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How Supply Chain Visibility Can Yield Results
Challenge: A company looked to identify major cost components associated with a supplier's product pricing. Partnering with its integrated supply chain solutions provider on visibility initiatives, the company collaborated with the supplier and determined that products were shipping from forward storage warehouse locations. The company had no visibility to these underlying logistics costs nor were the warehouse locations optimal for its network. Items were also produced in multiple locations with many inter-plant transfers occurring in the supplier’s network.
Global Retailer Maximizes Supply Chain Performance With Improved Collaboration
Challenge: Inconvenienced by manually intensive processes, this global retailer of handbags and accessories recognized the need to transform its internal and external supply chain processes - facilitating the access of information with strategic trading partners, especially raw material suppliers. The company needed to standardize data management processes associated with material management, BOMs, costing collaboration and supplier allocation.
When Growth Mandates Change: Blue Diamond Reevaluates Its Supply Chain
The growers' cooperative, a dominant processor and marketer of almonds and related products, seeks to reconfigure its forward distribution network, to reflect current and future demand from retailers.
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Drug Company Sues Federal Government to Fend Off Competition From Generics
One of Maryland's largest drug manufacturers is suing the federal government to fend off competition on one of its key drugs, saying its right to exclusively sell the medication should continue an additional three years.
Hackers Look to Shut Down Factories for Pay
The malware entered the North Carolina transmission plant's computer network via email last August, just as the criminals wanted, spreading like a virus and threatening to lock up the production line until the company paid a ransom.
The Future of Retail: 2017 Edition
What will the retail landscape look like in the very near future? And which players will be left standing?
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OMP Plus Provides Advanced Supply Chain Planning Solutions for the Dairy Industry
Challenge: One of America's premier food and agricultural cooperatives wanted to improve inventory visibility and take product shelf life into account. It was not just looking for a software vendor, but for a partner that could help the organization tackle the operational challenges that its current and future activities would bring.
Why Discount Grocer Aldi Is Getting Into the Delivery Game
One of the hottest discount supermarket chains in the U.S. is partnering with Instacart to offer grocery delivery - a service once reserved primarily for high-end food retailers and high-income customers.
Metal Fabricator Has Moved Into Role of OEM
New owners wanted to move provider of laser cutting services into the world of original equipment manufacturing. With the help a global marketplace, Riverside Industries LLC has been able to do just that.
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Stormwater Fees Jump in Cities Across Country
As city infrastructures age, organizations will increasingly face the threat of higher stormwater fees.
The Best Place for a New Warehouse? An Old Mall
The pressure for speedy online package delivery is prompting companies to look for distribution facilities closer to residential areas or highways.
The Secret Life of the City Banana
On a hot day in June, the Hermann Hesse slipped into New York Harbor and headed for the Red Hook Container Terminal in Brooklyn. The 550-foot container ship, flying the Liberian flag, had come some 3,000 miles from Ecuador. It had gone through the Panama Canal, picked up cargo in the Caribbean and weathered a few squalls.
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