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Scenario Modeling Is Now Crucial for Supply Chain Network Design

AIMMS

How are companies leveraging scenario modeling for network design and optimization ? The company modeled scenarios and performed simulations in AIMMS Network Design Navigator with all their products grouped together. Another use case we see for scenario modeling in the current context is evaluating new sourcing locations.

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Evolving Supply Chain Models and the Outlook for Investors

Logistics Bureau

Integrated networks of “as-a-service” platforms, including analytics engines that predict demand dynamically, can enable businesses to scale autonomously to meet peaks and troughs. Because of the evolving need to provide customers with ever-greater choices and meet their requirements for customisation and personalisation.

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13 Warehouse Types: Definitions, Functions & Examples

Conger

Plenty of examples of warehousing. Additionally, some businesses that own private warehouses adopt a hybrid model, wherein they lease extra open space to other companies to store their goods. Perhaps the most prominent fulfillment center example is Amazon’s fulfillment centers. For example, take Co-op Partners Warehouse in St.

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Meeting the demand for sustainable e-commerce packaging

Logistics Business Magazine

Whether dealing with the direct dispatch of individual goods, packing multi-pack products, or meeting the complex requirements of returned goods packaging, the servo X e-com ensures products are packed with the lowest amount of material needed, automatically adjusting the film bags with four sealed sides to the product’s length.

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Hyster fine-tunes trucks to meet industry challenges

Logistics Business Magazine

For example, in construction materials applications, lift trucks will often be used outside in dirty or dusty environments with poor ground conditions,” says Robert O’Donoghue, VP Marketing and Solutions EMEA for Hyster. The truck can also be fine-tuned with mirror and camera options to meet application-specific needs.

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Scenario Modeling Is Now Crucial for Supply Chain Network Design

AIMMS

How are companies leveraging scenario modeling for network design and optimization ? The company modeled scenarios and performed simulations in AIMMS Network Design Navigator with all their products grouped together. Another use case we see for scenario modeling in the current context is evaluating new sourcing locations.

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The Top Floor to Shop Floor Production Planning Handoff is Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Increasingly it is recognized that the executive planning meetings, that typically take place once a month, should be chaired by a top floor executive – a chief financial officer, chief operations officer, or even chief executive officer. An example of switchable constraint would be a factory that needs to close.