Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In our conversation, Ken spoke about some of the findings from a recent survey Logistyx conducted on cross-border holiday spending, as well as some larger trends around the state of parcel shipping. Fourth, what are some industry-specific trends for parcel shipping? The State of Parcel Shipping. The Holiday Season.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 31, 2022

The further disruption caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could cause major disruptions to the global supply chain and impact South Africa. Supply chain challenges. However, supply chain operators have learnt to adapt and become more resilient over the past few years of the pandemic.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Ivalua Blog [ivory-search] Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience February 8, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley In the face of an unprecedented global crisis, Procurement stepped up to become a crucial driving force for business continuity. Why is visibility so important?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The enforcements of draconian lockdowns, various economies have experienced severe shocks, adversely affecting global trade, global tourism & travel, International Aviation and Airports as well as International Shipping and Ports. SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION—Respond, Recover and Regrow. Supply Chain Technology.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Medical Device manufacturers face an increasingly dynamic and intricate landscape. Innovative personalized manufacturing approaches have emerged, yet many organizations struggle to fully realize their potential in this rapidly evolving race.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Automotive distributors play a vital role in the automotive supply chain by procuring parts, warehousing them, and then supplying them to OEMs (original equipment manufacturer), retailers or end consumers. There are several business processes that an ERP must have to support automotive distribution.

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Arena Solutions

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This creates a continuous flow of information between design tools, simulation environments, and manufacturing systems allowing all stakeholders to access a single source of truth. This will result in minimal changes to the design and BOM while still allowing purchasing and manufacturing to continue with minimal delays.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As we head into the holiday season, supply delays, logistics constraints and inflation are looming over shoppers and retailers—and the manufacturers and distributors who keep them in supply. The 2021 supply chain shortage is the story of our lives today, as the enormous bullwhip effect of COVID continues.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Global Trade Authority Rob Garrison, CEO and Co-Founder of Mercado Labs, shares insights from over 30 years of supply chain experience working with a variety of Fortune 500 companies. Here, he explains what caused current global supply chain disruptions, and shares the five steps needed to overcome today’s supply chain issues.

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Logility

APRIL 9, 2020

Supply chain disruptions, like the one we are currently experiencing due to the COVID-19 Pandemic will continue to happen. Although I am sure I missed a few, the point is our global, complex, fast-paced supply chains can be disrupted in hundreds of ways and I for one don’t see that changing anytime soon.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 7, 2022

Recent supply chain disruptions , including images of cargo ships stuck off the West Coast , have led eCommerce shops to rethink their just-in-time and just-in-case inventory strategies. . What is just-in-time procurement? What is just-in-case procurement?

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ToolsGroup

JULY 19, 2023

With the advent of true “single source of truth” inventory visibility , a digital twin is a more feasible goal than ever before. Digital Twin Applications For instance, say you’re a manufacturer or distributor. Are you a manufacturer wondering how best to leverage real-time data to elevate your business performance?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Manufacturers can gather valuable granular data such as the time an item spent in storage, at what temperature, how long it took to sell, the length of time between purchase and fulfillment and how long it spent in transport. For example, companies can track products throughout the entire lifecycle with RFID and GPS sensors.

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Exiger Perspectives

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Industries dependent on these metals, including defense , renewable energy , electronics, and manufacturing, may experience supply chain disruptions, including delays, price increases, and supply bottlenecks, due to China’s leading role in their production. It is not clear whether U.S. defense and technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

For example, a vaccine manufacturer increased their order size by a factor of four in one weekend; a video call company wanted to receive ten times as much product as they initially forecast with just a month’s lead-time. Demand uncertainty does make it much more difficult for a supply chain to respond to customers’ orders.

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ivalua

MARCH 16, 2021

Sajid Kunnummal, Vice President and CPO at Navistar, was interviewed in late 2020 by Philip Ideson from Art of Procurement. When the crisis hit, Procurement as a function was suddenly in the hot seat, and it became the driving force for business continuity. Why is visibility so important?

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 23, 2025

Geopolitical tensions, rising fuel costs, driver shortages, blocked shipping lanes and frequent supply chain disruptions make it tough to achieve reliable on-time delivery amid this complexity. So what are the top reasons for shipping delays? There is good news, though.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Digital Twin from Infor Nexus Drives Supply Chain Agility for Molex. The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. The Molex Supply Chain. The Molex global supply chain is complex. But they were very basic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

It is one of those high-end brands with global recognition, and to my surprise, the manufacturer’s own website did not have any stock and no indication on when it would be available. Now the new norm is constant change, and agility is the name of the game when it comes to supply chain planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Supply chain executives must evolve from cost and service as the key objectives for optimal demand-supply balancing towards the “quadfecta” of cost, service, resiliency, and sustainability. Inflation, pandemics, railway strikes, adverse weather events – the supply chain disruptions keep on coming.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2014

As a supply chain practitioner, do you notice something missing? Where is the supply chain nodes? 3PL’s, Contract Manufacturing, Suppliers, Logistics providers…. Supply Chains have primarily stayed on the outside of this challenge. What if the next great supply chain disruption was….

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 23, 2022

Manufacturers are heavily reliant on an effective workflow process to meet the requirements for ever changing customer needs, sustaining productivity levels and to thrive through continuous supply chain disruptions. Organizations are incessantly looking for various ways to enhance efficiency and streamline operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 13, 2022

Supply chain disruptions are continuing to occur for a variety of reasons. Weather delays can affect shipping lanes, manufacturers face product shortages, demand continues to spike for certain products, containers are difficult to acquire, and the trucking industry faces a driver and capacity shortage, just to name a few.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon achieved its fastest-ever global shipping times last year but isn’t resting on its laurels. Teradyne , a supplier of semiconductor testing equipment, pulled manufacturing worth about $1 billion out of China last year, a Teradyne spokesperson said on Monday, after U.S. export regulations led to supply chain disruptions.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Like most industries, manufacturers around the world are feeling the pinch of inventory disruption brought on by shortages and other supply chain challenges. But manufacturers are unique. What is Manufacturing Inventory Control? What is Manufacturing Inventory Control? Do you have whiplash yet?

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

What is Supply Chain Resilience? Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. Each disruption has its own nuances, so it’s challenging to plan a precise response to each one. Overall, U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The most interesting thing that Blue Yonder is doing from an OMS standpoint is driving promising and pre-sourcing to retailers. The data is all anonymous, but retailers can look at metrics such as time to fulfill, pack time, conversions, and ship versus pick-up, to name a few, across hundreds of Active Omni customers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Retailers turning to specific-day delivery over speediest shipping. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by supply chain disruptions around the world has sparked a resurgence of companies bringing sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States or closer to U.S.

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QAD

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The global supply chain is facing a perfect storm of challenges, and dealing with it, according to GE CEO Larry Culp , “really is akin to playing Whac-A-Mole.” And the current global supply chain disruptions may be sticking around longer than we might think. Manufacturers know all the issues: U.S.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

are reporting that they are being inundated with requests from importers seeking to use provisions such as the “321 de minimis” rule, which allows goods worth less than $800 to be shipped to the U.S. Alternatively, you may want to relocate – totally or in part – where your product is manufactured. without being subject to tariffs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

If you’ve ever tried to buy a new car during the chip shortage or waited months for furniture delivery, you’ve experienced firsthand what happens when supply chains break down. These disruptions aren’t just inconvenientthey can make or break a business.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

Predicting demand was never easy (with or without an astrologer), and, looking ahead, the challenges of global supply chain disruptions continue in 2022. Tip : Unlock the Planner’s Playbook to Supply Chain Disruption and get more tactics to successfully manage your supply chain in 2022.

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QAD

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Oxford Languages and Merriam-Webster dictionary folks have advanced “Vax/vaccine” as 2021’s word of the year, but we think it really should be “disruption.” 2021: A Year of Continued Disruption…for All Industries. Several industries stood out with solutions to disruptions. International and domestic shipping disruptions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has only confirmed what we already knew: modern supply chains must be built on a foundation of extreme agility and responsiveness. While lean manufacturing and just-in-time were game-changing concepts when they were introduced, agility and resilience must be taken to an entirely new level post pandemic.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 14, 2022

For decades, ASEAN manufacturing, once seen as a global phenomenon, had been overshadowed by the meteoric rise of Chinese factories. percent of global manufacturing output and was regarded as the world’s manufacturing superpower. For global businesses, supply chain resilience is the name of the game.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Omni-channel has been firmly positioned as the new industry standard, forcing wholesale distributors and manufacturers to release the brakes and embrace digital transformation to stay relevant. Those who get it right are improving their market share by up to 10% a year.

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