The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. Engineers ran the company, engineers decided what would be designed and built.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 14, 2023

Original article: PODCAST: Modern Courier Delivery Compliance Considerations: Understanding SOX and SOC Compliance Logistics and supply chain are some of the world’s most complex and regulated industries, which has been further compounded by increasing reliance on data and technology in both fields. What Is SOC Compliance?

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AIMMS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Part I in our series on assessing your network design’s maturity . How does you r network design compare to others ? It’s great to see the enthusiasm for this interactive tool. . Only about 22% use network design software and 18% use network design software with embedded analytics among this group. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

According to Bloomberg , the coffee supply chain is struggling with constrained supply and increase in prices is inevitable. Traditional, linear supply chains struggle to adapt. This article explores how adaptive supply chains can help businesses thrive.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

When it comes to supply chain design, we’re at another inflection point in the industry. The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For more than a year, global supply chains have been buffeted by one major disruption after another. The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. The impact?

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We often get asked what kind of return on investment you should expect to see when using our network design technology. While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines. Justifying the investment: AIMMS Network Design ROI. ” – Tweet this.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 22, 2022

The consequences of global supply chain disruption, labor shortages, rising costs, regional instabilities and general uncertainty continue to challenge the fabricated metal and manufacturing industry in general. Challenge: The supply of raw materials and achieving optimum inventory levels.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

Following a lengthy due diligence process, the Cardinal Partnership, Davies Turner and Woodland Group have created a holdings company and purchased UK-based freight software company Forward Computers Ltd from the Freight Software Group.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Reverse logistics, while not being the opposite of forward logistics, is still about products moving backwards in the supply chain. A well-implemented reverse logistics system is essential for managing these backward movements efficiently. Much depends upon the nature of your supply chain operation of course.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

The success of your business links inextricably to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

Planning a Warehouse Network and Design: Key Factors to Consider. In this post, I’d like to talk about the key factors that will impact on the optimum facility network and design required to meet your warehousing or storage requirements. Planning Individual Warehouse Design and Capacity. What Happens in Your Warehouses?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars has been on a journey to transform their digital supply chain. In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. Mars’s Digital Transformation Mr. Beery started by asking, “what does a digital supply chain mean for us?”

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

Some of the world’s biggest retailers and their partners are once again feeling the sting of “ the bullwhip effect ” – a term of art amongst supply chain professionals that describes how changes in demand at the retail level can reverberate and amplify issues throughout the supply chain. All aboard.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

The process as is implemented in many companies focuses on balancing demand and supply based on preestablished rules and policies that serve as guardrails for the planning process. More recently the technology has evolved to a point where such processes can be conducted at a faster cadence than a typical monthly cadence that was the norm.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Part I in our series on assessing your supply chain network’s maturity . How does you r supply chain network design compare to others ? It’s great to see the enthusiasm for this interactive tool. . “Do you currently use advanced analytics to optimize your supply chain network?

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The success of your business is inextricably linked to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. The success of your business is inextricably linked to the performance of your supply chain. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

Changes in our lives, economies and supply chains are ubiquitous and well embedded now. Challenges drive dramatic shifts in supply chain and logistics. Across many of our industries, conventional wisdom about best practices for supply chain operations and logistical networks is being challenged.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Development of a Fast Fashion Supply Chain Vertical Integration Wins in the Fast Fashion Race It’s not called fast fashion for nothing. However, agility can be said to begin at the last stage in the supply chainthe point at which consumers make their purchase in-store or place their orders online.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

To learn more about these efforts, we spoke with Wilko Sierksma , HEINEKEN’s manager for Network Design and Global S&OP. . Wilko, to start off, could you tell us more about the supply chain division you work for? . I work for Global Supply Chain, a division based in Zoeterwoude (the Netherlands).

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Whirlpool Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, with annual sales over $19 billion, more than 80,000 employees and more than 60 manufacturing and technology research centers globally. Supply chain management was not always a competitive advantage for Whirlpool.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 2, 2023

This holds true across all five key components of a medical manufacturing business: Design, Manufacture, Distribution, Maintenance, and Service. To contend with these pressures, medical device manufacturers crave actionable, real-time, accurate, and reliable data throughout the entire supply chain.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I have a theory or two about change and change management in supply chain organisations. Actually they apply to change in any organisation; supply chain isn’t really unique in its change management requirements. My first theory is this… People do like change. Hence change management will become easier.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

As a supply chain director, manager, or boss of a multinational corporation, where the supply chain is an integral part of your business, supply chain cost reductions are always at the forefront of your team’s mind. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Editor's Note: This guest contribution the Cerasis blog comes from our friends over at Fronetics an inbound and content marketing company who specializes in marketing for companies with a keen value adding business model for those in the supply chain and logistics industries. Supply Chain Planning Starts with Looking Back.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Security has been an issue since supply chains began. These and other factors have meant a rethink of supply chain security. Basics of Supply Chain Security. This can mean supply chain data, applications, IT systems, and IT account access. Vulnerabilities in the Supply Chain.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 30, 2020

Until the Coronavirus began wreaking its havoc, global companies could run their supply chains on the assumption that disruptions would be rare and short-lived, and that products should be sourced, produced, and distributed at the cheapest locations to be found, wherever in the world that may be. 2) Diversify Your Operations.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

If you’re serious about continuous improvement and developing a best-in-class supply chain to serve your organisation, keeping your managers and workforce educated is paramount. As any established supply chain professional will testify, this is a field in which the real learning begins after the formal education has ended.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 26, 2019

It is a well-known fact that supply chain is increasingly becoming digital. But is simply adding a digital component to the complex supply chain network enough to make it efficient? According to IBM, integrating supply chain with customer insight is essential for the success of the omnichannel.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The answer varies from function to function in the supply chain. Inventory Management is about having a right balance of expectations from different functions of the supply chain. For the companies we work with, we leverage an Inventory Planning & Management System (IP&M System) to address this challenge.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2017

The impact of supply chain performance on the success of a business is significant, but often underestimated, even within companies well-versed in supply chain management. Look for the signs, recognise the symptoms and if you need it, get some help to fix these important supply chain issues.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Supply chains are complex entities. While customer satisfaction is a hugely important criterion by which supply chain success is judged, so is supply chain profitability. While customer satisfaction is a hugely important criterion by which supply chain success is judged, so is supply chain profitability.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 24, 2018

Few people realise how much software runs today’s cars, observes Les Hatton, emeritus professor of forensic software engineering at Kingston University, UK. “We We sit at home and can’t work out why the printer isn’t working, and then we’ll get in a car where there’s probably more software underneath,” he says.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 11, 2025

The logistics systems which sustain nations and their military forces have always had a deadly life to paraphrase Deborah Cowen. The architecture of global supply chains, siphoning national wealth through geographic areas of immense strategic interest to nations and others, are natural points of strategic interest.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Why do transportation management systems (TMS) implementations get off track? First, let’s define TMS – this is the software used to manage purchased transportation. All too often, companies conflate TMS with vehicle routing & scheduling (VRS) and fleet management systems (FMS) with TMS. Systems Selection & Budget.

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Logistics in War

MAY 13, 2018

You needn’t venture far to find an article or military concept which in some way promotes technology and capability modernisation as a means of addressing the next, albeit hypothesised, battlefield challenge. Others recommend militaries adopt the early adoption and deployment of technology to offer forces an asymmetric advantage.

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