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How to Make Your Supply Chain More Resilient

Logistics Bureau

Just ask any manufacturer who’s had to halt production because a single critical component wasn’t available. The resilience of your supply chain is determined by its structure and operations, whether we’re dealing with major immediate events like a pandemic or gradual systemic changes to your business environment over time.

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10 Issues Keeping Manufacturers and Distributors Up At Night for 2015

GlobalTranz

As we get settled into this new year, we thought we’d share observations from conversations we’ve had with manufacturers and distributors recently. In fact, in order to combat these ever pressing issues and competition, we recently shared our insights on trends for 2015 facing manufacturers and distributors on the Cisco-Eagle Blog.

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Celanese Leads the Pack When it Comes to Agentic AI

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC has been actively studying industrial AI for over two years. Ibrahim Al Syed, the director of digital manufacturing at Celanese, was surprisingly forthcoming about how Celanese developed these capabilities at ARC Advisory Groups 29th Annual ARC Industry Leadership Forum. The company has 55 manufacturing sites across the world.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

In the late 1980s and early 1990s Colin Fox, an early consultant in the world of flow production, had led a series of study missions to Japan that engaged Boeing’s top 100 or so leaders. These study missions were quite eye-opening for the participants. Most of these were small-scale tactical affairs.

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How to Improve Manufacturing Floor Data Collection

GlobalTranz

To log, track and trace everything’, your vision of a better manufacturing floor. Here’s how you can improve manufacturing floor data collection, long-term. A key component of any manufacturing process is data collection. However, are you starting to outgrow your manufacturing floor data collection system ? The problem?

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Logistics Tips: Shipping to Trade Shows & the Future of International Auto Events

Trans Global Auto Logistics

Every year, massive convention centers around the country host thirty or forty major events a year. Many more are business-to-business events at which manufacturers display their wares to wholesalers and retail buyers. B2B exhibition organizers to either postpone their events to late 2020/early 2021 or cancel them entirely.”.

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Analytics in Supply Chain Management Becomes Central As Coronavirus Escalates

IoT World Today

in manufacturing dominance. Manufacturing companies that have relied on China for production materials are feeling the blowback of this dependence; some retailers source more than half their inventory from China, according to 2020 Statista data. Indeed, by 2010, China surpassed the U.S.