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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

A company can choose to maintain a high level of costly inventory to ensure short lead times, and a family can decide to live farther away from work and school but buy a bigger house. Last year multiple companies needed to urgently relocate their employees and their families from Russia and Ukraine. Let’s continue with this analogy.

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Ease the Burden of Labor Shortages and Increase Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

Use a two-pronged approach that couples new recruitment approaches with technology to provide transparent operational insight. The labor supply is shrinking in Germany, Poland, Russia, and Japan, and contraction is expected to quicken. It’s a global problem. China, which had a worker surplus of 55.2 million to 75.3 million by 2030.

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Winning strategies for distributors and manufacturers during an economic downturn

EazyStock

As the global world economy has continued to recover completely from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, and with a subsequent war with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising inflation, many stock-holding companies are having a hard time. There are several advantages to keeping inventory costs down and lowering inventory value.

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What is Economic Order Quantity & its Advantages

SCMDOJO

Economic order quantity is one of the “most commonly used inventory-control techniques”. The objectives and advantages of Economic Order Qty (EOQ) are to minimize inventory carrying costs and ordering costs while simultaneously limiting the probability of stock out to avoid any lost sales or customer loss. S = Cost per order.

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Supply Chain Resilience: What is it and how do you boost it?

Unleashed

Other recent changes the company has made include early ordering for key ingredients to circumvent disruptions in the global transport system. Audit your supply chain systems An audit of existing supply chain systems is a starting point, to find out how they have performed over recent years, and where the weak points are.

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The Real Winner at the 2022 World Cup? Supply Chain.

BlueYonder

According to FIFA, a staggering 3.572 billon people watched the 2018 World Cup Russia, with 1.12 In the ever-changing world of international sports, relying on static demand forecasts and manual calculations is sure to lead to relegation. billion viewers for the final match. Tightly integrated demand and supply planning.

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Transforming the Automotive Supply Chain: It’s Time to Be Brave

BlueYonder

Electric vehicles are now embedded in our society, while the infrastructure that supports them continues to evolve, both technologically and commercially. It is a technology frontier, with cars now better framed as data centers on wheels. “Brave” in this context points to a never-ending stream of innovations in the automotive space.