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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. At a high level, what GEON does is purchase plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. It’s the narrative.

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From Materials to Practices: Sustainable Purchasing Groundswell At The SPLC Summit 2019

EcoVadis

Now in our sixth year supporting the SPLC, it did not disappoint: This was the strongest and the most diverse gathering of committed and capable practitioners we’ve ever seen in North America — it felt like a real groundswell of action on sustainable purchasing! Strong Focus on Supplier Practices, and Private Sector.

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DELMIAWORKS Customer Intertech Plastics Inc. is Named Plastics News Processor of the Year

IQMS

The innovation of our manufacturing customers was spotlighted at the Plastics News Excellence Awards ceremony on February 26, 2020. was previously a finalist for the 2018 Processor of the Year Award, and it earned the 2018 PN Excellence Award for industry and public service. There, Intertech Plastics Inc. were recognized as finalists.

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How Retail Can Reap the Rewards of Data Science

Repl Group

The margin for error with this kind of approach is excellent at just 3% to 4%. In the fight against declining footfall, the Mall of America in Minnesota used voice recognition and data synthesis to create a holographic Christmas shopping helper in the form of an elf. Supporting the Customer Journey. All underpinned by data science.

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Unfocussed Trucking Company

Tailwind

You got that excel sheet up on your screen? “The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company I believe” “Do you guys have any iron ore you need to move? .” ” “Ya for sure. Hey Cheryl! You know the one.it has all the Quotes.then you color them blue when they turn into Orders.yes.that one.

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9 KPIs to Track for Proper Freight Management

GlobalTranz

Nearly every company offers some sort of discounted shipping plan for large purchase orders, and more customers are demanding faster delivery at a reduced rate. A recent publication by the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Measurement Sources for Freight Performance Measures and Indicators , identified dozens of ways KPIs are used.

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