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12 Benefits of Additive Manufacturing and 5 Disadvantages

Unleashed

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. What is additive manufacturing? Additive manufacturing (AM) is the process of adding substances to manufacture or create an object.

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How to Get Your Products to Your Customers Faster with Outsourced Fulfillment

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

If you need help bringing your product to market faster, outsourced fulfillment may be the solution for you. Growing your business can be exciting and fun, that is until you hit unforeseen stumbling blocks. From skyrocketing costs to the inability to meet buyer demand, there’s a lot that can go wrong during your fulfillment and shipping process.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Gathers Steam

Logistics Viewpoints

The global supply chain is routinely beset by challenges, both large and small, but the past couple of years have delivered a string of significant logistics disruptions that have threatened to upend the tightly choreographed dance of global freight transportation. The coronavirus pandemic is the most obvious of these hurdles, but everything from the threat of tariffs to the temporary blockage of the Suez Canal (and even the ongoing closure of the I-40 bridge in Memphis) could have had lasting r

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Positive News for Key Decision-Makers About Sustainable Business Transformation

DELMIA Quintiq

The Answer Lies in Virtual Twin Technology. With less than 10 years left to the 2030 deadline of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is clear that we are all not yet doing enough to achieve global sustainability targets. The current rate of production and consumption worldwide continues to deplete resources and damage our planet faster than it can recover.

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4 Ways To Drive Supply Chain Excellence in the Food Industry

The Supplier Relationship Management Playbook is your guide to building effective supplier partnerships that drive supply chain excellence. This playbook equips supply chain professionals with strategies for managing compliance, tracking performance, and fostering collaboration to reduce supply chain risks. Inside, you’ll find: Strategies for Compliance: Best practices to help meet regulatory standards.

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Smarter, Low-Risk Commodity Buying

ToolsGroup

By FinStock South Africa. The importance of having the right inventory at the right price to service customer demand is crucial. Nowhere is this truer than on commoditized products. With commodity buying, customers have a wide range of vendors to buy from and switch often to protect their margins. Calculating and maintaining optimal levels of inventory is increasingly complex in this market as a result of long lead times, exchange rate volatility, economic factors, tariffs, political unrest, pri

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Profitably Delivering eCommerce with Consumer-Centric Priorities

Logistics Viewpoints

Five Forces Reshaping Logistics as We Know it. Because warehousing and transportation represent significant cost centers, intelligent logistics decisions are critical. And, more than ever, these decisions have to be made on the fly, in real-time. As logistics managers grapple with their own challenges, including labor shortages and emerging commodity marketplaces, the logistics function has never been under more pressure to deliver.

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The Green Corridor – Why You Should Care About Biodiversity

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

It happens that I am writing this month’s column on Earth Day (celebrated on April 22 every year!), so I’m going to talk about a topic that’s close to my heart — biodiversity, the variation of life on Earth. Those who know me know I am a big nature lover and always have been since my days as a boy scout. I was fortunate to have grown up in the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Tennessee, where I could enjoy fresh air, clean water, and beautiful mountain countryside.

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3 Techniques You Can Use Now to Add Resilience to Your Supply Chain

AIMMS

The post 3 Techniques You Can Use Now to Add Resilience to Your Supply Chain appeared first on AIMMS.

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Target Inventory and Central Planning Engines (Models) – Avoiding the Runaway Train

Arkieva

Often inventory is considered the simplest component of supply chain management that can successfully be managed separately. The purpose of this blog is to provide some observations to avoid the runaway train. We will first review the basics of CPE and then address the use of target inventory (specifically ending finished goods inventory EFGI) in CPEs.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Cardinal Health Invests in Visibility to Improve Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Sean Halligan, Senior Vice President Pharmaceutical Operations, Cardinal Health. With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Cardinal Health made the decision they needed enhanced visibility into PPE shipments as demand for these products surged. Since then, FourKites has become a key steppingstone in their journey to build a next generation control tower.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (May 28, 2021)

Talking Logistics

This should have been a quiet week leading into Memorial Day weekend. But as you can see from the list below, it was anything but quiet, with the biggest boom coming yesterday: E2open’s acquisition of BluJay Solutions. E2open to Combine With BluJay Solutions, a Leading Cloud-Based, Logistics Execution Platform project44 Acquires ClearMetal Inc. Manhattan Associates.

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The Hole in the Supply Chain with Deema Adada

The Logistics of Logistics

The Hole in the Supply Chain with Deema Adada. Deema Adada and Joe Lynch talk about the hole in the supply chain. Deema is the founder and CEO of GetSett a company that provided its customers with a complete, real-time snapshot of available inventory and location, labor resources and shipment arrivals to optimize dock appointments with greater accuracy.

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Supply Chain Risk and Resilience

Enterra Insights

The world has always been a risky place. Survival has been a constant historical theme. Despite all our modern inventions, we haven’t been able to eliminate risk from our lives. That’s why business professionals pay close attention to risk management. Matt Kunkel ( @MK_LogicGate ), CEO of LogicGate, writes, “2020 was a wake-up call for many of us.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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Contactless Delivery: Beyond Paperless and the Role of Technology in Logistics in the Time of COVID

C3 Solutions

Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic will entail many more years of adjustment and growth through the transportation industry. The supply chain suffered a significant blow, and while adjustments were made to carry most companies through the worst of the effects, many changes will help continue current recovery levels.

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The Top 10 ERP Books of All Times to Perfect Implementation

SCMDOJO

The implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems brings its own very unique challenges, this blog shares the Top 10 ERP Books to help perfect your implementation and hopefully reduces the common pain points. Before we talk about ERP implementation books, let’s understand first what is ERP. The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are integrable.

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How AI Tackles the Problem of ‘Dirty’ Data

Supply Chain Brain

To achieve a reliable yet lean approach, supply chains must be simultaneously agile and resilient. But both qualities have historically depended on “clean” data.

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Overcoming Challenges in the Supply Chain with Technology

Kuebix

The first half of this year has been filled with a number of challenges and new opportunities for supply chains. The pandemic has changed the volume and pace at which consumers are purchasing products. As a result, logistics professionals have been identifying ways they can pick up the pace of their operations without sacrificing quality. […].

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.

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Improving Your Replenishment Cycle in Supply Chain With Dock Scheduling, YMS and More

C3 Solutions

The replenishment cycle in the supply chain holds many opportunities to improve. Some areas, such as dock scheduling and yard management system (YMS), can hold the key to increasing productivity, efficiency, and profitability. Accuracy and real-time visibility tend to be Achilles' heel in the supply chain industry.

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Suggestions for building Supply Chain Resiliency

Prophetic Technology

The pandemic highlighted the importance of Supply Chain (SC) resiliency to allow an organisation to adapt to changeable forces whilst maintaining customer service. Large organisations with SC risk strategy currently in place could not fully face the impact of the pandemic. Many SCs not so flexible and resilient were not capable of surviving.

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When supply chain visibility matters most: How Siemens Healthineers tracks medical parts

Supply Chain Brain

Join speakers from HERE Technologies and Siemens Healthineers as they explore how tracking and monitoring the location, condition and ETA of time-sensitive medical equipment brings real-time, end-to-end visibility into the supply chain.

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Force Majeure claims by suppliers are on the rise. Have you checked or revised your clause?

Resilinc

In the last year, OEMs have seen a wave of force majeure claims from suppliers who failed to meet their agreements to deliver items on time; many have been attributed to pandemic-related disruptions. As described by Law360 , force majeure ( FM) contract clauses, also known as “excusable delay” or “excusable nonperformance” clauses, are meant to “allocate risk for events that are not within the reasonable control of a party, [and they] generally excuse performance when it is delayed or prevented

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.

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Prophet 21 User Group Webinar: Inventory Planning Processes

The Smart Software

Smart Software is pleased to introduce our new webinar, offered exclusively for Prophet21 users. Greg Hartunian, CEO at Smart Software, will lead a 45-minute webinar focusing on specific approaches to demand forecasting and inventory planning. The post Prophet 21 User Group Webinar: Inventory Planning Processes appeared first on Smart Software.

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Case Study: Plan Farther Ahead with DDMRP

Demand Driven Technologies

The pandemic dealt an unprecedented blow to global supply chains, with virtually all business leaders reporting disruptions to their strategic sourcing and supplier management processes. Yet some companies found ways to mitigate the impact to their operations. In Demand Driven Technology’s Pandemic Planning series, we take a look at their stories—and how they leveraged DDMRP to adjust to a changing landscape.

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Three Data-Driven Ways to Avoid Future Supplier Shortages

Supply Chain Brain

The paradigm of just-in-time supply chains has left many brand manufacturers ill-equipped to handle the impact of the pandemic.

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Inventory Optimisation: How Much Stock is Right for Your Company?

Logistics Bureau

Among the universal challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed upon the supply chain management profession is the question of inventory, specifically, “how much is enough?”. Not that it was ever an easy question to answer, but the Coronavirus crisis has perhaps turned it on its head, or at least, helped to do so. It wasn’t long ago that businesses were asking, “By how much can I reduce my levels of inventory?”.

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What Makes a Warehouse Worker Happy?

The 2024 Newcastle Systems Worker Satisfaction Survey provides insights into the life of a warehouse worker and what matters to them.

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Sustainable Manufacturing: The ultimate guide for SMEs

Unleashed

Sustainable manufacturing is at the forefront of good manufacturers’ plans. This article will take a look at what is sustainable manufacturing, some examples across various industries, and how SMEs can plan for sustainable manufacturing. What is sustainable manufacturing? Sustainable manufacturing is the process of manufacturing in a way that minimises environmental harm.

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Why the EV is Now Cheaper than an ICE Vehicle

QAD

Battery Costs Have Officially Reached Parity with the Internal Combustion Engine. One of the largest inhibitors of electrification has been battery costs. The high cost per kilowatt- hour (kWh) has made it hard for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) to truly compete against the lower cost structure of fossil-fueled vehicles. In 2016, experts predicted that cost parity between BEVs and ICE , which would require a battery cost of roughly $100 per kWh, wouldn’t occur until at least 2030.

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The Next Wave of Direct-to-Consumer Startups Is Coming

Supply Chain Brain

The disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a greater demand for sophisticated supply chain technology that can accommodate increased demand for direct-to-consumer sales, bypassing physical storefronts.