SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

SYSPRO ’s 2020 survey, The Inflection Point for the Factory of the Future , showed that only about one-third (38%) of manufacturers’ business systems had enabled them to meet the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, a 2021 study from McKinsey showed that just 19% of companies that had adopted Industry 4.0

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Logistics Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

However, some of these factories may already have locations in other countries and are in need of relocation. Factory relocation is a unique and major challenge compared to other logistics-related services. Once a business has decided that relocating a factory is the right move, a whole host of new decisions open up.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

According to a survey by ARC Advisory Group, only 10% of industrial companies are ready to apply artificial intelligence/machine learning. ARC has been actively studying industrial AI for over two years. Maximizing factory throughput is critical. Celanese is an exception. The company has 55 manufacturing sites across the world.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supply chain performance requirements. A skills assessment survey was done to measure potential gaps against a pre-determined skills matrix. The premise of the study was interesting.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

JULY 9, 2021

Starting with the closure of factories, industries and ports in China in 2020, the pandemic and its many variants (Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, Lambda) continues to rage on, affecting every country in the world and causing global chaos.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

If a supplier’s continued material flow becomes questionable for a wide range of reasons, the way that supplier’s components flow to various factories and nodes in the supply chain is graphically illustrated and the appropriate commodity managers are automatically notified. In riskmethods risks are elevated using heat bubble maps.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

In countless surveys over the past decade, manufacturers and retailers rank “improving supply chain visibility” as one of their top priorities. What is happening to BMW today is another case study in supply chain risk management. Inbound deliveries to factories/warehouses. Take BMW as the latest example. Store-level inventory.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A study by PwC found that 66% of surveyed executives anticipate higher supply chain costs as a result of diversifying away from China. The underlying logistics regulations, political stability and compliance are biggest challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2022

Apple may consider re-routing production out of Shanghai and Kunshan to factories elsewhere, such as Shenzhen, which currently is not under lockdown. A spike in COVID-19 cases in some countries, which is causing factory shutdowns and port delays, added to corporate woes as soaring freight and transportation costs are pinching profit margins.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

On top of all that, billions if not trillions of dollars worth of potential working capital are tied up in illiquid assets such as 90-day invoice payouts or even the real estate value of, say, a warehouse or factory building. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Download white paper.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Mini Case Study: Walmart. Mini Case Study: Whirlpool. Supply Chain Strategy.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The current study “Mobilising the Delivery Workforce: The State of Mobile Technologies in Transport and Logistics 2021” by Arlington Research shows that mobile-first technologies will play a key role in the delivery of goods in the final delivery area. 70% of those questioned are of this opinion.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

One survey found that 64% of businesses across materials handling, distribution, or fulfilment had forgone business worth more than 25% of their revenue in 2022 because of staffing issues. Those who are not happy or engaged in their work are at higher risk of making a mistake or experiencing mental health problems. Recruitment challenges.

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ShipLilly

JUNE 23, 2021

When the flow of goods in and out of factories is controlled through AI, there is increased productivity in terms of processing times for orders. A survey carried out by McKinsey indicated that 61% of supply chain executives had reported decreased costs following the adoption of AI. Another 53% reported increased revenues. Wrapping up.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In 1994 Reza Raji described the concept in IEEE Spectrum as “[moving] small packets of data to a large set of nodes, so as to integrate and automate everything from home appliances to entire factories” However, only in 1999 did the field start gathering momentum. According to Gartner, Inc.,

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Do executive level decisions influence the small processes in a factory, or is the world simply ready for a new type of manufacturing industry? A recent study found that 80 percent of respondents, discovered in a survey by Packaging World magazine, own a tablet, asserts Apriso's Transformation Manufacturing Blog.

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Locus

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A study by Harvard Business Review in 2019 found that products that were marketed as sustainable grew 5.6 Factory audits, CO2 reporting on the supply chain, and compliance with regulations are some of the ways in which visibility can be ensured. times faster than those that were not.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 7, 2017

By that I mean, how many times a product is handled between being received from your factory or supplier, to being delivered to your customer. Full truck loads arrive from the factory and 20 pallets “slide” off the truck in one go, using the Ro-Ro system. So we need to get a bit smarter. Think about it now.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Studies show that in some areas, around a third of companies that were unable to fill all vacancies did not receive a single application. As studies show, young people place a high value on flat hierarchies and want modern IT systems in their day-to-day work.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

These super-intelligent machines are already taking over factory workers, stock traders, data processors, even news reporters. An artificial intelligence (AI) system known as ConceptNet4 has an IQ equivalent to that of a 4-year-old child, according to the study. We have adjusted to their presence very quickly, haven’t we?

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GlobalTranz

MAY 23, 2017

Or a video shot on the factory floor using a mobile phone or a produced training class about an innovative technology. Google 'percent of B2B purchases that start with a search' and you'll see many studies showing that the number is somewhere around 66% to 93%, and many of these surveys are a year or two old. Photo gallery.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a recent survey by a supplier of order-picking robots, only 8% of current warehouse staff envisaged seeing the job through to retirement; the reasons most cited being the physical nature of the job, always being short-staffed, and the relentless pressure to work faster.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Typically product life cycle studies included just a handful of products, and results were extrapolated to similar products. We are seeing increasing levels of automation permeate many jobs today, both in factories as well in the headquarters offices of many companies.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

There is good scope for the application of digital capabilities in solving problems related to track and trace, supplier manufacturing on a just-in-time and just-in-sequence basis, and studying supply chain risk including disruption and theft, according to Dharmani. Digital from the start. Asset tracking. Inbound transparency.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

A little more than 20 years ago, I was doing some consulting for a company called Indiana Glass, then a division of Lancaster Colony, at its Dunkirk, IN factory just outside of Muncie. Alas, it appears the factory was shuttered more than a decade ago. But there is one image I will never forget from my time there.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

And though it was more of a social issue than environmental one, Sheffi cites the 2013 collapse of an apparel factory building in Bangladesh that killed more than 100, after which a number of brand companies and retailers such as Walmart and JC Penny initially touted that the factories weren’t producing any of their products.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 24, 2015

To reiterate that reshoring is more than just hype and a very important topic for us to consider the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study found that 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. Also, the majority of factories that could leave may have already gone. safety requirements.

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Locus

MAY 25, 2023

In a survey conducted in 2022 of US consumers, 55% of them stated that direct delivery to home is the biggest driver of online purchase. Ford Whitman Harris first published the model of Economic Order Quantity in a paper Factory, The Magazine of Management , in 1913.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 30, 2020

He lost his job at a glass factory in March as the economy slowed because of the pandemic and containment measures. Three months later, he is only called in irregularly to the factory, which has re-opened but is still hit by reduced demand. The study found households headed by women, the disabled and elderly were the worst affected.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Factory Gate Pricing (FGP) and Primary Freight (PF) strategies, as adopted by major grocery retailers, are causing a shudder up the spine of many retail suppliers. What are Factory Gate Pricing and Primary Freight strategies? Under the FGP and PF models, the retailers collect the products from the suppliers factory gate.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 19, 2024

To understand these challenges and how manufacturers are overcoming them, SYSPRO partnered with Frost & Sullivan to survey small and mid-sized manufacturers worldwide. From our survey results, its clear that manufacturers are exploring emerging technologies to enhance their operations.We

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2020

A Kearney study showed a “particularly sharp decline” in manufacturing imports from China to the US in 2019. The study also found that US companies were sourcing their traditional imports from China in other Asian countries instead, notably Vietnam, and, closer to home, Mexico, as they weighed surety of supply against costs.

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