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20 Manufacturing Blogs Every Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Distribution, and Logistics Professional Should Read

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If you are a regular reader of the Cerasis blog, you know our goal is to educate and inform those in the manufacturing, supply chain, distribution, logistics, and transportation space with best practices, trends, and industry news so that we can create a community of people. 20 Manufacturing Blogs You Need to Be Reading.

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4 Key Trends to Watch in Smart Manufacturing and Supply Chain

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The advancements in 3D printing and 'Additive Manufacturing,' coupled with supply chain efficiencies, could make distributed manufacturing a reality, ushering in the era of smart manufacturing. Real time communication between machines, factories, logistic providers and suppliers provides improved visibility on the end-to-end supply chain.

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Top Insights about Supply Chain Network Design – benefits, tips and what your competitors are doing

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We commissioned Supply Chain Insights to conduct independent research about this topic and discussed the findings in a recent webinar. Defining your footprint – what your supply chain should look like, where you should build your next distribution center, where you should locate your next factory. .

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Top Insights about Supply Chain Network Design – benefits, tips and what your competitors are doing

AIMMS

We commissioned Supply Chain Insights to conduct independent research about this topic and discussed the findings in a recent webinar. SCND is about two things: Defining your footprint – what your supply chain should look like, where you should build your next distribution center, where you should locate your next factory.

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

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Their distribution approach varies country-to-country. But in North America, distribution is predominately through their company-owned fleet. In most markets, however, third parties are used for distribution. Perhaps the cost of a new factory would be $300 million. In 2021, their company owned fleet traveled about 1.2

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Emerging Trends in Automation: What it Means to Supply Chains

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This includes billing, generation of bills of lading, compliance reports and even movements throughout a factory or warehouse floor. Additive manufacturing includes all actions in the supply chain that can enhance existing factory production, if not replace it entirely. Additive Manufacturing –. What Is It?

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The “First Five” Industrial Manufacturing Trends of 2017

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This simple fact is revolutionizing factory floors. You cannot realistically review every detail manually, so how Big Data is accessed and distributed will also change in 2017. This will lead to the creation of more metrics and business-intelligence tools to help improve manufacturing operations.