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6 challenges facing medical device manufacturers and how ERP analytics can provide a cure

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

This holds true across all five key components of a medical manufacturing business: Design, Manufacture, Distribution, Maintenance, and Service. To contend with these pressures, medical device manufacturers crave actionable, real-time, accurate, and reliable data throughout the entire supply chain.

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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

This is not a continuous improvement exercise, but a matter of survival as greater unpredictability prevails in our markets, continually taxing resources, and challenging forecast accuracy on both the demand and supply sides. The past two years have been challenging across our industries and around the world.

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Common Problems Shippers and Forwarders Experience Uncovered and Explained by Dedola

Dedola Global Logistics

Currently, there are over 20,000 codes, and the shipper must exercise reasonable care when describing their goods. Disagreements Over Distribution Rights. You may suffer a loss of business when a reseller infringes on your exclusive distribution rights. You deserve a logistics provider that’s customer-focused and reliable.

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5 Paths to Better Supply Chain Visibility

Now, That's Logistics

Suddenly, everyone from the manufacturing plant manager to the distribution center supervisor to the retail store operator wanted to know “where’s my stuff?”—a For many manufacturing and distribution organizations, for example, inventory management may be the pain point most worthy of attention.

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

This can result in a messy supply chain network and flows that adversely impact cost-to-serve as can be seen in figure 1 in case of a distribution intense company we worked with. One off recommendations are made about facility locations (i.e., If not, S&OP can risk becoming increasingly irrelevant!

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

The thing to watch, of course, is whether the labour-cost benefits of offshoring outweigh any increase in the cost of logistics. A lot depends on the location of the markets you sell into and how far your distribution centres are from the contract manufacturer’s country if you keep your distribution in-house.

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What You Should Know About eForwarders and Why Importers Eventually Leave

Dedola Global Logistics

A common issue we’ve heard from shippers is that their cargo is sitting at the port for too long before it’s picked up and moved to their warehouse or distributed to clients or other locations, leading to the accumulation of demurrage fees. The importer must exercise reasonable care when making entry. Shared Booking Info.