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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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 Shaman

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Procurement Operates On An Island. Business process outsourcing and procurement automation evolved to make the procurement organization more efficient and less effective. For example, Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems, a useful stream of customer data, do not connect to planning. This is the goal of this blog post.

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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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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 28, 2021

Procurement Operates On An Island. Business process outsourcing and procurement automation evolved to make the procurement organization more efficient and less effective. For example, Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems, a useful stream of customer data, do not connect to planning. This is the goal of this blog post.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This blog post formed in my head as I worked with clients this month. Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. ————————-.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Here is the list: Supply chain technology implementations have reduced inventory. Seemingly, most supply chain leaders that are reading the press, or going to industry conferences, would believe that all four statements are true. Here they are: The Lie of Inventory Reduction. Supply chain excellence matters. The reason?

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ToolsGroup

MAY 30, 2018

At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, analyst Marc Halpern clarified three key concepts about supply chain digital twins in his presentation “Busting the Myth of Digital Twins to Deliver Value.” You can think of a digital twin as the ultimate ‘what-if’ scenario planner.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares samples of individual prediction snapshots that will be included in our Annual 2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains Research Advisory publishing later this month. Stay tuned. All rights reserved.

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QAD

MARCH 12, 2019

The theme for this year’s Explore customer conference is “The Speed of Business,” which is to be held May 6-9 in New Orleans. Procure to Pay – A Day in the Life. You will not want to miss this year’s Explore conference! The post Key Automotive Attractions and Pit Stops at Explore 2019 appeared first on QAD Blog.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

by Dr. Madhav Durbha Part of what makes my job very exciting is attending conferences. Earlier this week, I attended the LogiPharma conference, a wonderful event for supply chain professionals working in the pharmaceutical industry. And, in a future blog I will share some recommendations in light of these challenges: 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

My goal in this blog post is to answer a series of questions I got from the audience when I spoke at a couple of conferences this week. ” A supply chain leader from GE at another conference said, “Yesterday, we called it big data. I write on this blog, on LinkedIn, and on Forbes.). How do we compete?”

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Logility

MARCH 2, 2011

Luckily, this March our annual customer conference will be in Orlando, away from the cold weather and under the sun. OK, enough about dreaming of warmer days … Connections 2011 is set to be our largest user conference to date with record registrations and 25 percent more sessions to accommodate our growing audience.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 1, 2022

Frequent readers of the Supply Chain Matters blog may recall one metaphor that this Editor has invoked over the past three years – the Eagle ’s tune, In a New York Minute ( Everything Can Change ). Friedman went on to articulate that transit times to move inventory from Asia to the U.S. Additional Thoughts. Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides a side panel supplementary update to our prior posted blog highlighting the latest reported September and Q3 global and regional PMI indices that indicate manufacturing contraction has begun. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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C3 Solutions

JULY 30, 2020

As mentioned in this blog from earlier in the week , when you net the benefits that IoT can provide, you are essentially looking at the perfect, streamlined, transparent supply chain. Nobody wants to be the guinea pig," Intel's global logistics procurement director Greg Christensen told the authors of the 2019 State of Logistics Report.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For Walmar t, sales of higher margin discretionary products such as electronics, household goods and apparel reportedly continued to impact margins and excess inventory. business unit inventory levels now amount to $1 billion in excess inventories compared to $1.5 In its reporting, Bloomberg reported that U.S.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

During a 2017 conference, Tricia Wang ( @triciawang ), a self-described Tech Ethnographer & Sociologist, told participants, “A lot of companies treat digital as if they are ‘doing digital’ — this is ‘digitization’ at its worst — as if it’s some checklist of things to do. Finished goods inventory? Supply chain risks? ”[4].

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Talking Logistics

JULY 29, 2015

It’s also a big reason why SAP and Descartes formally announced their partnership this morning focused on TMS connectivity (attendees of Descartes’ user conference last month were given a sneak peak of this announcement).

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

A cross-functional Material Review Board (MRB) will reduce the need for additional space by reviewing obsolete, non-moving and slow moving inventory monthly, and sending disposition recommendations to top management. Be bold and try the Supplier Day Conference : invite suppliers to your facility with a structured agenda.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The product announcement was made in conjunction with the Amazon AWS reInvent conference. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. This application is described as providing the ability to: “.automatically Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

In discrete industries, the early supply chain organizations reported to procurement. When there is a common reporting strategy, progress in metrics performance at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns is faster. In the beginning, the emerging supply chain concepts focused on functional excellence.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights select June and Q2-2022 global manufacturing and supply chain indices, with the data indicating increased headwinds and challenges in the months to come. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Global Wide Production Activity. in March.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2022

These announcements were made in conjunction with the LogicPharma Europe industry conference being held this week. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This report begins with the statement: “ Within Boeing’s facilities, teams of engineers labor away, working not on building new aircraft but instead on fixing problems with already-built inventory. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We believe that a supply chain leader is defined by both the level of performance on the Effective Frontier (balance of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Profitability and Inventory Turns) and driving supply chain improvement. In this blog, we share an interview with Dave Biegger, SVP of Campbell Soup.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences. West Coast ports and in inland warehouses earlier.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

This was the first time in two years that this conference could be held in person. But, the global wide Covid-19 pandemic that began in 2020, and drove a significant spike in demand for pandemic related goods in 2021, exposed the vulnerabilities of global wide sourcing under a just-in-time inventory management premise.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

Intro Email Newsletters News Sites Social Media Influencers Blogs Unexpected Places. JOC’s Group chief content officer, Peter is a prominent thought-leader in maritime transportation and founder of one of the world’s largest shipping events – the annual TPM conference. petertirschwell. Jeff Ashcroft. milesahead.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 4, 2016

This self-service 4-session course provides an overview of how to build a strong transportation management foundation, with a focus on strategy development, procurement, the role of technology, and the importance of enabling a continuous improvement culture and processes. Descartes reported record revenues of $185.0

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2014

Your ability to respond quickly and effectively to fluctuations in demand, adjust order sizes and delivery frequency as required, and provide timely and accurate visibility to orders, inventory, and other metrics are all competitive weapons. Use them to your advantage. Choose trust: walk the talk on collaboration.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns, only 10% of companies are making progress. Unable to power additional year-over-year improvements at the intersection of cost and inventory, companies struggle. This is the world view of finance and why there is so much friction between procurement and finance.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. The post How Machine Learning Is Redefining Supply Chain Management appeared first on IQMS Manufacturing Blog. no opt-in).

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BlueYonder

MAY 10, 2019

Each year in late April or early May, JDA team members, along with 2000 or more customers and partners, get together for our annual customer conference. Sprint was using spreadsheets and databases to forecast and plan its network inventory purchases. That’s why this is my favorite time of year. billion pieces to be packaged annually.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change. The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2016

Your ability to respond quickly and effectively to fluctuations in demand, adjust order sizes and delivery frequency as required, and provide timely and accurate visibility to orders, inventory, and other metrics are all competitive weapons. Use them to your advantage. Choose trust: walk the talk on collaboration.

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