Elementum

JUNE 22, 2022

In this blog, we’ll continue with these themes, exploring some of the serious problems that have cascaded down from one of the most popular process management practices of the last several decades: Lean Manufacturing. As part of this exploration into Lean Manufacturing, we’ll define the term, and cover a brief history of its development.

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RFgen

MARCH 10, 2025

While some warehouses overflow, others sit nearly empty, creating a frustrating paradox of excess and scarcity. Instead of having excess stock sitting idle in one warehouse while another location faces stockouts, inventory balancing aims to optimize inventory allocation based on actual demand.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

Warehouse managers face numerous challenges, as well, such as the need to keep goods flowing in and out of the facility while enabling associates to practice social distancing measures. . China trade war has already put regionalization of manufacturing back on the table. Develop alternative sources and diversify value chains.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2024

Billion Michigan based Lineage Logistics LLC , which describes itself as “ the world’s largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT ,” reportedly raised $4.4 According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal , the company has been leveraging strong demand for refrigerated warehousing since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

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3PL Insights

MAY 3, 2021

The tool provides warehouse customers a holistic view of their account activity based on real-time data. “As Evans365 accesses and analyzes data sets from Evans’ warehouse management system and other data sources and presents findings graphically. MELVINDALE, Mich., This is only the beginning.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

To help offer perspective, we took this question to Jason Miller, associate professor of supply chain management at Michigan State University. Our relationships with research firms and universities like Michigan State, combined with C.H. The answer is not simple and involves research and analysis across a number of factors.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 8, 2016

As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University in 1992, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative. Many of these principles also coincided with the introduction of “lean manufacturing”, based on the “just-in-time” thinking pioneered by the likes of Toyota.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

My colleague Jason Miller from Michigan State is an expert at navigating the many different publicly available government database, and interpreting the tea leaves. Walmart will pay more for domestic sources, but will not be burdened with the inventory and purchasing FOB. Inflation will persist.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 9, 2016

An excerpt from our book “The Procurement Value Proposition” got a nice section of CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly edition this week. As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative, led by Professor Robert Monczka.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2020

The third named storm, Cristobal, soaked areas from southeast Louisiana to north Florida and south Georgia, then became only the fourth tropical storm to track into Wisconsin or its adjacent Lake Michigan waters in more than 100 years of records. Construction material suppliers, warehouses, and grocery stores come immediately to mind.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, as the founder and managing partner of USM Supply Chain Consultants she has put her expertise in supply chain, procurement, finance and project management to work to help her clients achieve greater profitability. In the end-to-end supply chain there’s procurement, logistics, operations, and warehousing.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 6, 2024

Indeed, the field has also exploded into an entire software industry devoted to a number of various areas, including Manufacturing Planning and Control, OPM, warehouse management systems, transportation management systems, retail assortment planning, and a variety of other areas that are now evaluated annually by Gartner.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

To ensure its place at the forefront of pharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chain management, Pfizer: Operates 58 Manufacturing Sites Worldwide Spanning continents, these sites are equipped with cutting-edge technology to ensure the production of high-quality medicines. billion in revenue in 2023 alone.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

The problem of supply chain strategy misalignment has always been there for Kmart, ever since the first of its concept stores opened in Garden City, Michigan. Direct purchases from producers or manufacturers, instead of buying through wholesalers (if your company is engaged in retail commerce).

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EMERGE App

JANUARY 15, 2024

Nowadays it refers to inventory management software because computational power is needed to effortlessly calculate, for example, landed costs for purchases and CBM for your packing lists. Perpetual inventory is an accounting method that continuously updates stock on hand by immediately recording the sale or purchase of stock.

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EMERGE App

AUGUST 5, 2018

Nowadays it refers to inventory management software because computational power is needed to effortlessly calculate, for example, landed costs for purchases and CBM for your packing lists. Perpetual inventory is an accounting method that continuously updates stock on hand by immediately recording the sale or purchase of stock.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In Part I of this series , I discussed why retailers, manufacturers and distributors are struggling to adjust to the new demands of the omni-channel consumer. In 2002, the University of Michigan gave Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin an estimate of 1,000 years for scanning the library’s seven million volumes.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2022

Traverse City, Michigan based provider Starboard provides an innovative and interactive digital twin of a physical supply chain network leveraging gaming technology to allow users to explore what-if supply chain and business scenarios. Supply chain planning technology provider Logility, Inc., Wonder Group Closes $350 Million Funding Round.

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3PL Insights

APRIL 14, 2020

Across the globe, companies are shifting from their normal production to manufacturing products that directly help fight against the novel Coronavirus. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has teamed up with Exor and Ferrari to manufacture ventilators and face shields for global relief. Defense Production Act.

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RFgen

JANUARY 22, 2017

Daniel Harris, market researcher for supply chain management software consulting firm Software Advice, pointed to a recent survey his company conducted of manufactures, 3PL firms and other specialty distributors when explaining just how popular SCM software has become with smaller businesses.

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RFgen

JANUARY 22, 2017

Daniel Harris, market researcher for supply chain management software consulting firm Software Advice, pointed to a recent survey his company conducted of manufactures, 3PL firms and other specialty distributors when explaining just how popular SCM software has become with smaller businesses.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 26, 2024

Jason is a professor of supply chain at Michigan State University, which is ranked as one of the top supply chain schools in the world. Summary: Market Insights In this podcast, Jason Miller, a professor at Michigan State University, shares his expertise on the current state of the supply chain and logistics industry. and Dortha J.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 5, 2021

Walmart drops $35 minimum purchase for 2-hour delivery. Part of the reason for the new timeframe is the partnership announced by Merck and Johnson & Johnson to manufacture the vaccine. Lawmakers have also urged the White House to pressure chip manufacturers to boost the auto chip supply. Descarets acquires QuestaWeb.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2023

Before the clouds appeared, building software required finding “on-premise” servers or databases with capacity for a new application or service, or it required a lengthy process of procurement, design, installation, and administration. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1997. So what happened?

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A recent set of posts on Linked In initiated by Jason Miller , (one of the country’s best government data analysts (in my opinion) Professor at Michigan State), led to some heated debate by readers. This would reduce the amount of food manufacturing necessary. 50 years ago, consumers were spending far more of their paychecks on food.

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