BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As I discussed in a previous blog , more retailers and manufacturers are turning to logistics services providers (LSPs) to manage their growing warehousing and transportation challenges — including rising costs, shrinking margins, labor shortages, and increasing customer demands. Digitizing backend processes is really key,” she noted.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 18, 2021

As logistics continues to grow more lucrative to the customer experience, 3PLs are playing an increasing role in the supply chain. For example, an exception is automated and allows for seamless sharing of order data to create a turnkey solution to complete transportation management effectively. .

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, leading life sciences companies are starting to view quality through the lens of an enterprise-wide, continuous improvement process that includes overall organizational goals versus a pure compliance exercise. Increase quality issue visibility across the enterprise and supply chain. Improve product safety and efficacy.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 15, 2023

Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo EU 2023 has wrapped up its 3-day event in Barcelona, Spain. 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. Looking for a snapshot of the key highlights?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

As I spent the time reflecting over the last three weeks, the number of articles streaming into my feed on supply chain implications was high, but most of them were wrong. Some stated that the war marks the end of the global supply chain. By definition, this requires a global supply chain.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Supplier relationship management falls under the larger supply chain management function your business requires to operate. Not to be confused with supplier risk management, supplier relationship management refers more to effectively managing supplier relationships to achieve better business outcomes.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

We collaborated on a blog about how to solve the often difficult challenge of balancing service levels with supply chain costs. Two trends have made the classic inventory dilemma of service levels versus costs more difficult: globalization and personalization. Addressing Long Tail Demand.

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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. The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain. Read More ».

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Like most industries, manufacturers around the world are feeling the pinch of inventory disruption brought on by shortages and other supply chain challenges. Effectively Managing Service Levels: Shortages vs. Excess Inventory. Getting the forecast right is still challenging for many supply chains.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 5, 2019

Supply chain planning in emerging markets is different. All emerging markets are not alike, and even within markets there are variances, such as between urban versus rural areas. All emerging markets are not alike, and even within markets there are variances, such as between urban versus rural areas. Transfer taxes.

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ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

As I write this blog, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage populations and economies around the world. The total costs, in terms of human lives, disrupted supply chains, ruined businesses and GDP impact, are still just projections in the array of charts presented daily by statisticians and data modelers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2019

Respectfully, he opened the dialogue asking, “ Lora why are you writing a book on supply chain management? ” He continued to share stories of implementations in marketing departments at consumer products companies, and asked, “Isn’t this far more interesting than supply chain? This is telling.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 18, 2018

Companies asked for integrated supply chain planning. As a leader of a global supply chain organization, her goal was simple. She was trying to define and drive supply chain excellence. In contrast, the design of ERP-based systems is functional efficiency. Current State of Supply Chain Management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

s Wing subsidiary has developed a fleet of new drone prototypes designed to more efficiently deliver packages ranging from small pill bottles to items weighing as much as 7 pounds. Alphabet Inc.’s Compared to June 2019, pre-COVID, import volumes to the top 10 US ports were up 26.9 percent last month, said McCown.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2021

Earlier this year, intermodal versus truckload savings hit an all-time high, rising to nearly 35%, reports Ari Ashe of The Journal of Commerce. Aggregated together, these orders can ship via a more cost-effective LTL rate. Increase Value Within Your Supply Chain by Leveraging These Best Practices While Partnering With GlobalTranz.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Yesterday, I spoke at the University of Tennessee Supply Chain Leaders Forum on innovation. I asked the audience for a show of hands to understand how many of the supply chain leaders in the room were testing blockchain. The Supply Chain Insights webinar series is designed as an educational forum for learning.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 14, 2018

The answer lies in your supply chain planning. In almost all of these programs, the ‘how’ is driven behind the scenes by robust supply chain planning and optimization techniques that are able to link people, planet and profit for a triple effect on the bottom line. This blog post is the first of a two-part series.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2013

We asked the IT, finance and supply chain teams to self-assess their views of organizational alignment. The supply chain view is listed in figure 1. For the supply chain team, the largest area of misalignment is between the supply chain and the sales group. Supply chains are not agile enough.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Manufacturers and distributors experienced huge supply chain disruptions due to the pandemic which exposed many vulnerabilities and tested the resilience of supply chain leaders globally. In fact, SYSPRO research revealed that 60% of businesses were impacted by supply chain disruptions during the pandemic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. This blog post formed in my head as I worked with clients this month. Most of the discussions are circular.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 1, 2019

Every supply chain professional understands inventory is a necessary evil. Like Goldilocks, supply chain professionals are looking for the “just right” solution to their dilemma. If the solution was easy, there wouldn’t be so many people continuing to write about supply chain optimization.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Introduction I was recently in a conversation about forecasting with a client team, and one individual, whose background was not in supply chain, asked what the value of demand forecasting is. The answer may seem obvious to supply chain professionals, but it’s worth taking a step back and thinking about how to answer this.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 25, 2024

Demand forecasting is a critical component of supply chain management, especially in the complex and unpredictable market landscape of 2024. To address these challenges, supply chain professionals must adopt advanced forecasting methods. Let’s get started with definitions, differences and benefits.

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Supply Chain Insights

MAY 17, 2016

As a supply chain leader you want your team to make progress and outpace the pack. One of the toughest challenges for the supply chain leader is building and retaining talent. Managing a global supply chain team today is not easy. At Supply Chain Insights research is our business.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 16, 2023

The past few years have taught us a lesson or two in the importance of prepping conventional supply chains to face disruptions of any kind and magnitude. Supply chain planners and leaders have been on a roller coaster ride ever since and haven’t been able to overcome the impact just yet.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 16, 2023

The past few years have taught us a lesson or two in the importance of prepping conventional supply chains to face disruptions of any kind and magnitude. Supply chain planners and leaders have been on a roller coaster ride ever since and haven’t been able to overcome the impact just yet.

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Invata Intralogistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A lot of people in the supply chain industry have been cautiously watching the robotic technology space for the past few years waiting for a sign that it’s safe to go in the water. Impressive Improvements in Efficiencies. Can support significantly more orders per station 20+ orders at a time versus 10 or less.

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USC Consulting Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’re like most manufacturers, your supply chain has been disrupted by COVID-19, especially if much of that supply came from China or Southeast Asia. Supply disruptions and downright stoppage hit back in February 2020, and demand dried up when the economy shut down shortly thereafter.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Throughput is a top priority for supply chain leaders. That’s why shippers need to track shipping data and the supply chain KPI values that affect both throughput and financial stability. That’s why shippers need to track shipping data and the supply chain KPI values that affect both throughput and financial stability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 1, 2013

It is probably me, and I hate to ask it in the group, and I would certainly hate to APPEAR in your blog tomorrow, but can you explain it ONE more time?” Since so many people have the same question, I thought that it would make a good blog post. To do this, the supply chain is designed to sense, learn and then respond.

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C3 Solutions

JULY 30, 2020

For an in-depth look at IoT and the "endless opportunities" it was offering a few years ago, see our Whitepaper, The Internet of Things and the Modern Supply Chain. In spite of Nielsen's optimism, IoT still has a long way to go before it becomes mainstream technology and that perfect supply chain is realized. Miles to Go.

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QAD

JANUARY 26, 2023

Supply chain disruption, rising raw material costs and other challenges are squeezing margins and the last thing any organization needs is to foot the bill for quality issues that could have been prevented. The post How to Minimize Cost of Quality Through Prevention appeared first on QAD Blog.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 27, 2013

What are some of the main supply chain factors that are fueling this reshoring trend? One is the thought process around best-cost sourcing versus least-cost sourcing. That means that some portion of the supply chain may actually have an increase in cost so that another portion can have a decrease in cost and [better] efficiency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Manufacturing is the foundation of my interest in supply chain management. Supply Chain and Design. This was the beginning of my journey from manufacturing to understanding larger supply chain concepts. Figure 1: Definition of the Supply Chain Organization. The year was 1985. Let me explain.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 21, 2015

In order to avoid incidents of mismatch between supply and demand, establish more efficient manufacturing and lower costs, it is necessary to establish an environment of consistent supply chain visibility. One of the often missing links, however, in supply chain visibility, is transportation management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The body is amazingly efficient in getting rid of what is making you sick. A researcher of sorts… When I started the work that I do at Supply Chain Insights, I termed myself an analyst; and while everyone wants to put me in the consulting bucket, I resist. Figure 1: Research Efforts of Supply Chain Insights.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 4, 2016

With data playing an ever increasing role in supply chain, Eye for Transport teamed up with project44 to explore EDI – a technology that has been a core part of how carriers, shippers and 3PLs transmit and share data since 1970. Today data has become a major value-centre for the supply chain. IS Freight EDI Dead?”.

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