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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

Logistics Viewpoints

Malcolm McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, was tired of waiting. He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Work planners previously did manually can be calculated by software.

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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

Logistics Viewpoints

Even worse, I work for a company who makes solutions to help companies solve these kinds of problems, which I listen, speak and write about for a living! Supply chain leaders from planning to procurement to logistics face labor shortages and cost concerns, so they want to reduce workforce time spent on manual activities. I wish I had.

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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

Much of the finger-pointing involved the movement of shipping containers into and out of port facilities. For the supply chain to work smoothly, a complex and highly choreographed dance, involving both full and empty shipping containers, must be performed. More than 80 ships stretched to the distance — a new record. ”[1].

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What is Inbound Logistics and How Can a 3PL Help?

Kanban Logistics

See, there’s a big difference between handling inbound logistics yourself and outsourcing it to a trusted North Carolina third-party logistics (3PL) provider that knows the manufacturing industry. This includes the procurement and delivery of the parts used to build the finished product. Third-party procurement.

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How to implement a supply chain management system

Unleashed

Supply chain management systems are tools that integrate every element of a company’s supply chain to help it become more efficient, effective, and profitable. This is done either with on-premise software, through the cloud, or using a hybrid of both. . This is why a good SCM tool is so important. Cloud-based software.

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Apply Yourself to Everything You Do

BlueYonder

She’s an enterprise solution architect and a U.S. Self portrait of Donna – solution architect and U.S. DW: I have been with JDA Software for five and a half years, and I am an enterprise solution architect. Navy on board a naval ship called the USS Shenandoah (AD-44) destroyer tender, based in Norfolk, VA.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Customers increasingly want customized solutions, and require specific logistics delivery requirements.