ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

S2P and Mitigating Effects of Inflation One way of mitigating these effects is through S2P solutions – providing visibility into a company’s spend data across all categories of spend and help identify opportunities for cost savings through better supplier management techniques.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 21, 2022

In just the few weeks since writing my last blog on inflation , the U.S. Coming out of the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, private label sales saw an overall decline while demand for national brands increased 4.5%. What does this have to do with category managers? up to 7.9%, with food-at-home reaching 8.6%.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 21, 2020

To provide insights into the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and its impact on supply chains around the world, we are delivering a blog series to help anyone looking for support and advice. How will this impact your categories going forward? This blog is a part of our Coffee & Category Management Vlog series.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

This blog intends to assist you through the labyrinth of procurement training by pointing out the most reliable courses that fit your objectives and aspirations and hence act as your compass in the realm of procurement training, whether you’re hoping to break into the sector, looking to up skill, or yearning for promotion chances.

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BlueYonder

MAY 29, 2020

During this time, the planogram goes from a paper process to the physical layout to understand where we can merchandise and layout the category in a method that attracts the buyer, display product innovation of new items, introduce excitement into the category and meet the basic merchandising standards driven by the retailer.

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Resilinc

MARCH 23, 2021

Wherever your organization is on the journey to a mature and robust SCRM program, this four-part blog series—based on the Ultimate Guide to Supply Chain Resiliency Program Success co-authored by Resilinc and the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council—should be helpful. Part 1: Starting the SCRM Journey.

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QAD

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Suez Canal obstruction, natural disasters, wars, scarcity of semiconductors, the energy crisis in Europe…are all examples showcasing the need to better manage and monitor your supplier base. But let’s keep that topic for the next blog. Examples of performance include quality metrics or logistics metrics.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

A new year is underway, and what better way to begin our 2023 blog activity than with a summary of the freshest news from the supply chain and logistics theatre? So let’s get this new roundup underway with a look at the COVID situation in China since the nation shifted away from a zero-COVID policy.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2024

That number is the highest reported since 2014, including the period of the Covid-19 pandemic during the years 2020 to 2023. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. This is not a new phenomenon. All rights reserved.

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BlueYonder

MAY 21, 2020

The rules-based approach is an improvement to pre-season set markdowns because it can go down to the assortment or category level, but it still requires a large amount of manual intervention by planners which can be overwhelming when they must manage multiple categories.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

The two designs, one that looks more like a small plane used by hobbyists and another with a big belly used for additional cargo space, were recently unveiled in a company blog post. Compared to June 2019, pre-COVID, import volumes to the top 10 US ports were up 26.9 Alphabet Inc.’s Imports to the top East/Gulf Coast ports rose 9.7

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 29, 2021

One of the few bright spots during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector. Analysts from IRi note, “COVID-19 continues to dramatically transform the CPG and retail landscape. … Data shows the category’s streak is likely to continue well into 2021.”[2] trillion in 2021.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In August 2020 Gartner published this report “4 Tactics Procurement Can Use to Sustain Influence as Economic Conditions Improve” This blog summarizes the key points of the report which you can read in full, here. When Covid-19 hit, supply chains across the globe nearly came to a halt. Procurement Teams Step-up.

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o9 Solutions

JANUARY 19, 2022

The worldwide COVID-19 crisis brought many supply chain challenges that were percolating to a full boil. This combined with the COVID-19 impacts on demand and supply uncertainty means that retailers are dealing with a witch’s brew of factors. In this first of two blogs, we will cover the need for demand forecasting excellence.

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o9 Solutions

JANUARY 19, 2022

The worldwide COVID-19 crisis brought many supply chain challenges that were percolating to a full boil. This combined with the COVID-19 impacts on demand and supply uncertainty means that retailers are dealing with a witch’s brew of factors. In this first of two blogs, we will cover the need for demand forecasting excellence.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Indeed, when customers contact us for planning support through our COVID-19 Action Center, they are usually grappling with similar supply chain disruptions–or disconnections. . The network we built is ready to fit into the open cloud platform for supply chain set out in this blog. .

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QAD

AUGUST 4, 2022

You can look at many categories of products, especially those in food and beverage , and see a proliferation of product choices like we have never seen before. Then, of course, the hard seltzer category appeared, which directly affected the sales of beer. COVID-19 had a tremendous impact on almost all areas of the brewing industry.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

He writes a weekly blog on Linked In which I follow religiously. Here again, my prior blog notes how much inventory we have in supply chains today – and how certain parties are pushing back their excessive demand forecasts, and punishing their suppliers. But that doesn’t mean we will stop having shortages of critical materials.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 28, 2023

In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solutions Marketing team explores new business challenges and innovation solutions to change the game and manage disruptions. The following are the insights gained from the recently held ProMat 2023 event and my discussion with Ann Marie Jonkman , who leads Blue Yonder’s 3PL Industry Strategy.

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Supply Chain Trend

MARCH 25, 2022

In this series of short blogs, I will discuss the transition of traditional IBP towards a more intelligent IBP. In the first blogs, I discussed the rise of autonomous and unshackle the planners. In this blog : Closing the Decision Gaps. More about that, in the next blog. Intelligent automation will change this.

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ShipBob

APRIL 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining moment of this decade. Some have described the COVID-19 pandemic as “the great equalizer” for ecommerce brands across every industry. This ecommerce COVID-19 moment is really the first time DTC brands have had a reset button. COVID-19 Ecommerce Episode 1 (3/25/20). Table of contents.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 21, 2022

The supply chain management uncertainty in the post-COVID world shows no signs of letting up. The JIC methodology requires that manufacturers establish optimal levels for different categories of inventory. The COVID-19 crisis showed how fragile and rigid supply chains were. Investment in SCM technology is needed.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this blog, we’ll look at how the CommodityWatch AI top five ranking shifted from 2021 to 2022, uncover how these factors impacted commodities in 2022, and see what these shifts mean for commodities in the future. #1

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2023

Both Airbus and rival Boeing are together competing for added aircraft orders likely to be wide-body category. However, last year’s Covid-19 lockdowns especially impacted the Foxconn iPhone City production complex which in-turn, negatively impacted Apple ’s revenues for the critical holiday focused quarter. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues to highlight for readers specific global and regional supply chain indices that depict both trending production activity levels, as well as supply chain volatility. Noted was that the category of Warehousing Utilization grew at rate of 70.9, logistics reinforce both headwinds and added concerns.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule follow-up relative to updating readers to prior supply chain management developments that we have shared on this blog. The storm made landfall near Keaton Beach, Florida as Category 3 hurricane storm with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph. All rights reserved.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In this blog, we will explore a new way of looking at black swan events for modern supply chain risk management, drawing teachings from the book The Power of Resilience by Yossi Sheffi. The COVID-19 pandemic is a prime example; it was unexpected and impacted nearly every industry, level of supply chain, and facet of life.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 11, 2022

As Supply Chain Matters readers are likely aware, Kinaxis has been a continuous thought leadership sponsor of our blog. Unfortunately for me, I am just getting back to business from recovering from a bout with Covid-19 and have had to restrict my long-distance travel. There are also some significant announcements to highlight. .

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This blog is based on an article that recently ran in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Procurement, “ Supply chain agility: An imperative in an unpredictable world.”. The COVID-19 pandemic has only confirmed what we already knew: modern supply chains must be built on a foundation of extreme agility and responsiveness.

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Supply Chain Trend

JUNE 28, 2023

That is a scary thought in times of disruption like we’ve seen with COVID and, more recently, the war in Europe, where companies had to make big supply chain decisions in days or weeks. COVID-19 exposed the inability of companies to make rapid cross-cutting or big-bet supply chain decisions. Instead, they are more likely to increase.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 31, 2020

Even before the Covid-19 outbreak, consumers were increasing the amount of shopping they did online. Consumer behavior is influenced by technological advancements, but also by environmental, economic and sociological factors, all three of which are evident with the current COVID-19.”[2]. … According to the study, U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

During her tenure at the retailer, she has built a global team, modernized inventory management technology resources, led through supply chain volatility during COVID-19 and navigated inventory optimization efforts. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Additional Thoughts.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Professor Dan Finkenstadt and I have completed a recent analysis of relative attitudes towards the COVID vaccine’s effectiveness and the distribution plan. We will be following up this blog with other analyses of our vaccine survey, and will be sharing other insights going forward. The post How Confident is the U.S.

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Multichannel Merchant

MARCH 17, 2020

We are seeing increased online shopping and as a result some products such as household staples and medical supplies are out of stock,” Amazon said in a Seller Central blog post. Priority items include baby, health and household, beauty and personal care, grocery, industrial and scientific and pet supplies categories, according to Amazon.

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ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

As I write this blog, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage populations and economies around the world. First, category managers should look to investment professionals and take a broad portfolio view of supplier risk management. As far as reviewing supplier performance regularly, the results were 97% versus 17%.

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QAD

JULY 5, 2022

Problems that were simply starting before Covid have festered and now exploded. Some of the hardest hit product categories are the summer seasonal items due to supplier, manufacturing and supply chain problems. Here are three hot buttons of today: The Global Economy and Covid-19. This is happening globally. Packaging Materials.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 13, 2021

A Three Part Article Series from QAD DynaSys – COVID-19 and Resilient Supply Chain. In this series, discover how the COVID-19 pandemic gave us the keys to build a resilient supply chain and add value to our Supply Chain. In 2021, COVID-19 and Resilient Supply Chain will not be incompatible. And in a matter of weeks.

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