Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Use of optimization to consume planned orders into manufacturing scheduling and distribution requirements planning (including inventory optimization of safety stock). Matching demand and supply in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). First pass tender percentage in transportation planning.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sometime in the last half of 2018, the transportation market began to soften. Transportation Procurement: Things to Keep in Mind. With the opportunity we are currently seeing in the marketplace, there is opportunity to save money on transportation. Spot rates began to decrease a bit. Be realistic.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 2, 2022

Michael is the Vice President Transportation & Logistics at Mary Kay , one of the most enduring, successful direct sellers of personal beauty products in the world for more than 55 years. Mike Ringsdorf is the Vice President Transportation & Logistics at Mary Kay Global, a cosmetics company based in Texas. About Mary Kay.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2023

Learn more about ToolsGroup’s Q1 Enhancements to SO99+ for Improved Supply and Demand Planning → Our focus on customers is why so many companies choose us as their trusted supply chain partner – companies like Italian agro-food giant, GranTerre. Looking for more transportation insights? Missed our first quarterly updates?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. Re-implement demand planning, trade promotion management, and revenue/price management together to improve the baseline demand signal. Lessons Learned. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. Of the twenty companies interviewed, only one can answer the question, “Do you have a good inventory plan?” Reporting off of transportation data is a delays the signal by weeks and months.) Yes, I think so.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 18, 2022

Through a series of meetings to drive consensus, the team degraded the quality of the demand plan by 27%. (In The company had a team of 25 demand planners, spent 10M$ on the roll-out of a planning system, and was being courted by multiple consultants to implement a new demand planning technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

(The planning team was defending the status quo without questioning current practices and how to improve them.) The question was, “How can I redefine demand planning processes to use channel data?” Starting to understand the issue with multi-tier demand planning? Demand is a tough subject.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

Nine years ago, my company FourKites pioneered the market for real-time transportation visibility. We’re currently on the cusp of a big incremental change in the industry’s transformation journey, as the value of real-time supply chain data is increasingly being felt far beyond transportation logistics.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2024

Carlsberg has also introduced electric trucks and established a specialized transportation control tower in Poznan, Poland. The success of Carlsberg’s overall sustainability strategy will largely be driven by optimizing this transportation process. In a recent webinar , Carlsberg shared more on this topic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2024

It is well understood disconnected planning and execution processes can lead to costly disruptions, missed opportunities, and inefficiencies. Countless companies grapple with the fundamental flaw of disjointed processes, which leaves planning blind to crucial factors such as transportation, warehouse, and labor constraints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The following will delve into some of the intricate farm-to-table challenges that supply chains face across sourcing, demand planning, procurement and inventory management, transportation, and warehousing. There must be an end-to-end functional agreement of the design, its impacts, and benefits.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

S upply chain planning requires constraints to be mapped. This configuration screen shows how Solvyouo maps transportation constraints. The primary payback for demand and supply solutions comes in the form of reducing the amount of raw material, work-in-process, and finished goods inventory a company needs to carry.

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2023

The company uplifted distributes products to stores based on customer demand forecasts, raising service level improvements to 97% and reducing finished goods inventory by 13%. But Intertape Polymer Group (IPG) managed to avert those risks by implementing Logility’s demand planning and optimization solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Top Five Transportation Trends ; Chris Cunnane. From a transportation standpoint, this has included major technological advancements. In my presentation, I highlighted five key transportation trends that are changing supply chains from a technology standpoint. Can Improving Forecast Accuracy Address Our Demand Planning Woes?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

The students learn that there is no definition of end-to-end planning because the current taxonomies for modeling are fragmented. Revenue management is siloed and distinct from demand management, while Transportation Management (TMS) has nothing in common with Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP). The So What?

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Efficient inventory management Demand Forecasting: Use demand analytics to predict demand more accurately, thus reducing overstocking or stockouts. See how a manufacturing giant revamped their demand planning with AIMMS. Moreover, local suppliers may be more amenable to jointly investing in sustainability projects.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2022

The key building blocks for the modern supply chain control tower includes data from key supply chain partners, robust supply and demand planning, and a master data management/data harmonization layer that helps to normalize the data and can then feed accurate data to the planning engine or team members.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 15, 2020

The first step is to stop traditional demand planning processes based on conventional order pattern modeling. This is the ouput of the conventional Advanced Planning models.) Invest in a data lake to evaluate revenue management strategies and assortment planning based on the market. Stop Doing. What can we stop doing?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The models are too different to drive a clear signal from sales activity to demand planning in the supply chain. Align Transportation Planning and Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

Within an organization, the words “Demand Planning” stir emotions. Seldom do we find a team excited about demand planning. They want to improve demand planning, but they remain skeptical that they can ever be successful in improving the process. Usually, it is not a mild reaction. It is too simplistic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2023

His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. As a result, demand planning is largely manual, inventory management is a series of manual inputs, and production planning is via spreadsheet.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 28, 2021

Knowledge of Logistics and Transportation. Transportation and logistics are a crucial part of the entire process of supply chain management. A supply chain manager is responsible, among others, for the transportation of goods from the manufacturer to the supplier. Inventory Management and Demand Planning.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 19, 2023

This automated, AI-powered solution includes Demand Planning & Forecasting and Inventory Optimization. With built-in probabilistic forecasting , it interprets demand signals for improved forecast accuracy, supporting demand-driven inventory planning and more granular control of stock levels.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Webinar – Demand Planning in VUCA Times with Ali Raza. Webinar – Demand Planning in VUCA Times with Ali Raza. Seth is the COO of ThroughPut.ai , an artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain pioneer that enables companies to detect, prioritize and alleviate dynamic operational bottlenecks in real-time.

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Logility

AUGUST 25, 2020

Poorly implemented demand planning software mis-forecasts demand for branded sneakers. Demand planning systems unable to forecast demand-slowing associated with economic meltdown. Warehousing and transportation costs. A few of the most infamous are listed below. The common thread? Tri-Valley Growers.

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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. and Europe.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Beery concluded that the best transformation projects would be, one, improved supply chain planning. The second goal was to work with a fourth party logistics (4PL) partner that had invested in cutting-edge transportation management and visibility solutions. The company chose 4Flow to do transportation planning and execution in Europe.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

This includes implementing lean manufacturing principles and utilizing advanced planning software, so businesses can optimize production processes and minimize waste. Demand Planning and Inventory management Inventory management is crucial for ensuring adequate stock levels and minimizing carrying costs.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Use benchmarking to identify gaps and opportunities in demand forecast capabilities - Gartner says that you can make your business case more compelling by demonstrating the gains others have won through demand planning improvements. 2% reduction in transportation costs (percent of sales).

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 10, 2023

For example, Wakeo not only provides real-time multimodal transportation visibility at a very detailed level worldwide, but also links to this the carbon footprint of individual shipments. Meanwhile, Colibri has developed an affordable cloud-based solution for sales & operations planning.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Businesses can access historical data, market trends, and other external factors and, by plugging in predictive analytics, gain invaluable insights that streamline inventory management, demand forecasting, transportation planning, risk mitigation, and overall decision-making processes. Let’s check out the most common use cases.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 20, 2015

Supply chain professionals have said for years that integrated planning and execution is the Holy Grail for market responsiveness and operational efficiency. But often they think of this as integrating demand planning with supply chain execution. This allows both […].

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Logility

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In the supply chain world, when the disciplines of planning and optimization converge, it’s like a rising tide of synergy that lifts all boats. In this case we are talking about convergence in the roles of inventory optimization, demand planning, transportation management, and supply planning that goes beyond data integration.

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DynaSys

MARCH 31, 2020

Sophisticated Demand Planning. If a company that produces toilet tissue relies on a historical forecast to plan next year’s production, my response to that is good luck to you. Using intelligent methods to rapidly determine the best scenario for a demand plan helps keep the integrity of the supply chain.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 14, 2021

Increased reliance on the transportation spot market due to industry planning uncertainty. Transportation requests for proposal (RFPs) are labor-intensive, and can be out of alignment with customer needs. Annual transportation RFPs can take up to half a year to conduct and can become quickly out of date. Improve service.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Steve: Klaus, when we talked, you mentioned Autoliv was already doing digital supplier management, had digital sourcing solutions, and was looking at real-time transportation visibility solutions to provide better predicted times of arrival for inbound and outbound shipments.

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