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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. Why Jump Now?

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Active Supply Chain Design: A Key Imperative for De Risking Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Management practices such as lean manufacturing and just-in-time inventory management, along with globalization, have made tremendous impact on cost and service, but have accentuated risk. Each of these types of risks can be further subdivided into operational and disruptive risks. These risks are low probability and high impact.

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Cost Centers: How to Understand and Optimize Them

Precoro

Types of Cost Centers Optimizing Cost Centers: Strategies for Success The Role Procurement Software Plays What Are Cost Centers? It is a term that is often used in contrast to profit centers, which are business departments that are expected to add to the bottom line. Keep reading about: What Are Cost Centers?

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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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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 team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence. The question was, “How can I redefine demand planning processes to use channel data?”

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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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5 Steps Supply Chain Planning Solutions Implementation Success

Logility

Here are five critical practices that supply chain and business leaders should incorporate in the process of developing project goals – and avoid a painful implementation. 1 Co-develop a business case with vendors. 2 Identify data availability and data gaps. Some organizations will want to focus on improved forecasting.