Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. Earlier this week, I read a sobering report from the national Retail Federation (NRF) regarding shrink. This is putting the squeeze on small businesses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2023

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , nearly three years after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, supply chains are back to normal. The February reading in the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index was -0.26, reaching negative territory for the first time since August 2019. in December 2021.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 2, 2024

Global Manufacturing Output Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted by the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® reportedly slightly declined in June with output and new orders indices on the rise. Manufacturing output levels reportedly increased at a sharp pace as new business levels increased across India.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a two part series featuring Chuck Intrieri, who along with providing excellent insights over at his industry leading The Lean Supply Chain blog, is also a consultant who works with companies for Cost Reduction, Supply Chain Optimization, Logistics, Manufacturing, and 3PL Selection. What is Manufacturing?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 4, 2023

Today, a business footprint touches everything from growers and materials suppliers to manufacturers, distributors, logistics providers, and consumers. CPG companies must maintain tight control over inventory to conserve cash while ensuring there’s sufficient stock to meet production schedules or forecasted customer demand.

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Logility

MAY 17, 2022

Let’s take a look an “index of indexes” recently devised by The Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It starts with defining “feasible” and establishing clarity of roles so the ‘top floor’ and the ‘shop floor’ are synchronized; Focusing on the form and function of inventory to maximize the utility of the buffer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

Last week I attended the annual National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show in New York City. This year, nearly 40,000 attendees comprising 6,200 brands from all over the world headed to the Javits Center to see what new solutions and innovations software and hardware suppliers had in store for 2024 and beyond.

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Supply Chain Digest

OCTOBER 5, 2022

New Manufacturing Orders Now Declining. Inventory Levels Soaring at Nike. Amazon Workers in New York Walk out Over Safety Issue Container Lines Cancelling Sailings in Peak Season.

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QAD

JANUARY 24, 2023

Detained withhold release order (WRO) shipments move to a bonded facility: After a WRO is administered, importers can move inventory to a bonded facility until admissibility determination by CBP. The needed connectivity between manufacturers and suppliers means relying on increased digitized processes and solutions.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you boil it down, a product’s shelf life is very short and if you don’t sell it, that inventory will be discounted shrinking already razor thin margins. Good for someone that wants to buy Halloween candy for 75% off the day after Halloween, but not so great for the candy manufacturer or retailer.”[5]

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

Many off-shore manufacturers have returned to the U.S., Those changes, along with high costs of transporting materials and finished goods to and from overseas locations, make the value of reshoring likely to become a compelling financial reality for many manufacturers. Engineering isn’t disconnected from manufacturing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Gopuff arrives in New York. The company said it has invested more in inventory planning and partnerships with suppliers so it has enough goods on hand while making sure it can route items to where they’re urgently needed. Saks e-commerce business pairs robots with workers. Uber launches rapid grocery delivery in Paris.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

All this led to global supply chain disruptions and inventory build-ups, wrong inventory mixes, and supply chain shortages in 2022. This is not just my personal observation but the consensus of leading financial experts around the world who are regularly briefed by manufacturers, logistics providers and retailers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

While companies continue to take steps to fight counterfeit goods, it is becoming increasingly harder to keep counterfeits off secondary markets (and you’ll see more of that in the news roundup). And now on to this week’s logistics news. Inventories at U.S. So, wish me luck in securing authentic University Blue Jordan IVs.

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6 River Systems

MARCH 19, 2020

And this made sense when warehouses were truly pass-through for inventory. It used to be that you would source, manufacture, store, send to a store and then the consumer would access that inventory. Inventory now has to be much more nimble and therefore supply chain nodes can no longer resemble their static nature of old.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. 49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market.

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QAD

MARCH 3, 2022

And the effects of the use of mobile devices and enabled communications on manufacturing, for example, have been staggering. Some important milestones in telephone history followed: The first phone line was operated between New York and Philadelphia in 1885. The Evolution of Communications in Manufacturing.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 6, 2024

However, at some point, manufacturers need to move beyond the hype and realize the return on their investment.”[1] Cole McCollum , founder of Incisively AI and a former analyst at Lux Research, told Fretty, “We’re seeing AI substantially improve manufacturers’ operational efficiency and quality control. Boost Productivity?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 27, 2019

We go from our client’s overseas manufacturing location via air, sea, and land to their warehouse, our warehouse, or to Amazon’s warehouse. [01:36] I grew up in a Monsey, New York, a small town in Rockland County. Tactical is an end-to-end provider of supply chain logistics. I attended high school in Monsey and Israel.

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Unleashed

APRIL 11, 2024

US manufacturing activity expands for first time since 2022. The latest ISM Manufacturing PMI report registered an unexpectedly high 50.3% Baltimore bridge disaster adds new stress to global supply chains. Inventory and marketing costs can be insidious parasites, gnawing at your margins. in March – up 2.5% from February.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JULY 20, 2022

Some claim that price gouging is a root and significant cause of inflation today, but as a New York Times article by German Lopez points out, “Covid disrupted supply chains globally. However, you may hear some, including myself, particularly in the wholesale or manufacturing space talk about inflationary profits.

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QAD

MAY 23, 2023

The goal, from a manufacturing perspective, is clear: learn how to do more with less as efficiently as possible while maintaining profitability and complying with due diligence legislation. Ninety percent of companies have an ESG strategy in place and chances are good yours does, too – or will very soon.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 30, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights a further negative drop in the New York Federal Reserve’s Global Supply Chain Pressures Index ( GSPI ). The logistics industry remains hopeful in new signs indicating that retailers and manufacturers are getting closer to working off the overall glut of inventories that resulted in 2022.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 2, 2017

This quick roundup of news includes a look at the index of U.S. manufacturing activity in May, how advancements in artificial intelligence are shifting the balance of power in technology, and the role of corporate social responsibility in supply chain management. . manufacturing activity gains ground. The article, U.S.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 2, 2017

This quick roundup of news includes a look at the index of U.S. manufacturing activity in May, how advancements in artificial intelligence are shifting the balance of power in technology, and the role of corporate social responsibility in supply chain management. . manufacturing activity gains ground. The article, U.S.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

Luxottica recently strengthened its position in the industry by vertically integrating with the world’s largest lenses manufacturer, Essilor, in January 2017 [2]. Luxottica has manufacturing facilities in five countries: Italy, China, India, United States and Brazil. Manufacturing is outsourced to offshore factories in China.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

For the specific routing of Shanghai to New York , the index was $11, 531, reflecting a six percent decline. . Similarly, factories in areas of Shanghai , Shenzhen and Jalin provinces have had to restrict workers to manufacturing campuses in order to maintain operations. Because of this, both Inventory Costs (91.0)

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RFgen

MARCH 7, 2016

Robots scare a number of manufacturing workers. The New York Times reported some organizations and individuals are so worried about a machine takeover of human jobs that drastic propositions in debate, like a universal basic guaranteed income, seem feasible. As robots get smaller, they’re easier to work with.

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RFgen

MARCH 7, 2016

Robots scare a number of manufacturing workers. The New York Times reported some organizations and individuals are so worried about a machine takeover of human jobs that drastic propositions in debate, like a universal basic guaranteed income, seem feasible. As robots get smaller, they’re easier to work with.

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2024

With that, let’s turn to and analyze PMI-Manufacturing. Key Economic Indicator #5: PMI-Manufacturing The S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI for December 2023 decreased to 47.9 Flash US Manufacturing Output Index. Flash US Manufacturing PMI. The flash PMI results signal a change from PMI-Manufacturing last month.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Despite the fact that we don’t yet know how effective vaccines will be against the Omicron variant, world markets had a kneejerk reaction to the news of its spread. Both drug makers have licensed their pills to other manufacturers, so they should be widely available within months.”

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

Inventory will remain bloated for the first half of 2023, – and supplier relationships will be tested. These kinds of behaviors by buyers will come back to bite them in the future… Despite having more inventory – we won’t stop having shortages. Inflation is indeed going down slowly– but not as fast as the markets would like.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2014

across from the Empire State Building in Midtown [and on the same busy street as Macy’s flagship store], would function as a mini warehouse, with limited inventory for same-day delivery within New York, product returns and exchanges, and pickups of online orders. store franchises would also serve as pickup points from January.

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American Global Logistics

JULY 19, 2023

With that let’s turn to and analyze PMI-Manufacturing. Key Economic Indicator #5: PMI-Manufacturing The S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI for June 2023 reached a six-month low of 46.3 This decline was primarily because of a drop in output, new orders, and suppressed demand. That’s the national labor snapshot for June.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Given low inventories and dwindling spare capacity, the oil market cannot afford large supply disruptions,” said UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo in a Reuters article. These rising prices can cut into the profits of manufacturers, distributors, and retailers who are reliant on this form of energy for powering their facilities.

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RFgen

JANUARY 27, 2016

Introducing a new product into supply chain logistics management will require certain risks. Consumers may not take to certain merchandise or old solutions for inventory management and shipping may not work with certain items that need specialized handling. In 2017, the national ban on microbead manufacturing will begin.

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RFgen

JANUARY 27, 2016

Introducing a new product into supply chain logistics management will require certain risks. Consumers may not take to certain merchandise or old solutions for inventory management and shipping may not work with certain items that need specialized handling. In 2017, the national ban on microbead manufacturing will begin.

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