ToolsGroup

JULY 27, 2021

On the surface, it seems like the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry performed better than most during the COVID pandemic. Consumer goods e-commerce sales for example increased 91% year over year according to a NielsenIQ analysis. Anticipate Consumer Demand and Supply Chain Uncertainty with Probabilistic Planning.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving consumer landscape, the way products are packaged plays a pivotal role in the success of consumer goods manufacturing and the overall supply chain. Changes in product packaging have transformed the landscape of consumer goods manufacturing and the supply chain.

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Consumer Goods Logistics

DECEMBER 21, 2017

While these “space-age” supply chain issues piqued our readers’ interest this past year, a review of KANE’s most popular blog posts revealed that people are still most interested in, well, people. Following are quick descriptions of the top-read blog posts for 2017. Check them out.

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Locus

JULY 25, 2023

“E-commerce is becoming a reality,” the management consulting company stated, “reinventing consumers’ path to purchase, forming new customer experiences , disrupting business models, and creating growth opportunities for large and small retailers as well as for a new generation of pure E-commerce players.”

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

An initial estimate of this year’s retail holiday spending indicates a mixed bag, depending on either retail industry, consumer goods producer or logistics and transportation industry perspectives. Mastercard SpendingPulse Data Payments processing firm Mastercard Spending Pulse indicated this week that U.S. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-up posting, we highlight new information regarding our previous posting highlighting a disclosed cyberattack directed at consumer goods producer Clorox. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. million to resolve.

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3PL Insights

JANUARY 10, 2023

The company has evolved into a full-service, third-party logistics provider offering warehousing , transportation , fulfillment , value-added , and staffing solutions to automotive, manufacturing, food and beverage, consumer goods, and chemical industries. For more information, visit our website at www.evansdist.com.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The continuous monitoring of the market segment and broader consumer buying tendencies is very much essential. For retail and consumer goods focused supply chain management customer fulfillment teams, there is a similar takeaway. Market or segment dominance is often fleeting in the current dynamic business environment.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 6, 2020

Dr. Rob Hyndman, forecasting expert at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, recently wrote in his blog ( [link] ) the methods used to forecast the spread of COVID-19. Often, consumer goods are produced in wide varieties. But how do you plan for the future while facing the uncertainties of the present?

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights that consumer goods producer Clorox has disclosed that a cyberattack directed at the company’s IT systems and infrastructure is having a material impact on operations. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 17, 2022

As our Supply Chain Matters retail and consumer goods industry readers are well aware, this retailer garners a lot of supply influence with consumer goods suppliers, and these latest results reflecting a slowdown in discretionary retail goods spending will reverberate. West Coast ports. Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

No company in either the household non-durable (consumer goods) or the food manufacturing group beat their peer group on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for 2013-2022. .” My answer is, “I don’t think so.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friends at Morai Logistics. In this blog, Morai shares the top 10 reasons to pursue a career in logistics and supply chain. Despite the critical role logistics plays behind consumer goods, military supplies, and personnel, it’s an industry with a recruiting problem.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 30, 2019

We had quiz takers from 23 countries and across industries – from chemicals to manufacturing, metals, telecom, cosmetics, consumer goods, t ransportation and food. appeared first on AIMMS - Supply Chain Management, Analytics, and Optimization Blog. It’s great to see the enthusiasm for this interactive tool. .

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BlueYonder

MAY 12, 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. Retailers, particularly grocers and consumer goods suppliers, have witnessed customer changes right before their eyes.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

A brief look at the GlobalTranz blog for January and February shows about a half dozen winter story advisories across the U.S. The pandemic drove up prices on many consumer goods as people shifted spending to e-commerce and bought at holiday levels in early spring. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Garvis reportedly has over 70 implementations of the provider’s technology, with a focus on demand forecasting and management needs in consumer goods, food and beverage, industrial manufacturing and life sciences industry settings. The question comes down to market acceptance and readiness. All rights reserved.

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3PL Insights

JULY 19, 2021

It has evolved into a full-service, third-party logistics provider offering warehousing , transportation , fulfillment , value added and staffing solutions to the automotive, manufacturing, food and beverage, consumer goods, and chemical industries. Find more information on our website, www.evansdist.com.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Footnotes [1] Staff, “ Digital Supply Chain Twin: Is it the Foundation of a Well-Designed Digitalization Initiative? ,” John Galt Blog, 1 February 2023. [2] 2] Staff, “ 5 Ways a Digital Supply Chain Twin Supercharges Performance ,” John Galt Blog, 19 June 2023. [3] 4] Staff, “ What is a digital twin?

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Many of them in the chemicals, consumer goods, food and beverage and manufacturing industry. . appeared first on AIMMS SC Blog. More than half of respondents (around 61 %) indicated that there were somewhat to extremely curious about new techniques like DDMRP as an alternative to strive for forecast improvement.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 25, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights this week’s reports that the German economy has officially slid into recession, and along with that, ongoing manufacturing recessionary conditions as-well. Manufacturing output, however, reportedly edged higher driven by a solid expansion in consumer goods production among certain regions.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 20, 2019

In a previous blog we described a ToolsGroup customer who illustrated many of these drivers and decided to choose the BPO path. But with the help of a BPO vendor they may be able to shift their focus to higher-level metrics such as on-time in-full (OTIF) or customer service levels. For example ….

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Background In various Supply Chain Matters blog commentaries, this supply chain technology industry analyst has raised awareness, perspectives and added focus to the critical importance of establishing synchronous processes and more timely decision making across an end-to-end supply chain network. All rights reserved.

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Consumer Goods Logistics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As 2020 winds down, we took at look at the year’s top logistics blog posts that most wound you up. In case you missed them the first time, here are the three KANE-published articles that attracted the most readers.

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3PL Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The company has evolved into a full-service, third-party logistics provider offering warehousing , transportation , fulfillment , value-added , and staffing solutions to automotive, manufacturing, food and beverage, consumer goods, and chemical industries. For more information, visit our website at www.evansdist.com.

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JDA software

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Counterfeit consumer goods now total at a global value of $1.77 Understandably, these knock offs are creating some significant trust issues between retailers and their consumers, and , retailers and manufacturers. In my next blog, I’ll get into what retailers need to know about blockchain moving into the future.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My last post on the Supply Chain Shaman blog was forty-five days ago. A Sample Demand Pattern for Consumer Goods. Consider technologies like 1010 Data in consumer goods in conjunction with demand sensing technologies to replace rules-based consumption of demand into an inventory signal. Today, I am reflective.

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3PL Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The company has evolved into a full-service, third-party logistics provider offering warehousing , transportation , fulfillment , value-added , and staffing solutions to automotive, manufacturing, food and beverage, consumer goods, and chemical industries. For more information, visit our website at www.evansdist.com.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

On today’s episode we welcome Andrew Lynch, Co-Founder & President of Zipline Logistics, an award-winning logistics service provider that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods and food and beverage products. We’ll publish every Tuesday right on the Cerasis blog and Freight Institute.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2024

The funding was aimed toward expanding the company’s go-to-market programs in consumer goods, retail, logistics, manufacturing, and distribution industries, as well as further development of its Cosmic Frog supply chain design platform. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 14, 2020

The staff at Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) writes, “Just five short months ago, the consumer goods industry was focused on building a supply chain to support the omnichannel era, focusing on four key areas: demand planning, fulfillment, manufacturing, and last-mile delivery. ” Cerasis Blog, 29 may 2020. [7]

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2018

In this blog, I want to drive a call for action. In consumer goods, Wal-Mart and other large retailers drove bar code scan compliance using fines/penalties to drive improvement. To put it into dollars and cents, health care spending rose 4.3% trillion in 2016, or a cost of $10,348 per person. My worry is that they are not.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Specifically for retail and consumer goods focused supply chain management teams, a short-term tactical concern is the ongoing management of excess product inventories, which in many cases, need to be trimmed before the end of the year. © Copyright 2021, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

Further, the report indicates that many consumer goods firms reportedly achieved the inventory wind down they strove for throughout 2022. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. That stated, the swift restocking that expected has not materialized. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In my blog post, I commented on HOW little supply chain planning has changed in its twenty-year evolution. Terra Technology has dubbed its solution demand sensing and with twenty consumer goods companies using the solution, the company is attempting to gain new clients in distribution-centric industries that are not consumer goods (e.g.

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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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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

Added Insights and Perspectives In our published January and February highlights of global wide PMI activity reporting , we observed that data reinforced that production levels improved for domestic consumer goods demand but remained muted for intermediate supply network and export related production demand. All rights reserved.

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