ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2020

All these scenarios of course create huge demand fluctuations companies need to deal with that differ completely from their historical demand forecasts. Of course, demand forecasts are the biggest concern people have. Another of our customers, McDonald’s Mesoamérica , had of course seen a reduction in volume and forecast uncertainty.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

This cross-functional group (sales, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution) is an operational team to manage the day-to-day issues and exceptions in the supply chain. Figure 1 shows a market-by-market planning model by a sinus drug manufacturer. This type of planning needs to be deployed by all consumer manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 6, 2024

Of course, the answer is correct. Manufacturers are not aware of this capability, and as a result, are not asking for it. Forecastability, Volume and Customer Service for a Manufacturing Company. .” I bite my tongue wanting to reply, “Did anyone ask Henry Ford to build a car? ” But, I quietly move forward.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 11, 2022

The survey results show that companies are charting a steady course toward digital transformation”. The survey results show that companies are charting a steady course toward digital transformation,” observed Mark Baxa, CSCMP president and CEO. “As Our findings reveal increasing investments in software, automation and people.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute a wide range of consumer products, including bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. Of course, getting a promise right is vital. Using words to describe Causal AI only takes you so far.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Over the course of the last decade, his story is the same. Contract Manufacturing Signal Latency. In my last blog post, I shared insights on data synchronization between brand owners and contract manufacturing. In our research, we find that 32% of volume is manufactured by a third party. Back to John.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 7, 2020

Manufacturing and Healthcare. The IoT has already begun to transform manufacturing. Factory owners are becoming able to prevent delays, improve production output, reduce equipment downtime, and of course manage inventory. Sensors, RFID tags, and smart beacons have been in place for several years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

cities over the course of the year, bringing the total number to 110. Teradyne , a supplier of semiconductor testing equipment, pulled manufacturing worth about $1 billion out of China last year, a Teradyne spokesperson said on Monday, after U.S. export regulations led to supply chain disruptions.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Since this is a race, the skipper’s goal is to optimize the crew and yacht to reach the finish line as fast as possible, crucially, while staying on the right side of the markers on the course so as not to be disqualified. Of course, inventory optimization is infinitely more complex than yacht racing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2024

The UFLPA prohibits goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in Xinjiang from entering the U.S. But electronics; industrial and manufactured; and apparel, footwear, and textiles make up the bulk of products detained. A customer can of course buy goods in a store. Of these, 2,583 were denied entry into the US.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Community: Focuses on leveraging the QAD Redzone customer base to introduce young people to Manufacturing and STEM careers through speakers and on-site tours to show them what careers exist in STEM and Manufacturing. And, of course, establishing an area to sample all kinds of yummy Companion Baking products at the end of the tour.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 10, 2023

Jorge is Co-CEO of The Nearshore Company , where he helps North American, European, and Asian manufacturing companies to successfully establish reliable manufacturing operations in Mexico. About The Nearshore Company The Nearshore Company is a manufacturing services company that was founded in 1992. Jorge holds a B.A.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This event offered an excellent view into industry trends, technology developments, strategic approaches, customer dynamics, changing demand patterns, technology impacts to manufacturing and an optimistic envision towards innovation and digital trust on the back of Covid-19 pandemic havoc globally. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

As Brent mentioned in his introduction, it has been a challenging few years for semiconductor manufacturers. Qualcomm turned to more automation in its semiconductor manufacturing. Face masks and PPE were already worn in semiconductor manufacturing plants to ensure a dust-free environment. This ended up being high end products.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Over the course of the five months, we iterated on the model over seven sessions. Today, there are no authoritative identifiers to track and trace for containers, warehouse locations, trucks or manufacturing plants. I asked Greg Aimi, currently at Gartner to help. We ordered pizza and started working on a visibility maturity model.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Variances in manufacturer sizing contribute to over 50% of customers returning items due to product size or fit.”. Of course, that’s only half the battle in reaping the rewards of data-driven retail reverse logistics strategy. Every product return is a chance to learn more about the customer, drive the next sale, and make it stick.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In other words, if manufacturers cannot deliver everything that retailers are ordering, then there is a service failure. For the most part, the companies participating in this study manufacture goods that end up in grocery stores. However, there were unrealized revenue opportunities for the manufacturers. 2020 was different.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

Contract manufacturing or 3PL data often will have a 24-hour latency due to batch integration. When they built the project, they did not realize that they did not have access to daily data daily for their third-party warehouses and contract manufacturing locations. 2) Latency. 3) Granularity. Master data. The devil is in the details.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nvidia, Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, PCA (Packaging Corporation of America), ResMed, Rockwell Automation, Ross Stores, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur-Pedic, TJX, Toro, Toyota, West Pharma, United Tractors, and Urban Outfitters. I have a trainer that forces me to stay the course. Results happen slowly.

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Synovos

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In one case, a long-time packaging manufacturer changed its reporting structure, putting in place a new manager responsible for the MRO supply chain. Over the course of any client engagement, the calculus for material savings changes, priorities and focus areas evolve, as does the strategic direction of the provider.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

AGCO is an agricultural equipment manufacturer. When a supply chain disruption occurs, it is not uncommon for complex equipment and automotive manufacturers to have different plants in their company fight each other for the same components. AGCO Logistics Team Accepts Prestigious Supply Chain Award.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 5, 2023

They took a holistic approach, giving proper consideration to the integration of design, manufacturing, and maintenance. We would forward our designs to manufacturing and they would respond with the design’s shortcomings from a manufacturing perspective. Phillips would review process often.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Hospital chains’ approach to procurement lagged far behind the practices employed by manufacturers, retailers, and distributors. “We The net result of that was about $100 million in savings over the course of 10 years. In manufacturing, engineers are typically at the top of the food chain. These are great results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Here I ask, “Whether we can change course to drive more value in supply chain management?” Only 1/3 of manufacturing companies feel that they are equal to current disruptions. The most successful investments with the highest satisfaction are manufacturing automation and descriptive analytics/data visualization.

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Freightos

JUNE 6, 2023

Listen to the full podcast interview here ) Source: Fort Of course, this stark reality was faced by many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) during the peak of the pandemic. Overcoming Demand and Inventory Hurdles However, regardless of where goods are manufactured, they still need buyers…and these appear to be in short supply.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For instance, goods move from the customer to the distributor or to the manufacturer. When a manufacturer’s product normally moves through the supply chain network, it is to reach the distributor or customer. In turn, those costs may then fall to the manufacturer. Of course, customers may opt to complete a return in-person.

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Arkieva

JULY 27, 2022

Whether you are a manufacturer, retailer or distributor, inventory is likely one of your largest assets – after cash of course. Managing this asset takes a cross-functional team, all (hopefully) moving in the same direction. Weak management of the inventory process results in a porous supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

Dr. Alexandros Skandalakis – the Director Global Manufacturing Capacity, Strategic Assets and Capital Expenditures at Philip Morris Products S.A. This was done at a stock keeping unit level and for the entire manufacturing supply chain. Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Over the course of her career, she spent eight years specializing in eCommerce business transformation, assisting digitally native, brick-and-mortar and manufacturing companies in their pursuit of direct-to-consumer strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

At one of the demo booths, what stood out was the ability of the procurement solution to track savings leakage over the course of a contract. They also cover supplier managed inventory, quality collaboration, manufacturing line collaboration, and asset collaboration. However, those savings can leak away in several different ways.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

For years Campbells strove to grow the soup category only to lose share in the soup category due to limited manufacturing capacity for the Swanson’s brand. Over the course of three decades, companies invested in enterprise systems to improve functional efficiency. Sales are up 12%. Supply is the challenge.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We saw this right at the start of the pandemic, when parts being manufactured in Wuhan province disrupted car manufacturers’ production lines around the world. These disconnections can seriously hurt manufacturers and retailers in today’s online, service-driven economy where consumer expectations are defined by the Amazon experience.

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Logility

AUGUST 7, 2023

The result is, of course, an unhappy customer and the likelihood that for the next incident, they will be looking for another service provider or third party. What did you think about that? These things happen and they are not so uncommon. It may not seem like a big deal, but it can snowball into one just by word of mouth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

But in the context of the Shippers Council, the shipper is the cargo owner (or BCO beneficial cargo owner), usually a manufacturer, who contracts with a logistics service provider (LSP), which, in the Councils definition, can be a transportation (land, sea, air) company, an express company, a forwarder, or a full-fledged 3PL.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Rebecca Brinkley, Director of Marketing and Communications at the American Gear Manufacturers Association, writes, “As the last of the baby boomers round their way up to 60, companies are slowly realizing that their retiring leadership is leaving gaps in intelligence and historical knowledge that threaten the future.”[1]

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Every day, retailers and manufacturers are challenged to balance ambitious customer service promises with profit margin protection. Capacity can be easily ramped up or down due to product seasonality, holidays and of course global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Deliver ecommerce-caliber service levels. and Unnu, Kaan. [2]

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

Now, of course the systems of healthcare differ but overall the level and growth is certainly a concern. It is also helping to bridge the supply chain management gap that has traditionally existed between healthcare providers and other industries such as manufacturing. The above is a simplified view, of course. Share on Twitter.

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