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Purpose: The existence of the advertising delay effect and its impact on supply chain operations have been demonstrated in the current study. Therefore, this study develops a timely inventory control strategy for the fresh produce supply chain to address the advertising delay effect in the fresh produce supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: This study proposes a game model based on the Nerlove-Arrow time delay differential equation and Pontryagin's maximum principle. Through comparative analyses of the optimal equilibrium strategies, the authors compare the optimal equilibrium strategies, product goodwill and optimal inventory trajectories for suppliers and retailers under secondary replenishment decisions and decentralized decisions. Findings: The authors find that (1) Only when the sales cycle meets certain conditions can the overall profit of the supply chain under the secondary replenishment decision be greater than that under the decentralized decision. As the price markup coefficient increases, the total profit of the supply chain first increases and then decreases. (2) With the increase in the delay time, the replenishment quantity during the initial period gradually decreases. After the delay time elapses, the inventory depletion rate under secondary replenishment decisions is faster than that under decentralized decision-making. (3) Although there is a continuously increasing maximum value of product goodwill with the increase in delay time, it becomes difficult to achieve this value for longer delays. Practical implications: The authors' findings provide a theoretical basis for supply chain members of fresh agricultural products to select replenishment and inventory control strategies when adopting different levels of delay in advertising marketing. Originality/value: Firstly, this paper explains the impact of advertising delay effect on fresh produce supply chain from a dynamic perspective, and secondly, it provides guidance on advertising formulation and inventory replenishment for fresh produce retailers under the influence of advertising delay effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the importance of regular lab assessments in maintaining the efficiency and effectiveness of scientific operations. Lab assessments evaluate the management of equipment, logistics, chemicals, and consumables in order to identify areas for improvement. By partnering with a comprehensive lab services provider, labs can access specialized expertise and innovative solutions to enhance efficiency and safety. The article highlights the importance of proper equipment management, streamlining lab operations, safeguarding health and compliance in chemical management, and optimizing resource use through effective consumable management. The article also introduces Flagship Lab Services, which offers a Science-Ready Assessment (SRA) to evaluate a lab's operational efficiency and provides customized support plans and a range of lab services to meet the unique needs of each lab. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on industry suppliers presenting why their reels and spools are "The best of," considering factors such as price, quality, and additional offerings that make them a favorable choice and potential partner for customers.

Purpose: In the presence of government procurement, one important driving force behind a poor farmer entering into sales format agreements is to improve profits. In this study, the authors examine two widely used sales formats, namely resale format and agent format, to investigate how parameters influence the optimal sales format selection and decision equilibriums of supply chain members under the scenarios with or without the buyer's poverty alleviation efforts. Design/methodology/approach: This paper adopts the Stackelberg game-theoretical approach to examine the interactions between the farmer from poor/rural areas and the buyer. Findings: The authors find that under certain conditions, the optimal sales format of the poor farmer and buyer can be consistent, which eliminates conflicts in the sales format selection. In addition, with the buyer's poverty alleviation effort, the poor farmer and buyer can achieve the Pareto improvement, which is a win–win outcome for them. The authors also find that the market price in government procurement is independent of competition, which is consistent with practical observations. Originality/value: It is the first study to investigate the optimal sales format selection given government procurement as a poverty alleviation effort which is in competition with a firm's regular channel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Broadband Monthly Newsletter from January 2024 discusses two new opportunities for residential broadband service providers. The first opportunity is Actifai's AI technology, which uses a database of customer engagements to make personalized sales recommendations and improve customer retention. The second opportunity is Cambium Networks' RV22 Wi-Fi 6 Home Mesh Router Solution, which reduces support costs and provides exceptional Wi-Fi experiences for subscribers. Additionally, NEXCOM offers a diverse lineup of fixed wireless access solutions that support the expansion of 5G FWA applications in various sectors. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the evolving role of supply chain managers in influencing business strategies, emphasizing the importance of vendor-managed inventory (VMI) partnerships amidst changing global dynamics and the reshoring trend. Topics include the impact of COVID-19 on supply chain resilience, the strategic considerations of reshoring manufacturing, and the role of VMI in enhancing operational efficiency and mitigating risks in sourcing critical components.

The article discusses the concept of end-to-end (e2e) excellence in the retail industry, which involves a transformative approach to solving operational problems. The article provides examples of three e2e transformations within the retail value chain: improving in-stock rates, optimizing network design, and managing returns. It emphasizes the importance of breaking down silos between functions and adopting a whole-business mindset to achieve e2e excellence. The article also highlights the actions that retailers should take, such as aligning on a shared goal, empowering leaders to collaborate across functions, prioritizing data transparency, and deploying advanced technology solutions. [Extracted from the article]

Purpose: Carbon emission is a significant issue for the current business market and global warming. Nowadays, most countries have focused to reduce the environmental impact of business with durable financial benefits. The purpose of this study is to optimize the entire cost functions with carbon emission and to find the sustainable optimal ordering quantity for retailers. Design/methodology/approach: This paper illustrates a sustainable inventory model having a set of two non-instantaneous substitutable deteriorating items under joint replenishment with carbon emission. In this model demand and deterioration rate are considered as deterministic, constant and triangular fuzzy numbers. The objective is to find the optimal ordering quantity for retailers and to minimize the total cost function per unit time with carbon emission. The model is then solved with the help of Maple software. Findings: This paper presents a solution method and also develop an algorithm to determine the order quantities which optimize the total cost function. A numerical experiment illustrates the improvement in optimal total cost of the inventory model with substitution over without substitution. The graphical results show the convexity of the cost function. Finally, sensitivity analysis is given to get the impact of parameters and validity of the model. Originality/value: This study considers a set of two non-instantaneous substitutable deteriorating items under joint replenishment with carbon emission. From the literature review, in the authors' knowledge no researcher has undergone this kind of study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bulk consumers of electricity will have the option to buy electricity on a competitive basis from any power producer of their choice from July 2022 onwards, said Tabish Gauhar, who recently stepped down as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Power and Petroleum. Power generation companies are allowed to sell their electricity to bulk consumer in any part of the country, as per the Wheeling of Electric Power Regulation 2016 of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra). Following the implementation of the multiple-buyer system, the government hopes that wholesale buyers consuming up to 20 per cent of total electricity will have access to their "choice of supplier". [Extracted from the article]

Establish supplier/vendor monitoring program covering the entire supplier/vendor life cycle to actively track a variety of risks, including security, privacy, quality, financial, and geopolitical, among others.[23]* Does the supplier/vendor meet cybersecurity and other agreed-upon requirements? Establish remediation criteria to address identified C-SCRM-related issues to move supplier/vendor off list and into good standing.* Has the supplier/vendor complied with established remediation criteria, if applicable? Critical suppliers are also those that provide mission-critical components (products or services) that support the organization.[20]* Does the supplier/vendor identify and manage its critical suppliers? Review data to identify any change in supplier/vendor status (e.g., financial legal or ownership).* Does the supplier/vendor provide notice of change in status to organization?. [Extracted from the article]

NEC, Cisco team for 5G transport NEC Corporation, a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies, and Cisco announced they have entered a Global System Integrator Agreement (GSIA) to expand their partnership for accelerating the deployment of innovative 5G IP transport network solutions worldwide. Tel: (617) 782-5033 Web: www.igigroup.com 19 2.5G-5G Newsletter April 2021 Indeed, Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband is available to all Verizon customers with 5G-capable devices when they are in the specific parts of the cities where it has launched. According to the results of the survey, over 80% of Indian enterprises have kept 5G at the top of their priorities list, and over 73% of enterprises believe that Wi-Fi 6 is equally important. The Opensignal reports of actual Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband users demonstrated that by October 2020 Verizon customers located in parts of 55 cities with 5G capable devices could, in fact, connect to Verizon's mmWave service, thereby taking advantage of the "fastest 5G in the world.". [Extracted from the article]

CONTEXT FOR THE SoT The supply chain security SoT is a MITRE initiative aimed at defining, aligning, and addressing the specific concerns and risks that stand in the way of organizations trusting suppliers, supplies, and services. As the world, our nation, and our legal and policy community within the extended ABA family await the availability, distribution, and ameliorative impact of COVID-19 vaccines, we are beginning to accumulate a catalog of lessons learned from this tragic episode in human history. The SoT tools focus on assessing the SCS concerns captured in the SoT taxonomy against specific supply items, service offerings, and companies. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on notice of adopted amendment from Illinois Department of Human Services related to WIC Vendor Management Code. It mentions implementing and authorized by sections of WIC Vendor Management Act. It also mentions rulemaking allows a Pharmacy-only Vendors to be exempt from providing foods that are not infant formula a WIC participant and change to an Electronics Benefit Transfer (EBT) system from a paper check based system.

The article reports about how it is important for saw blade manufacturers to encourage their customers to move beyond these off-the-shelf solutions through collaboration and partnership with all the departments involved in cutting operations. It also mentions how supporting end users with manufacturing consistency and transparency allows them to develop a plan to exploit their individual strengths while minimizing weaknesses.

The article offers information on Modex 2020 show to be held on March 9-12, 2020 at Atlanta, Georgia. Topics include rapid response e-commerce order assembly system, Micro-Fulfillment was developed to support home delivery, along with click and collect; and order picking trolleys, the FramePick 4 Wholesale system can pick various articles.

The article discusses interorganizational vendor managed inventory (VMI) applications, examining the successful implementation of VMI applications and the associated benefits for the companies that utilize them. VMI applications are a form of information and communication technology (ICT) that allow business enterprises to develop new competencies for successful competition, the authors state. Other topics include improved inventory management, companies connected by one database, and the electronic integration of supply chain data.

Canadian sportswear company Gildan Activewear saw an 8.1 percent increase in activewear sales in Q4, driven by higher volumes at point-of-sale and increased customer replenishment. The company also experienced strong sales in the fleece and ring-spun T-shirt segments. Overall, Gildan's operating income increased by 92 percent to $178.1 million, and total revenues rose by 8.7 percent to $782.7 million. However, sales outside of North America fell by 24 percent due to challenging macroeconomic conditions. Gildan's adjusted gross margin improved by 110 basis points to 30.2 percent, primarily due to lower raw material costs. For the full year, activewear sales declined by 3.4 percent, and adjusted net income decreased by 21 percent. Gildan's outlook for FY24 predicts a slightly higher adjusted operating margin and flat to low single-digit revenue growth. The company is also in the process of ramping up its new facility in Bangladesh. [Extracted from the article]

240 Logistics (240L) has launched a technology solution called FlyWheel(TM) that aims to improve inventory management and cash flow for cannabis retailers. The platform uses real-time insights to help retailers make informed decisions, reduce tax burdens, and integrate with state-specific compliance systems. FlyWheel is currently available in several states and offers user-friendly tools and expert sales teams to optimize operations and increase profits. The goal is to help retailers focus on popular products and meet customer demand while improving overall business agility and profitability. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on the vendor relations program at Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. based in Sunnyvale, California. The company is a division of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. The vendor relations people devote most of their time to companies offering new techniques, equipment, or materials, for the purpose of industrial procurement. Aaron L. Cohen, president of Raymond Development Industries Inc. in Los Angeles, California, first contracted Lockheed in December 1961.

The article presents an interview with Balu Chaturvedula, vP-technology, Core Services Supply Chain tech, Walmart Global tech India. He talks about Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning play a greater role from now onwards in both the supply chains and retail industry, and what is the role of data scientists in all of this. He discusses that the use of emerging technologies like blockchain.

The article offers information on Bossard AG, a supplier of fasterners, based in Zug, Switzerland. Topics include various companies supplied by the firm with its products including Siemens, Alstoms, and John Deeres, the development of the SmartBin vendor-managed inventory system which improves material flows and internal logistics of its customer factories, and the financial performance and expansion of the company.

Diebold Nixdorf has expanded its DN Series of cash recyclers with the 600V and 430V models. The 600V is for in-branch use while the 430V is for outdoors, according to a press release. The recyclers can reduce cash replenishment requires by up to 50% to help meet customer demand for cash. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) is a common inventory management policy which allows the vendor to manage the buyer's inventory based on the information shared in the course of supply chain management. One challenge in VMI is that both the vendor and buyer are manufacturers who try to achieve an inventory as small as possible or even a zero inventory; it is therefore difficult to manage inventory coordination between them. This paper considers a decentralized VMI problem in a three-echelon supply chain network in which multiple distributors (third-party logistics companies) are selected to balance the inventory between a vendor (manufacturer) and multiple buyers (manufacturers). To handle this issue, this paper first proposes a tri-level decision model to describe the decentralized VMI problem, which allows us to examine how decision members coordinate with each other in respect of decentralized VMI decision-making in a predetermined sequence. We then turn our attention to the geometry of the solution space and present a vertex enumeration algorithm to solve the resulting tri-level decision model. Lastly, a computational study is developed to illustrate how the proposed tri-level decision model and solution approach can handle the decentralized VMI problem. The results indicate that the proposed tri-level decision-making techniques provide a practical way to design a novel manufacturer-manufacturer (vendor-buyer) VMI system where third-party logistics are involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What if a successful company starts to receive a torrent of low-valued (one or two stars) recommendations in its mobile apps from multiple users within a short (say one month) period of time? Is it legitimate evidence that the apps have lost in quality, or an intentional plan (via lockstep behavior) to steal market share through defamation? In the case of a systematic attack to one’s reputation, it might not be possible to manually discern between legitimate and fraudulent interaction within the huge universe of possibilities of user-product recommendation. Previous works have focused on this issue, but none of them took into account the context, modeling, and scale that we consider in this paper. Here, we propose the novel method Online-Recommendation Fraud ExcLuder ( ORFEL ) to detect defamation and/or illegitimate promotion of online products by using vertex-centric asynchronous parallel processing of bipartite (users-products) graphs. With an innovative algorithm, our results demonstrate both efficacy and efficiency – over 95% of potential attacks were detected, and ORFEL was at least two orders of magnitude faster than the state-of-the-art. Over a novel methodology, our main contributions are: (1) a new algorithmic solution; (2) one scalable approach; and (3) a novel context and modeling of the problem, which now addresses both defamation and illegitimate promotion. Our work deals with relevant issues of the Web 2.0, potentially augmenting the credibility of online recommendation to prevent losses to both customers and vendors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article offers manufacturing industry news briefs covering significant developments. Topics include TFC's launch of a new service center in south Wales to enhance VMI solutions for local manufacturers, Wayne Rose assuming the role of chief executive officer (CEO) at the BPMA after a thorough transition period, and the launch of a Materials Innovation Strategy Framework aimed at bolstering the UK's leadership in materials science and commercializing innovative discoveries.

The article discusses lessons that machine manufacturers may learn from the supply chain crisis. Topics explored include the diversification of suppliers to minimize risk of supply chain disruption, the need to increase inventory capacity to avoid problems associated with just-in-time manufacturing, and the cost control strategies which may be considered in all manufacturing operations.

The article presents a study focused on sustainment in areas with minimal or no local infrastructure or supply sources in environments similar to inland central Africa and isolated Pacific islands. It mentions that how Army support combat operations in the remote areas by accomplishing improvements including reduce packaging waste; and the increase use of local and renewable resources.

Highlights: [•] A VMI model in a MRSV supply chain under CS is developed. [•] The demand is fuzzy and the centroid defuzzification method is employed for defuzzification. [•] The transportation cost is considered. [•] A GA is utilized in order to verify the solution obtained by PSO. [•] The Taguchi method is used to calibrate the parameters. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

General Motors Co. has also given dealers tools to track inventory and vehicles that are in transit, but, there too, dealers and a third party control the website, said a company spokesman. Dealer websites with out-of-date inventory typically managed by third party vendors are mostly there to generate sales leads and lure buyers into showrooms. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the media has been saturated with news about startups in the parcel industry, the result of explosive volume growth driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and a belief among investors the parcel service providers have not responsive to the needs of retailers. Topics include the less-than-truckload (LTL) sector has experiencing unprecedented growth to changes in the e-commerce supply chain; and technological developments has enabled a new LTL carrier to design a network.

The article discusses retailers have connecting the middle- and last-mile legs of shipments to better understand where to position inventory in a bid to speed up final delivery to customers. Topics include the views of Chief Executive Officer, Jay Schottenstein, on the same; and the views of Karen Baker, founder of e-commerce shipping management platform ShipperHQ, on the same.

The article offers suggestions to vendors on how to assist lenders in managing cash flow. The recommendation includes knowing the borrower and determining the value of the customers and the commonsensical compromise solution. Glen Colton, president of Seville Marketing, says that the good payment behavior is rewarded by the suppliers.

The article explores Does a vendor-managed inventory program make sense for a CNC machine shop? Boston Centerless says it can reduce cost and increase speed to market rather than moving material from vendor to vendor. If you're an owner or manager of a #CNC machine shop, do you get to visit other shops often? And, if so, what do you keep an eye out for? Read some of the feedback that Derek Korn has received to those questions.

The author discusses the speech by Arthur L. Valdez Jr., executive vice president of Target, presented at the Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals Edge Conference 2020 about the transformation of the retailer's supply chain to focus on the speed and accuracy of transportation of merchandise. Topics mentioned include the function of Target's physical stores as digital micro-distribution centers, and the importance of the logistics process to the success of a business.

The article evaluates a KP's new line of N-type male and RP-SMA male cables from KP Performance Antennas.

When a supplier brings a price increase to a merchant, especially in this economic environment, the buyer may not have the right tools, capacity, or time to determine whether a price increase is warranted. This is an important decision that sometimes requires alignment with the supplier to find a point at which the agreed price properly incorporates the supplier's materials, labor, and freight costs. The return of inflation makes price negotiation a more demanding - and strategically critical - capability. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on the importance of supply chain management for the original equipment manufacturers in the U.S. It mentions that Boston Centerless (BC) works with customers to design supply chain management programs that support their production needs which includes vendor managed inventory (VMI) program.

Nobelium, the Russia-based threat actor behind the supply chain attack on SolarWinds, is targeting cloud service providers and IT services organizations in a large-scale and ongoing campaign designed to infiltrate systems belonging to downstream customers of these companies. For enterprise organizations, the main takeaway from such attacks is that supply chain threats extend well beyond just software vendors, says Jake Williams, co-founder and CTO at BreachQuest. [Extracted from the article]

The HerdDogg system doesn't require the cow to stand still for very long to capture the data from her ear tag. HerdDogg brings technology to the range so cattle producers can capture more data on their stock without running them through a chute. [Extracted from the article]

The attackers had previously compromised the uploader and modified it so code and associated data from Rapid7 and other Codecov customer environments would be uploaded to an attacker-controlled server - in addition to Codecov's own systems as intended. An unknown number of Rapid 7 customers - and Rapid7 itself - have become the latest victims of security incidents affecting trusted third-party software supply-chain partners. [Extracted from the article]

Foxconn and Siemens are both in the process of developing proprietary 5G private wireless network solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]