Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. This is despite the purchase of Terra Technology Demand Sensing and Multi-tier Inventory Management (MEIO) in 2014 for 12-14M$ (including implementation). After implementation, in 2016, no business or product owners were appointed.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 11, 2016

Procurement. Focus for 2016. Our focus for 2016 is: Transformation – Information technologies, understanding big data, and digital supply networks are pushing supply chain management to new levels of efficiency. Our members include: VPs/Directors/Group Heads in: Supply Chain. Purchasing. Operations. Supply Chain Quality.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 28, 2024

”[3] Gaming the World’s Complexity The “zone of uncertainty” touches every part of the global economy and global supply chain — from procurement to manufacturing to logistics to sales. 6] Alan Gershenhorn, “ When the Next Threat to Your Business Might Not Exist Yet ,” LinkedIn, 3 May 2016. [7]

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Furthermore, the notion of Sustainable Supply Chain Management is often linked with social responsibility or environmental management (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016). This will aim at reducing environmental impact from the acquisition of raw materials to the final use and disposal of the product (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016). 1995, April 12).

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Financial reengineering focuses on the optimization of short-term results that are usually based on a functional analysis of source, make, or deliver. Few consultants understand the interrelationships between source, make and deliver. The cash-to-cash definition is: Cash-to-cash= Days of Receivables+ Days of Inventory-Days of Payables.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more. The goal of this process is to reduce inventory, increase transaction speed and improve work flow with profit in mind.

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QAD

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It provides the production insights needed to rapidly respond to unplanned inventory shortages, equipment failures and productivity slowdowns. With this release, QAD adds the ability to readily capture supplier risk information from trusted sources to better address sustainability goals and risk mitigation objectives.

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QAD

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The information your trade team uses to determine landed costs or admissibility of goods should be shared with procurement teams, so that you always purchase goods at the lowest possible price. But by 2016, Dollar Shave Club had captured 51 percent. Gillette, at the time, had 72 percent share of the US razor market.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The original 2016 driver for this shift seems hard to believe in today’s freight environment: a focus on long-term business viability spurred by ocean freight rates so low that they precipitated the bankruptcy filing by ocean carrier Hanjin. Image via StarAir.dk). Behind the Maersk shift. The difference… and the looming carrier threat.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Here’s what ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello had to say: “Clearly, 2016 started soft for truck tonnage. There was a deceleration in freight volumes during the second half of 2015 which continued into the first month of 2016. So, that tells me that the inventory situation continues to weigh on truck freight volumes.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

With Advanced Supply Chain Analytics : Advanced analytics can foresee such supply shortages by analyzing patterns, trends, and external factors, allowing the company to source alternative suppliers or adjust production schedules in advance.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. Source: DHL, Artificial Intelligence in Logistics, 2018 (PDF, 45 pp., no opt-in). 15th, 2017 (PDF., no opt-in). no opt-in).

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more.”[2] To make that point, Mortson lists ten different definitions for the term from various sources.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

especially procurement and logistics?—?in For this reason, blockchain technology has been viewed as the perfect match for business application within procurement and logistics. Blockchain technology won’t just enhance the way procurement and logistics professionals work today; it poses the ability to reshape the functions entirely.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Pioneered the use of vendor-managed inventory. Implemented cross-docking in its supply network to enable inventory reductions. In 2017, the company began to look at new options for warehousing, knowing it would need to start placing inventory closer to customers if it wanted to compete in the challenging omnichannel retail space.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Inventory Turns 3. (10%). Source: Gartner. Return on Assets (ROA) and Inventory turns are also a part of the scoring process. There is no question that the Supply Chain of any business usually has a significant impact on ROA and certainly on Inventory turns. Further an Inventory turn of 1.0 Peer Opinion 1.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The key regulatory standards now at play in the medical device industry include: ISO 13485:2016 – The International Organisation for Standardisation’s requirements for medical device quality management systems. These are medical products that deliberately/fraudulently misrepresent their identity, composition or source.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

For businesses, this means that an efficient supply chain with a well-managed inventory tracking system is essential. In fact, according to 2017 findings by McKinsey & Company, taking an AI approach to the supply chain could reduce forecasting errors by up to 50% and overall inventory reductions of between 20% and 50%.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2015

That liberal paraphrasing of a classic Prince song refers to particularly strong El Niño conditions predicted by the National Weather Service for winter 2015-2016—the likes of which haven’t been seen since 1998. Assess Inventory Positions. And it still isn’t, despite the headline of this post.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2016

The scope of end-to-end supply chain visibility must go beyond the status of orders, shipments, and inventory — it must also include having timely, accurate, and complete visibility to labor, safety, environmental, and legal practices across the entire supply chain. The system isn’t perfect.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

The company launched its Starboard Navigator technology in 2016 on the basis on decades of experience in methods, techniques, and technologies used to re-design of supply chains among multi-industry settings. The Logility team apparently shared in that perception and initiated conversations with Starboard. Added Perspective. billion.

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Resilinc

JUNE 21, 2023

The last time we compiled a list of supply chain book recommendations was in 2016 in our blog, 6 Books Every Supply Chain Professional Must Read. Through sharing practical solutions and real-life examples, The Supply Chain Revolution delves into the complexities of sourcing and logistics in today’s highly competitive marketplace. #6

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

Source: Smartening up with Artificial Intelligence (AI) – What’s in it for Germany and its Industrial Sector? (52 Asset Management, Supply Chain Management, and Inventory Management are the hottest areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning and IoT adoption in manufacturing today. PDF, no opt-in) McKinsey & Company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Could we use Open Source Hadoop to process transactions across all networks with powerful in-memory processing? Another source of disappointment is the lack of capabilities in the IBP modeling engines. Traditional procurement functionality in SRM focused on improving transactional efficiency. Could it help in track and trace?

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 4, 2017

I presented the keynote to the group of procurement executives gathered, speaking on the subject of “The New Reality of Supply Chain Ecosystems”, which addresses many of the emerging issues that face supply chain executives in the digital world. More than 65M people were forcibly displaced in 2016 and 16M have not found homes.

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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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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 12, 2016

He became a director at that point, working with sales planning, inventory planning, and financial planning, and pulling together the Sales and Operations Planning team, as well as introducing new products and eliminating obsolescence. By 2014 and 2016 revenue was back up to almost its previous high point. Today, we are at 5.5M

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6 River Systems

JULY 9, 2019

Data-driven SCM provides visibility from end to end for monitoring the flow of information, services and goods from procurement to manufacturing and delivery to the end consumer. For instance, 87% of companies believe they could reduce inventory by 22% if they had a better understanding of risks in their supply chains.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The flexis capabilities are marketed to manufacturers seeking the ability to more flexibly schedule and sequence customer orders on production assembly lines, along with integrating with existing customer order systems for optimizing production dates based on inventory availability, production sequencing needs and transportation schedules.

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RELEX Solutions

MAY 21, 2018

In 2015, Derome set out to improve its supply chain processes knowing it needed an agile solution to support its growth as keeping track of stock levels without an inventory management system was difficult. Derome and RELEX began working together in January 2016 to improve purchasing and replenishment for stores and DCs. The Results.

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Material Handling & Logistics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

purchasing/procurement manager with a manufacturer of building equipment with 21-25 years of experience, living in the South Atlantic region and earning $36,00. inventory/materials manager with a food & beverage manufacturer with 26-30 years of experience, living in the Middle Atlantic region and earning $107,000. Media Image.

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FLEXE

MARCH 5, 2017

an online retailer focused on fast fashion for millennials, has gone from generating $85 million in revenue in 2014 to bankrupt in 2016… What happened? With gumption, she did what any entrepreneurial, then-22-year-old would do: turn to social media to promote her inventory and fledgling business. Nasty Gal Inc.,

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EcoVadis

JUNE 16, 2016

This paper explores why forced labor in seafood industry supply chains continues to grab headlines, tarnish brand images, and challenge procurement teams – and what they can do about it. State Department, Southeast Asian countries, and notably Thailand, are also sources of widespread modern slavery. Background. and the U.S.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

He is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and US federal agencies, and a speaker with focus on the fields of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. For example, there are around 200 startups for procurement analytics.

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Cognira

MAY 19, 2021

Replenishment usually did not include promotional inventory, and stores were burdened with monitoring and management. Ordering inventory for promotions manually, with a limited understanding of forecasts. Since the initial meal kit boom in 2016, many consumers have been experimenting with cooking at home. Vendor’s Perspective.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 11, 2020

Resilience is the easy way out – it involves carrying a lot of inventory and redundancies in the supply chain that are wasteful. Not only were we not prepared, but our previous strategies had left us crippled by overseas supply chain dependencies, often accrued through the pursuit of low cost procurement.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 23, 2016

Industry Week, March, 2016). Flex is eight (8) years into its Lean journey. The Flex CEO, and board members are corporate leaders of this competitive event. They call it a continuous journey that never ends. MDI: The Missing Link in Lean Culture. Managing for Daily Improvement (MDI) is the missing link in lean culture transformation efforts.

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