The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Responsible for 8% of global greenhouse gases, the fashion industry is a major polluter, especially with the onslaught of “fast fashion”, where people will buy clothes for an Instagram photo and then never wear them again. Leadership Excellence for the Digital Age – LogiSYM January/February 2018. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this blog, I’ll try to shed more light on it with examples from our work with our customers. In this blog, I’ll focus on the Q-commerce case. They can adjust quantities and generate supplier replenishment orders in PDF or Excel as needed. Composability as an Enabler of Agility & Resilience.

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Logility

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Specifically, practitioners can use intuitive displays to drill into safety metrics, product quality, on-time delivery, cost efficiency, and much more. Over time, ineffective quality control processes will affect customer satisfaction, buying behaviors, and ultimately lead to lost market share. Quality Control. Life Cycle Maintenance.

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Locus

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Implementing a dispatch software can improve your last-mile efficiency. An intelligent and intuitive dispatch software can help you improve last-mile efficiencies and meet the new delivery expectations of customers. Find out how dispatch software can improve your last-mile efficiency. What do customers want? The challenge.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. I find three: organizational design, executive understanding of supply chain, and the lack of a clear definition of an optimization function for supply chain excellence. Clarity of Supply Chain Excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 29, 2015

The first and second acts of supply chain planning and execution software market are slowly giving sway to what I term the third act. Users of Software as a Service solutions have higher satisfaction rates. The bar of performance is higher for the provider of the software. The difference? The company secured $22.5 New Entrants.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This blog post formed in my head as I worked with clients this month. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. 5 A Focus on Functional Metrics Throws the Supply Chain Out of Balance.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 2, 2023

From stringent quality standards to comprehensive documentation requirements, Class 1 and 2 manufacturers must navigate a complex landscape to ensure compliance and product excellence. ERP analytics also facilitate the management of the purchasing process through the requisition approval workflow, streamlining procurement activities.

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synchrono

JANUARY 31, 2017

LNS Research blogger Mark Davidson said, “When it comes to metrics, it’s often said that what gets measured gets done.”. Mark also writes: “Metrics that have the attention of business and manufacturing leaders tend to be those that get measured and improved upon by their employee teams.”. Metrics for Action.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

In essence, a structured supply chain department as described in the blog can help you deliver the right supply chain strategy and goals which helps cost reduction, improve customer service, on-time delivery, and better working capital. Analyze performance metrics and implement improvements to enhance efficiency. Enroll Now!

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

Procurement training equips you to excel in the corporate world by teaching you everything from supplier dynamics to negotiating strategies. What is procurement and purchasing Lesson 2. Procurement and Purchasing Cycle Lesson 7. It goes beyond the concepts found in textbooks by providing real-world examples and useful advice.

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BlueYonder

MAY 18, 2023

Lessons From ICON 2023 This blog was written by Judah Reynolds, with Panasonic Connect’s Marketing Planning & Capabilities Group. This event is put on by Blue Yonder, which is the leading supply chain software company. He attended ICON 2023 and shares his key takeaways.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. Our journey for supply chain excellence has changed and evolved over time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

The blog was uglier then and less polished, and I have learned a lot about blogging over the years; however, my focus is the same. The Supply Chain Shaman is an independent blog. You will note that there is no advertising for the blog and I am never paid to write. I take independence seriously. This is my 310th post.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

Over 93% of companies use Excel Spreadsheets to develop their plans. Companies need to be aligned to a common set of metrics in a balanced scorecard to mitigate risk. Functional metrics introduce risk and throw the supply chain out of balance. This is not about buying software, but rethinking what is possible.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

in this blog, I am going to rely on the account of the songwriter, that the song is a childhood story about a dragon that lived in Honalee. Older men buy less underwear than younger males and their packaging was not as attractive to the female shopper buying for the family. Their questions were could the supply chain help?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 26, 2021

Implement Effective Maintenance Management Software. That is what maintenance software can bring to your organization. Maintenance software can improve data collection for staff monitoring to determine their progress and time investment on tasks and servicing. In two words, organization and savings.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. At Supply Chain Insights , this is our passion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

Buying these solutions is far more complicated than is represented in a simple four-box quadrant. Best Software Does Not Always Win. In parallel, we now know that the Demantra solution purchased by Oracle lacks scalability and usability, but the perception is that it is well-integrated into the Oracle suite. It is complex.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

By purchasing planning and transactional systems for a common vendor, they had one throat to choke and they were familiar with the architectural elements. As shown in table 1, the movement to adopt “integrated ERP and Supply Chain Planning software from an ERP vendor” moved the industry backward. But, did it add more value?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Having an excellent business fleet is one of the secrets of highly successful companies. A functional digital tachograph can measure significant metrics like speed, driving time, and driver’s activity. The increasing cost of fuel, car maintenance and purchasing of vehicles can drain a company’s resources.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy and sell-side markets) bi-directionally with near-real time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. This is a missionary buying market where taxonomies and technologies are not clear.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 27, 2022

In this way, you will position yourself better in the market, because customers will know why they should buy from you. To do that, you can hire a professional, or you can use software to do that for you. A target audience is a group of people most likely to be interested in buying your products. Target Audience.

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ShipBob

APRIL 13, 2021

However, there is a wide range of metrics that you should be tracking to help your online store grow. Why ecommerce performance metrics are important. Why are ecommerce performance metrics important to your online store? COGS = Beginning inventory + Purchases during the period – Ending inventory. Table of Contents.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Customers are buying less. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. As I end this blog post, let me leave you with three thoughts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

This blog was started in 2010. Today, 270 posts and five years later, I am thankful for the opportunity to sit at my kitchen table and communicate to almost 20,000 supply chain professionals globally (directly through this blog and through connections on Linkedin). This is the goal of this blog post. I am giving thanks.

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Arena Solutions

OCTOBER 12, 2023

External audits can be nerve-wracking with key personnel and teams running from pillar to post searching for records or documents, especially if you don’t have a quality management system (QMS) software solution in place. Christine said, “I have used internal audits as the baseline to improve our overall business metrics.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I also shared with them my view that companies will ultimately find opportunities for supply chain innovation at the intersection of Software, B2B Connectivity, and Social Networking — a trend best illustrated by the rise of Supply Chain Operating Networks (SCONs). How are companies using SCONs in the real world?

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 21, 2024

The shift to digital technologies starts with employing software to compute data. Optimizing Inventory in Diverse Geographies Since different geographies differ in their consumer metrics, it is imperative to optimize inventory using effective demand sensing. Agility should be hard-wired into demand sensing software.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I have come to the conclusion that this needs some further analysis, which I won’t be able to complete in a single blog. They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. However, excellence in corporate planning matters. Their words. She states that.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” SanDisk Corporation designs, develops and manufactures flash memory storage devices and software. Kehat’s feedback is that “Getting management buy-in for the implementation of cost-to-serve process is easy, but the implementation is difficult.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

As I read the literature, I felt out of touch and old-fashioned. “How could I not know about supply chain planning software?” On the plane to my interview, I read everything I could about planning software and thought about the simple spreadsheet challenge that was the genesis of my journey. ” I thought.

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DynaSys

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

And this is only one metric where you could be doing a lot better. A major supply chain initiative involving a software implementation is no different. And since their purview is different from yours, they’ll bring perspectives that you may not have thought of early in the buying process. Involve Key Stakeholders Early.

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Locus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not only this, 62% of online shoppers in the US say delivery speed is what makes for a good purchase experience. But even with this knowledge, what’s stopping retailers and e-commerce companies from providing excellent delivery experiences to their customers? But customers always want more. This is cumbersome to say the least.

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OptiProERP

OCTOBER 23, 2019

They quickly realize that the bookkeeping and basic accounting software they launched their business on no longer meets their growing demands for visibility and scalability. Real-time data gives users insights into purchasing, production, inventory movement, and warehouse management. Excellence Opto Inc., Customer Story.

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QAD

AUGUST 3, 2022

It’s a type of software or system businesses use to plan and manage their daily activities, like their supply chain, manufacturing, services, financials and other operations. ERP systems can integrate with a number of other business systems to provide a comprehensive software system for everything a business does. What is ERP?

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

servomechanisms) and software (e.g., ” Those are excellent questions to consider before making investments in any technology. Use data and new metrics systems to free the organization from the ball and chain of corporate politics. Some organizations are combining these advances with developments in hardware (e.g.,

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