Kinaxis

AUGUST 27, 2014

Just like shedding ERP when building a planning system of record , when I shed my garage, I was able to find cool side benefits. So, as I was watching one of my favorite shows, Pawn Stars, I thought the next time I am in Las Vegas, this is what I will take into the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop. I could frame it and put it in my office.

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crisp

APRIL 21, 2023

The certified B Corp makes organic, better-for-you packaged sauces and donates a meal to those in need with every purchase. The company was founded by Richa Gupta, who was inspired by the “buy one, give one” model of Tom’s Shoes. Good Food for Good was born with its own “buy one, feed one” model.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2015

In the same time frame, shipments rose 2% while the average sales per item fell 22%. 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. This is his fifth year of studying demand processes. What is a long tail?

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth. 1) In many businesses, the supply chain has never been subject to a design process, but has instead just … evolved. That figure highlights like no other how critical the interrelations are between an enterprise and its supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award. Meet Ernest.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. The promise of a well-intended consultant just sounds sooooooo good. At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. Business leaders are action-oriented and competitive. The reason?

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ShipBob

APRIL 22, 2020

It’s a necessary part of getting your goods from A to B securely, but has much wider consequences than just your business. In honor of Earth Day, it’s time to rethink packaging products and all of the shipping materials and boxes that are constantly discarded. It’s predicted that global ecommerce sales will hit $4.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

A tough time for all. However, it gave me some great time to think. Definition: “Customer - centric is an approach to doing business that focuses on providing a positive customer experience both at the point of sale and after the sale in order to drive profit and gain competitive advantage.” I am on a mission.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Another reason is that employees just get tired of an overly dogmatic, bureaucratic process and data focused monthly cycle. Maybe at the start of the S&OP project executives buy in and employees are still eager. Without a clear ‘why’ to support S&OP, executives and employees will lose their interest over time.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

Just-in-time techniques have led to more products arriving directly from manufacturing to the end-customer, shrinking warehouse use. Furthermore, by making the warehouse a retail centre in its own right, warehouses are getting a new lease of life as end-customer distribution outlets, whether or not just-in-time methods are being used.

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Vinculum

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It may be an excellent time for merchants to consider D2C channels now that this space isn’t going anywhere but up. Brands dealing with D2C can handle their inventory and complete shipping orders in-house, via drop shipping, or by outsourcing the process to a third-party logistics company. D2C’s growing popularity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award. Meet Ernest.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. Brands include Carters, OshKosh B’gosh, Child of Mine, Just One You, and Genuine Kids. Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (As Carter’s, Inc.,

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 11, 2016

At Wenzel we watch the PMI ( Purchasing Managers Index ) and the USMTO (United States Manufacturing Technology Orders) numbers and compare them with our own performance. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) is an indicator of the economic health of the manufacturing sector. USMTO order for May 2016 were 18.2%

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. It is just not enough to do a software upgrade or slowly push continuous improvement projects. Nick is a master of influence skills and building cross-functional, horizontal processes. In this post we share our take on his journey.

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Requis

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Nicolas Vandeput is a supply chain data scientist who specializes in demand forecasting and inventory optimization. He has taught forecasting and inventory optimization to masters’ level students since 2014. I like to describe myself as somebody who is passionate about supply chains, demand forecasting, and inventory management.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

Yet, despite their focus on this effort and advancements in technology, achieving timely, accurate, and complete supply chain visibility remains an elusive goal for many companies. The vehicle is not complete until all parts, most of which are supplied “just-in-time”, are installed.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Multichannel selling allows customers to shop and purchase through whichever channel they prefer. Each channel offers a separate opportunity to interact with the brand and make purchases. When businesses are looking to buy from other businesses, the B2B model comes into play. What is multichannel selling? What is B2B eCommerce?

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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

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. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period studied.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Inventory Turns 3. (10%). Upon closer review it was notable that Home Depot was on the list for the first time since 2015. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out 5 Trends in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Gartner recently announced their 2018 Top 25 Supply Chains List. Peer Opinion 1. 184 voters). (25%).

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Berry explains that imported goods may be subject to more active monitoring and testing or treatments designed to kill pathogens, increasing both processing time and costs. According to the 30th Annual State of Logistics Report by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), companies spent $1.64

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Repl Group

JULY 1, 2019

Just one year later and the giant of online retail, Amazon, started selling books online. . It took just three years from its inception in 2004 for Facebook to achieve its first 100,000 business pages.Today, that number is 60 million. . Retail history is littered with has-been megastars. Who have failed to invest in technology.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In higher-traffic markets, Advance Auto Parts has “hub” stores that keep more inventory in-stock to give customers what they need when they need it. Bed Bath & Beyond is also implementing inventory reduction strategies and is on track for a 5% reduction year-over-year by the end of the current fiscal year.

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Supply Chain Network

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

JDA’s 2015 Consumer Survey Reveals 50% Of Shoppers Who Experienced A Previous Issue With A Retailer Have No Plans To Return For Black Friday Or Cyber Monday Deals, And No Deal Will Change Their Minds. In the new JDA 2015 Consumer Survey of more than 1,000 U.S. In the new JDA 2015 Consumer Survey of more than 1,000 U.S.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We answer all these questions and more – including how inventory management software will help you manage your supply chain for your freeport warehouse or factory. Freeports are big news right now. So what is a freeport, how are they used around the world, and why is the UK keen to establish these special zones?

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

The semi-conductor industry is strongly affected by the state of the economy, but 2014 was an excellent year for ASML, manufacturer of systems used to produce integrated circuits or ‘chips’. I’m responsible for the global inventory, which has a value of 2.5 By Caroline Linssen. The company achieved a record turnover of 5.9

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Unless you are customising your manufacturing for each product, we’ll assume the production cost is the same each time the same product is produced. This is also more consistent with the statistic that it is up to ten times less expensive to sell to an existing customer than to go out and find a new one. The reason for this is simple.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

These are serious times indeed. Our responsibility is to minimize the impact, manage our healthcare system’s capacity, and make sure the right supplies show up at the right place at the right time. We help the “doers” find, manage and leverage bottlenecks to increase output, especially in critical times.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 13, 2016

It sometimes seems like S&OP is stuck in a time warp, where the same old things as 30 years ago are being discussed. The S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems. Introduction.

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RELEX Solutions

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

By the time it was complete, the number of stores and DCs had grown sharply and the main DC was now in Sweden. It was a time-consuming distraction for Musti’s buyers who needed to focus on managing stock values and availability. – Matti Salmi, Purchasing Director, Musti Group Nordic. Customers » Case Studies. Background.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 14, 2020

Inventory Turns 3 (10%). Upon closer review it was notable that Home Depot was on the list for the first time since 2015. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 5 Trends in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Gartner recently announced their Top 25 Supply Chains List.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

These are serious times indeed. Our responsibility is to minimize the impact, manage our healthcare system’s capacity, and make sure the right supplies show up at the right place at the right time. We help the “doers” find, manage and leverage bottlenecks to increase output, especially in critical times.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2016

It’s widely recognised that internal hospital logistics is even more complex than the external side, and that medical staff spend disproportionate amounts of paid time performing logistics activities—time which would be better used to provide patient care. Trends in Hospital Supply Chain Transformation.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 28, 2021

But at the same time, new roasters and boutique coffee cafes are popping up all the time making competition fierce – and constraints in the supply chain caused by Covid-19 haven’t helped. billion in revenue in the past year, with an annual growth (2015-2020) of -1.0%. million cups consumed globally per minute. billion (-0.6%

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At the end of 2014, many leaders that I work with are preparing their 2015 strategies. The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. It is the week before Thanksgiving in the United States; and as a good Yank, I am reflective. I am giving thanks.

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