Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. They are not active on conference circuits. The company’s focus on item proliferation resulted in 40% of items moving into a non-forecastable category. As I listen, I struggle.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was certainly another strange year, but the in-person conferences I usually look forward to were a mixed bag this year. I attended my first in-person conferences and attended a number of virtual ones as well. Forecasts call for freight rate slumps in 2023. As hard as it is to believe, another year is coming to an end.

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Stord

MARCH 5, 2019

The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)’s conference attracts retail and supply chain leaders from the biggest brands in the country, providing a forum for innovation, networking, and collaboration. If you couldn’t make it, or want to refresh your memory, here are five big themes from the 2019 conference.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2022

I was fortunate enough to spend the beginning of this week at Manhattan Associates’ Momentum user conference. It was great to be back in person at a conference, seeing people face to face. Although virtual conferences do offer convenience, they lack a personal touch and the ability to network with others in person.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Source: Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. Now, speaking at September's Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in London , P&G’s product supply director Onofrio Caradonna reveals how the company is applying planning capabilities to its distributor network.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 9, 2021

This included one-number forecasting, Integrated Business Planning (with tight integration to the budget), labor arbitrage strategies (chasing low-cost labor with extended supply chains), and tax-efficient supply chain strategies. The goal of the conference is to Imagine the Supply Chain of 2030. Mistake #4.

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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. OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers should consider longer-term forecasting and capacity collaboration with their Tier-n suppliers. I look forward to seeing you at next year’s conference! This has a substantial impact on their EBITDA margins.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The budget is not sufficient and is often a detrimental input for supply chain forecasting. Bias and error.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Demand Sensing for Accurate Planning and Forecasting. A McKinsey’s report published in 2022 indicates that 32 per cent of people from industries like automotive, consumer goods, and pharmaceutical find demand variability and forecasting responsible for value chain disruptions. Technology and automation are major enablers towards this.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 27, 2015

The Food & Drink Supply Chain Conference – Boosting Efficiency & Collaboration Venue. Organisation: Global Insight Conferences Ltd. Improve Forecasting Accuracy: Assess forecasting systems and technologies to leverage shared data and ensure your products reach the shelves in time. 2 Conference Chairmen.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The jobs reduction will save $1 billion this year, Tomé said on an earnings conference call with analysts on Tuesday. percent drop in annual sales, UPS forecast a 2024 upswing of as little as 1.1 She also said the company planned to ask workers to return to the office five days a week in 2024. The shares fell as much as 7.6

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 24, 2021

SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. FreightWaves provides the ability to benchmark, analyze, monitor & forecast the $9.6T global logistics industry. .

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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 You could feel the energy in the air as 450+ people seemed to really enjoy being back at an in-person event.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

Companies are the most satisfied with warehouse and transportation management and the least satisfied with demand planning. 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. The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2021

The SVP of Supply Chain at Walmart speaking at Blue Yonder’s virtual user conference. On March 21st, David Guggina – the senior vice president supply chain, product, and engineering – filled in more detail on the specifics of their supply chain journey while speaking at Blue Yonder’s virtual Icon user conference.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. What would this “next generation solution” be?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 11, 2013

What happens when you bring together a large group of shippers and carriers and put them in a conference room? At the Manhattan Associates Momentum 2013 conference last month, the answer was a great conversation about transportation trends, challenges, and opportunities. Dan Strong , CEO and President at Super Service LLC.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

Companies are stalled on improving customer service and forecast accuracy. Today, I spoke at the Chief Supply Chain Officer conference in Chicago at the Eye for Transport event on the results of the research. Due to improvements in connectivity, 90% of industries have made improvements in productivity (revenue/employee).

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Last week, I spoke at the CPHA supply chain conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Companies that are good at demand management understand the need for design–form & function of inventory and push/pull decoupling points –and the orchestration of demand to make better decisions in sourcing, transportation and delivery.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 1, 2022

The planning typically begins at the start of the year as shippers work with carriers to share updated forecasts of capacity requirements throughout the year to ensure parcels are delivered on time during the season. However, if shippers under or overestimate their forecasted capacity requirements, they could incur a penalty from carriers.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 26, 2015

Conferences and expos are a chance for you to hear from the industry’s top players, and most importantly, build relationships with other freight shipping professionals. Fleet Safety Conference Shaumberg, Illinois; July 13-15. The Fleet Safety Conference will have something for everyone, no matter how large or small their business.

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EC Sourcing Group

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. Think strategically about transportation spend.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

At the conference, Kinexions, I heard many clients speaking freely about the deployment of Kinaxis and the turning off of Oracle and SAP APS solutions. Their work on New Product Profiler (a product to forecast a new product) and on attribute-based planning termed Proportional Profile Planning is very encouraging. 2) Logility.

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EC Sourcing Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. Think strategically about transportation spend.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 15, 2023

This announcement was made by Founder and CEO Elon Musk at an energy conference and was attributed to battery supply constraints. At the time, we billed the announcement as the EV maker’s latest vision of disrupting conventional transportation. As with all things Tesla , more will come when Elon elects to do so.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Before the benchmarking work, I believed that companies that were better forecasters would be better at inventory management. Most companies are not measuring and adapting with volatility.Analyzing forecastability of the item portfolio is a good starting place. Forecast Consumption Logic is an Opportunity for All.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S. World economic growth was forecasted to slow from 3.5 Global Trade Volumes- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in its latest forecast update was not encouraging or optimistic. percent in 2024. trillion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

The design of the global supply chain at the start of the pandemic assumed frictionless borders, availability of transportation resources, and supply with few constraints. Data-Driven Testing to Fill the Conference Void? The supply chain has too many bad conferences. Today, companies try to get precise on imprecise numbers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Market-Driven Forecasting: Historically, the use of linear optimization and genetic algorithms to sense future trends from order and shipment patterns and predict the future defined forecasting. The tactical processes of forecasting in this conventional analysis cannot sense markets fast enough to slow or speed up processes.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 14, 2022

It’s been a crazy month plus - new customers, three conferences, and a couple of podcasts and webinars. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) latest forecast (March 3), daily spot prices for Brent oil closed at almost $124/b in the first week of March. an article is well, well overdue…my apologies.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 4, 2016

Second, we just released our second Talking Logistics YOUniversity course, Building a Strong Transportation Management Foundation. Terra’s Demand Sensing capabilities allow companies to combine massive amounts of data from the supply chain to leverage demand signals which dramatically improve forecast accuracy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

As we discussed this drawing the dialogue flowed in the conference room. It is about much, much more than Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI ) or Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment. In contrast, the traditional supply chain forecasts using historical orders and adjusts based on sales forecasting. Use of Channel Data.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 3, 2019

More recently, Kinaxis joined the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics Supply Chain Exchange as one of their partners, giving us opportunities to interact with supply chain leaders in industry who share our interest in cutting-edge research and opportunities to meet MIT students in their various programs.

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