Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Provide labor orchestration to guide labor where needed in real time on the warehouse floor – whether to change tasks or to collaborate with AMRs. Dan Keller , Senior Consultant at Lucas Systems , has been designing and delivering innovative software solutions for warehouses and distribution centers for 30+ years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Longbow Advantage had their first user conference in Nashville, Tennessee last week. Longbow Advantage’s main business has been doing warehouse management system (WMS) implementations. But this conference was focused on a near real-time analytics solution they developed called Rebus. WMS generates massive quantities of data.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Anthony’s clients varied from construction, trucking, industrial, software, manufacturing, and retail industries. FreightWaves also hosts conferences under Transparency and MarketWaves branding and is a co-developer of the first futures contracts dedicated to trucking spot rates. Key Takeaways: Understanding Freightonomics.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

IPL Group specializes in Latin American warehousing and distribution. The Chips Act aims to nearshore semiconductor chip manufacturing and related industries to the region, including Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica, to increase regional supply chain resilience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2024

SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, ran from June 3rd through the 5th in Orlando. SAP as part of S/4 HANA stack, also offers a feature-rich WMS known as Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). NSK is a large manufacturer of industrial machinery bearings, precision machinery and parts, and automotive bearings and components.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

The operating margin for the medical device industry is 4X that of the automotive manufacturer and 2x the margin of the hospital. It is because the conversations at the conference were yesterday’s discussions. I heard Stryker share the story of adoption over a period of five years at the GHX conference last year.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2016

We conclude this two part series about manufacturing operations excellence by consultant Chuck Intrieri, by outlaying why manufacturers should focus on a critical component that will help sustain manufacturing operations excellence for years to come. What is Driving Sustainable Manufacturing Operations Excellence?

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Manufacturing & Logistics IT

JUNE 11, 2020

Following the unveiling of Manhattan Associates’ Manhattan Active Warehouse Management solution at the company’s recent online Momentum Connect customer conference, Manufacturing & Logistics IT spoke with the company’s UK managing director, Craig Summers, about the current warehousing and supply chain landscape.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

While many employers would have penalized the employees for tablet breakage , Peggy explored the world of wearables to enable her digital manufacturing transformation. AGCO’s culture of innovation policy deployment enabled employees to pioneer a technology solution for manufacturing. Improvement in Digital Manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Interestingly, in Q3 2023, 38% of manufacturers, distributors and retailers missed their target for revenue guidance for the quarter. My conclusion?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2023

I engaged in numerous discussions with robotics executives last year as I was developing ARC Advisory Group’s mobile warehouse robotics (AMR) research. CLINT: Mark, I came across many former Kiva Systems employees during my discussions with executives at warehouse robotics companies. Thankfully, he accepted my request.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

We were also joined by over 1,500 people from around the world who attended the conference virtually. The theme for the conference was “Ready. This came in the form of unexpected absenteeism at factories, warehouses, and on the road, as well as boats being stuck in ports which created container shortages. and Supply.AI.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

As a result of shifting manufacturing networks across the world, distribution networks will change substantially in the next few years. In his career Luc has held numerous workshops and trainings, presented in leading conferences in Asia Pacific and has written various articles about SCM.

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Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

Supply chain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways from the 2018 Gartner supply chain conference. I just returned from the highly engaging and inspiring Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Kinaxis (@Kinaxis) May 15, 2018. Digital process prototypes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Consumers became more loyal to retail brands, and retailers increased the number of products manufactured and marketed as house brands. Each year I go to the Consumer Goods and Technology (CGT) conference where speaker-after-speaker talks about retail/supplier collaboration. During the next decade, the power shifted to the retailer.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 8, 2015

If you are a manufacturing company or distributor, you most likely are using a warehouse or distribution center to make sure you are able to store inventory, replinish store fronts, and easily send goods to customers or receive goods for manufacture or distribution. This is a sign of poor warehouse operations management.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Global supply chains are fundamentally rearranging and there’s a lot of reflection on how the urge to optimize efficiency (whether it was offshoring manufacturing to keep labor costs down, or making supply chains very lean to cut inventory costs) made supply chains more fragile. Robots can’t get sick. .

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 13, 2020

Rafael Labbé, Supply Chain Director at Suministros y Alimentos, a distributor to McDonalds Mesoamérica, shared his company’s experience and COVID-19 supply chain response with ToolsGroup’s Kathleen Geraghty at the recent ToolsGroup virtual user conference. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.].

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing. Building a fab (manufacturing site) takes two-to-four years and requires the availability of water and trained labor. In addition, the warehouses are full and containers are being used for overflow storage. Does this solve the problem?

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GlobalTranz

JULY 6, 2015

The world has changed from the oil days of machine assisted assembly lines and manufacturing processes as more robots have entered the workforce. Robotics is not just a way to help companies, but many manufacturers have recognized how robots can improve their supply chain processes, benefit the company, and drive their future success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Proudly, I had led my division to have the lowest manufacturing costs with the highest Return on Assets. I believed that we would find a company with the lowest distribution costs (warehousing and transportation), and the lowest manufacturing costs, and this would result in the best overall cost structure.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

Companies are the most satisfied with warehouse and transportation management and the least satisfied with demand planning. Previously, the focus was on a more siloed approach to improving manufacturing, procurement or logistics. The traditional technique is to forecast what manufacturing should make. 4) Data Model Design.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 27, 2015

That’s how JDA Software’s CEO, Baljit Dail, summarized the feedback he was getting from customers and partners at FOCUS 2015 , the company’s user conference held last month in Orlando, FL, which had more than 2,000 attendees from 30 countries. “It feels like a new JDA.”. Not all customers and prospects are created equal.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was certainly another strange year, but the in-person conferences I usually look forward to were a mixed bag this year. I attended my first in-person conferences and attended a number of virtual ones as well. Senior Isaiah Saunders-Brevner and his manufacturing and machining classmates are going to space, sort of.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. The problem is that warehouses are full. My question is, “Why?” I have the same question. The reason?

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

About ToolsGroup ToolsGroup’s innovative AI-powered solutions enable retailers, distributors and manufacturers to navigate through supply chain uncertainty. Recipients will be honored at this year’s Women in Supply Chain Forum, set to take place Nov. 12-13, 2024 in Atlanta. Go to www.WomenInSupplyChainForum.com to register and learn more.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

Throughout the conference I met with several software and hardware providers to get a glimpse into what they were showcasing. This allows for allocation of inventory to stores and warehouses before it has been unloaded, making it possible for retailers to update their inventory plans more quickly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Having an agent detect how long it takes to ship from a supplier site to a manufacturing facility, and then doing a running calculation on how the average lead time is changing, is trivial math. But very few vendors are taking those alerts and automatically feeding them into their manufacturing planning solutions. Final Thoughts.

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Logility

MARCH 11, 2024

About Supply & Demand Chain Executive Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the only supply chain publication covering the entire global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more. Learn more at [link].

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Warehouse and distribution centre (DC) design is a fascinating and absorbing topic, but alas, is often misunderstood. Regrettably, few people fully understand the discipline of warehouse design and because of this, literally thousands of facilities are underperforming. Determine the Objective of the Facility.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 4, 2014

Over the past few weeks, I’ve attended several user conferences, and not surprisingly, supply chain visibility remains a hot topic of conversation. Manufacturers and retailers typically have very good visibility to some parts of their supply chain (e.g., Inbound deliveries to factories/warehouses. Shipment status at ocean ports.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

, spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. This global, Tier 1 manufacturer is headquartered in Stockholm and had revenues of over $8 billion last year. Autoliv is the world’s largest safety system supplier in automotive industry.

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Logility

AUGUST 4, 2023

DENSO Corporation , a global automotive components manufacturer, is bucking that trend with tighter collaboration and a different outlook on supply chain disruption. Planners also have better visibility to make critical decisions faster, such as expanding a warehouse or moving stock elsewhere to free up the operation.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Alexa Heads to the Warehouse (WSJ – sub. Warehouse Space Growing Tighter on Rising E-Commerce Demands (WSJ – sub. So if you can provide warehousing, transportation and/or material handling equipment to support disaster relief efforts, I encourage you to contact ALAN. Alexa in the Warehouse.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

Pete Bennett, and his co-presenter, Mary Byrne, the vice president of supply and demand planning, spoke during a presentation at Kinaxis’ user conference Kinexions. Cardinal Health, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical, surgical and laboratory products, is focused on continuous improvement of service.

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 4, 2023

The global manufacturing sector has seen an upswing, a technological renaissance of sorts. Since the start of 2012, more people graduating from college and universities are entering the engineering/manufacturing fields. The manufacturing sector has been severely impacted by this trend because production jobs are highly technical.

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Stord

DECEMBER 1, 2022

18, 2019 -- STORD , pioneers of networked distribution, next-generation warehousing, and distribution for modern shippers, today announced its exhibition and participation at LINK2019 (formerly the Retail Supply Chain Conference), hosted by the Retail Industry Leaders Association, one of the retail industry’s largest events.

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