P.S. Subramaniam, a partner in the Strategic Operations and Performance practice of Kearney, explains how electronics manufacturers went from having too few materials and components on hand to too many in a very short time — and how they can do a better job of planning in the future.
The American car manufacturing giant said that it would be cutting back production at its Michigan Rouge Electric Vehicle Center to just one shift starting April 1, 2024.
The Cameron LNG export plant in Louisiana canceled at least one scheduled shipment while other deliveries from Cameron and Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi facility in Texas were also delayed
Erin Fox, the associate chief pharmacy officer at the University of Utah, claimed that the most recent drug shortages in the U.S. are the “worst” in a decade.
Kazatomprom said January 12 that shortages of sulfuric acid and construction delays at newly developed deposits are creating production challenges that could persist into 2025.
Inventory optimization is a phrase much used and abused. The honest minority of supply chain professionals will admit that they don’t objectively know what "good" looks like.
A new type of supply chain is emerging that is increasingly reliant on digital tools to optimize and automate processes, holistic in its always-on, end-to-end control tower visibility, and collaborative in its partner relationships rather than dictated from the top down and inside-out.
Most of that additional production capacity could be added in the next three years, based on an analysis of 48 chipmakers with fabrication plants in mainland China, the research showed.
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