Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In a recent blog post, I was challenged by Anna. ” Anna, this blog post is for you. ” Anna, this blog post is for you. If S&OP efforts were that effective, don’t you think that we would have made more progress against inventory levels, margin, and growth? Listen and learn.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

I often write my blogs in my head as I swim. The future inventory fire sale. At conferences, I hear many discussions about risk management and control towers. My second question is, “ Why are all industries not modeling consumption patterns to manage backlogs in the face of the pending recession and inventory fire sale?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

We were discussing the results of the planning benchmarking work that we have just finished, and I was sharing some insights on inventory management when one of the panelists emphatically stated, “Inventory is a waste to manage. We feel so strongly about this that we do not have an inventory planning role.”

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Are you attending the CSCMP Annual Global Conference later this month in Denver? It’s is one of the best conferences in the supply chain and logistics industry to learn and network. It’s best to come prepared, so here are some links to blog postings and Talking Logistics episodes related to the session topics. Let me help you.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 16, 2023

Featuring over fifty Gartner experts and more than 140 research-driven sessions, this year’s conference gathered over 3,700 supply chain professionals from across North America and beyond. It enables the inventory optimization necessary for lowering inventory while elevating the customer experience. We have made it simple.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. The decline in inventory turns uses cash. I pulled up my covers to go to sleep four hours later. My question is, “Why?”

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 26, 2019

Back home today after a fantastic trip to Spain including the Gartner EMEA Supply Chain Executive Conference. Gartner analyst Paul Lord emphasized that you don’t always have to choose between cost and service if you take an aligned, systemic approach to inventory planning. Read more about inventory optimization for the digital age.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions. Tracking Progress.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

In the sector, the bullwhip impact is high, the inflationary pressures of crude oil prices immense, the variability from energy outages painful, and inventories relatively low. If ERP system input includes lead time, why is there such bloat and a problem with inventory restatements? Focus on right-sizing inventories. Conclusion.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Just-In-Time inventory management approach revolutionized manufacturing forever. Though this topic has been thoroughly researched, its basics and practical advice on successfully implementing it have often been overlooked in the endless blog posts on Google search results pages. What is Just-In-Time (JIT) Inventory Management?

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 17, 2022

Newly Released Conference Board CEO Study. A further data point to these notions can be found in a newly released C-Suite Outlook Mid-Year survey report, published by The Conference Board. Inventory Management Assessment- Samsung Electronics. Samsung ’s inventory balances reportedly reached the equivalent of $36.9

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. When I hear them at a conference, I squirm uncontrollably in my seat. Instead, in the SanDisk journey , they adjusted the speed of response to their customer segments, and actively designing inventory postponement strategies. Source: Dictionary.com. This makes me yawn.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. In parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. It is morning in Orlando. The sun is rising. This inbound news adds to the story.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 3, 2023

Sahil Gupta , Chief Product Officer at ToolsGroup, shares the most important insights and takeaways from this year’s ShopTalk conference. After four days of retail insights focused on the trends, business models, and technologies that are shaping the future of retail, ShopTalk 2023 has closed a successful and illuminating conference.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. As you read this blog, I hope that you will see me as a positive contrarian versus an old curmudgeon. They are not active on conference circuits. As I listen, I struggle. Is this success?

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Conflict erupts between China and Taiwan (Andrew said this is not likely, and I agree – see my previous blog ). However, as I’ve pointed out in my blogs , there are limitations to these strategies. China’s zero COVID policy leads to severe recession. Cyberware erupts and shuts down supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

This week, I was at Informs Analytics Conference. Focus on improving operating margin, inventory turns, and revenue/employee simultaneously. The goal is to move the supply chain away from a functional cost-based agenda to focus on value (improving margin, inventory, and revenue/employee simultaneously). in inventory value.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The offering was unveiled this week at Amazon Accelerate, a conference that drew about 2,000 online merchants to Seattle. The latest capability for merchants shows that the e-commerce giant is trying to control more inventory deeper in the supply chain before it’s sold. And the clock won’t quit ticking.”

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Resilinc

MAY 6, 2024

This shone through at this year’s conference with powerful sessions like the Supercharged Leadership Workshops. The conference’s first session, “Procurement’s AI Governance Playbook: Managing AI Across your Supply Base,” discussed an interesting trend. Suppliers are actually adopting AI faster than procurement teams.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 15, 2023

Featuring over 35 Gartner experts and more than 100 research-driven sessions, this year’s conference gathered over 2,000 supply chain professionals from across Europe and beyond. Smarter forecasts result in better inventory management (and in turn, happier customers and wider profit margins). Still new to probabilistic forecasting?

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The product announcement was made in conjunction with the Amazon AWS re:Invent conference held in 2022. Added Note The Supply Chain Matters blog will be providing added perspectives relative to Amazon AWS Supply Chain product direction, along with other B2B Supply Chain related control layer platforms in subsequent blog commentaries.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

Over the past year, the Arkieva Supply Chain Link Blog provided thought leadership and informative posts on supply chain strategy tips, trends, and news. Here is a list of the Top 20 Supply Chain Strategy Blog Posts from 2016. So, as I sit down to write this blog, I wonder what are some of the things that make supply chains excellent?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 13, 2023

My first digital supply chain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.) The high cost of inflationary inventories and the need to work down post pandemic working capital is a driver for companies to better use network data. Stay well and thanks for reading my blog. So where will the innovation come from?

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 13, 2020

Rafael Labbé, Supply Chain Director at Suministros y Alimentos, a distributor to McDonalds Mesoamérica, shared his company’s experience and COVID-19 supply chain response with ToolsGroup’s Kathleen Geraghty at the recent ToolsGroup virtual user conference. If you do the math there, you have to make 748,000 inventory decisions per month.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 23, 2024

Last week in conjunction with the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual conference, AWS Supply Chain took the opportunity to announce the general availability of three of these modules. According to a published AWS News Blog , the modules are designed to help customers collaborate with suppliers across multiple supply chain tiers.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 15, 2024

and inventory management (RM). Some Personal Perspectives As a technology industry analyst for many years, the first SAP Sapphire customer conference I ever attended was in 1999, as a rather junior analyst in training. they had built applications for financial accounting (RF). invoice verification. All rights reserved.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.” In this blog post, I’ll summarize some key learnings I drew from the event and share some insights on Demand Driven supply chains and the industry’s technology landscape. .

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

So why do we feature content related to Vendor Managed Inventory? In a VMI model, part of the equation is the inbound & outbound flow of the inventory. Inventory is then put on pallets and shipped as freight. ” Vendor Managed Inventory Model: A Quick Back Story. We never ran out of or had too much inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My last post on the Supply Chain Shaman blog was forty-five days ago. As the world for non-essential workers moved to on-line meetings, conference calls, and uncertainty, essential workers redefined the workplace to mitigate risk. Evaluate Inventory. Evaluate inventory health weekly. Today, I am reflective. What to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. Companies tightly coupling the budget to S&OP have significantly higher inventories and lower growth than their peer group. Deployment of deeper statistical engines for inventory management with a focus on safety stock will improve inventory levels.

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BlueYonder

MAY 13, 2024

Each year, Blue Yonder releases the findings of its annual Supply Chain Executives Survey* in conjunction with ICON, the premier conference for supply chain leaders in manufacturing, logistics and retail. Inflation is driving up supply chain costs, including the price of transportation, materials, labor, and inventory.

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Alloy

JUNE 18, 2019

Top 5 takeaways from the 2019 Gartner Supply Chain Conference A few weeks ago, many members of Alloy’s team were in Phoenix attending the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference and hosting attendees at our annual conference dinner. It was an action-packed 3.5

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights two rather significant announcements made by Amazon this week, each related to multiple dimensions of inventory management and customer fulfillment. Supply Chain by Amazon Program Announcement This week at Amazon’s annual seller conference , the company announced a Supply Chain by Amazon services offering.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

As hospitals adopted consignment planning programs, inventory progress slowed. The turns are the lowest of any industry, and despite investments in technologies and processes, inventory turns have only improved 3%, and Cash-T0-Cash (C2C) cycles have declined 4%. This precipitous drop in margin hurts. Companies are feeling pain.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But if the customer’s primary focus is on what is currently being discussed on the panels of tech conferences, they will quickly fall into the machine learning trap. Kai Keppner has written for the All Things Supply Chain Blog (formerly: ISCO Blog) since it was established in 2012 and assumed the role of editor-in-chief in October 2018.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 26, 2023

A clear message was heard throughout the conference that customers simply like to touch and feel what they are buying. Our Commerce microservices deliver responsive, integrated business planning and operations capabilities, inventory visibility, and orchestration powered by AI/ML insights and forecasting models.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

If you read my last blog post , you know that Kinexions is the premier supply chain conference event for our RapidResponse® user community. To check out the full conference agenda, including breakouts, networking opportunities and post-conference product training, visit the Kinexions ’17 website.

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