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The Real Impact of Pests on Shipping and How to Reduce Pest Issues

MTS Logistics

There must be efficient strategies deployed to reduce the spread of pests and different stakeholders must contribute in some way. The emerald ash borer, a devastating wood-boring insect found in China and eastern Asia, is an example of a pest that is expensive to eradicate. economy more than $1 billion annually.

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Resilience by Design: The Power of Simulation in Supply Chain Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

This article describes how to incorporate simulation techniques into optimization, build a stochastic optimization model, and end up with a more resilient supply chain model. That strategy can lead to thousands of scenarios, and still no number of scenarios will answer all questions. But it has gaps.

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The New Significance of a Logistics Strategy: Role, Success factors, and Integration

Logistics Viewpoints

Logistics strategy as an enabler of new business models. They promoted logistics to the level of core process and enabler of new business models and now view a thought-through logistics strategy as an opportunity to stand out by offering a better service level to their customers, such as same-day delivery. Automation as key for growth.

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How to Improve your Manufacturing Processes with Business Intelligence

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

For manufacturers, having the right business intelligence on hand at the right time can eliminate the guesswork from decision making, offering real-time visibility into business processes so you can anticipate your next move. Eliminate reporting inconsistencies and data redundancy. Reduce data warehousing costs. Scarce manpower.

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Top 5 Barriers to Supply Chain Network Design Adoption and How to Overcome Them

Speaker: Brian Dooley, Director SC Navigator, AIMMS, and Paul van Nierop, Supply Chain Planning Specialist, AIMMS

Want to build your internal capability, reduce costs and make better decisions? You may have recently had M&A activity, about to roll out a new product line or need to cut costs. Don’t have the right tools/tools are too complex or expensive. It's easier than you think. We’ve all been there. Lack of skilled resources.

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Supply Chain on-Time, in Full Strategies

Logistics Business Magazine

But, how can you drive efficiency, and accuracy whilst saving time in your supply chain with on-time in full strategies? How can you ensure that you’re succeeding in this area? It all comes down to your on-time in full strategies. On this page, we’ll take a close look at OTIF, its benefits, and how you can improve yours.

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Bundle Up: The Art and Economics of Kitting Your Way to Success

Stord

You can catch up on the first post about how to tactically create a kiting system for your organization here. Or, your brand could create a kit of the Manchester United kit to celebrate Kit Harrington’s birthday… Not only did I find a way to write kit with 3 different meanings in the same sentence, it also is a not half-bad kit strategy.