Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. These solutions were proven to increase productivity significantly. But the difficulty in finding workers has becoming a huge challenge at many factories and warehouses.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2024

As the Chinese New Year approaches, businesses around the world brace themselves for the impact that this significant cultural event can have on logistics, particularly in ocean and air shipments. This annual migration, known as the largest human migration in the world, significantly impacts production schedules.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 15, 2024

The Open Day, to be held on 5th June 2024, will provide attendees with the opportunity to find out more about the wide product range that Hörmann Transdek offer, take a tour of their recently updated manufacturing facilities, and enjoy an afternoon of golf.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 28, 2024

As global connectivity has greatly improved, companies can rely on fast and reliable shipping connections to ensure the timely delivery of raw materials and finished products to their factories and warehouses.

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The Lean Thinker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Kaizen Events. Kaizen events (or whatever we want to call the traditional week-long activity): Can be a useful tool when used in the context of an overall plan. This is independent of whether it is done in a week-long intense event or not. If there is interest, I’ll put something together. Every tool, technique, etc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2024

Matt Hoffman, Vice President of Product and Industry Solutions, at John Galt Solutions One-number plans are bad plans. Matt Hoffman, vice president of product and industry solutions at John Galt Solutions, uses the analogy of a trip to an airport to explain why a probabilistic approach is better than one-number planning.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Dutch plastic packaging manufacturer Flestic installed SmartMONITOR from WERMA to optimise its production. Just a few years later, the company moved to a larger hall and today the medium-sized company in Dronten, the Netherlands, produces intelligent packaging solutions made of plastic on a production area of more than 7,000 sq m.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2021

Deborah Dull is Founder of The Circular Supply Chain Network and a Principal of Manufacturing Product Management for GE Digital where she is responsible for circular economy, lean management, and customer success. The materials that normally would end up in garbage dump are repurposed into the production of another product.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

They are a leading supplier of poultry, pet food and animal nutrition products based in Siloam Springs, Arkansas in the US. Depending on the product, their customers are consumer goods companies, retailers, food service distributors and restaurant chains. That factory also aims to rapidly process the raw materials into product.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“We luckily were never in a situation where our staff had to go without personal protection equipment or had to use makeshift products.” And then, trying to make sure we were getting quality products.” “Our And the reasons spanned from a global chip shortage, to embargoes, to factory fires, to natural disasters.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

A multi-enterprise supply chain network provides visibility to upstream and downstream events that can affect a company’s supply chain. This is how Jerry Bolton, the senior director of product development for supply chain management at Infor, describes connected planning. “I Visibility to Events. Connected Planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2024

Unexpected events occur. There can be surprises that offer a better upside—demand is higher than expected, it is possible to raise prices without affecting demand based on what is happening with competitor products, technology has allowed manufacturing capacity to ramp up faster than expected, etc. More than 5.6

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The conference as a whole was fantastic, from the location and networking events to the conversations I had and sessions I attended. These disruptions occur for myriad reasons, such as factory disruptions in China or ships getting stuck in the Panama Canal. Last week I attended FourKites Visibility 2023 in Chicago, IL.

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 5, 2021

to Rick from the factory where I had spent a week working with Mr. Shimura of Shingijutsu and Reiko, his interpreter. I knew that Rick would be wrapping up a class teaching the basics of kaizen events to a group of suppliers and if I were lucky, he would see the pager message and use it as a reinforcement to the participants.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 17, 2022

Courney is a Strategic Event Executive and the Chief Corporate Development Officer and President of Manifest at Connectiv, a live event studio based in NYC. Connectiv produces world-class industry leading events that focus on disruptive technology. We are a private live event studio. Anyway, it was a great event.

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EazyStock

AUGUST 8, 2023

Smart inventory managers plan for Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year) many months before the event. During this time, production across China will stop, and shipping will be delayed. Some factories might close at different times or for different periods. What about different products?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

Afterall, port congestion has cleared, transportation costs have gone down, we are seeing far fewer product shortages, and the looming recession will likely take some of the pressure off hiring and retention woes. By October 2010, Foxconn’s factories in Shenzhen alone had as many as 500,000 workers. But the combined U.S.

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 12, 2019

After successful initial trials with converted factory vehicles, the company is now testing them in everyday operations. If the entire fleet of factory vehicles across the company’s 16 production sites worldwide were powered by second-use lithium-ion batteries, the OEM says it would “save millions.”.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

He is also an active entrepreneur, having founded five successful companies, all acquired by larger enterprises, and a sought-after speaker at corporate and professional events. Exploring the complex production systems of consumer goods, from Grape-Nuts to diapers. Following the journey of the t-shirt from factory to retailer.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

The 500,000th forklift from the factory producing Hyster® lift trucks in Northern Ireland has been donated to a local branch of FareShare, the UK’s longest running food redistribution charity. Giving back is something that is incredibly important to our whole team,” says Darren Johnston.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Peaks are no longer simply associated with the predictable Christmas or Easter periods, but are now far more frequent and exaggerated, triggered by unexpected events, such as a random remark on Twitter. The post Making warehouses more productive and fairer appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Dedola Global Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As Chinese factories roared back to life following the Covid lockdowns of 2020, coal consumption within the country skyrocketed. Energy shortages have led to factory closings, production delays and choked the flow of imports from Chinese ports. The Current Situation in the Asia Pacific Trade.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For supply chain executives, this is a good time to start contemplating stock keeping unit (SKU) reductions (reducing the number of products and product variations manufactured). Can the product be redesigned with lower cost substitute inputs? Companies also tend to be slow to cut production. The Pending Recession.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 25, 2022

Since the arrival of the Internet, no event has shaken up this global market more than the pandemic. COVID-19 increased global demand for consumer devices, and only the production of chips for consumer devices alone was barely foreseeable. Building more factories was the most obvious solution. What could be the solution?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The work is also better because even for handpicked food, workers can work at a station, like in a factory, rather than doing stoop labor.To And of course, Oracle with their investments in Cloud computing, Internet of Things technology, and artificial intelligence can be used to minimize inputs while increasing productivity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

To accomplish this, 10,000 supply chain associates worked with 450 global vendors who operate over 600 factories. A regional supply chain does not mean supply chain operations are not impacted by global events. VF is having conversations with fabric manufacturers to encourage them to produce more fabric in factories outside of Asia.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Supply chain disruption is a fact of life for every company that moves any type of product. Your organization’s ability to anticipate disruption, adapt to events, and build resiliency is rooted in how you maintain operational continuity. January and February 2021 were characterized by repeated winter weather events nationwide.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2024

The Masters has a notoriously unforgiving cut, allowing only the top-50 players from the first two days to advance into the weekend, where most PGA events mark their cut at the top-61. to expand the adoption of its HarvestHold Fresh product in Canada to improve the sustainability and efficiency of the North American broccoli supply chain.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Because of the dynamic market they operate in, IM&E manufacturers are seeking to balance productivity and efficiency with responsiveness and agility. Quality and safety Customers expect higher quality products from manufacturers. Improving customer service Changes in customer demand are driving changes in various processes.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 14, 2019

Japanese OEM Honda is to suspend production at its British plant for six days in April after the UK leaves the European Union on March 29. These contingency provisions have been put in place to best mitigate the risk of disruption to production operations at the Swindon factory,” a company spokesperson said.

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year) might seem like a long way off, but smart inventory managers will be starting to plan for this event very soon. In 2022 this will be from January 31 until February 6, and during this time production across China will stop and shipping will be delayed. Product quality issues. No contact.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On the other hand, “the current system of global trade funnels tens of millions of shipping containers stuffed with couches, clothing and car parts from foreign factories to the United States each year, often at astonishingly low prices. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has been a strong proponent of free trade. Eliminating this bias,” Ms.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2020

According to Cyrus Hadavi, the CEO of Adexa, the key to concurrency (which Adexa calls “event driven planning”) is a unitary model of the extended supply chain, both horizontal and vertical. Thus, companies might deploy a higher-level model for IBP, but then would need a much more detailed model to optimize factory scheduling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

If you take a big consumer goods company, you don’t need to just model products and customers,” o9’s CEO explained. When it comes to the constrain-based models, Mr. Gottemukkala continued, it’s not just about modeling the factories and the distribution centers. Thus, the initial plan must be modified.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

Under this program, power plants and factories that emit carbon dioxide have to buy so-called allowances to account for the damage they cause. The instances of extreme weather events continue to grow on a yearly basis. Similarly, the EU has implemented a tax structure to cut emissions. It’s a way to make companies pay to pollute.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

At the same time, Apple tried to steal the show by showcasing its new products at the Hey Siri event. And how much would it cost you or me if we could order one phone direct from the factory? To estimate the first month’s sales we took last year’s first month sales after the September Event. cost Apple?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Abigail Myers-Antiaye – the principal product compliance manager at Coupa. Further, under the provisions of the new legislation, companies’ responsibility extends beyond their own factories, warehouses, stores, and corporate offices to encompass their entire supply chain. Unsafe working conditions. Discriminatory Employment.

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