Trevor Miles, vice president of thought leadership with Kinaxis, details industry's major supply-chain management challenges - in particular, the difficulty of obtaining full visibility of supply and demand, and dealing with the volatility of markets.
In taking the helm of General Motors, Mary Barra becomes the first woman to serve as chief executive officer of a major automotive company, a sign that corporate boards and investors increasingly see leaders' gender as a non-issue and gender diversity perhaps even as an asset.
Best practices like just-in-time production, lean manufacturing and lean supply chain management have helped the world's premier automotive companies eliminate waste of all kinds: overproduction, waiting, unnecessary parts/product movements and processing, excess inventory, worker motions and defects.
Challenge: This global freight forwarder needed to create a single, scalable platform for freight forwarding that was transparent, flexible and could be easily integrated with multiple third-party applications and partner networks.
Challenge: This successful high-tech manufacturer needed to deploy a shipping solution with the flexibility, integration, customization and carrier adoption capabilities essential to accelerate and maximize its shipping operations to better serve customers.
Epicor Software Corp. has released version 4.0 of Epicor BisTrack, a business-management application for dealers and distributors of lumber and building materials.
The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the automotive industry — which consists of companies that produce automobiles, utility vehicles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and heavy trucks. Learn how automotive companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.
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