Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

This week, the company announced a reversal in manufacturing and supply chain strategy, as well as a major turnabout. The company will henceforth outsource the manufacturing of its stationary exercise bikes and treadmills to a Taiwan based contract manufacturer. Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor.

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Exiger Perspectives

AUGUST 7, 2024

Acquisition of Cutting-Edge Parts and Logistics Intelligence Platform Brings XSB’s 100M+ Parts and 400M+ Parts Attributes Database In-House to Exiger WASHINGTON, DC. We’ve built a truly comprehensive suite of sourcing, logistics, sustainment solutions for PEOs, logisticians and contested logistics professionals.

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Synovos

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This approach provides organizations, particularly manufacturers, the opportunity to make supply chain decisions that offer shared benefits. Each purchasing transaction, whether a quote request, purchase order, invoice, or something else, has an associated cost. We can manage and optimize your inventory,” says Howse.

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Synovos

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This approach provides organizations, particularly manufacturers, the opportunity to make supply chain decisions that offer shared benefits. Each purchasing transaction, whether a quote request, purchase order, invoice, or something else, has an associated cost. We can manage and optimize your inventory,” says Howse.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This morning the Washington Post rang. Each state has a rich manufacturing economy. To prepare, stratify your suppliers into strategic, single source and high volume flows. Attempt to find alternate sources from geographical areas that are not projected in the path of Florence. ” The answer is not so easy.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Implications All Boeing production operations in the states of Washington and Oregon are now impacted including daily production of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft family, along with the Boeing 767 and 777 wide aisle aircraft. It is no exaggeration to say that the future of the 107 year-old manufacturer hangs in the balance.”

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Unleashed

APRIL 27, 2022

With material costs rising and the drive towards sustainable practices in full swing, the circular supply chain has become an attractive way for manufacturers and sellers to manage their supply chains in a more environmentally friendly way – and save costs in the long term. So how do you close the loop on your supply chain?

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Exiger Perspectives

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Innovative Partnership Program Connects Hospitals and Health Systems to Trusted Solutions WASHINGTON, DC. Exiger’s technology is FedRAMP® authorized and allows organizations to illuminate, map, orchestrate and secure medical and software supply chains within 1Exiger – a centralized, end-to-end risk management platform.

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Exiger Perspectives

JULY 30, 2024

Strategic Acquisition Addresses Urgent Need in Organizations’ Ability to Verify and Secure Operational Technology and Software Providers WASHINGTON, DC. We have already used this capability to unmask software suppliers that critical equipment manufacturers didn’t know were there.”

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2024

Needless to state, the business challenges are significant, especially those related to this plane maker’s supplier sourcing, internal production and quality assurances practices. It is no exaggeration to say that the future of the 107 year-old manufacturer hangs in the balance.” The announcement from Boeing came last week.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 12, 2024

The development, initially reported by The Wall Street Journal citing informed sources, involves the interviewing of passengers and crew members who were on-board the aircraft at the time of the incident. Paid subscription). This report accounts for the notions of unconforming quality repair needs that are termed traveled work.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2018

military properly defend our nation if it can’t source what it needs from domestic sources — and instead must depend on potential adversaries for those materials? The origin of many of these weaknesses is the fact that our leaders have neglected our vital manufacturing sector for too long. How can the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 17, 2022

Added Manufacturing Disruption in China. Last week after a series of manufacturing and product design flaws impacted the deliveries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner wide-body aircraft since 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cleared the way to resume airline deliveries of previously ordered aircraft.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, ResMed, Ross Stores, Sleep Number, Subaru, Toro, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company. More supply chain innovation happens in contract manufacturing–look at Jabil’s results–in the Contract Manufacturing industry with a 6-8% margin than in these high margin sectors. (No

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2024

It is no exaggeration to say that the future of the 107 year-old manufacturer hangs in the balance.” It must reinforce its commitment to the women and men who work in its local factories by making the unprecedented declaration that its next plane will be made in Washington. locations rather than Puget Sound. The future of a U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

based manufacturing presence. Yesterday, The Washington Post published an Editorial titled, What’s Good for the UAW is good for the country-maybe. Paid Subscription ) The opinion piece acknowledged that union based autoworkers have experienced real wage declines over the past two decades and were overdue for a wage increase.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to a published report from the Washington Post ( Paid subscription ), a labor union communication to members indicated: “ We believe asking members to stay on strike longer wouldn’t be right as we have achieved so much success. Labor union negotiators have again urged workers to accept this latest offer.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 4, 2018

If left to further its own evolution, they could have served as a source of competition to British Manufacturers. General (and later President) George Washington understood his personal limitations in the area of logistics could negatively affect the outcome of the war. ”[3]. did, however, have helpful allies.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

… Consumer purchases and decisions will increasingly be voice-driven and machine-augmented, with companies’ relationship with customers machine-to-machine, values-based and digital-first.” Wong and Steinberg report, “Change in consumer demand is accelerating. ” Second, climate change is having an impact.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 16, 2020

We’re going to decouple completely from China, dramatically cut back on sourcing from other countries, and bring manufacturing back to America, right?”[1] ” He continues, “Fast forward to today, JIT has morphed into lean manufacturing with its resulting organizational streamlining. industrial supply chain.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 27, 2020

i] As the virus spread more quickly in Washington State, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, the administration quickly realized that the coronavirus would not be “magically going away.” health care system and risks in a supply chain dependent on global sourcing, would buffer the country from unanticipated disruptions.

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OptiProERP

MAY 18, 2023

The manufacturing labor shortage or skills gap is a major issue in the manufacturing industry. To keep the industry moving forward, manufacturers must find ways to overcome this gap. As the wheels of industrialization continue to turn post-pandemic COVID-19, the manufacturing sector gets stuck with growing challenges.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A published business broadcasting network CNBC report indicated that the commercial aircraft manufacturer had plans to operate three production lines at the Renton, Washington production facility in addition to the planned fourth line. They bring forward the risks of a “ survivor ” corporate culture, which has its own watch outs.

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RFgen

AUGUST 10, 2023

Compare that to mobile barcoding, with standard connectors—and certified integrations—with most major ERP systems, leverage only your ERP database as the single source of truth. Integrations One of the most helpful features of mobile barcoding is its ability to communicate with any data source, hardware or software. Industry 4.0

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ThroughPut

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

ThroughPut’s team is backed by some of the best domain experts from Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Artificial Intelligence and Finance, who have put that knowledge to work in over a dozen successful startups.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Transition to a new administration in Washington has the world wondering what it means for globalization. As Tom Derry, CEO of the Institute for Supply Management, “There’s almost no industry sector — and when I say that, I mean manufacturing and nonmanufacturing — that isn’t reliant on China in the United States. … 3] Joseph E.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 20, 2016

George Yeoman Pocock, a leading designer and builder of racing shells who built the boat used by the University of Washington team, describes it this way in the book: “When you get the rhythm in an eight, it’s pure pleasure to be in it. Step 2 – Develop Metrics and Data Sources. Which metrics are the right ones?

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2020

Containers are piling up in ports, international shipping has been hammered, Western companies are battling to source products from traditional suppliers, and disruptions are being experienced throughout the global supply chain. COVID-19 Impact on Procurement. And, according to some analysts, things could get worse—a whole lot worse!

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 21, 2022

As the The Washington Post recently pointed out, “ The pandemic also exposed weaknesses in the nation’s transport plumbing: investment shortfalls at key ports, controversial railroad industry labor cuts, and a chronic failure by key players to collaborate.” Unify Your Freight Contract Data With a Single Source of Truth.

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Bristlecone

JANUARY 19, 2021

In order to quote a lead time, the customer representative had to follow a long, drawn-out process of calling the tile distributor in the state of Washington and leaving a message – only to finally get back to me the next day to tell me that the shipment might be available around next week. I chose predictable availability.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 16, 2023

One day in August 2022, a group of military and defense strategy experts gathered in Washington, DC, to play a game that simulated a Chinese amphibious invasion of Taiwan in 2026. Yet Rand’s Matheny contends that developing the kind of semiconductor manufacturing capacity Taiwan has developed will take decades.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2019

Bindiya Vakil ( @BindiyaVakil ), Resilinc CEO, notes, “Supply chain, sourcing and procurement professionals are on the front lines of managing global trade risks for their companies. ” With both parties already gearing up for next year’s election, dysfunction will remain the operative word in Washington.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Much of this added container volume is attributed to either retailers front-loading their Q4 inventory purchases, or diversions related either to the likely threat of a U.S. The volume reportedly averaged 939,000 TEU’s for each of these three months. East Coast labor disruption, which as noted actually occurred. Not all U.S.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

Walmart will pay more for domestic sources, but will not be burdened with the inventory and purchasing FOB. One reason for this is that the COVID crisis in China is escalating to incredible levels, and that is shutting down a lot of manufacturing hubs. What will happen to those manufacturers that can’t or won’t convert?

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Potential Sources of Disruption. Identifying sources of risk and developing a plan are only part of the story. What alternative plants/factories/sources of supply do they have at their disposal? Unplanned IT or telecommunications outage. Cyberattack and data breach. Loss of talent/skills. Outsourcer failure. Weather event.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

The next-gen supply chain model is a networked ecosystem – suppliers, partners, manufacturers, distributors and retailers will all have access to relevant cloud-based data to make the best decisions based on real-time signals.” China trade war has already put regionalization of manufacturing back on the table.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Examples include vehicles, which are mobile emissions, and manufacturing, which fall under process emissions. They include energy sources your company purchased for its use, such as electric car refueling, electricity for the building, and similar types. Scope 2: These are indirect emissions related to your company’s ownership.

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