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The One Key Shift in Your Supply Chain and Procurement Strategies that can Drive Better Business Continuity and Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

Traditionally what we typically refer to as indirect goods are mostly in Category 4. However, there are likely to be indirect goods that fall within Category 1 and Category 2 as well. What we categorize as “direct goods” can also fall within all the four categories but the biggest area of direct goods spend is within Category 1.

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Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium

ivalua

Blog » Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium June 26, 2023 | | Thought Leadership by Eloise Barnum As businesses navigate through supply chain disruptions, high inflation, and sustainability initiatives, procurement, and supplier management has taken center stage in driving change.

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Invest in These Capabilities to Drive Supply Chain Excellence

AIMMS

In the report, you will find capabilities across five categories: technologies, competencies, frameworks, operating model strategies, and organizational models. Gartner mentions us as a Sample Vendor in two categories: Network Design and Prescriptive Analytics. What to prioritize. Where does AIMMS fit in the Hype Cycle? Network Design.

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The Top 9 Freight Blogs of 2018

GlobalTranz

Today, we continue our series highlighting our top blog posts of the year! That then allows us to create more of that kind of content for our award-winning blog This year we will feature the top blog posts by page views in the following categories: Manufacturing , Logistics , Freight , and the Supply Chain. .”

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Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail Management to Improve Sales

Logistics Viewpoints

This blog will review how category managers and supply planners can use cluster analysis to make smarter decisions and grow sales. Let’s look at the four most common ways cluster analysis is used for category management and supply chain planning decisions. The retail industry is rich with data. Happy clustering! and Europe.

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Bottom Line: What is the ROI of Supply Chain Network Design Software?

AIMMS

To do this, we assume that these sample new customers will initially optimize based only on their current distribution assets and constraints (such as lead times), and simply allow the technology to make the best of what they already have by optimizing customer/DC associations. Optimization ‘right sizes’ your network for each scenario.

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Our Design for AM Potential Analysis feature is a TCT Awards finalist

DiManEx

We are named a finalist in the Software category for the TCT Awards! Dive into this blog to learn more about TCT and our nominated feature. (Re)design This approach entails exploring smarter design possibilities, potentially reducing material usage or optimizing design efficiency. Stop the presses – we have awesome news.