Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2022

From supporting cutting-edge cancer research to helping businesses track their inventory, machine learning and AI offer the ability to disrupt and enhance our existing processes in virtually every segment of society.”[1]. Mankins and Lori Sherer, “ Creating value through advanced analytics ,” Bain Brief, 11 February 2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. Customer-Centric Supply Chain Processes. The Building Blocks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

Both Kimberly-Clark and P&G are going backwards on operating margin while making progress on inventory turns. Orbit Chart for Kimberly-Clark and P&G for the Period of 2006-2015. Orbit Chart of Colgate for the Period of 2006-2015. As the company spiraled in the updraft of the market, it built inventory.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 27, 2014

by CJ Wehlage If you read my prior blog, “ Storage Wars rescues supply chain ignominy ”, you would have seen my garage after I moved from Boston to San Diego. In January, 2015, I will follow up this blog with more details. I asked the guys what the key success factors were: Know how to make a profit when buying and selling.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

As hospitals adopted consignment planning programs, inventory progress slowed. The turns are the lowest of any industry, and despite investments in technologies and processes, inventory turns have only improved 3%, and Cash-T0-Cash (C2C) cycles have declined 4%. This precipitous drop in margin hurts. Companies are feeling pain.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

According to the CSCMP's "State of Logistics" Report from 2015, logistics costs now make up over 8% of the GDP. An excellent Warehouse Management System (WMS) can help reduce costs by automating cycle counting, and maintaining location control. transportation fuel) at a reduced cost that comes with buying in greater quantities.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Think about your most recent purchase. This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Inventory management. Warehousing and storage. Freight forwarding. Handling raw materials. Order fulfillment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. 2015 Supply Chains to Admire. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

By purchasing planning and transactional systems for a common vendor, they had one throat to choke and they were familiar with the architectural elements. I will write more on this in my next blog post.). In this blog, I hope that I push you too. Attendees at our 2015 Global Summit. These new technologies are evolving. (I

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. Customers are buying less. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. Table 1: Contract of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns and Cash-To-Cash for Consumer-Facing Industries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 27, 2015

In this blog, I share the findings and why I think that they should matter to supply chain professionals in consumer-facing industries. Despite all of the focused attempts to implement new forms of demand planning, the business costs and inventory spiral out of control due to unchecked complexity. 2015 is a year for belt-tightening.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

” CNN Money Watch, August 12, 2015. ” The team needed to make a decision on when to shut down their plants, the right levels of inventory to build during the plant closure and how to predict the duration of the downturn. The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. And, what will signal an upturn?”

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2020

It ensures consistent repeat purchases over time, regardless of price, convenience or even a global pandemic. In 2015, CUB revived the “heard earned thirst” campaign, replicating the original narration with the help of technology. An efficient way to manage brewery inventory is with cloud-based brewery software.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 21, 2019

It is also sometimes known as “buy online, pick up in store”, or BOPUS for short. Consumers around the world are showing a growing appetite for the speed and convenience of the buy online, pick up in store model. The Rising Popularity of Click & Collect in Numbers. ?Consumers Why Do Customers Prefer Click & Collect?

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EazyStock

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

*This post was originally published June 2015; it was updated September 2018*. To stay ahead, tech-smart operations, savvy professionals are using logistics and supply chain mobile applications as must-have tools for operational excellence. EazyStock – Inventory Optimization Software.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

I am enlisting their support to share their stories in podcasts, blog posts and at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 6-9. When I called Mark to tell him that Clorox outperformed for the period of 2009-2015 in the Household Products sector and won the Supply Chains to Admire Award, he commented, “ Lora, I am happy to help.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Maybe at the start of the S&OP project executives buy in and employees are still eager. He called his idea ‘the world simplest idea’ and introduced that ‘people buy why you do things not what you do’. Another reason is that employees just get tired of an overly dogmatic, bureaucratic process and data focused monthly cycle.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

Cons: Merchants that are incented purely on sales may be more likely to inflate forecasts that would drive more inventory than needed into the supply chain. This con can be largely mitigated, however, if the merchants are incented on inventory in addition to sales. SUPPLY CHAIN. about events, promotions and new items.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

Cons: Merchants that are incented purely on sales may be more likely to inflate forecasts that would drive more inventory than needed into the supply chain. This con can be largely mitigated, however, if the merchants are incented on inventory in addition to sales. SUPPLY CHAIN. about events, promotions and new items.

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Tompkins Blog

APRIL 29, 2014

The growth of actual online sales from online purchases between 2012 and 2017 will only grow from 7.7% What is worse than the 2014 store closings will be the bankruptcies in 2015. Businesses are not grasping the changes in the marketplace, and holiday 2014 will take its toll in 2015. of total retail sales to 10.3%

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 11, 2016

Editor's Note: Today is a guest blog from our friend Andy Woodward with Wenzel America, Ltd. In this blog, Andy discusses the health of the manufacturing industry, manufacturing technology orders, and setting benchmarks for company performance. who specializes in innovative metrology & styling solutions.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

An interruption in delivery of parts from a partner in Europe can therefore also have implications in China,” said [Markus Duesmann, BMW board member in charge of purchasing and supplier network]. For related commentary, see my June 2015 post, Time to Survive and Nexus Supplier Index: New Measures of Supply Chain Risk Management.].

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RELEX Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Also, for major holidays, the timing of purchases may differ between physical stores and online; for example, online customers place large orders in advance of the holiday, whereas physical stores see a lot of last-minute dashes for products people have forgotten to buy. Product Manager, Grocery Retail. 45 27 124 123.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. Yesterday we published the top 10 most read manufacturing articles of 2015. . Top 10 Supply Chain Articles from 2015. No Purchase Orders were used.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Last month, Lennox Residential was runner-up in the 2015 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Supply Chain Innovation competition, arguably the top supply chain award in North America. And last year Costa Express won the “Technology” category award at the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards , also a top honor.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In this blog post, we share the story of VTech. Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Companies passing these two tests are then analyzed against the performance factors for 2009-2015: Growth. Inventory Turns. We want to help and drive new insights.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We follow a stringent procedure to organize inventory in our warehouses. Before he started his blog last year, he worked for 20 years in the construction business, where logistics and cost optimization play a very important role. Gearing your supply chain to rail and water while maintaining inventory costs and transit time is ideal.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

Additionally, under CEO Satya Nadella’s leadership on the enterprise side, Microsoft has even more reach and influence now than in 2015, with products like Excel, PowerBI & Azure becoming the backbone of enterprise data management. So, it is only fitting for ThroughPut to answer that calling from Microsoft’s founder now.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

This blog was started in 2010. Today, 270 posts and five years later, I am thankful for the opportunity to sit at my kitchen table and communicate to almost 20,000 supply chain professionals globally (directly through this blog and through connections on Linkedin). This is the goal of this blog post. I am giving thanks.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

Additionally, under CEO Satya Nadella’s leadership on the enterprise side, Microsoft has even more reach and influence now than in 2015, with products like Excel, PowerBI & Azure becoming the backbone of enterprise data management. So, it is only fitting for ThroughPut to answer that calling from Microsoft’s founder now.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2016

Also, if you would like to read anything related to the supply chain you can read all the supply chain blogs in that category here or search any keyword in the search bar to the right. 2015 saw a shift from the linear supply chain to the circular supply chain. I expect other companies to ask similar questions. Increased velocity.

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RELEX Solutions

MAY 19, 2016

The US state of California passed the ‘Transparency in Supply Chains Act’ in 2012, the UK the ‘Modern Day Slavery Act’ in 2015 and the Obama administration revised the Tariff Act of 1930 in February this year to close a loophole that allowed goods produced by forced labor to be imported into the US. Subscribe to receive monthly blog updates.

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