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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

During the 1980s, I was on a management team for a large manufacturer. The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s start with definitions: Self Service Planning: Decision support technologies designed for business leaders to use analytic techniques on a collaborative platform to improve business planning. The second disturbing fact is that business leaders cannot access planning data, so a planner must interpret the data.

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Supply Chain Planning for Dummies

Logistics Viewpoints

There are different types of supply chain planning solutions. A planner could ask the SCP engine to achieve 95% service, with CO2 emissions under of under a million metric tons at a given factory in the coming month. Other tradeoffs, to maximize cash on hand or preferred suppliers or customers to do business with, are possible as well.

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Manufacturing Operations Management Software: A Plant Manager’s Handbook For Improved Shop Floor Control And Productivity

ThroughPut

What is Manufacturing Operations Management? Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) is a long-term holistic solution that gives complete visibility into plant floor operations to help consistently improve manufacturing operations performance. What is Manufacturing Operations Management Software?

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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.

Supply Chain Shaman

A large consumer products manufacturer with nine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instances and several divisions wanted to discuss forecasting. The Company focused primarily on retail planning and wanted to extend its capabilities into a consumer products manufacturing solutions offering. The current state is a quagmire. Definition.

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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

Logistics Viewpoints

Any company shipping physical products today – whether to consumers or to other businesses – needs to meet higher service expectations, including faster order turnaround in the DC. In addition to large distribution orders, many retail and business-to-business facilities are shipping rising volumes of direct-to-consumer orders.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

The order is a poor proxy for demand and few supply chains have access to consumption data. Supply chains operate blindly on order data. Instead, the changes in consumption will have to translate into a change in order patterns—shifts in replenishment across multiple tiers—before organizations will start to align. The problem?