Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Technology’s place in supply chain operations is well established and much appreciated, as it helps improve accuracy, visibility, and efficiency from orders coming in and shipments moving out. But can technology do more? He has experience in strategic planning, improving operational efficiency, team building, and project management.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 4, 2015

In the first post our long tme guest blogger, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chai n, gave us 5 core metrics to evaluate supplier performance using supplier quality management and a 4 step process to execute. Review of SQM Metrics and Issues Across 5 Core Industries. #1: Trend Metrics Collected per Site. Consumer Goods.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 24, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of B2B, and ERP Cloud based software provider SAP SE’s formal reporting of Q4 and fiscal full year 2023 financial performance. Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of B2B, and ERP Cloud based software provider SAP SE’s formal reporting of Q4 and fiscal full year 2023 financial performance.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 5, 2019

Supply chain planning in emerging markets is different. Now supply chain professionals have another different set of challenges on how to get product to the entire country where consumer-oriented outlets (i.e. Here’s what we found: 1. fast food or retail) are rapidly expanding. Transfer taxes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Our very own Dominic Thomas, VP of Business Consulting, was named a 2016 Provider ‘Pro to Know’ for his expertise in solving supply chain challenges. I sat down with him to get some insight into what those supply chain challenges are, and how companies can overcome them. How can businesses overcome those challenges?

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Successfully rolling out a supply chain management system can be an extraordinarily complex and stressful project – not to mention expensive. In this guide to implementing supply chain management systems: What is a supply chain management system? Why implement a supply chain management system?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 28, 2017

While we all think that we measure time in the same way, that can change inside a complex global supply chain. How do you account for Free Time across your global supply chain? This is where metrics can get a little fuzzy. However, the reality was that the 4% metric was misleading.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 13, 2018

I read a lot of articles about the need for supply chain transformation. Dan Gilmore, editor-in-chief of Supply Chain Digest , asserts supply chain transformation is only beginning to catch the attention of many CEOs. Full visibility the length of the supply chain. What is the end game?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

We believe that supply chain excellence helps a company to better balance demand and supply. We also believe that it helps companies to be more resilient: weathering demand and supply volatility while maximizing opportunities and mitigating risks. What does the future of supply chain excellence look like?”

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2014

If you’re a supply chain or logistics executive and you’re looking for ways to improve as a leader this year, here are my five recommendations: 1. Supply chain management is risky business — and the risks are growing every day. whenever you’re discussing supply chain strategy or decisions. more often.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Learn how to organize your data operations in alignment with supply chain strategy. Forward-thinking supply chain professionals are looking to advanced technologies to streamline processes, improve accuracy, accelerate delivery and reduce costs. Finding Transformative Opportunities in the Supply Chain.

Optimal Sourcing 111

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Unleashed

MAY 10, 2023

It’s a tumultuous time for supply chain operations. Read on to learn how supply chain automation works and discover the tools you can use to reduce manual efforts and improve supply chain efficiency. What is supply chain automation? To survive these changes, businesses must look to automation.

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Silvon Software

APRIL 29, 2022

Key performance indicators (or KPIs) help to facilitate these requirements and drive higher inventory optimization outcomes as a result for manufacturers, distributors and other supply chain-centric businesses. These types of metrics are Sales KPIs, Receiving KPIs and Operational KPIs. The Basics of Inventory Management KPIs.

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Kinaxis

MAY 4, 2016

In this latest installment, I explore what the small, but mighty, Jedi Master Yoda can teach us about supply chain. While he might not have said them directly about supply chain management, these pearls of wisdom still apply. So often supply chain functions are siloed within an organization. Let me be clear.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2016

We’ve made our predictions , but it’s the unexpected that makes supply chain management so exciting and demanding. Did you come up with any New Year’s resolutions to improve as a supply chain and logistics leader this year? Supply chain management is risky business — and the risks are growing every day.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 11, 2017

Finance speaks a different language than supply chain. But by monetizing Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), supply chain planners can speak the language of finance while developing S&OP into a more mature process. Gartner’s research is echoed by Lora Cecere of Supply Chain Insights.

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Elementum

AUGUST 24, 2015

We examine the manufacturing and supply chain implications of the Dow's fall. The global supply chain’s future hinges in a large part on Chinese imports and exports, both of which have suffered as the nation sees its markets weakening. Currency devaluation allows manufacturers to tap into deeper markets.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Competition is now so fierce – and national and international supply chains so changeable – that wholesalers need systems that are fast and reliable to keep up. It should also be able to monitor suppliers, the reverse supply chain (i.e. For any wholesale business, software has become critical to survival.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 22, 2021

IBP also ensures that the supply chain and operations plans fit with the corporate financial plan. . Moreover, CEO, COO or CFO usually Spreadhead S&OP; S&OP is usually led by someone in an operational role, like a Supply Chain Director. Advantages of S&OP for Supply Chain Management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2013

Last week in the middle of a presentation, a supply chain leader made the statement, “We have solved the issues in supply through better optimization and use of data. Many supply chain leaders are so convinced they know the answers that they have stopped listening and learning. The issue is demand.

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QAD

AUGUST 3, 2022

It’s a type of software or system businesses use to plan and manage their daily activities, like their supply chain, manufacturing, services, financials and other operations. They’re designed to handle internationalization issues, like currency, language, alphabet, postal code, accounting rules and more. . What is ERP?

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Kinaxis

JUNE 24, 2016

If one thinks about the purpose of S&OP, it is to ultimately match supply and demand, while balancing the cost (supply) and service (demand) tradeoffs of the supply chain. Organizations face a recurring flow of supply chain imbalances that require decisions. For Operations or Supply Chain.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51° and Market6 Data How Automation and Advanced Metrics You Won’t Get in 84.51° can help you grow your sales at Kroger and avoid inventory headaches. In the OnDemand platform, some brands can also access a Supply Chain Scorecard that shows metrics including Days of Supply and Days of Supply Goal.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Blending Traditional + Customer-focused Metrics. Leading retailers are starting to combine traditional delivery metrics (e.g., on-time, complete, miles per delivery, deliveries per route) with some form of consumer-focused metrics such as Net Promoter Score.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 15, 2022

The continued growth of the TMS market means new software will be available, resulting in more data streams and increased access to data and supply chain management insights. Tracking Metrics and KPIs May Vary Widely by Location. Better Insight Into the Full Supply Chain Helps to Identify Anomalies Earlier.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

AUGUST 26, 2018

There is a lot of buzz about the “autonomous” supply chain these days. But, before we turn out the lights and lock the door to a fully automated, self-aware, supply chain “Ava Ex Machina” , let’s take a moment and put this idea into some perspective. The Driverless Car Analogy. From CBC News [link].

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

But by locking firms out of global supply chains and shielding them from competition it promotes inefficiency, destroying more employment than it creates. What is particularly striking is that companies are not reformatting and reshoring supply chains quite as some doomsayers expected. In a direct sense, it does.

Global 100

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 27, 2020

You can’t really rank crypto exchanges unless you’re ranking by very specific metrics. Others accept more currencies, others make more trades, while others have a more user-friendly interface. This exchange is so old that it has become one of the most trusted trading platforms for Bitcoin as well as many other crypto currencies.

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3PL Insights

MAY 3, 2021

May 03, 2021— Evans Distribution Systems, a leading provider of third-party logistics and supply chain solutions, launched a new business intelligence tool: evans365. Data is the new business currency. MELVINDALE, Mich., The tool provides warehouse customers a holistic view of their account activity based on real-time data. “As

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This time, it’s designed for the food supply chain, with an emphasis on achieving transparency and security between partners. But Trace , as it’s been dubbed, won’t function as a general currency and means of payment in the manner of Bitcoin or Ether. The creator of the “token” is OriginTrail , a Slovenian I.T.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2018

Supply chain trends make it yet more complex because they represent the intersections of so many different domains. What is a supply chain trend-spotter to do? A Different Perspective on Business Trends and Supply Chains. Software is Eating Supply Chains. We take a different approach here.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

AUGUST 26, 2018

There is a lot of buzz about the “autonomous” supply chain these days. I’ve heard the driverless vehicle used as an analogy for the autonomous supply chain. Redesigned, retail supply chains, enabled with analytics and augmented reality, are not only meeting, but raising consumer expectations.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 26, 2019

This dashboard collects key financial health indicators from marketing activities and displays financial metrics to provide senior management and investors with performance results to help them determine future marketing spend. This dashboard can deliver sales metrics including costs, revenue, profits and incremental sales.

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QAD

MARCH 30, 2021

With this release, QAD has delivered new adaptive manufacturing capabilities to extend configured solutions, increase user productivity and boost manufacturing and supply chain efficiency. Connected Supply Chain. QAD Adaptive ERP 2021 Highlights. Integrated Supplier Management.

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Provenance

MAY 24, 2021

Provenance is using tech to power the transparency movement – helping brands bring their supply chain and the social and environmental impact behind products to shoppers. Pioneers in the space, Provenance is defining the market for supply chain and impact transparency. Commercial Leadership. Operational Leadership.

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Unleashed

MARCH 5, 2024

Automation has many uses in eCommerce, including for: Supply chain management Inventory management Order processing Shipping Customer service Email marketing Advertising Benefits of eCommerce automation The main benefits of eCommerce automation are that it saves you time and money, improves data accuracy, and lifts productivity.

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