Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supply chain performance requirements. A skills assessment survey was done to measure potential gaps against a pre-determined skills matrix. The premise of the study was interesting.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Studies show that in some areas, around a third of companies that were unable to fill all vacancies did not receive a single application. As studies show, young people place a high value on flat hierarchies and want modern IT systems in their day-to-day work. Small companies are still excluded from supply chain laws in many countries.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

SYSPRO ’s 2020 survey, The Inflection Point for the Factory of the Future , showed that only about one-third (38%) of manufacturers’ business systems had enabled them to meet the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, a 2021 study from McKinsey showed that just 19% of companies that had adopted Industry 4.0

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A study by PwC found that 66% of surveyed executives anticipate higher supply chain costs as a result of diversifying away from China. Another disadvantage is to be able to maintain enough inventory levels in multiple locations to meet ever-changing demand.

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Locus

MAY 25, 2023

In a survey conducted in 2022 of US consumers, 55% of them stated that direct delivery to home is the biggest driver of online purchase. Ford Whitman Harris first published the model of Economic Order Quantity in a paper Factory, The Magazine of Management , in 1913. Let’s apply the EOQ formula here on this problem √2 * 2000 * 5 / 10.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Typically product life cycle studies included just a handful of products, and results were extrapolated to similar products. We are seeing increasing levels of automation permeate many jobs today, both in factories as well in the headquarters offices of many companies.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

. Let’s start with a basic but critical fact: for physical product companies, “sustainability is intimately connected with supply chains, the complex economic structures formed by companies that are using the global supply of natural resources to meet worldwide demand,” Sheffi notes.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 30, 2020

He lost his job at a glass factory in March as the economy slowed because of the pandemic and containment measures. Three months later, he is only called in irregularly to the factory, which has re-opened but is still hit by reduced demand. The study found households headed by women, the disabled and elderly were the worst affected.

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