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Infor and Kinaxis Launch Enterprise Planning Solution for Discrete Manufacturers

Logistics Viewpoints

NEW YORK & OTTAWA, ON March 24, 2025 Infor, the industry cloud complete company, and Kinaxis Inc. TSX: KXS) an end-to-end supply chain orchestration, today announced a new partnership that will deliver improved alignment of supply chain plans with business objectives and strategies for midmarket discrete manufacturing companies.

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10 Ways A Data Gateway Improves Time to Value Across Your End-to-End Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

A manufacturing company, for example, can monitor real-time data from its suppliers, production lines, and distribution centers. By analyzing this data, the company can identify areas for improvement and implement changes to improve operational efficiency. Manufacturing : A smart factory relies on IT-OT integration.

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Sustainable Manufacturing for Sustainable Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Across the globe, companies continue to pledge to reduce their emissions, capture their emissions, and help to reduce the negative impacts of climate change. For many companies, this process begins with an overhaul of their manufacturing processes, looking at ways to promote sustainable manufacturing.

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What Industry Leaders Have to Say About Virtual Twins in Manufacturing

DELMIA Quintiq

The past year and a half saw manufacturers face unprecedented challenges resulting from global disruptions, to which they responded by repurposing or developing new product lines, reconfiguring their plants and restructuring their supply chains in order to meet changing demands and keep afloat amidst uncertainty.

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How One Manufacturer Used GEP SOFTWARE To Save $45M in Direct Material Sourcing

For global manufacturers, managing direct and indirect material spend can get very complicated very quickly. In response to these challenges, a leading heavy equipment manufacturer selected GEP to redesign its source-to-contract processes and implement a convergent data model to help manage procurement data across its multiple locations.

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10 Ways A Data Gateway Improves Time to Value Across Your End-to-End Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

A manufacturing company, for example, can monitor real-time data from its suppliers, production lines, and distribution centers. By analyzing this data, the company can identify areas for improvement and implement changes to improve operational efficiency. Manufacturing : A smart factory relies on IT-OT integration.

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No Balloons Needed: Practical Moves to Navigate Tariff Volatility

Logistics Viewpoints

The manufacturing sector is facing unprecedented volatility in global trade, with tariffs becoming the latest in a series of uncertainty drivers that are impacting virtually all industries. Manufacturing plants are deeply entrenched; tied to infrastructure, suppliers, skilled labor, and regulatory requirements.

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Brace for Impact. Unpredictable Tariff Disruptions Are Here––Your Playbook

Drawing on our work with global companies across manufacturing, automotive, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, software, technology, financial services, and a range of service industries, we outline the key strategic and tactical actions companies are taking to navigate this period of heightened uncertainty.

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8 Supply Chain Technology Trends for 2022 and Beyond

Manufacturing leaders who built resilient supply chains were successful in 2021, despite the many supply and demand fluctuations. This report from TadaNow answers a critical question that supply chain leaders in manufacturing companies have – How do we plan for an ever-changing marketplace and keep risks in supply chain to a minimum?

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Gartner Report: Everything You Need to Know About Supply Chain Control Towers

This Gartner report, provided complimentary of TadaNow, provides answers to questions that Supply Chain leaders in Manufacturing companies have –– from definitions and scope to framework, how to leverage it all, and best practices. Create –– What are the steps manufacturing organizations need to build a control tower?

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Real-Time Trackers: A Welcome Labor Solution for Logistics

According to Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, the labor shortage will cost the U.S. To combat the effects of the tightening labor market, agile logistics companies are focusing their efforts on adopting tools and processes that drive efficiency and help their operations’ teams tap into shared industry resources.

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. But what do these really mean today? Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

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How Data Analytics Can Solve the Challenges Faced by SC Leaders in Discrete Manufacturing

From consumer electronics to automotive manufacturing, most of the global economy’s largest industries rely on some form of discrete manufacturing. Manufacturers in these industries face several unique challenges: Labor and material shortages halting production. Imbalance in product lines, creating asset underutilization.

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How a Fortune 500 Company Transformed its Supply Chain Using a Digital Twin-Enabled Control Tower

Supply chain plays a crucial role for this Fortune 500 automotive manufacturer. With the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, along with demand and supply fluctuations in the subsequent years, many manufacturers, including this one, saw significant stress on their global supply chains. This case study covers: Customer challenges.

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Digital Transformation: Why You Can’t Afford to Wait

Even global manufacturers –– companies across industrial, automotive, chemical, and energy industries –– are scrambling to mitigate the impacts of labor, material and energy shortages, delays, inflation, and unexpected events. It’s not just small and medium-size businesses that are caught off guard.