Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The output was just not helpful. We have too hard-wired solutions bolted into IT architectures to enable the flexibility needed by business leaders during times of high variability. Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. Over time, this changed. It will not be over soon. The reason?

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Procurement planning functionality (essentially the planning of future purchase orders) is typically a subset of broader supply planning applications that plan manufacturing work orders, inventory levels, shipments, as well as purchase orders, to meet demand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

A company buys these solutions to optimize their business. Rich Sherman – a Senior Fellow in TCS’s Supply Chain Center of Excellence – points out that many companies are building control towers to better manage their supply chains. The network a company gains visibility to with their control tower is just one of many networks.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The wholesale distribution and manufacturing (WD&M) landscape is entering a new era. Current legacy systems just can’t deliver the levels of accuracy, flexibility and efficiency required to successfully meet the moment. B2B customers increasingly expect a commerce-like experience. Margins are under unprecedented pressure.

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Locus Robotics

MARCH 9, 2023

By Geoff Whiting, Senior Writer, Red Stag Fulfillment Applying automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to supply chain management is an excellent way for manufacturers to increase the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of operations. RPA is an excellent tool for automating laborious processes currently executed manually.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Overworking your limited resources or late deliveries can never be long-term solutions and that’s why every business needs capacity planning. Now you might think, capacity planning isn’t too complicated. Capacity planning is so much more than that.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Overworking your limited resources or late deliveries can never be long-term solutions and that’s why every business needs capacity planning. Now you might think, capacity planning isn’t too complicated. Capacity planning is so much more than that.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2024

As manufacturers intentionally design their supply chain flows, AI becomes a key ally in synthesizing complex data sets, managing higher numbers of SKUs, and navigating intricate operations – while meeting rising expectations for faster fulfillment and customer satisfaction.” Enter our list of supply chain trends for 2024.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase in year-over-year volume. Returning containers is an ongoing issue resulting in some manufacturers investigating a return to break-bulk shipping (container free). I am worried.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Among other things, ZF manufactures electrified powertrains, car chassis technology, active and passive safety systems, and advanced driver assistance systems. ZF offers product and software solutions for established vehicle manufacturers and newly emerging transport and mobility service providers. The ZF supply chain is complex.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In the cloud, companies can deploy resources on an as-needed basis, rather than invest in additional servers and storage capacity that they may only need for a short time. Centralized information eliminates data silos and strengthens information sharing through real-time communication (instead of point-to-point data transmission).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

This type of response is just not helpful. I define supply chain excellence as year-over-year performance better than the peer group on this balanced scorecard. I define supply chain excellence as year-over-year performance better than the peer group on this balanced scorecard. ” When this happens, I sigh. They did it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Trade-offs include options like an alternate bill of materials, a shift in sourcing, or the move to outsourced manufacturing. Leadtimes, conversion rates, and cycle times are fixed parameters. If I do an excellent job at safety stock management, my company will have the right levels of inventory. Why do I tell you this story?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Frank, the line manager for manufacturing, dominated the meetings. We had a choice to either install newer high-capacity machines for the Jell-O lines (CM Bartelts) running at over 1500 packages/minute or slower, more flexible equipment (IM Bartelts) at a rate of 650 pouches/minute. Sharing My Experience. The year was 1982.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

As I spent the time reflecting over the last three weeks, the number of articles streaming into my feed on supply chain implications was high, but most of them were wrong. The Port of Shenzhen –a central manufacturing and export hub including the Yantian terminal that handles 25% of all U.S.-bound We need to embrace variability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

Dr. Alexandros Skandalakis – the Director Global Manufacturing Capacity, Strategic Assets and Capital Expenditures at Philip Morris Products S.A. This was done at a stock keeping unit level and for the entire manufacturing supply chain. Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In the previous posts we have looked at the misdirected focus on historical information, the belief spreadsheets can support a robust S&OP process, the “S&OP is too rigid argument” and the idea that S&OP is a real-time response planning process. Today we are going to look at lean manufacturing.

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Locus

MAY 15, 2023

The direct-to-consumer (D2C) model has been gaining popularity among customers for some time now as manufacturers get a lot more room to provide customized brand experiences that bring a lot more delight to consumers, which in turn strengthen brand loyalty. These sentiments reflect in the consistent growth of theIndian D2C market.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. While good news travels quickly in an organization, bad news travels slowly. Supply chains operate blindly on order data. The problem? Wrong focus I thought.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It’s time to Marie Kondo your supply chain by eliminating excess inventory and learning how to avoid it in the first place. From weather to war to congested ports , it’s no secret that ongoing supply chain disruptions cause delays, shortages, and extended lead times. Let’s talk about: What Excess Inventory Is.

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OptiProERP

JANUARY 29, 2020

Cloud ERP creates value by saving time and resources with exception management. It is typical to focus on what your manufacturing business is doing right. Time : Deadlines and/or violations. Timeline : When personnel have gone above or below an allotted amount of time for a task or process. What is Exception Management?

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases. It’s rare for ocean liners like Maersk to live in the same category as tech giants like Amazon or Alibaba.

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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

But research suggests the most widespread and stinging criticism of IBP was that it was just mature Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) by any other name. These critics sensed a sinister “rebranding” ploy designed to get companies to purchase technology and services they already own but perhaps have not fully implemented.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Every manufacturer knows the importance of raw materials – without them, there’s no final product. It ensures you maintain optimal raw materials inventory levels, and therefore plays a crucial role in optimising your manufacturing processes. Let’s dive in. In this guide: What is raw material inventory management?

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Logility

APRIL 9, 2020

Just look back over the last couple of years. Error-prone spreadsheets were never designed to handle the multi-dimensional relationships and constraints involved in today’s supply chains or to provide the advance numeric or visual real-time analytics required to develop an optimal response quickly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Inventory replenishment is reordering stock in the right quantities, at the right time. Too little, and you risk disappointing customers with slow fulfilment times. Inventory replenishment is the process of purchasing the goods, components, and raw materials needed to build and sell products. Preventing stock expiry.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Of particular interest was a session on Contract Manufacturing Operations (CMO) relationships with Michael Daly, Director of Supply Chain for Valeant Pharmaceuticals. 5 – Capacity. Daly observed, “capacity issues are like fog. It just rolls in, you don’t know how it got there and you can’t see your way out.”

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Logility

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Just like every aspect of our modern society, the COVID-19 pandemic has tested how food and beverage (F&B) networks navigate continuous and dramatic changes. And now it’s time to take all those lessons learned to create a more resilient network that can balance the delicate equilibrium between supply and demand in real time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 14, 2022

I took these breaks just to get my 10 minutes out of the office as often as I could. But just as people are always dying, they are always getting born. And they said, ‘Excellent very glad to do it. Did we appreciate that at the time? I interviewed Simon Hartley, the cofounder of Wumdrop. A guy called Roy Brawley.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It was designed with linearity in mind: a singular focus on minimizing transport costs through building high-capacity, point-to-point distribution infrastructure. And as global trade has accelerated in recent decades, greater levels of investment and manpower have been dedicated to expanding capacity to achieve cost efficiencies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Demand forecasting is the process of making future estimations of how much of a given product will sell by location and time period. Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. When will the recession hit?

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this Part 2 blog post, we will continue to explore how automotive manufacturers are carrying out effective supply chain initiatives and their innovative solutions. Salim: Our automotive customers are increasingly looking at how to counter inflation but at the same time how to enable supply chain resiliency.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 17, 2022

Tyricia has just sent you a smiley face on WhatsApp. I’ll remember the importance of pixels when purchasing my first smart TV to stream documentaries when you’ve joined me on my utopian island tucked away from the chaos of the world. Data-driven manufacturing and distribution. The exponential growth of data.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Under a VMI system the supplier, usually a manufacturer, is responsible for optimising the level of inventory held by the distributor. It may also be useful to use KPIs for your most important suppliers – for example KPIs for goods and services are delivered, whether they are on time, and whether they meet quality expectations.

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