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Supply Chain Optimization: Leveraging Integrated Scenario Planning as a Margin Multiplier

Logistics Viewpoints

Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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The Biggest Shipping Challenge in 2022: Securing Market Capacity & Pricing

MTS Logistics

Despite labor shortages for supply chain operations, limited warehouse space, congestion and lead time issues, the biggest problem in the shipping industry is still securing market capacity and pricing. How is ocean capacity and pricing looking heading further into 2022? Carriers’ new plans to add capacity to the U.S.

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Leverage freight data for confident demand planning

FreightWaves SONAR

Lack of data, lack of conviction and lack of organizational agility all conspire to keep companies from recognizing medium-term opportunities and challenges and responding decisively. It’s hard to find good data that provides a view into the next few months of consumer behavior and economic activity.

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

This means we help the team answer questions about global production footprint design, such as “where should we build our breweries,” “where should we invest in capacity,” “how much capacity should we build on which location,” “what kind of equipment should we invest in” and “when should we invest.”. a non-alcoholic beer).

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Build Resilience in Volatile Freight Environments

FreightWaves SONAR

Shippers drive prices higher when they bid against one another for available capacity in tight markets. Carriers drive prices lower, bidding for business when capacity is readily available. Starting in roughly 2017, the US freight market has had two periods of extended capacity tightness and two extended periods of looseness.

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Forklift Weight Capacity: Everything You Need to Know

Conger

This article is all about forklift weight capacity. The difference between a forklift’s rated capacity and its actual capacity. OSHA’s rules on forklift capacity. How to calculate your forklift's actual capacity. Forklift Capacity Plate: What It Is and How to Read It. Load capacity. And much more!

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How Supply Chain Orchestration Can Help Prevent Drug Shortages

Logistics Viewpoints

Manufacturers of these weight loss drugs face a multi-headed hydra of the three c’s: coverage, competition and capacity. But I’ll focus on capacity, since that is the supply chain lever. Too often forecasting is an exercise is done by a demand planner, who tosses it over the fence to someone else to fulfill.