The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Jason Murray and Joe Lynch discuss modernizing the ecommerce supply chain. Jason is Co-founder and CEO of Shipium , a technology-driven supply chain and logistics company that helps ecommerce companies deliver their orders fast, free, and on-time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

“When will the impact of the pandemic on the supply chain be over?” The building of the global supply chain over the last seven decades evolved based on three assumptions: Number 1. With availability assumed, the traditional focus of supply chain practices was on negotiating the lowest price.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

“When will the impact of the pandemic on the supply chain be over?” The building of the global supply chain over the last seven decades evolved based on three assumptions: Number 1. With availability assumed, the traditional focus of supply chain practices was on negotiating the lowest price.

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Logility

JULY 5, 2023

From Lachelle Buchanan , “Revolutionizing Supply Chain Planning: Unleashing the Power of Generative AI” Supply chain planning has become a critical factor for organizations aiming to gain a competitive edge. Generative AI seems will likely transform the way organizations plan their supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The layers of the outside-in process surround the traditional supply chain planning applications shown in blue. It might seem unlikely, but the American Red Cross is a leader in defining a market-driven supply chain using outside-in signals. Their goal is clear–stabilize the blood supply in the United States.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Choice ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. This article is from Zheyuan Du at Kinaxis and discusses unconventional solutions to excess inventory challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Retailers also took steps to contain costs and preserve margins as they reoriented toward e-commerce like never before, including putting solutions in place to more effectively navigate carrier capacity caps and improve the visibility, accessibility, and mobility of inventory. More to give the organization. Meet the basic needs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

ARC Advisory Group did a study on the supply chain collaboration network (SCCN) a couple of years ago. FourKites believes they have the largest repository of supply chain data in the world. To get visibility to whether a load will be on time and in full, a lot more data is required. That is fast growth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

Franklin Sports needed to protect sales in this category by improving their pickleball supply chain. To achieve that, Franklin Sports supply chain needed to be improved significantly. Without an efficient supply chain, a company can’t meet the demand that exists, and competitors swoop in and grab market share.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

The Role of Digitisation and Analytics in Supply Chain Resilience. by Dr Shereen Nassar – Global Director of Logistics Studies and Supply Chain Management Programmes Heriot-Watt University Dubai. Digital Supply Chain to Drive Resilience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

Weisenberger is leading their digitally enabled shipping initiative, she works in distribution operations rather than transportation. This consumer goods behemoth has driven ongoing supply chain productivity through their FORCE (Focused On Reducing Costs Everywhere) program. What made Ms. billion over the last 10 years.

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Logility

AUGUST 17, 2021

Managing consumer packaged goods inventory is challenging at the best of times, and it can be debilitating during times of local or international disruption. An advanced inventory planning and optimization solution allows these companies to set and maintain precise stock targets across a global network. Reductions in Profit Growth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 13, 2022

Supply chain disruptions are continuing to occur for a variety of reasons. Weather delays can affect shipping lanes, manufacturers face product shortages, demand continues to spike for certain products, containers are difficult to acquire, and the trucking industry faces a driver and capacity shortage, just to name a few.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2024

In most years, there is nothing new in supply chain management. They can also order online and have goods shipped to their home. Historically, an OOM has access to all the company’s inventory. The system allocated which orders would get inventory from a given location to fulfill an order. Trends last for years.

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QAD

MAY 11, 2023

The supply chain is a complex network of products, materials and interconnected activities that span multiple organizations, systems and geographies. There is a massive amount of information that needs to be disseminated to get the supply chain to operate efficiently.

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Logility

MAY 28, 2020

Managing the data required for supply chain planning is a bit like raking leaves. The data keeps coming all year round. And just when you think you have clean and consistent data to work with, new internal and external data “blows into the yard.”. Wind speeds will increase.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Supply Chains Supply chains encompass many interconnected activities, from procurement, production, and inventory management, to logistics and distribution. It can then generate new content using prompts that resemble the original training data.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2022

The irony of excess inventory. ”[3] He continues, “The past two years have been blighted by supply shortages — with just-in-time retailers struggling to ship their goods, electronics manufacturers staring down a shortage of computer chips, and supermarkets struggling to fill their shelves.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Importance of Digitalisation to Improve Supply Chains: Helping Businesses Navigate Through Supply Chain Disruptions. is adopted in more and more industries and companies, the supply chain industry is starting to implement these disruptive technologies to adapt to the ongoing challenges and obstacles.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Impacts of Leap Day on the Supply Chain Back in 2016, Feras Asakrieh , Senior Director of VIP Support and Conversion at Fanatics Sportsbook, observed, “February 29th may only come around once every four years, but volatility and supply chain disruptions are constant.”[2] They are: • Inventory Management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

That’s why staying on top of the latest supply chain planning trends is so important – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Association for Supply Chain Management ( ASCM ) hosted its annual conference, ASCM CONNECT , on September 18 – 20 in Chicago. As such, I assumed that supply chain wasn’t a core competency. Network Supply Chain Restructure. Fortunately for me, some of the sessions were available virtually.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper University Health Care Relies Upon Real-time Alerts to Improve Operations Cooper University Health Care, like most companies, struggled with their supply chain during COVID. The company bought a risk solution that provides real-time alerts to potential supply disruptions. We knew exactly what we couldn’t get.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars has been on a journey to transform their digital supply chain. In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. Mars’s Digital Transformation Mr. Beery started by asking, “what does a digital supply chain mean for us?”

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Companies implementing supply chain planning (SCP) have traditionally been very big companies or companies with complex supply chains. Supply chain planning is not just for the big boys. In September of 2020, the company hired Jeff Baker to be their Vice President of Procurement and Integrated Supply Chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 19, 2019

by Richard Cushing In part one of my inventory management best practices series I argue that inventory cannot be managed until it is controlled, and present the notion our general willingness to apportion blame upon unreliable data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is misplaced.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Just-In-Time Supply Chain Model vs. Just-In-Case Supply Chain Model Several years ago, when the pandemic became a full-blown global crisis, most supply chains used the “just-in-time” model, which relies on resources and goods being available right when they’re needed. They didn’t have the full picture.”[2]

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience. Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button by Lora Cecere , Founder, Supply Chain Insights Supply Chain Leaders Can’t Afford to Guess About the Future The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 6, 2023

For businesses to succeed, supply chain optimization is essential to succeed. Supply chain optimization can achieve this with the help of data analytics. Data analytics helps businesses make data-driven decisions and initiatives. They can understand their supply chain operations with more precision.

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RFgen

APRIL 30, 2024

The answer lies in modern inventory management best practices. Specifically, the use of perpetual inventory systems. What is a perpetual inventory system? Perpetual inventory management relies on technology to track inventory with timely data and a high degree of accuracy. Wonder no more.

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RFgen

APRIL 12, 2024

Managing inventory costs is a constant struggle. Between rising costs for materials and endemic labor shortfalls in the warehouse, many supply chain professionals may feel trapped in an endless cycle of shrinking profit margins. Managing inventory costs is important because high inventory costs can erode the bottom line.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 20, 2024

Modern supply chains are more efficient and faster than ever before. However, the emergence of technology boosted brands’ access to customers in the first place, and thus, a need for more efficient supply chain practices.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 11, 2021

As noted by Rhys Thomas of Supply Chain Digital, “COVID-19 threw even the most detail-oriented roadmaps for a loop. Applied analytics, leveraging holistic shipping and supply chain data, holds the key to driving more value and elevates the role of the supply chain team, enabling more capacity and better use of resources.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, having an efficient supply chain department is more important than ever. A streamlined supply chain can make a significant impact on the overall success of a business, improving operational efficiency, increasing customer satisfaction, and driving revenue growth.

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Clear Spider

MARCH 21, 2024

Supply chains are expected to operate effectively through natural disasters, pandemics, trade barriers, unforeseen factory shutdowns, and product recalls. AI inventory solutions create more powerful and adaptive supply chains. In today’s fast-paced world, simple, reactive supply chains just won’t cut it.

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