory are decreasing, contract renewal rate for logistics outsourcing remains good, and the emergence of cutting-edge technologies like 3D printing, drone delivery and augmented reality is opening up a wide vista of opportunities. But the picture is not all that bad.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

I was in the Supply Chain organization and Derek was the Executive in charge of the EMC Account. Our interactions spanned the full range of Customer-Supply Chain activities: materials costing, planning, materials availability, inventory, delivery performance, and logistics.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The goal with production restart was not to produce too much of the wrong inventory. This supply chain team was playing a key interface role between Essilor Customers, base plants and partners. We have a project for having Plants, RxLabs and any partnership integrated in the same database, to extend the supply chain execution.

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Locus Robotics

JULY 5, 2019

As the CEO of Locus Robotics, I often get asked a very simple question by supply chain executives, operators, analysts, press and investors. We recently conducted a Locus demo and presentation for 30 supply chain executives with a very large global brand. Rick Faulk, CEO Locus Robotics.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 28, 2017

Ford has been around for 100 years and the five main regions of the company (North and South America, Asia, Europe and Middle/Eastern Africa) grew up individually. If you’re building products customers don’t want, you have money tied up in inventory and marketing programs, and have to work harder to try to move vehicles.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The flexis capabilities are marketed to manufacturers seeking the ability to more flexibly schedule and sequence customer orders on production assembly lines, along with integrating with existing customer order systems for optimizing production dates based on inventory availability, production sequencing needs and transportation schedules.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As a result, inventories rapidly evaporated causing companies to place massive orders in an effort to resupply. Spot prices to ship containers from Asia to the US have seen prices increase 5x in only a week. Last week, I was in Chicago for the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

All of the above (and other down-stream KPIs and processes) are heavily influenced by the accuracy of a demand forecast: if the demand forecast is much more accurate, a company is more likely to have the right product, in the right quantities in inventory and will have less of the products in inventory that is not required.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Industry players indicate that in anticipation of the end of the Lunar New Year celebrations across Asia, large amounts of empty containers need to be positioned at major Asian ports for the expected surge in shipping volumes. retailers are already experiencing notifications of extended arrival times of ordered inventory.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 22, 2017

Participants also attended the Innovation Showcase in Nelson Hall,, featuring two winning supply chain teams in the undergraduate and graduate divisions! China will form Free Trade Agreements with every country along this entire network.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As the global environment is shifting based on political debates, EU/British negotiations, tariffs driven by the Trump administration, as well as the sudden shifts in country-level policies, supply chain executives and planners are working to plan for future uncertainties.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The last twenty years have seen amazing expansions in global supply chains. On the supply side, companies began looking for lower-cost sources from different geographies. Long supply chain lead times make it tough to meet demand without piling up inventory in various places around the world. Tackling Risk.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The last twenty years have seen amazing expansions in global supply chains. On the supply side, companies began looking for lower-cost sources from different geographies. Long supply chain lead times make it tough to meet demand without piling up inventory in various places around the world. Tackling Risk.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Comparative advantage is also the reason why 90 percent of the world’s supply of PPE, electronics, apparel, and manufactured goods are manufactured in China and SE Asia. Low price became the primary objective, not reducing risk or reducing inventory or lead times. Why did this happen? There’s a hitch though.

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