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6 Types of Automation [Benefits, Pros/Cons, Examples]

Conger

Automation is the process of minimizing manual labor using machines Automation includes using various equipment and control systems such as factory processes, machinery, boilers, heat-treating ovens, steering, etc. Examples are industrial robots and multipurpose CNC machines.

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Chinese Factories Recovering but Global Supply Chains Still in Shock

Logistics Bureau

The pace of reported coronavirus cases has slowed in the most seriously affected regions of China, allowing factories to reopen and people to return to work. For example, a dive in demand for auto components from China, the main supplier, was sparked by the closure of assembly plants this week in Europe and the United States.

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Fashion Transparency: China to Germany

Logistics Business Magazine

When it comes to manufacturing high-quality fashion, Walbusch Group relies on Polymax Group, among others. Three stories, large windows, white facade: From the outside, the Polymax Group factory in the Chinese coastal city of Ningbo could also be located somewhere in Germany. He feels at home in China.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

Data is stored just like you might sketch ideas on a whiteboard. Those insights are driven from data connections across the vast amounts of data these companies have access to. Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America.

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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

A MSCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. For example, one of the key decisions that a manufacturer needs to make is should they continue to buy goods from one of their suppliers.

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Metcalf’s Law Does Not Apply to Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

A MSCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a many-to-many architecture which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. Nulogy, for example, is a platform for collaboration between consumer goods brands and their copacker and comanufacturing partners. Then there is FourKites.

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From Real-Time Visibility to Real-Time Decisions: Data’s Value Is Propagating Across Global Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

And in the intervening years — as we’ve leveraged real-time data, ML and AI to help countless companies answer the “where’s my truck” question — I’ve continued to underscore that visibility is a foundational technology. Moving data between systems was complex and laborious. In other words, visibility is an enabler. Lesson learned.