Semper Fi! Marines Lauded for Supply Chain Excellence

PITTSBURGH--The U.S. Marine Corps was among three winners of the Supply Chain Council's awards for supply chain operations and management.

The Marine Corps won the council's Supply Chain Operational Excellence Award for Defense Department organizations. During the past few years, the Marine Corps completely redesigned its supply chain, going from almost 200 logistics systems to a handful of systems that are all Internet-enabled.

Siemens Medical Solutions (Forcheim, Germany) won the operational excellence award for industry. The company's supply chain reform efforts compressed delivery time from 22 weeks to 2 weeks, reduced costs by 30 percent and reduced inventory by 60 percent. Siemens also achieved a 99.5 percent on-time delivery rate and increased customer orders by 20 percent.

The Supply Chain Management Technology Excellence Award was given to Gensym Corp. (Burlington, MA). Gensym supplied Intel Corp. with supply chain management software that helped the chip maker improve on-time delivery, lead times and inventory days.

The ASSEMBLY Show South

ASSEMBLY is thrilled to return to the Music City Center in Nashville, TN for The ASSEMBLY Show SOUTH on May 1-2, 2024. This is a booming time for manufacturing and the U.S. South is right in the heart of the action. According to ASSEMBLY’s most recent annual capital spending survey, the South is projected to account for 31 percent of total spending this year, marking the fifth straight year this region has accounted for at least 30 percent of capital spending in the U.S.

In this session, manufacturers will learn how Quality function deployment (QFD) can transform consumers’ qualitative demands into quantitative parameters that will shape the design of their product and, ultimately, their manufacturing process.

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