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To retain high-value customers in the competitive consumer goods industry, businesses are incentivized to incur whatever costs necessary to meet demand. This behavior often results in inefficient production schedule changes, costly transportation, and inflated inventory levels…
Thursday, May 7, 2020 · Alexis Bateman and Ken Cottrill
Companies have long known that visibility into the workplace practices of far-flung offshore suppliers is an essential component of supply chain risk management. Many enterprises lack that visibility, even though it is gaining in importance across global supply chains.
When the 2020 USC Marshall Global Supply Chain Excellence Summit convenes this October, humanitarian supply chains and the challenges of current epidemics is certain to be addressed.
At the root of the short supply of PPE for hospitals are several factors. Distributors don't have inventory, and hospitals don't have the relationships in place to buy directly from manufacturers. Making matters more difficult, many vendors are requiring down…
Thursday, March 19, 2020 · Tim Engstrom, Lecturer in the Department of Business and Economics at Elmhurst College
Combining forces to extend the classroom into real-world business projects, creates a win-win scenario for the students and the businesses, in identifying and attracting future talent.
According to the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics Resources, it is widely expected that the year 2020 - and the new decade it heralds - is going to bring dramatic changes to global supply chains and that China will be a leading actor in this ongoing drama.
Monday, February 10, 2020 · Atmaja Sinha and Rakesh Thykandi
In a tight truck transportation market, a shipper can be forced to tender shipments to the spot market when contracted carriers are unable to fulfill its demands. As a result, the shipper is likely to incur higher costs and lower levels of service.
Students in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State will learn how wireless sensors and cloud computing can impact the manufacturing field, thanks to a recent gift from KCF Technologies.
Management and leadership are the fulcrums for leveraging labor, and they are weak and under-developed in many supply chains. Management is discovering that the genie is out of the bottle when it comes to technology redefining labor. The reasons are simple.
A major challenge for supply chain practitioners in many consumer-packaged goods companies is how to manage inventory for an ever-growing portfolio of stock-keeping units (SKUs). Add a mandatory third tier to the distribution network, and the challenge becomes even more…
The University of Washington's top-ranked Master of Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics degree program has announced that it will award several scholarships to students (up to $20,000) beginning in Autumn Quarter 2020.
We are on the cusp of major challenges in labor, and supply chain managers should prepare. The economy has created a record number of jobs and unemployment is at nearly the lowest it can be, yet too many workers aren't benefiting.
As demand for experienced, educated supply chain professionals grows, many of this year's salary survey respondents are enjoying six-figure salaries, but also dealing with the new demands of running global supply chains.
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