GoShip Blog

JUNE 16, 2021

AI in supply chain and operations can efficiently handle data for analysis and automated functions. In particular, AI can help in demand forecasting, warehousing, and logistics route optimization: By efficient collection and analysis of information and inventory processing . Production planning and factory scheduling.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To compete in this constantly changing market, manufacturers and distributors need more digital-driven services such as real-time production, tracking, and analysis. This means making factories smarter for the future. What is the smart factory? How to create a smart factory. It’s important to first to set objectives.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 20, 2021

Those factories with essentially zero inventory of critical components were forced to close or drastically scale back. For example, GlobalTranz’s Cost Prediction Model provides intelligence on pricing and market trends via a live dashboard. Pricing may vary significantly based on carriers and lanes and capacity constraints.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

They are part of the quality management process and require an analysis of the top factors that drive returns to determine where interventions are required in the process. Freight bill accuracy : Whether shipping from factory to warehouse, or to the customer, this metric helps identify problems in billing operations. Warehousing KPIs.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In this blog, we’ll go over the economic and supply chain impacts that result from these events and how you can best prepare your supply chain. The Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan and the Thailand Floods in 2011 are both examples of natural disasters that had a much wider indirect economic effect.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 24, 2015

Productivity in factories continues to improve, however, and are more efficient than ever, so the best jobs picture we can hope for is flat as we don’t believe that US Manufacturing jobs will ever be at the percentage they were at the peak in the late 70s. Also, the majority of factories that could leave may have already gone.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friends at Mahan's Thermal Products. While we know this to be true, it doesn’t mean that a factory can’t be built with an eco-friendly outlook. As far as companies in America go, Johnson & Johnson is setting a primary example of eco-friendly production.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

Software provider Llamasoft’s approach involves the creation of a ‘digital twin’, a software model representing suppliers, factories, distribution networks, inventory flows and transport. You can do all kinds of scenario analysis and ‘what-ifs?’ A truly autonomous car could even drive itself from the factory to its new owner’s address.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

IoT devices on the factory floor need to be protected; some manufacturers are also installing sensors on products used in a customer’s environment, which can create their own security challenges. The post Enterprise security tips for manufacturers Part 2 appeared first on SYSPRO Blog.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, one of the main problems with Asian-US trade is that all container ship deliveries are now routed to the West Coast, even though the bulk of America’s manufacturers are based on the East Coast. The post How manufacturers and distributors can mitigate disruption in the global supply chain appeared first on SYSPRO Blog.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

A little more than 20 years ago, I was doing some consulting for a company called Indiana Glass, then a division of Lancaster Colony, at its Dunkirk, IN factory just outside of Muncie. Alas, it appears the factory was shuttered more than a decade ago. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

One of the big challenges facing manufacturers is inadequate reporting and analysis capabilities. Some of the key differences between the systems are: ERP software focuses on process management and automation, while BI software focuses on data analysis and visualization.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, before the pandemic, companies could get by with analog machines, paper-based systems, and disconnected point solutions. This real-time data can inform faster, more accurate decisions about capacity analysis, work-in-process (WIP), inventory, and advanced planning. The pandemic made that impossible.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2021

With the Chinese Lunar New Year approaching in late January 2020, global shippers planned to order stock from Chinese suppliers ahead of the celebration as factories and ports would shut down for two weeks. What they didn’t know is that these ports and factories would remain shut down as the safety restrictions of a global pandemic set in.

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Blog on Log

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

High-value men's shirts imported into the Unites States from Italy for example have such high opportunity costs they warrant choosing the faster but much more expensive air transport option. This is not sufficient, Drewry said, to swing the balance towards air transport, which it estimates carries about 10 percent of U.S.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Each of these elements more traditionally handles by outsourcing analysis of processes to supply chain consultant. As explained in a previous blog post, continuous improvement in an organization can be achieved through the use of performance measurement tools via big data. Transportation modes used in procurement and shipping.

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Locus

MAY 25, 2023

Ford Whitman Harris first published the model of Economic Order Quantity in a paper Factory, The Magazine of Management , in 1913. This model became dominant for order-quantity analysis in the study of supply chains. appeared first on Locus Blog. The total annual inventory value is the total monetary value of inventory.

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Parade

MAY 29, 2019

In this post, we share: An analysis of three different fulfillment opportunities that our customers typically face: 1) consistent dedicated freight, 2) spot freight (pre-planned), and 3) hot spot freight (same-day). For example, these problems might be created by carrier cancellations.

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Parade

MAY 29, 2019

In this post, we share: An analysis of three different fulfillment opportunities that our customers typically face: 1) consistent dedicated freight, 2) spot freight (pre-planned), and 3) hot spot freight (same-day). For example, these problems might be created by carrier cancellations.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2016

Also, if you would like to read anything related to the supply chain you can read all the supply chain blogs in that category here or search any keyword in the search bar to the right. For example, smartwatches could help site managers observe real-time performance of business processes, productivity, inventory levels and deliveries.

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