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Add Total Delivered Cost Variances to Manage Your Supply Chain It is often said that you can only improve what you measure. To that end, there has been a lot of progress in performance tracking and activity-based costing over the past 10 years. With the advent of better activity-based costing, leading companies generate monthly manufacturing …
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Profit Point has been helping companies apply mathematical techniques to improve their business decisions for 20 years now, and it is interesting to review some of the advances in technology that have occurred over this time that have most enabled us to help our clients, including: • The ability for companies to capture, store and …
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Over the past week I’ve had two experiences that made me think about what’s required for a successful Organizational Change. The first was our CSCMP Roundtable tour of a family-owned food distribution company that had built a large, successful regional business by leveraging their founder’s focus on customer satisfaction and valuing his employees as cornerstone …
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Recent events during the summer of 2015 have exposed a major vulnerability in the supply chains of many U.S. manufacturers located in the industrial belt of the American Midwest. Iron ore as well as many other bulk commodities such as grain and coal, is shipped from Northern Minnesota and Michigan via vessels on Lake Superior …
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By now, we’ve all probably heard about the fact that there is a worldwide glut of crude oil. This is due to many factors of course, including the increased production of oil and natural gas in North America (especially as a result of fracking), as well as the rising proportion that renewable energy sources have …
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A few weeks ago, Steve Westphal with Edge Network posted a piece on our blog about the benefits of SKU Optimization. This past week, Packaging Digest posted the results of a survey of the beverage industry that suggests new packaging may be one of the key drivers for profitability this year. The survey also illustrates …
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We all know the saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” However, for many of our neighbors, it’s easier said than done. According to some recent surveys, most of you reading this eat about 40% more fresh produce than the segment of the population that is served by our nation’s food banks. In …
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Additive manufacturing or 3D printing is a process of making three-dimensional solid objects from a digital model. It is achieved by laying down successive layers of material, as opposed to the traditional machining techniques of removing material by drilling and cutting. 3D printing is usually performed by a materials printer using digital technology. Taking a …
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When we help our clients improve their supply chains the first step in the process is usually to identify what problem they need to solve, or what questions they are trying to answer. Examples of such questions might be What will be the impact of several possible capital investments in our distribution system? A major …
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Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. “My father always said that”. Margaret Thatcher The year 2012 is behind …
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The global economy hangs in a tenuous balance. U.S. growth has been slow, but steady, while the global economy has been mixed. The survey data suggests that logistics planners are most concerned with meeting service levels, driven by capacity concerns, rising costs and the need to increase productivity. This year, we conducted a Transportation and …
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