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Inventory Everywhere, But Not the Right Product to Ship

Supply Chain Shaman

For additional insights check out a prior blog. ) Increase in Product Complexity. The addition of items to the product portfolio increased manufacturing cycle times and increased inventory cycle stock. The opportunity is to manage item complexity and redesign cycles. The reason?

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Shouldn’t GenAI Mean New Gen?

Supply Chain Shaman

Before reading this post, consider reading my prior blog post, Don’t AI This. Running optimizers frequently introduce noise and error into a complex system. The elongation of product platforms to serve micro-markets, increases demand latency. (As This time is usually weeks and, in many products, three months.)

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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System

Supply Chain Shaman

Intuitive Surgical, L’Oreal, and Sleep Number drove excellence through product and service innovation to outperform their peer groups. The performance of large global branded companies with extensive IT portfolios shows decline. My reply to my friend is that “The supply chain is a complex non-linear system.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

As companies struggled to respond to increasing business complexity—a growing number of products, channels, and markets with regional preferences—few software applications were equal to managing channel complexity. Product Launch The Launch of a New Product Seldom. Good planners are scarce and expensive.

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3 Supply Chain Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2020

AIMMS

Our recent Demand Forecasting survey shows that teams anticipate more complexity in the supply chain. When asked how they see their organization’s product portfolio evolving over the next 3-5 years, 53% of respondents stated they see the number of items increasing and 43% of them expect to see increased item/product churn.

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Supply Chain Leaders Rearranging Deck Chairs? Yes, I Think So.

Supply Chain Shaman

Here, in this blog, I explain. In the review of my first book, Bricks Matter , Keith Harrison, former Global Director of Product Supply at P&G asked me, “You mention the need for supply chains to shift from a focus on cost to value. Improving the portfolio increases the price-to-tangible book or market capitalization.

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Planning to Win: Optimizing Inventory to Meet Business Objectives

ToolsGroup

Our customer Granarolo is a great example of a company whose inventory optimization objectives are to minimize obsolescence and maximize the residual product shelf life. Of course, inventory optimization is infinitely more complex than yacht racing. This is a common goal for food and beverage companies.