California Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Sourcing Warehousing 
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 5, 2021
Despite the significant amount of effort involved in going from running a business on Excel spreadsheets to implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP), they are very grateful that their efforts to improve their supply chain agility were underway when the pandemic hit. The company has a sourcing team that vets the beans.
QAD
MARCH 30, 2023
They don’t have an internal power source, so range and data storage is sacrificed to gain cost efficiency and lifespan. The internal power sources in these tags sacrifice cost efficiency and lifespan to gain range, data storage and self-initiated broadcasting. This isn’t a task for an Excel spreadsheet.
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Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 25, 2024
Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Pandemic demand for goods, and the shifts from a service economy, drove the increase in southern California ports where 40% of ocean carriers unload for entry into the United States. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Starbucks redesigned their cups for the Grande product, and the flimsy cups were a source of constant spills and burns. Foundational to supply chain excellence is the reliability of delivery, quality, and service. The Sleep Number Story of Supply Chain Excellence. Defining the Customer Experience Through Supply Chain Excellence.
6 River Systems
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? Strategies include sourcing more items directly from manufacturers to improve margins, SKU rationalization and space reduction, “show more carry less” and assisted-store ordering.
QAD
OCTOBER 7, 2021
The new parameters of “How, When and Where” wine was consumed affected transportation, warehousing, distribution, and even packaging. Truck transportation continues to be challenged with driver shortages , tight capacity, and warehousing is likewise finding it difficult to source workers. That’s not all. That’s winemaking, too.
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