Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Supply chain management has been in the news. But the intricacies of supply chain management are beyond the grasp of most. One key solution used to help manage complex supply chains is supply chain planning (SCP). Supply chain planning is a complex solution.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

AUGUST 22, 2022

Here is the latest in a long series of supply chain catastrophes. China’s drought has severely affected hydroelectric power, and in the area of Sichuan province, factories have had mandatory power shutoffs. A number of these are chip factories and … Continue reading →

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Supply Chain and Logistics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

What else could go wrong for supply chains? Now government-imposed power cuts are threatening factory output in China. The cuts in power generation are due to the Chinese government’s desire to keep emissions down to their target. By Martina Li … Continue reading →

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How can a manufacturing business today become an intelligent and automated ecosystem – a smart factory that drives productivity, performance, and profitability? For the manufacturing business as they transform, the value of ERP begins with: Bespoke solutions for smart factory. A smarter supply chain with smart factory.

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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. The changes to the profession of supply chain management are dramatic. Firstly, the term “supply chain management” was not in general use before COVID. This worked.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Orders at factories are piling up as companies around the world struggle to meet demand amid a damaging mixture of the coronavirus and widespread bottlenecks in supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper University Health Care Relies Upon Real-time Alerts to Improve Operations Cooper University Health Care, like most companies, struggled with their supply chain during COVID. The company bought a risk solution that provides real-time alerts to potential supply disruptions. We knew exactly what we couldn’t get.”

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 2, 2023

Smart factories are growing in prominence as continued supply chain disruptions and pressures from the 4 th Industrial Revolution make embracing technology a necessity for manufacturers. For manufacturers to remain competitive, adopting more IoT technologies into their supply chain is key.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Supply Chain Resilience Depends Upon End-to-End Visibility Service companies, where one firm takes over a set of duties that used to be done in-house, is quite common. In supply chain services, the services company plans and executes on behalf of their clients. The right IT is critical. It has outsourced manufacturing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2022

But the topic is also of significance to supply chain practitioners. In fact, supply chains are being impacted directly by the war and by the sanctions being put in place in response. There is potential for oil and gas supply shortages to occur as well. It is certainly worthy of our concerns as individuals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

Franklin Sports needed to protect sales in this category by improving their pickleball supply chain. To achieve that, Franklin Sports supply chain needed to be improved significantly. Without an efficient supply chain, a company can’t meet the demand that exists, and competitors swoop in and grab market share.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The digital transformation of the operations and processes of factories and supply chains is based upon digitization of carefully selected machines and digitalization of the related business processes. Picture a company which uses analytics supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to implement a smart supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

IBP is a collaborative process involving diverse business functions that is designed to balance demand against supply in a manner that maximizes the goals of that company. This is, at many companies, a month-long process that produces a supply chain plan that spans out over several months – often 24 or 36 months.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Belcorp’s Maturity in Supply Chain Design. Belcorp Corporation has actively worked to be a leader in ensuring that their people can effectively use a complex type of software known as supply chain design. It requires a company to further leverage the supply chain design philosophy.

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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. While the impact on planet Earth is evident, and companies and countries are making strides to reduce emissions, climate change is also wreaking havoc on global supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

According to our recent SYSPRO Global Research report , 70% of manufacturers and distributors experienced supply chain disruptions, while 60% of businesses found themselves unable to engage with customers or suppliers. Increased safety and less on the job injuries in the warehouse and on the factory floor.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

China’s energy crisis is shaping up as the latest shock to global supply chains as factories in the world’s biggest exporter are forced to conserve energy by curbing production.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 17, 2021

factories strengthened in July by the most in four months, rebounding above pre-pandemic levels and indicating manufacturers are coping with snarled supply chains and shortages. Production at U.S.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Between droughts, floods, fires and violent storms, climate change is already impacting ports, highways and factories, and worsening conditions will increase the pressures felt on the supply chain. .

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Investing in and implementing smart sourcing and manufacturing solutions is not a quick and complete fix for today’s drug and device shortages, but it can help.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Supply chain automation is the use of digital technologies to improve efficiencies, connect applications and streamline processes within supply chain operations. If your factory is the heart of your organization, then your supply chain is the veins and arteries. How long does each task take?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

A large multinational is undergoing an impressive supply chain transformation that will run through 2023. A Complex Supply Chain. Not surprisingly a company this big, delivering different solutions to a variety of industries, has a complex supply chain. Comand and Control Center Application from Kinaxis.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 26, 2021

A supply chain crunch that was meant to be temporary now looks like it will last well into next year as the surging delta variant upends factory production in Asia and disrupts shipping, posing more shocks to the world economy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

Infor is one example of a supplier that offers both advanced visibility and supply chain planning. Supply chain practitioners are beginning to understand the same is true for supply chain planning (SCP) and multi-enterprise supply chain network solutions. MSCN and SCP are better together.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2022

In January 2023, the Germany Supply Chain Due Diligence Act will come into effect, requiring businesses to monitor supply chains for human rights violations and compliance with environmental standards. Abigail Myers-Antiaye – the principal product compliance manager at Coupa. This is not toothless legislation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. planning offers an alternative to swinging the pendulum and as the strategy that provides the supply chain resilience leaders seek.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. The ZF supply chain is complex. ZF’s Digital Supply Chain. ZF Began their Digital Resilience Transformation 20 Years Ago!

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Logistics Management

AUGUST 23, 2021

According to data released by Resilinc, a global leader in the supply chain risk monitoring space, human-caused supply chain disruptions are rising overall, with the amount of factory fires up 150% (when comparing the first half of 2021 to the first half of 2020).

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Artificial intelligence, combined with other technologies and innovations, could bring about some long-lasting improvement across the entire supply chain, from the factory floor to the retail shelf. Here are some scenarios.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2020

When I started my career the term “supply chain” was just emerging. Most professionals I interacted with during my early days in this industry were still referring to “materials management” and “procurement” when they spoke of what we call “supply chain” today.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 20, 2022

Elon Musk says Tesla’s Shanghai factory is “back with a vengeance” after a three-week Covid-induced shutdown. But his bullishness belies concern the plant has only enough components to last about a week even at reduced capacity — highlighting the challenges snarled supply chains pose to manufacturers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Ever since COVID hit, supply chain executives have embraced supply chain risk management. Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. Supply Chain Chaos is the New Norm. Then multiply by 10 for the Tier 3.”

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

Contrary to general opinion, the causes of the supply chain disruptions currently being experienced worldwide were prevalent long before the Covid-19 pandemic. . The current war in Ukraine will further destabilize the global supply chain. Technology, or a lack of it, also plays a key role.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 29, 2023

After the coronavirus, every aspect of the supply chain has changed. This article outlines the future of the supply chain in terms of current supply chain trends and the latest technologies. Localization After the coronavirus, the global supply chain will be more flexible.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2023

A larger share of freight forwarders and supply chain professionals this year in 2023 are expecting disruptions owing to COVID outbreaks in China and the Chinese New Year factory closures as compared to the last year (2022). “We We are looking at three different Chinese Years in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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