- 1. Impacts of Supply Chain Challenges
- (Supply)
- ... implications for manufacturers. Production delays and disruptions have resulted in reduced output, leading to revenue losses. Manufacturers have also faced increased costs due to supply shortages and price ...
- 2. Supply Chain Recovery May be Painful
- (Supply)
- ... leading to industrial output accelerating. However, this may not mean smooth sailing. Rather, there are challenges associated with labour shortages, which may affect recovery. In the US, recovery is underway ...
- 3. Supply Chain Problems Hit Tesla
- (News)
- Disruptions to the supply chain are causing Tesla to halt production at its California plant, reports the LA Times. Tesla Inc. told workers it will temporarily halt some production at its car assembly ...
- 4. Why Would Your Want to Migrate Your Supply Chain to the Cloud?
- (Technology)
- ... the costs of maintenance and upgrades while focusing on innovation. Integration Unlike on-site supply chains, cloud computing enables integration. It is allows sharing, input and output of data ...
- 5. It's a New Chai
- (Technology)
- ... of production remains an issue and still can’t match high speed manufacturing outputs, but ease of customization and local delivery of goods is finding more acceptance and use cases. Artificial intelligent ...
- 6. Self-replicating 3D printers will Disrupt the Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- ... - The Multi Jet Fusion uses typical plastic material so it isn’t designed to create metal products. But it has enough versatility to produce engineering grade full color output. Already proven products ...
- 7. Predictions for the Supply Chain of 2030
- (News)
- Some of us have problems predicting a week into the future, but not Tom Gregorchik. He's looking out toward 2030 and has a few predictions he's pretty sure about. His focus is narrow, but it's a start.Check ...
- 8. Oursourcing vs. Reshoring
- (News)
- Research company A.T. Kearney has released a study comparing trends in both outsourcing and re-shoring of manufacturing. Rob Spiegel, on the Design News site, reviews the results and offers his views in ...
- 9. Manufacturing Revival or Not?
- (News)
- Much has been made of the American 'manufacturing revival'. But is it really a revival? According to Adam Robinson on the Industrial Distribution website, it's more of a transformation, with much higher ...
- 10. Manufacturing Comes Back
- (News)
- The crew at Supply Chain Digest has reviewed a ton of research about manufacturing status in the US. The results are mixed- good news overall, but lots of segments are below what they were in 2007 and ...
- 11. Filling in the Holes in Visibility
- (Supply)
- ... degrees Celsius. In the past, the recipient only noticed in the warehouse when the refrigeration chain had been uninterrupted. By then it is often too late for alternatives." The output from these sensors ...
- 12. The Importance of Integration
- (Integration)
- ... inputs and outputs… Again, I could go on ad nauseam, but the point is that the next big advance in technology that has huge impacts on supply chains, M2M, just doesn’t work without integration. That’s ...
- 13. EDI is Dead... Once More
- (EDI)
- ... processes are done the information needs to be presented in ways that make sense to those who can do something with the output. These processes are far beyond the abilities of spreadsheets and the calculating ...
- 14. BOTS - An Open Source EDI Tool
- (EDI)
- ... a new application object (defined as another “grammar” file). The application engine handles the input/output of the data to/from files, databases, FTP connections, etc. Predefined grammars are available ...
- 15. Evolving the E Document is Getting Complex
- (Blogs)
- ... I am hearing the buzz about is tax itemized at the line level when an organization is moving to “E.”. Though many companies’ ERP applications are not set up to output tax at the line level, as their customers ...
- 16. Stakeholders Bringing in the 5th Edition PMBOK
- (Management)
- ... Management Plan (an output to Plan Stakeholder Management) is so important. We have all heard the saying that “a Project Manager’s job is 90% communication.” That is right. And who are we communicating ...
- 17. How's It Look for Manufacturing
- (News)
- Supply Chain Digest comes through again with a short piece analyzing where manufacturing stands 5 years after the Great Recession.Although the overall rebound has been slow and steady, some sectors are ...
- 18. Who's Your Customer
- (Management)
- ... One of the best outcomes continuous improvement projects Is that they help you really identify the customers. As you map your processes in detail and determine where the inputs and outputs originate ...
- 19. Connections that Might Be
- (Integration)
- ... based SAP interface, or to create a secondary map that would take the output of all the individual positional files and translate them into the SAP format. In order to meet the timeline, we opted to use ...
- 20. Can You Improve? Continuously?
- (Management)
- ... may be the creation of a map, but other processes upstream and downstream are also involved. This is where the development of the SIPOC (suppliers, inputs, processing, outputs, and customers) document, ...
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