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Supply Chain News: Looking to Reduce Inventories? Production Scheduling Optimization May Have Bigger Impact than Improving Forecast Accuracy
One Consumer Goods Manufacturer Finds Optimizing Production Schedules with Safety Stock Requirements Has Largest Impact
TOPICS : Inventory management | Inventory optimization | Manufacturing | Supply chain costs | Supply Chain Planning software | Supply chain softwareLogistics News: Truckload Carriers Delivery Strong Bottom Lines in Q3, as Capacity Discipline Boosts Rates and Yields
Revenue per Freight Mile Growth Strong, as Profits Growth by 25%; Signs of Slowing Volumes May be Good for Shippers but Signals a Still Stalled Economy
TOPICS : Transportation | TruckingSupply Chain News: With the Right Discipline, WMS Implementation Success Can be Assured
Cummins Filtration Points the Way to WMS Deployment Success; From Go-Live to Clean Floor in Just Three Days in 600,000 Sq. Foot DC
TOPICS : Case studies | Distribution | Logistics costs | Logistics | Supply Chain Execution (SCE) | Warehouse Mananagement SystemsLogistics News: Transportation Productivity Coalition Hopes to Increase Weight Limits for US Trucks, but Law Likely Depends on Passage of Full Highway Bill
Move to Increase Loads by 17,000 Pounds Could Reduce Costs and Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Kraft Says it Would Reduce its Truckload Moves by at Least 6%; Safety Concerns Proving Flawed?
TOPICS : Logistics costs | Logistics | Transportation | TruckingBreaking Global Supply Chain News: China Denies Reports it is Blocking Shipments of Scare Rare Earth Metals to Developed Economies, Reducing Exports Next Year by 30%
Using Rare Earth Monopoly as a Political and Economic Weapon?
TOPICS : China | Global supply chain | Supply chain riskSupply Chain News: Companies that Do Not Manage Commodity Price Swings Well Leave Lots of Dollars Off the Bottom Line
Cross-Functional Collaboration is Key, McKinsey Consultant Says; Reducing Margin Volatility 20-40%
TOPICS : Procurement/Supplier ManagementSupply Chain News: US Multi-Nationals Continue to See Share of Workers Outside US Grow, but Strategy is Often to Expand International Sales
Drop in US Employment in Mature Economies is Sharp versus Rise in Asia
TOPICS : Global supply chain | ManufacturingGlobal Supply News: Key to Ocean Rates will be Ability of Carriers to Maintain Capacity Discipline, Drewry Shipping Says
Industry Developments Means Shipper-Carrier Relationship has ''Changed Forever,'' Dekker of Drewry Shipping Says; Is Cost Sharing Commoditizing the Carriers?
TOPICS : Global logistics | Logistics costs | Logistics | Ocean carriersSupply Chain News: Conair Fights Back in Retail Chargeback War
New Proactive Monitoring System Lets Small Appliances Giant be Aware of 'Shipments at Risk' of Compliance Violations
TOPICS : Case studies | Consumer goods industry supply chain | Distribution | Logistics costs | LogisticsSupply Chain News: James Womack, Founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute, Partially Hangs Up his Cleats
LEI CEO Role now Goes to John Shook, First US Manager at Toyota in Japan
TOPICS : Lean | Manufacturing