Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2018

The New York-based China Labor Watch released a report at the weekend following a nine-month investigation of working conditions at a factory in the city of Hengyang owned by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the company known as Foxconn, which manufactures products for Amazon.

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Logistics Manager

AUGUST 21, 2019

The group of university students visited the ONE Thailand office at Chamchuri Square in Bangkok and were given a formal lecture of ONE’s business operations and overall look of an ocean shipping industry by Mr. Kiyoshi Tokonami, Managing Director ONE Thailand; and Mr. Kazuhiro Kuroda, Assistant General Manager, Marketing and Planning Division.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2020

The pace of reported coronavirus cases has slowed in the most seriously affected regions of China, allowing factories to reopen and people to return to work. However, automakers and a plethora of other industries will only resume full production by mid-April due to a shortage of components. How China’s Manufacturing is Recovering.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Lödige Industries is providing automated storage and buffer systems for BMW Group’s new automobile manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The storage and buffer systems support the automation solutions that the BMW Group facility uses to set new standards in vehicle manufacturing.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

Professor Sheffi is the author of a 1985 textbook on transportation networks and eight management books, dealing with supply chain resilience, sustainability, industrial clustering, and other business management issues. The 5 th Industrial Revolution: Why human and A.I. Following the journey of the t-shirt from factory to retailer.

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Automotive Logistics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Magna Steyr’s vehicle assembly plant in the Austrian city of Graz is not a typical automotive factory; the site, which in 2018 brought its cumulative total production tally to 3.5m So perhaps it is no surprise to discover that the plant was an early adopter of industry 4.0, has been rebadged as ‘Smart Factory by Magna Steyr’.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

Schoeller Allibert Group has inaugurated its 14th worldwide production plant in Beringen, Belgium. The company says it will be a model factory for all future plants of the group. The Schoeller Allibert Beringen factory is one of the most important projects of the group, it says.

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 6, 2019

Swedish truckmaker Scania has moved production closer to sales in Southeast Asia with the opening of a factory in Thailand to assemble truck and bus chassis from complete knockdown (CKD) kits shipped in from Europe, as well as manufacturing truck cabs locally.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Many of my ARC Advisory Group colleagues were in attendance due to our company’s strong focus on manufacturing automation. Systems Integration and Customization OTTO Motors has developed an ecosystem that includes systems integrators that specialize in specific industries or geographies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. ZF is a Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry. This information includes a supplier profile that sets out the criteria for which suppliers are used to support the manufacture of designated products, and which factories those vendors supply.

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 27, 2023

Shipping giant Maersk is out with a new warning: despite the Chinese economy staying resilient in the wake of the Covid pandemic, other factors such as a Chinese real estate market crash and repeating factory shutdowns in 2021 and 2022 have slowed down the Chinese economic recovery.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Conveyor specialist Interroll is building a new factory at Kronau, in the greater Karlsruhe area of Germany. The company is investing a total of around €40 million in stages, and completion of the factory is planned by the end of 2020. “With the new factory, we are not only creating new capacities. .”

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MTS Logistics

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Disease Disease, known in the form of the Covid lockdowns, hit Chinese factories hard. Additionally, due to market share loss to other countries, some industries will never recover. Also, the auto industry accounts for 25 percent of the economic activity between these two countries. and China where the U.S.

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Airfreight Logistics

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

CLIVE’s first-to-market analysis each month consolidates data shared by a representative group of international airlines operating to all corners of the globe. The impact of the coronavirus on cargo volumes out of China will become clearer in the weeks to come when the factories reopen and their supply chains are brought up to speed again.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Volkswagen Group has said it expects substantial logistics benefits to follow, now that it is producing the new-look Audi A1 in Seat’s Martorell factory in Spain. “[It] The post VW Group highlights gains from making Audi A1 in Spain appeared first on Automotive Logistics.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

Focus topics and products In 2022, the focus was mainly on innovative, energy-saving drive solutions to significantly reduce the energy consumption in industrial applications and to appropriately respond to the increasing energy costs – for example by using the patented DuoDrive and the high-efficiency IE5+ motors.

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Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 28, 2023

billion in 2022, according to data from the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America, a trade group now part of the Global Private Capital Association. companies opening factories in Mexico, for example, nor investment in private real estate. That was down from a record $5.6 billion volume of 2019. Canada and Mexico.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These high-quality systems have been meticulously designed to meet the requirements of global and regional customers from all industries and to ensure swift and easy installation. Philip Mylle, CSO of stow Group commented: “At LogiMAT 2024, we want to share all our racking expertise with our customers in a fruitful dialogue.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

After three years of fruitful collaboration, Ferretto Group Spa, founded in 1956 in Vicenza and today one of the leaders in the storage and materials handling sector, is once again 100% held by the Ferretto family. Ltd, listed on the Shenzen stock exchange, and stands out as a further step toward the growth and future expansion of the Group.

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Trinity Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Here’s a look at some of the top industry stories making headlines in November. ATA cites consumption, factory output, construction, and improved inventory levels throughout the supply chain as driving factors in the improvement. You're reading November Industry News Update written by Brittany Siegel. in October, up 9.9

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MTS Logistics

MAY 23, 2022

The root causes of the shortage are numerous and stem from factory closures, supplier issues, and disruptions in the supply chain. Interestingly enough, when it comes to the baby formula shortage of 2022, the root cause of the issue is actually the baby formula industry itself, and not shipping carriers.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With over two decades of executive management experience in the operations of various global industries, Domenico brings a wealth of expertise in efficiency creation, process optimization, and reengineering to his new role.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

Shift to EVs triggers auto-factory building boom. Descartes Systems Group , a global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that it has acquired Supply Vision, a provider of shipment management solutions for North American Logistics Services Providers (LSPs). Descartes acquires Supply Vision.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 9, 2022

The formula shortage we are seeing now all started with the backlog of supply chain issues that resulted from the closed factories during the pandemic. The recalls and the shutdown of Abbott were devastating to the industry since Abbott is one out of the four companies that manufacture 90% of all baby formula.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Brandt Group, the Franco-Algerian home appliances manufacturer, has optimised the supply of washing machines, cutting costs and excess stock by up to a third after implementing supply chain software from FuturMaster. The manufacturer operates four factories, two in France and two in Algeria and has three warehouses around the world.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

The entire supply chain industry was caught flat-footed by the seismic disruptions wrought by the pandemic. It was precisely the industry’s inability to make real-time decisions (based on real-time data) that was at the root of depleted store shelves, clogged ports and warehouses overflowing with excess inventory. He lives in Chicago.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

When it comes to the constrain-based models, Mr. Gottemukkala continued, it’s not just about modeling the factories and the distribution centers. For example, for a yogurt company, decision of where to ship a short lifecycle product coming out of a factory is done daily because “demand can shift in very short time frames.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2024

The ARC Advisory Group believes that leading supplier risk management providers are being actively scouted for acquisition by supply chain software vendors. Everstream offers an advanced supplier risk management solution. This is not the first combination of MSCN and supply chain planning.

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Transporeon

MARCH 16, 2015

BSH Group, manufacturer of domestic equipment, has strongly improved its transportation tendering and planning processes. Optimized tender processes The first step in the worldwide optimization project was the implementation of Ticontract, the tendering platform of the Transporeon group. Previously this was done manually.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In other words, the manufacturing skills gap is brewing a cauldron of dangers and profit losses, and you need to understand a few things about bridging the gap in factory settings. The role of training in the factory remains a top factor for bridging the skills gap. Training Can Be Part of Workforce Development Strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Christine Barnhart, the vice president of Christine Barnhart at MSCN vendor Nulogy, points out that these networks tend to grow up as solutions for industries and thus have data elements and functionality particularly relevant to that industry. In automotive, the OEM says “jump” and the suppliers asks “how high?”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2020

Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) has been selected for the A-list, the maximum score, in surveys conducted by CDP on climate change for the second year in a row now. Toyota Material Handling Europe has been continuously contributing to achieve Toyota Industries Corporation’s CO2 targets.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

TOKYO (Reuters) – A two-armed robot in a Japanese factory carefully stacks rice balls in a box, which a worker carries off for shipment to convenience stores. Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ collaborative robot stacks rice balls at Delicious Cook &Co’s food factory in Narashino, Japan, April 17, 2018.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In line with the growing demand for electric powered equipment, this multidirectional forklift with up to 5t lift capacity, combines emission-free operation with powerful performance for a wide range of industries and applications. Customer testimonial. So, an improvement to the environment in more ways than one.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Expanding its expertise in robotics, the TGW Logistics Group has revealed a comprehensive range of mobile robots called Quba. “Mobile robots are a key technology for high-performance, flexible and future-proof intralogistics,” emphasises Harald Schröpf, Chief Executive Officer of the TGW Logistics Group.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The EMEA division of Hyster-Yale Group has announced that Harry Sands will retire as the Company’s Senior VP and Managing Director, EMEA, from 30 September 2020, after almost 40 years of service. Harry Sands has served as the Senior VP and Managing Director, EMEA, for Hyster-Yale Group since 2015.

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

For years now, we’ve watched the old guard of the packaged-food industry get pummeled as consumers look to fill their grocery carts with trendier items bearing feel-good labels such as “natural” or “sustainably sourced.”. So we can’t help but wonder: Is the apparel industry next? Earlier this year, Levi Strauss & Co.

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