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Effective Supplier Collaboration Is Critical

Logistics Viewpoints

In one McKinsey survey of more than 100 large organizations in multiple sectors, companies that regularly collaborated with suppliers demonstrated higher growth, lower operating costs, and greater profitability than their industry peers. The remainder of this article will focus on the technology issues.

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Supply Chain Helps Meet ESG Goals

Blue Grace Logistics

As corporations become increasingly focused on ESG initiatives, their supply chain and logistics partners respond with tools and services designed to help them grow sustainability and other goals. Inbound Logistics. ” READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE. Sandra Beckwith. Jun 13, 2022. Leaf Logistics Inc.

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Defining the Full Scope of Visibility in the Supply Chain

Turvo

A report based on a survey by Finances Online found that the most critical inventory management practices for companies were forecasting (61.3%), warehouse management (50%), logistics (46.8%), and back-end technology (32.3%). Keeping this focus continues to be essential for the management of the supply chain. .

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Manufacturing Blogging – great idea or waste of time?

GlobalTranz

Summary of other articles. What better way to do that than to start publishing articles about their issues and sending them straight to their inboxes (if they opt in). We recently engaged with a company and had lots of inbound lead generation success and revenue generation, with their blog being a key aspect of the plan.

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5 Skills Necessary For Maximizing Logistics Effectiveness

GlobalTranz

In this article, I propose to have a look at several logistic skills that, besides the specific knowledge in this area, will help to maximize the logistics effectiveness. The tools and techniques of Six Sigma put team’s heads together and stimulate innovation. Integrity, in general, means fairness.

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Supply Chain Visibility: A Precursor to Insight and Optimization

CLX Logistics

Augment and Set Visibility Tools In Place. The first tangible step towards achieving SCV is to get the basic visibility tools in place. These tools include sophisticated IT platforms such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) software; electronic data interchange (EDI); or transportation management systems (TMS).

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The Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts from 2014

GlobalTranz

Since the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing has been synonymous with factories, machine tools, production lines and economies of scale. So it is startling to think about manufacturing without tooling, assembly lines or supply chains. However, that is what is emerging as as the future of 3D printing services takes hold.

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