The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

His latest books include The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19 (2020) and A Shot in the Arm: How Science, Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the World (2021). Following the journey of the t-shirt from factory to retailer. Future trends in world supply chains and economies.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 4, 2015

Jabil sponsored a global Dimensional Research survey to capture hard data on current experiences, challenges and trends with the supply chains of electronics manufacturing companies. The results show some of the biggest supply chain management trends in supply chains for 2015. But how does it work in industry?

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 9, 2015

I remember reading an MIT paper on manufacturing technology trends a couple of years ago. AM has the potential to move manufacturing from mass production in large factories with dedicated machining and tooling lines to an era of mass customization and distributed smart manufacturing. Smart Manufacturing Driving Reshoring?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 6, 2021

in which factories are digitally transformed, manual processes are replaced with automated systems, and factories and supply chains are smarter. The common themes around manufacturing trends point to these changes. The digital factory. Digital factory. The 4th generation manufacturing environment.

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WorkWave

MARCH 5, 2025

Missed opportunities: Businesses cant identify patterns or optimize strategies without cross-branch insights. Pest Control Industry Common industry trends in pest control reveal that businesses often face significant hurdles due to reliance on spreadsheets for logging service calls, treatments and customer complaints.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Current industrial manufacturing trends show the new administration is pushing for reshoring among the nation’s biggest manufacturers, and new technologies are revolutionizing how companies respond to growing skepticism and scrutiny by the public and government oversight as well. The "First Five" Industrial Manufacturing Trends of 2017.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

As we head into a new year it is a good time to take a look at the coming year and see what it may hold in the way of trends. We kick off today a month-long focus on trends in the following categories: Manufacturing, Manufacturing Technology, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Transportation Management. Do you have the right people in place?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As we close the year of 2015, we want to take a look at some manufacturing trends for 2016. Manufacturing Business Technology recently wrote the 5 e-commerce trends for 2016 for manufacturers to look at that include: Manufacturers will seek to increase their share of aftermarket parts sales. E-Commerce for Manufacturing.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 8, 2017

While this example may still be a few years off, it is important that you understand how the top emerging trends in automation will shape supply chains and transportation processes in the coming years. This includes billing, generation of bills of lading, compliance reports and even movements throughout a factory or warehouse floor.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Factories are finding new ways to change how products are made, reflecting an increased need for shorter product life cycles. Among the new trends in manufacturing improving the industry, additive manufacturing and cloud-based systems will push manufacturing forward in 2017. Crowdsourcing is one of the new trends in manufacturing.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

However, remember that products or subassemblies that never made it out of the factory may need to travel backwards one or more stages along the supply chain. A plan is necessary, possibly based on one of the following strategies. Reverse Logistics Strategy 1: Don’t do it! This also qualifies as reverse logistics.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 8, 2018

Most of the manufacturing industries have already incorporated lean manufacturing strategies to undermine the non-additive materials from their products. The 3 Most Important Tools for Lean Manufacturing Strategies 1.) The Trends that Will Forever Shape Manufacturing in 2018 & Beyond. Download eBook.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 2, 2024

The smart factory is an environment, enabled by digital technologies including AI, to monitor and control the physical processes of the factory and provide data for decision-making. The more data they process, the better they become at recognizing patterns, identifying trends, and making predictions. ML models learn from data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The trend toward automation has never gone away. But the difficulty in finding workers has becoming a huge challenge at many factories and warehouses. The already fast-growing market for warehouse robots and flexible factory automation has become supercharged as a result. Others burned out and left the profession.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 20, 2021

Large companies with a supply chain risk strategy already in place couldn’t fully cope with the impact of the pandemic. It’s the result of a deliberate strategy that may require tradeoffs compared to other approaches. This strategy requires greater investment and inventory carrying costs but enables continued production.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 12, 2014

After a decade of being constantly bombarded with news of off-shoring, images of deserted factories, and heart-wrenching tales of laid-off American workers unable to find new employment now that their job is in China, jobs are streaming back into the country, factories are reopening, and we’re back to whistling while we work.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It’s no secret that manufacturing companies around the world are rethinking their supply chain strategies. While the concept of reshoring, also known as onshoring, has been a growing trend over the past decade, when the pandemic hit it introduced risk in a way that wasn’t previously considered.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Ultimately, these raw materials must be obtained from suppliers and transported to the factory. Communications Strategy – The communications strategy is how a company decides to make a product available. Will it include multiple factories, regional distribution centers, and lengthy marketing advertisements?

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Ralf Duester, member of the board of the SCM software specialist Setlog, shows which trends will shape the year 2023. The best strategy is for companies to devise agile approaches to permanently optimise the use of resources and production capacities. Recruiting strategies change. foreign workers. Cost awareness increases.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2016

Yesterday we began our two part series on 2016 supply chain trends that will drive supply chain management into the future. As with most trends we all have read over the last few years, the focus was on technology. Supply Chain Trends 2016: 5 Additional More Areas of Focus. We listed the first 7.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

To accomplish this, 10,000 supply chain associates worked with 450 global vendors who operate over 600 factories. Achieving agility with a strategy to sell goods in the same region they are produced in, “has never been more important,” Mr. Bailey exclaimed. COVID accelerated a long-term trend toward consumers buying more goods online.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Ralf Duester, board member of the Bochum-based SCM software specialist Setlog, shows which trends will be important in 2024. At a glance: The top ten SCM trends in 2024 1. Open-source software is increasingly convincing In detail: The ten most important SCM trends in 2024 1. Skilled labour shortage forces action 2.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Industries are facing the need to plan new strategies and invest more in technology to gain a stronger foothold. A B2B e-commerce strategy is therefore becoming increasingly necessary for manufacturing businesses that want to better sell their products or procure the necessary components for manufacturing them.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 4, 2023

Smart factory operations can help supply chain leaders achieve many of their highest priorities, but the challenges are too often underestimated, according to research from Gartner, Inc. Gartner research has identified the five top risks to avoid when launching new smart factory initiatives: 1.

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3PL Links

MAY 23, 2024

Image source: Public Domain Pictures | The Growth of Cross-Border E-Commerce: Trends and Predictions Over the past few decades, cross-border e-commerce has grown tremendously. This kind of product has gained enormous popularity abroad, and its success serves as an example of industry trends worldwide.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 12, 2015

” We have many manufacturing shipper customers, and we love to create content of value for them on such subjects as best practices in logistics or trends around the supply chain. Tomorrow, we will do more of the top areas or trends for manufacturers to look out for in 2015. Rising costs of labor in China and other places.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

On the Cerasis blog, our goal is to offer tips, news, best practices, and trends so you, the reader, find a lot of value in our expertise. Far and away the most popular supply chain blog posts for this year so far have to deal with history, facts, trends, and one having to deal with lean supply chain practices. We hope you enjoy!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Your transportation consultant can help develop response strategies to ensure your supply chain continues to operate while the problem is addressed. Large companies with a supply chain risk strategy already in place couldn’t fully cope with the impact of the pandemic. The average cost of a data breach reached $3.86

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

SUNLIGHT , a member of the Olympia Group and a leading international technology firm in energy production and storage has updated its corporate identity to reflect its new business strategy. The post Sunny new era for International Energy firm appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 13, 2015

Today we will address these 5 sweeping manufacturing technology trends which look to disrupt and change how manufacturing companies execute current processes. 5 Sweeping Manufacturing Technology Trends to Change Paradigms Forever. What sweeping manufacturing technology trends are missing from this list that you would add?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 20, 2022

A year later we asked manufacturing CFOs how their strategies had evolved. With a web user interface, staff are not tethered to their offices and can oversee production wherever they happen to be, giving them the visibility they were used to when they were in the factory. The virtual shift with ERP. Inventory management.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

For the Manufacturing Blog Posts, we saw a bit of a deviation from that starting trend. For these manufacturing blog posts, it seems that technology, future trends, and a focus on manufacturing process improvement was the focus. 5 of the Most Viewed Manufacturing Blog Posts from the Cerasis Blog in 2015.So

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CH Robinson Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2021

However, with this year’s volatility, I was also given a front-row seat to a new level of hyper collaboration – including individuals going out of their way to help each other, more strategy sessions between shippers and forwarders, and continually leaning into historical data and current market insights to find smarter solutions.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

According to an Amber Road and AAEI 2018 report on Trade Trends, 77% of US importers surveyed consider shifting trade policies as their top challenge in the road ahead. China’s production numbers are dropping and factory activity is slower than expected. It’s not hard to see why. Read More at Amber Road’s blog.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 26, 2015

This trend continued as advancements in manufacturing grew into the mid-19 th century. However, these types of workers are not counted as a manufacturing job, because they don’t work in a factory. During the industrial revolution, manufacturing became the go-to career for the majority of Americans.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2014

INFOGRAPHIC: 3D Printing and the Supply Chain to Drastically Alter Manufacturing: Who would have thought that modern manufacturing could be done without a factory? Since the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing has been synonymous with factories, machine tools, production lines and economies of scale. But how does it work in industry?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Calls are increasing for a return to just-in-case (JIC) policies, with some citing this trend as a risk. planning offers an alternative to swinging the pendulum and as the strategy that provides the supply chain resilience leaders seek. Increasing critical parts inventory can be a smart strategy (e.g.

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