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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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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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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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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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Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

ivalua

Ivalua Blog [ivory-search] Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience February 8, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley In the face of an unprecedented global crisis, Procurement stepped up to become a crucial driving force for business continuity.

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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

Logistics Viewpoints

In this blog, I’ll try to shed more light on it with examples from our work with our customers. We need planning platforms to keep up with all the changes. In this blog, I’ll focus on the Q-commerce case. Not all business partners are ready or capable of setting up EDI configurations. and Europe.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

In a blog post Tuesday, Walmart announced its new Walmart Express Delivery service, in which customers can have rapid delivery of orders placed in the evening, with a mind-blowing promise that orders placed by 9:30 PM will somehow be delivered just 30 minutes later, by 10:00. And the clock won’t quit ticking.”