Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Increasingly it is recognized that the executive planning meetings, that typically take place once a month, should be chaired by a top floor executive – a chief financial officer, chief operations officer, or even chief executive officer. Your inventory levels in the factory are right, your routings are accurate.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Mr. Masson points out the “challenges are not just about the volume, but also the complexity and fragmentation of data generated by sensors, machines, and smart factories. For instance, advanced factory scheduling solutions use predictive maintenance inputs, which rely on sensor data to forecast equipment failures.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Optimization is used in supply planning, factory scheduling, supply chain design , and transportation planning. In mathematical terms, optimization is a mixed-integer or linear programming approach to finding the best combination of warehouses, factories, transportation flows, and other supply chain resources under real-world constraints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 27, 2024

Supply chain management involves efficiently orchestrating suppliers, factories, warehouses, transportation modes, and points of sale so that products are produced and distributed in the right quantities, place, and time. The goal is to minimize total operating costs and meet customer service expectations.

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ShipLilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

According to information obtained from at least three executives from some of the largest container lines, there is a concerted effort to meet the surprisingly high demand from US shippers. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, many factories were forced to close to avoid cross infections. Most ships are actually on the water at the moment.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2019

The extra capacity is required to meet the sustained and growing demand for Flexi trucks from third party logistics specialists as well as own-account warehouse operators across a diverse range of industry sectors – both in the UK and worldwide.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Many of today’s manufacturing trends are in line with the industry’s goals to improve processes, create more efficiency, and meet consumer demand. For example, manufacturing output has been expected to increase by 2.4 Another reason for increased output is the changes in manufacturing factories and their companies. Industry 4.0

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

For example, a vaccine manufacturer increased their order size by a factor of four in one weekend; a video call company wanted to receive ten times as much product as they initially forecast with just a month’s lead-time. For example, planning was still done using spreadsheets. I’m a factory rat,” Mr. Fitzgerald declared.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This variability in manufacturing operations led the OTTO team to develop its AMR offering as a platform on which applications can be activated to meet specific needs. One is an OPC UA-based interface for connecting to the factory control layer. OTTO’s technology development is guided by three main tenets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A network design model figures out where factories and warehouses should be located. SCP solutions set target service levels , for example 99% for the most important customers and 95% for the rest, and achieves those service level targets at the lowest cost. Here the savings are based on transportation and facility cost savings.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

There are many causes, for example, container ships from Asia are now too large to traverse the Panama Canal (20 years ago they were not), so they offload on the West Coast of the United States and are compelled to truck all goods to the East Coast. The AI, for example, should flag any orders that are way beyond the normal demands. .

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Many of today’s manufacturing trends are in line with the industry’s goals to improve processes, create more efficiency, and meet consumer demand. To combat the shortage, manufacturers are looking for ways to recruit and retain skilled talent, by raising wages and reskilling current talent to meet company needs. Industry 4.0

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 22, 2022

The fabricated metals industry operates with a low margin in a highly competitive market and material availability, production schedules and workforce skills must align to meet customer expectations. Challenge: Meeting unique customer requirements. Challenge: Skills gap on the factory floor.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 13, 2024

I was at the TPM meeting back in early 2024. One major example is semiconductors. It’s worth even checking where/how companies’ main factories are doing sourcing from and de-risking sourcing by switching (if possible) to areas where threat levels are much lower.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available. A classic example of this is a heijunka or load-leveling box. This all changed shortly after WWII.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2021

When a plan is created for one business function, like manufacturing for example, that plan effects things like customer service levels, profitability, cash flows, staffing and many other things. The goal is to produce an integrated plan that meets the strategic goals of the overall organization. This is a rolling one-month process.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Here are examples of the tangible return-on-investment (ROI) ERP can bring to your business: Maintain competitive advantage with ERP. During the pandemic ERP kept industries in operation with its ability to sustain business operations through remote access to data, automated reporting, electronic data exchange, and real-time factory controls.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 25, 2022

Anyone currently ordering a game console, smartphone or car risks paying more or waiting longer than two years ago (the black market that has been evolving around the ‘new’ PlayStation 5 since September/October is a great example). Building more factories was the most obvious solution. But, TSMC’s supply has limits.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Orders can be cancelled, rush orders come in, factory machines go down, port congestion occurs, and so forth. For example, a suggestion from the system might be to transfer 96,154 units of a stock keeping unit to a distribution center in Denver to fill a projected backorder. Allocation is a good example of this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 19, 2023

For example, as a picker is moving through the warehouse, their scan gun will read, “go to location XB312 and pick three cases!” Companies can invest to make sure their factories are efficient. The factory achieves its key metrics, but the metrics that really matter, a high service level at the lowest possible cost, are not met.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2021

Or the impact of a tier 3 supplier delay on the part you need getting on a truck to your plant in time for you to meet the production schedule so you can deliver on time in full to meet your customer’s newest requirements?”. One example is an alert that a truck will be late based on a GPS feed. – mentioned above.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A notable example of greenwashing is when McDonald’s introduced paper straws to reduce plastic pollution. Agility Robotics , the creators of the bipedal robot Digit are bringing the world’s first factory for humanoid robots to Salem and say they will soon have the capacity to produce 10,000 robots a year.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The benefit of these doors is that they meet all the specified requirements, even for over-size products,” explains Tomáš Adamec, technical manager at STORA ENSO. They meet the high requirements demanded by modern operations, are reliable, and can save a significant amount of energy thanks to their high opening and closing speed.

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The Lean Thinker

APRIL 20, 2020

The whole goal of an ideal “Just-in-Time” system is that we have only the capacity required to meet the demand. This is true in Steve’s example of an Emergency Department. It is also true in many traditional factories. are an example of this. In other words, takt time is the required rate of production.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2024

A one-number forecast, for example, looks across the range of demand that might emerge in a period and decides to create a forecast that is mid-way between the most and the least demand that is apt to emerge. For example, in a trip to the airport, there is a chain of events that determines whether a person will arrive on time.

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ShipLilly

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The coming months are going to be a real test of the shipping industry in terms of how it can manage capacity and coordinate to meet the needs of customers. Chinese factories are facing challenges of meeting excessive orders that are way beyond their current capacity. The statistics are startling.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

They realized then that Boeing had to transform itself from an engineering company focused solely on meeting engineering challenges to one focused on meeting the needs of the customers. But the key to meeting the needs of the customers was more than just understanding those needs better. Usually… overtime.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure. One example of the value of machine learning in demand planning comes from Mahindra & Mahindra. These constraints need to be understood.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

Three stories, large windows, white facade: From the outside, the Polymax Group factory in the Chinese coastal city of Ningbo could also be located somewhere in Germany. Wolfram Geuting tries to spend at least two days a week in this factory. 210 employees work in the factory. In order to supply around 8.3

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But more than half of their shipments – including a significant portion that begin at factories in Asia – travel across oceans or continents These long-distance shipments go by ocean, air, or rail. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 27, 2022

The new problems stem from the recent port lockdowns, factory closures in Asia, a slow down in production, and mixed signals on U.S. For example, recently Target was forced to write down the value of excess inventory that’s stuck in warehouses. consumer demand despite increasing inflation. Furthermore, T.J. Let’s not forget U.S.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 26, 2022

A fully-integrated ERP solution enables manufacturers to tackle the immense challenges they face by optimizing their business operations, meeting and satisfying customer demands, and increasing factory output without having to add additional headcount to meet these goals.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

His definition is closely linked to the concept of sustainable development, which the 1987 Brundtland Report describes as ‘‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs’’. Examples of CSR Programmes. Example #1: Lego. Example #2: Salesforce.

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CH Robinson Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2021

At year-end, we typically see a jump in demand as shippers meet quarter-end quotas and prepare for the upcoming Lunar New Year, during which many factories in China shut down. For example, with the ongoing port congestion and delays, C.H. Seek creative solutions across the entire supply chain.

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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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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 1, 2022

Ongoing challenges in the supply chain, such as shortages caused by increased demands and the shutting down of some factories, continue to affect manufacturing businesses even to this day. It records all the parts, materials, and processes used on the factory floor. What is a Bill of Materials? However, BOM offers more value.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2024

For example, Mr. Tamma explained, “for the BMW X5 model, we have a specific corresponding products ranging from 19-inch to 22-inch rim sizes.” Pirelli’s digital transformation challenge was to use a new digital platform that could scale to meet its complex integrated business planning process. This is a complex supply chain.

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