Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. The result was restatement. My conclusion?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

It introduced the survey we had just launched to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. I believe our findings capture the pulse of North America logistics operations and the executives’ perceptions and priorities going into the second half of 2023.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Results from The Conference Board’s C-SUITE OUTLOOK survey showed supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and rising inflation to be 3 of the 5 high impact external factors on the minds of CEOs. Negative Impact from External Factors The Conference Board survey results indicated labor shortages and inflation to be top concerns for CEOs.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

He led analysis around M&A, pricing sensitivity, competitive intelligence, and annual sales forecast for the executive team. FreightWaves.com, the company’s news site, is the leading provider of news and commentary for the transportation and logistics space. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast. About FreightWaves.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Trends Transforming Logistics and Supply Chains In the MENA Region in 2023. by Dr Shereen Nassar , Global Director of Logistics Studies and Director of MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management Suite at Heriot-Watt University Dubai. Demand Sensing for Accurate Planning and Forecasting. billion USD by 2026.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Christian Klein, SAP’s CEO, Speaking at Sapphire SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, ran from June 3 rd through the 5 th in Orlando. If there was a heat wave in the southwest, a logistics manager might say, “Joule, show me every refrigerated truck shipment in Arizona today!” SAP is also developing a logistics use case.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

The announcement came on May 15th at the company’s annual user conference, Momentum. The post Manhattan Associates Releases a Ground-breaking Supply Chain Planning Solution appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ: MANH) announced the release of Manhattan Active Supply Chain Planning.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Contrary to what many people believe, investing in employees is not dilutive to a company’s financial results and shareholder value — it’s actually accretive,” said Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, at the 2015 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I just returned from the Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Conference in Detroit. This annual event explores supply chain management and how logistics can succeed in a fast-changing environment. OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers should consider longer-term forecasting and capacity collaboration with their Tier-n suppliers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 13, 2016

A few months ago, I attended the ToolsGroup Supply Chain Transformation conference in Boston. I am always interested in case study presentations, as I find that I learn a lot about how companies are applying their technology and business processes to solve a problem.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 26, 2019

Back home today after a fantastic trip to Spain including the Gartner EMEA Supply Chain Executive Conference. 1] ” Not surprisingly, the top three use cases where machine learning are being applied are demand forecasting, supply planning and demand sensing and shaping. This leads to excessive costs, waste and obsolescence.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Logistics can be traced back to the earliest repeated exchange of resources and goods between tribes and villages. As the staff at Hopkins Distribution Company observes, “Today, logistics and distribution is a rather complicated and advanced process but it began years ago in a less advanced form. ”[3]. . ”[3].

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

” – Sir Winston Churchill Having just returned from the 2023 Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Global conference in Detroit, these words are very fitting to encapsulate the essence of the event. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Short-term visibility at the Purchase Order/ASN level is insufficient.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2022

Mr. Amend explained Walgreens’ project in a speech at the Blue Yonder ICON user conference on May 25 th. But the inventory planning systems that forecast where inventory will be needed are not. No forecast is perfect. The problem with this is that forecasts are based on history. But now it was full speed ahead.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2024

I am coming to you from the sunny confines of San Diego, CA where I am attending the 2024 Körber Elevate conference. Sean Elliot, Acting Co-CEO kicked off the conference with a keynote that highlighted what Körber did in 2023, but more importantly, where the company is going in 2024.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This year’s CSCMP conference reinforced that we’re in the early days of a massive transformation. The industry is moving in an unprecedented direction that is increasingly digitized and more data-centric than ever, and logistics leaders are looking to increase efficiency with artificial intelligence (AI). The Data Problem.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. We can no longer assume that government policy is rational, variability is low or logistics are available. The focus of the conference is on Supply Chain 2030. Reflection.

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BlueYonder

MAY 6, 2024

Blue Yonder recently attended the LogiMed USA 2024 conference in beautiful Palm Springs, California. Attendees included medical device and diagnostics manufacturers, hospital systems, raw material suppliers, software providers, and logistics service providers (LSPs).

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Logility

AUGUST 4, 2023

“We decided to embrace the change because we realized that operating in silos is not ideal,” Turk shared during his session at Gartner’s EMEA Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo conference in Barcelona, Spain. By working together, we are better equipped to avoid this mistake, inspiring trust among our people because we still walk the talk.”

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 24, 2021

Brad is an experienced enterprise SaaS sales leader working in the logistics and supply chain industry. Over the last 4 years, he has expanded upon his logistics knowledge while at FreightWaves and proven to be an integral part of growing the FreightWaves SONAR product offerings and go-to-market team. global logistics industry. .

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 27, 2015

The Pharma Supply Chain conference – Optimising Efficiencies. Organisation: Global Insight Conferences Ltd. The Pharma Supply Chain Conference – Optimising Efficiencies. Forecasting Strategies Which Deliver Profit & Meet Demand: Tap into partnership potential and new tools to optimise and accurately forecast.

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2022

Identify the types of nodes that can service your supply chain — get creative, this is the 21st century and new models for logistics are arising constantly. Build a model of your demand — this you can do easily from your history, or forecasts, or demand proxies. Read on to see how. All of these sites can serve as candidates.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. If it is the same consumer goods company that I think it is, I saw their vice president of supply chain speak at a planning conference. appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. These crawlers never stop working.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

One of the goals of the conference was to challenge the audience to redefine work. Similarly, after the conference, I started working with a chemical company to formulate a supply chain strategy. I also forecast dismal retail performance for the holidays. Let’s look at the past to forecast the future: Phase 1.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

Changes to the plan are based on changes to the forecast, manufacturing capacity, supplier constraints, and a host of other factors. Most companies use shipment history as the key data for forecasts. The company is moving to include more industry and government data on macroeconomic trends to improve their long term forecasting.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 15, 2018

In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Home Depot Sets $1.2 Capstone Logistics acquires LoadDelivered, Logistical Labs (CCJ). I’m now trying to get my kids hooked on them. It’s just a “Question of Time” until they “Just Can’t Get Enough” either. No small talk.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

We were also joined by over 1,500 people from around the world who attended the conference virtually. The theme for the conference was “Ready. At the conference, the first two Amplifiers were introduced: Demand.AI appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. and Supply.AI. There are three core areas that Demand.AI

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Andrew Viteritti, Lead for the Commerce and Regulation division of the Economist Intelligence Unit Global Forecasting group began his presentation by reviewing the current and future state of the global economy. The forecast is that the EU GDP growth will be reduced by 1.3 percentage points, shrinking to 2.7% growth, and only 3.1%

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 4, 2016

Before diving into this week’s supply chain and logistics news, I want to share a couple of quick news items of our own. First, for all of you who have asked for podcast versions of our Talking Logistics episodes , they are now available on our iTunes Podcast channel ! JDA Achieves Key Competitive Wins and Sees Strong Cloud Growth.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. Tight coupling of the supply chain forecast to the financial forecast will improve value.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

Previously, the focus was on a more siloed approach to improving manufacturing, procurement or logistics. Here we start with the seven that we see the most often: 1) One-number Forecasting. It is a Hoax. : Well-intentioned consultants tout the concept of one-number forecasting. Eager executives drink the magic elixir.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

As I wrote two years ago in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2015 : Historically, Supply Chain Design was an exercise companies undertook at most once a year, or when a significant change occurred in their supply chain, such as an acquisition. competitive threats, new regulations, more stringent customer expectations).

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

by Dr. Madhav Durbha The 2017 Gartner supply chain executive conference took place at the O2-Intercontinental Hotel in London on September 20 th and 21 st. The theme of the conference was ACT (Aspire, Challenge, Transform), same as the Gartner supply chain summit in Phoenix during May of this year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the conference, I was fortunate to see a presentation from Brent Wilson, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Qualcomm. The larger impacts have been more around shifts in demand from Covid; demand unexpectedly shifted into a different direction and consumed all resources above the forecast.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 11, 2019

BOSTON, June 11, 2019 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, today shared details of its participation in the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, taking place June 17-19 in Barcelona. Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2019 is the world’s most important gathering of supply chain leaders.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This week, the World Trade Organization (WTO) forecasted that global trade growth will slow sharply in in 2023 after decelerating in the second half of this year. This latest forecast indicates, in-part: World merchandise trade volume is expected to grow 3.5 World GDP at market exchange rates is forecasted to increase by 2.8

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 12, 2015

I was at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference earlier this week. In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: JDA Software Announces Game-Changing Strategic Cloud Collaboration with Google. Forecasting demands that we process hundreds of millions of pieces of data.

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