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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. The list goes on and on.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

Examples include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse Management (WMS_ or Advanced Planning (APS). In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. These sources while functional are difficult to connect. What does an IT taxonomy mean?

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order.

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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.

Supply Chain Shaman

A large consumer products manufacturer with nine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instances and several divisions wanted to discuss forecasting. The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain. In this 2-part Supply chain strategy post , the Managing Director at Solventure – Bram Desmet, discusses the key elements of an excellent supply chain. So, as I sit down to write this blog, I wonder what are some of the things that make supply chains excellent? Please subscribe here.

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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

I had the opportunity to work with several excellent organisations, most notably, nearly 20 years with Ceva (including EGL or Eagle Global Logistcis) and now TVS SCS. We managed the supply chain for China’s largest manufacturer with close to US$500m in logistics spend. This is in a position to shift again.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? In addition to cutting the need for outsourced manufacturing, this move could give the company a leg up on the competition by making it possible to get products in the hands of consumers faster.