Automotive Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Manufacturing Research 
QAD
MARCH 30, 2023
Manufacturers may not think they have much in common with the retail companies beyond producing the products that stock store shelves, but there could be a lot to learn from the latter as the manufacturing headwinds of the last few years carry into 2023. How Has RFID Technology Changed Over the Last 20 Years?
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why?”
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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
JANUARY 3, 2024
Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 11, 2018
While there is much hype on DDMRP and the use of orders as a proxy for demand, companies need to remember that orders carry latency: they are out-of-step with market purchase behavior. The transformational wave is slowly transforming the automotive industry from a focus on selling “rides” versus the purchase of an automobile.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 7, 2016
I am a manufacturing gal by training. While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. What drives my passion? Bio-engineering?
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 3, 2017
However, the stories of success are largely project improvements or improvements in vertical supply chain efficiency in manufacturing or transportation. To illustrate the point, here we share snapshots from four different value chains: automotive, healthcare, consumer, and technology. Growth in car buying stimulated the value chain.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 15, 2016
The company is a B2B Supply Chain Operating Network supporting the automotive and aerospace industries. The majority of manufacturing and retail companies want better performing supply chains. The processes are largely batch, using data with great latency (orders and purchase orders). My time on the European continent is busy.
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