Logility

JUNE 2, 2023

In the intricate world of supply chain management, the accuracy of demand forecasting often serves as the cornerstone of business growth. They help minimize inventory, streamline purchasing, optimize distribution, and enhance production efficiency while ensuring the highest level of customer service. Let’s get started!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

I share insights, based on research, for the supply chain leader. I write for this blog, craft reports from research for our newsletters, create blogs for Linkedin, and build articles for Forbes. The autonomous supply chain is a vision, but it is not today’s reality. Shifts in Technology. Stay tuned.

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Logility

DECEMBER 2, 2020

So, I started thinking about how supply chain management can impact the environment and concluded that supply chain managers are Green Superheroes. Almost every supply chain improvement made to reduce costs has a beneficial side effect that contributes to the Greening the supply chain.

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Logility

OCTOBER 5, 2017

” Infineum, a world leader in the formulation, manufacture and marketing of additives for the fuel and lubricant industry, embarked on a supply chain transformation initiative and shared their advice on three components of success—people, process and tools. .” White Paper: Getting to S&OP Success.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The ultimate goal of a supply chain planning practitioners is often to optimize the capabilities of the company’s supply chain to meet customer requirements while minimizing costs and maximizing company performance. Like those examples, predicting what supply chain challenges you will face in the future is problematic.

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Logility

MAY 7, 2020

However, to capture these benefits requires the right people, process and technology capabilities to extract the insights within the data. This article will discuss the opportunity generated from the explosion of supply chain planning data and the necessity for digital supply chain transformation.

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Logility

APRIL 20, 2022

If resilience is the panacea to today’s supply chain challenges, it seems that everyone has a different prescription. Every industry article, news segment, analyst research paper, and boardroom conversation offers varying perspectives on the real issues impacting supply chain performance and the best way to fix them.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 29, 2023

“The human race has long appreciated that disruptions are part of life,” writes the staff at Logility, “they come in waves, and the best laid plans don’t always result in the outcomes we work to achieve.”[1] 2] With the world in a state of constant turmoil, supply chains risks abound.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Consumer Goods Technology recently released its 2012 Consumer Goods Technology Reader’s Choice survey results. In Supply Chain Planning, Logility was voted highest in customer experience of all solution providers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. Today I am writing my take on the acquisition of Terra Technology by E2open. It is a story of supply chain innovation. History of Terra Technology.

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Logility

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I know, I sound like a supply chain person but I just can’t help myself! My pool has an automation system that allows me to sense and control certain parameters like temperature, pump speed, and salinity parts per million (PPM). My pool automation platform already has the foundation for this automation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. Sometimes, even the definition of a supply chain is not clear. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. Confluence of New Technologies. Why does it matter?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

In the presentation, I shared data on the evolution of supply chain planning and the results on user satisfaction. The use of best-of-breed planning technologies was small at 15%. Neither technology vendor is an industry leader in delivering a solution that fits the needs of the supply chain planner.

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From harvest to hands, the food & beverage (F&B) industry leaves no room for guesswork, especially without supply chain optimization software. This reality is compelling F&B companies to rethink their strategies and approach to supply chain optimization and demand planning.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Your supply chain mission: Improve service levels to the high 90’s. Increase inventory turns. You could increase inventory to get you to the high 90s. You can decrease inventory to improve turns and obsolescence but then you sacrifice service. Could this supply chain mission be a lose-lose situation?

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Logility

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Your supply chain mission: Improve service levels to the high 90’s. Increase inventory turns. You could increase inventory to get you to the high 90s. You can decrease inventory to improve turns and obsolescence but then you sacrifice service. Could this supply chain mission be a lose-lose situation?

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Logility

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ann Grackin and Bill McBeath of ChainLink Research recently published an article on Caribou Coffee’s supply chain. I encourage you to read the full piece on ChainLink’s website: “Caribou Coffee's Supply Chain Story” Four years ago, Caribou’s supply chain was managed with spreadsheets.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ann Grackin and Bill McBeath of ChainLink Research recently published an article on Caribou Coffee’s supply chain. I encourage you to read the full piece on ChainLink’s website: “Caribou Coffee's Supply Chain Story” Four years ago, Caribou’s supply chain was managed with spreadsheets.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

There are as many definitions for digital transformation and articles on the subject. ” The digitization of a supply chain involves creating a detailed data model that mirrors the intricacies of an actual end-to-end supply chain network. . Another advanced supply chain capability is continuous planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. With changing product profiles, short life cycles, constraints with downstream suppliers, and changing markets, being good at supply chain planning matters. The reasons are numerous. The gap has grown.

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Logility

AUGUST 14, 2020

There are libraries full of algorithms that are relatively easy to implement in software, but the math is only as good as the data it’s applied to. In this article we review four data concepts that drive forecast results, and we provide some practical recommendations on how to address them. Instead, they buy bottles.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Often the ultimate goal of a supply chain planning professional is to optimize the capabilities of the company’s supply chain to meet customer requirements while minimizing costs and maximizing company performance. Of course, we should never give up trying to optimize supply chain planning. Resiliency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. With changing product profiles, short life cycles, constraints with downstream suppliers, and changing markets, being good at supply chain planning matters. The reasons are numerous. The gap has grown.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

According to an article in the Harvard Business Review, many of those failures are due to initial misreads of market conditions ( Why Most Product Launches Fail ). reduction in finished goods inventory (days). reduction in inventory obsolescence (percent of inventory value). Capability 2: Optimize New Product Inventory.

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Logility

JUNE 20, 2017

At recent supply chain user conferences, a major concern for many companies was the talent gap in supply chain. Supply chain talent shortages plague organizations from the executive level to the shop floor and right into the customer’s home. Rising Demand. And the problem is bound to get worse.

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Logility

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As the last few years have shown, supply chain disruptions are unpredictable. They are also tough to manage without a proactive approach and the right technology. These high-performing companies weather supply chain disruptions better, make speedier decisions, and perform more accurate forecasting.

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Logility

JANUARY 18, 2024

How AI in Supply Chain Brings Value to Your Business Supply chain leaders are looking to get a firmer grasp on their supply chain planning. Over the last few buzzword-laden years, we’ve seen many shiny new tools generate excitement – and confusion – around the potential of AI.

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Logility

MARCH 2, 2011

Inventory optimization (IO) has become an increasingly important topic of late as companies try to balance inventory (amount, location, etc.) with erratic demand and supply variability. For one, more than 60% of the attendees responded they perform “less than optimal” inventory optimization.

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Logility

JANUARY 10, 2012

In his article, So, What’s Your Algorithm , he points out that computer systems are now so powerful they can harvest vast stores of data in real-time to make the decisions (or recommendations) for you to act upon. As the article points out, “We are ruined by our own biases. increase in inventory ( source ).

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Logility

JANUARY 10, 2012

In his article, So, What’s Your Algorithm , he points out that computer systems are now so powerful they can harvest vast stores of data in real-time to make the decisions (or recommendations) for you to act upon. As the article points out, “We are ruined by our own biases. increase in inventory ( source ).

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Get the insights beverage companies need to meet today’s biggest supply chain challenges. Port congestion, shipping delays, and other supply chain disruptions are affecting industries across all economic sectors, and that includes beverages of all types. Supply Chain Disruptions Affecting the Beverage Industry.

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Logility

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In the rapidly evolving world of supply chain management, relying on outdated notions or oversimplified strategies can lead to significant missteps. In this article, we’ll explore why a dynamic forecasting approach is beneficial and necessary for today’s demand planners to maintain accuracy and efficiency.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 3, 2018

.” That observation could just as easily have been made about supply chain operations. Like a battleground, the supply chain is complex and often shrouded in a situational awareness fog. ”[1] Little wonder supply chain planning is often perceived as wanting. Planning horizons and insights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

. <Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. Let’s face a hard fact: the supply chain planning market is a mess. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Logility

APRIL 13, 2022

Before COVID-19 arrived in March 2020, most people outside the profession lumped “the supply chain” in with other facets of life that were accepted as both real and vital, but also mysterious, complex, and probably not worth too much attention. What Supply Chain Means Today. ” . “We Grudging respect, perhaps.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This is no less true for supply chain operations than it is in any other of life’s activities. ”[1] Bolstering his argument, he cites a conference presentation given by Francesca Gamboni, a Senior Vice President for supply chain at Groupe PSA. ” Cognitive technologies and supply chain planning.

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Logility

MAY 9, 2021

Inventory buffers are recalculated and reallocated to fend off unnecessary regional shortages and surpluses. Even geopolitics, technology, climate change and disease are shifting decisions on how to produce and deliver goods. Gain visibility into the entire supply chain with up-to-the-minute data. McKinsey & Company.

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