Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” Kehat’s feedback is that “Getting management buy-in for the implementation of cost-to-serve process is easy, but the implementation is difficult.” Both improvement and performance define supply chain excellence.

Inventory Reduction 150

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 31, 2019

Procurement – the effective purchasing of raw materials, back-office goods and professional services – as well as Logistics – the orchestration of the movement of those goods – might not seem to be as important as sales, marketing, R&D or finance at first blush. The best in the business can get you all three.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The company branded as GT Nexus in 2001 and purchased Tradecard in 2013. The goal is deeper analytics to sense and respond across make, source and deliver. I am not surprised.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

High levels of fresh and fast-moving consumer goods are common in the food manufacturing industry and inventory levels of raw material, in-progress and finished goods need to be effectively managed to reduce the holding costs of the inventory. Here are some reasons why you need to upgrade to better food inventory software.

Manufacturing Procurement 89

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Starboard now has over 1400 users across 70 customers representing Auto, Consumer Goods, Retail, Industrial Products, Consulting, and Real Estate. Starboard Founder and President , Steve Johanson will lead a newly formed Center of Excellence within Logility.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

But, when my mom was buying a new vehicle, she didn’t decide to scrap the vehicle from 1993 and purchase one from 1995. Organizations are ‘going carbon neutral by 2025’, and ‘implementing Artificially Intelligent business systems’ and ‘sourcing form solely environmentally friendly suppliers’. Responsible Sourcing.

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Zipline Logistics

AUGUST 4, 2020

The best way to source this capacity is to work with a non-asset-based third-party logistics provider. However, as commerce continues to demand specialization, third-party providers have become a valuable source of efficiency and savings in logistics. How Zipline Logistics Can Help You Excel.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

The biggest career transformation for me was after leaving Dell when I joined Lucent in 2002 and entered supply chain in technology sourcing. We achieved recognition both internally and externally for our sourcing and procurement accomplishments in the spend management area. This was my first foray into the world of supply.

Gartner 74

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 13, 2021

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used). About Ron Crabtree.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. Purchases in the center store of the grocery store are in decline, and apparel tastes are shifting. By building demand management processes to focus on channel movement, companies can cut demand latency and model independent demand–customer purchases.

Supply and Demand 150

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crisp

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Settle, a pioneering cash flow management company, and Crisp, a leading retail data platform, are setting a new standard for operational excellence in the consumer goods industry. What unique problems do consumer goods companies face that Settle aims to solve?

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Tompkins Blog

APRIL 29, 2014

As rapid change takes place in online ordering and fulfillment for retail, consumer goods, distribution, and third-party logistics (3PLs), the needs for real estate space change too. Source: Kantar Retail Analysis. The growth of actual online sales from online purchases between 2012 and 2017 will only grow from 7.7%

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

If merchandising is very good at the science of running their business, a demand planning group can be respected and managed well. On the other hand, if merchants make their money being outstanding at the art of understanding consumer buying behavior, they might actually prefer their “support organizations” to manage the analytics.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

If merchandising is very good at the science of running their business, a demand planning group can be respected and managed well. On the other hand, if merchants make their money being outstanding at the art of understanding consumer buying behavior, they might actually prefer their “support organizations” to manage the analytics.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

So in order to perhaps spawn some ideas for your supply chain excellence efforts, I thought I’d offer a brief overview of how four leading organisations are achieving their successes and cementing their mastery of the 21 st century supply chain. Is sustainability a viable growth strategy for fast-moving-consumer-goods brands?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

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. This blog post started a series of telephone calls. Models Matter. Traditional Models.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Velocity is imperative : Supply chain distances and times have increased a great deal (more in some corners of the world than others), and so have the challenges involved in getting fresh produce from source to destination before spoilage renders it unsalable. Sanitary practices must be maintained from source to shelf.

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Alloy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Channel Performance in Walmart Luminate is intended to act as your single-source of truth for sales, inventory and forecast data. Channel Performance in Walmart Luminate gives you a true omni-channel view of sales, whether the purchase is in-store, delivered, shipped to store, picked up, or shipped directly to the customer.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Manufacturers can gather valuable granular data such as the time an item spent in storage, at what temperature, how long it took to sell, the length of time between purchase and fulfillment and how long it spent in transport. According to McKinsey & Company, 65% of consumable goods in the U.S. are transported by truck.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

Other rising concerns to be addressed, “suppliers were single-sourced, and there is a general lack of risk assessment that results in companies not being able to switch to alternative routing.”. Vivien Cheong shared the recent shift in freight buyers’ behaviour, “We are seeing freight purchase being commoditized.

Security 130

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Source: Corning; Gary P. Users of Google apps were looking for low cost and collaboration over the exhaustive features offered by Microsoft Word and Excel. They purchased the registration data for US consumers. Pisano, "You Need an Innovation Strategy," June 2015. Polk & Co.

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crisp

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This article delves into the hidden costs consumer goods companies face when they opt to manage their retail data pipelines internally. Consumer goods companies are increasingly embracing internal digital transformations to streamline operations, improve decision-making, and enhance supplier relationships.

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QAD

OCTOBER 5, 2021

From integrated multi-currency, multi-GAAP and multi-entity financials to best practice purchasing, from shared services to real-time data and flexible data analytics, Effective Enterprise Management ensures that manufacturers operate from a trusted set of essential enterprise processes that meet today’s and tomorrow’s needs.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. In particular, the company has been criticized for its long-time practice of using local water sources for its products. Media Type. Media Credit. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. Media Type.

Gartner 81

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

Lack of standardised sustainability reporting makes it difficult to compare sustainability performance between source mines, set sustainability targets and reward best practice. In other words you cannot physically differentiate a sustainably sourced REE from a non-sustainably sourced REE without the use of tagging.

Modeling Software 56

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Requis

JULY 24, 2020

You’re going to need to buy more machinery, etc., But if the pitch is around, ‘we have to deploy this because it’s accurately going to predict what’s going to happen for our customers, because if we don’t they’re going to buy from another company’—that will work.”. Excellent potential. and so you have costs going up.”.

Supply Chain Planning Software 130

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The tools for determining Cost To Serve include standard spreadsheet applications, such as MS Excel, and network design modeling software. This often gives what is called a “whale curve” of accumulated net profits that shows how: Image Source: [link].

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Manufacturers can gather valuable granular data such as the time an item spent in storage, at what temperature, how long it took to sell, the length of time between purchase and fulfillment and how long it spent in transport. According to McKinsey & Company , 65% of consumable goods in the U.S. are transported by truck.

Supply Chain Planning Software 59

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Alloy

JANUARY 6, 2021

In this Q&A with Brian Babbitt , Head of Solutions Consulting at Alloy, we discuss options for consumer goods manufacturers evaluating supply chain management solutions. Both companies also provide excellent customer support. What are key similarities and differences between Alloy and RSi?

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

How do we set up a trusted single data source? identify a good data source, establish learnings, and then begin applying them to other data sources. Poor change management is a key reason why teams ultimately stick with tools that they already know and trust, like Excel. How do you handle change management?

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Dean has worked with over 100 manufacturers in strategic, financial and operational roles, across a variety of industries including, Food and Packaging Goods, Consumer Goods, Chemicals, Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial Goods and High Tech. This process would create both tactical and strategic sources of value.

S&OP 60

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QAD

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Truck transportation continues to be challenged with driver shortages , tight capacity, and warehousing is likewise finding it difficult to source workers. Given the nature of the consumer goods industry and the amount of disruptions, companies need to ensure their processes and systems are adaptable to almost any issue in the market.

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Unleashed

MAY 24, 2021

Plastic toys use plastic more intensively than other consumer goods and 80& of plastic toys end up in landfills, incinerators or in the ocean according to Joris Vanbriel and Vanessa Yuan, Co-founders of ecoBirdy. There are ways to minimise buying plastic toys: borrowing from friends, buying less, passing toys on, and sharing more.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The retailer’s plan was never normalized against inventory and as a result it did not reflect buying behavior. If you knew what the retailer was going to sell (POS) then the calculation as to what the retailer would buy was a simple mathematical calculation. The answer was simple. Slowly, my process thinking evolved.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2018

Their ability to perform with excellence exists only while supply and demand conditions remain stable—which is a rarity in today’s environment of globalisation and on-demand consumerism. BRICs Are Moving to Buying, Not Just Making. Supply chains that are too lean leave no room for error or change, and lack resilience.

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