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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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Dancing in the Ring of Fire

Supply Chain Shaman

John’s company is a process-based manufacturer and Anne’s ERP solution is a better fit for configure to order which leads to limitations. The specific solution has little capability to improve cycle stock management through better production planning, or in transit inventory based on transportation decisions.

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Multi-echelon Inventory Optimization vs Inventory Optimization

ToolsGroup

There are many pieces of the modern manufacturing supply chain. All manufacturing echelons–raw materials suppliers, factories, distribution centers, and wholesalers–need to ensure that the right stock is in the right place at the right time to truly serve the end customer. This is no easy task.

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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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Don’t Wait to Innovate: 3 Key Benefits of Causal Forecasting

Logility

That’s precisely what demand forecasting feels like for many businesses today. So, instead of making blanket predictions based on past sales, a causal forecast for ice cream might predict higher sales on hot weekends in summer and lower sales on cold weekdays in winter. Enter causal forecasting. And the result?

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Production Planning Software: Your Comprehensive Guide

Logility

Your Comprehensive Guide to Production Planning Software The benefits of production planning software vs scheduling are about the granularity of the plan: capacity plans (or master production schedules) are not granular and factor in less granular things, like high level capacity, forecasts, inventory, and transfer times.

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A New Kind of Supply Chain Managed Services

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, in contract logistics, the 3PL makes use of a warehouse management system so that they can do the job efficiently. There is also managed planning, where a services firm uses a supply chain system to forecast demand, and plan replenishment and manufacturing. I talked to one of GEP’s planning customers.