June, 2015

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Driving Organizational Alignment

Supply Chain Shaman

How can we move forward if we cannot align? In supply chain strategy documents, terms like alignment, agility, responsiveness, and flexibility dot the page. At a principle level, everyone agrees with the concepts. In meetings, groups nod their heads that the strategy is correct. However, at a practical level, companies struggle with the implementation of strategy due to a lack of definition.

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Have you Heard About ‘’Chain of Responsibility’’ in the Supply Chain and Transportation?

GlobalTranz

As our customer presence in Australia is growing, we are learning new things from our Commonwealth cousins from ‘’Down Under’’. Although we have much in common, the transportation laws in Australia and New Zealand have a distinct difference with those in Europe, the U.K. and North America. The chain of responsibility law (COR) is one area of difference – so what is COR?

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9 Apps in 2 Days: Business App Development Acceleration

AIMMS

An Interview with Christian Olsen, Head of Business Development at Höegh Autoliners. Christian Olsen. I recently had the pleasure of meeting Christian Olsen, Head of Business Development at Höegh, a leading global shipping company specializing in vehicle transportation services. Christian and his team were in our offices taking part in a new 2 day “hackathon” workshop that involved collaborative app development with AIMMS, Höegh and Ab Ovo, an AIMMS IT implementation partner.

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Horizontal Alliances between Logistics Service Providers

SCM Research

Supply chain research typically investigates phenomena that occur in vertical relationships, e.g., between suppliers and buyers. In our new article, The Interplay of Different Types of Governance in Horizontal Cooperations: A View on Logistics Service Providers , we take a look at horizontal relationships. For example, such relationships occur when two LSPs collaborate to complement their service portfolios.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Supply Chain Talent: Our Take on Deloitte’s Survey Report (part 2)

Demand Solutions

In my last article , I introduced Deloitte’s supply chain survey report and shared Deloitte’s concept of what it takes to be a supply chain Leader. It’s clear to me from the survey results that Leaders become Leaders because they have superior talent. So, how do they develop that talent? This question has never been more relevant. After all, the supply chain function isn’t exactly going to become less important over the next few years.

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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

In the last decade, many companies, especially those with manufacturing operations, have evolved direct materials sourcing from an administrative function to a strategic procurement process. The embodiment of this transformation is the chief procurement officer, an increasingly common title for executives that strategically source goods and services.

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The Most Reliable Supply Chain…Without Technology?

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: This is a blog post about remembering the fundamentals in order to achieve success. Of course, we live in a high technology powered supply chain world, but often, as we noted in our 5 Upfront LTL Tips post, if you don’t remember the basics and best practices, no technology is going to fix those issues, but only make them more apparent.

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Highlights from the European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit

AIMMS

AIMMS CMO Patrick van Gent at the European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit. The European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit has established itself as one of the largest conferences in the industry. This year, lots of leading companies shared best practices and learnings from their supply chain projects and innovations. The summit offered an impressive speaker lineup, featuring Nestle, Ikea, Samsung, AIMMS clients like Merck, BP, Nampak, BASF, and Philips and our partner Oliver Wight.

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Towards the Digital Enterprise

Enterra Insights

“Technology is intertwined in nearly every aspect of business today,” writes Pierre Nanterme (@PierreNanterme) and Marty Cole, respectively Accenture’s Chairman/CEO … Continued. The post Towards the Digital Enterprise appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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An Innovator’s Journey to a Segmented Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Kehat Shahar, the Vice President of Supply Chain Planning at SanDisk, spoke on the journey that SanDisk has taken to improve their supply chain operations at the eft conference on June 18th in Chicago. While most of the content for this article came from the speech at eft, some information came from the company’s 10-K, […].

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Supply Chain Talent: Our Take on Deloitte’s Survey Report (part 1)

Demand Solutions

“In times of change, when experimentation tends to be rampant and results are still far from conclusive, one source of guidance can be to look at the companies who are succeeding, and discover what they are doing differently.” Does this passage sum up your mindset as you strive to optimize your supply chain and improve your business results?

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This Week in Logistics News (June 22-26, 2015)

Talking Logistics

52: the temperature of the ocean my wife swam in earlier this week in preparation for this Sunday’s Cohasset Triathlon. She’s been swimming, biking, and running for months, raising almost $8,000 along the way in support of JDRF (our oldest daughter has Type 1 Diabetes ). The kids and I can’t wait to watch her conquer the course on Sunday, and we hope that her efforts and those of many others will ultimately help us turn Type 1 Diabetes into Type None.

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Reshoring in America: The Future Outlook, Current Hindrances & Issues, and Ways to Stimulate Reshoring

GlobalTranz

Yesterday we spoke about the top motivations and reasons why reshoring in America from offshored facilities has several benefits and what are the statistics of reshoring since 2013. To reiterate that reshoring is more than just hype and a very important topic for us to consider the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study found that 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring.

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More Than 40 New Manufacturers Join Configura’s Platform in 2023

More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.

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Are we in a Supply Chain Renaissance?

The Network Effect

There’s a great new report out from Chainlink Resarch called “Supply Chain Renaissance” Just what is the supply chain renaissance you ask? The report explores how supply chain management is finally moving beyond modular applications and point-to-point communications to many-to-many networks that enable complex communication across multiple parties in a supply chain.

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Cognitive Computing can Help Retain and Leverage Tribal Knowledge

Enterra Insights

Whenever a talented employee leaves a job or assumes a new role, a company risks losing valuable knowledge that he … Continued. The post Cognitive Computing can Help Retain and Leverage Tribal Knowledge appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Supply Chain Execution Convergence: Two Factors Driving the Need for Convergence

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain execution convergence is a hot topic these days. The need for end-to-end visibility and solutions that proactively enable planning and the ability to react to the unavoidable disruptions is paramount. Organizations need to evaluate their overall supply chain approach and to consider how supply chain execution convergence can get them to the next […].

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Supply Chain Talent: Our Take on Deloitte’s Survey Report (part 1)

Demand Solutions

“In times of change, when experimentation tends to be rampant and results are still far from conclusive, one source of guidance can be to look at the companies who are succeeding, and discover what they are doing differently.”. Does this passage sum up your mindset as you strive to optimize your supply chain and improve your business results? It’s an excerpt from “Supply Chain Talent of the Future,” Deloitte’s report on their third annual supply chain survey.

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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3 Powerful Methods for Shippers to Wield Their Collective Power

Talking Logistics

Shipping and transportation are typically seen as problems businesses face on their own. After all, no two companies share the same exact supply chain. And several aspects of the industry, like bidding for carrier contracts, are highly dependent on idiosyncratic individual relationships between enterprises. But in the last few years technology has enabled communities of shippers to act collectively in ways that benefit not only the entire shipping community, but individual businesses too.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

This is the first post in a two part series on our update on Reshoring. We first started writing about and featuring reshoring content back in September of 2013, and have since added 10 more reshoring related posts in our reshoring blog category. We wanted to provide a general update on the state of reshoring, first starting with what are the motivations to reshore and then sharing an update on all stats related to reshoring.

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Are these the Top 10 Trends affecting Pharmaceutical Supply Chains?

The Network Effect

Kiran Foster/Flickr. Note: this is the final is series of posts that explored the top 10 trends affecting pharmaceutical supply chains. . First, let’s have have a recap on the what the top 10 trends are: The Rise of OTC and Generics. Growing Demand for S&OP. Optimized execution in operations, logistics, and distribution. Counterfeiting. Rising healthcare cos ts.

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Big Data Integration in a Transnational Business World

Enterra Insights

The landscape in which today’s transnational businesses must operate is complex. Challenges can be confronted at every level — national, … Continued. The post Big Data Integration in a Transnational Business World appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

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An Omni-Channel Fulfillment Benchmark: How Do You Compare?

Logistics Viewpoints

Omni-channel fulfillment is arguably today’s hottest supply chain topic. My colleagues and I have written a number of blog posts on individual case studies on this topic. Here is a case study on an anonymous major US retailer that likely has a store location near you. How do your fulfillment operations compare to this leading […].

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Step Three: Stage Five Supply Chain Planning System of Record (SCP SOR)

Kinaxis

by Carol McIntosh Step Three – Connecting the Dots. How many of you are familiar with the game Simon ? While Simon is really a memory game, what I really want to emphasize is that it is unpredictable. You start by pressing on one color and with every selection you are presented with a random sequence of colors that you must remember and repeat.

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The Panama Canal Expansion: The Impact on Logistics Strategies and Operations

Talking Logistics

Live Episode: June 30, 2015 at 12:00 ET. When the Panama Canal expansion is completed in early 2016, it will effectively double the capacity of the canal and allow post-Panamax vessels to cross it. Meanwhile, East Coast ports are in the process of widening and deepening their channels and installing larger off-loading cranes to accommodate these larger vessels.

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Why Reverse Logistics Systems and Transportation Management Should Be Considered Together

GlobalTranz

Needs for efficient reverse logistics systems continue to increase as e-commerce claims greater market share, and as so many traditionally functioning businesses grow and inevitably incur increasing volume of returns. This presents opportunities for developing new revenue streams, an exciting challenge to logistics professionals. However, forward logistics management skills (involving original production and distribution of new products) may scarcely apply to reverse processes of moving products

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Five Best Practices for Balancing Costs, Risks, and Sustainability

In the face of volatile macroeconomic conditions and other complex challenges, supply chain and procurement pros must strike a tough balance between seemingly contradictory demands: boosting performance and sustaining and extending business operations, all while meeting customers’ needs. This GEP paper provides impactful tips on how to develop a strategic procurement approach that focuses on collaboration, innovation, and sustainability.

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Why a Demand Signal Repository is key to a shelf-connected supply chain

The Network Effect

Yuko Honda/Flickr. Note: This is the next installment in an ongoing series that explores shelf-connected supply networks. In the first post, I asked whether a shelf-connected system was possible with traditional ERP systems. Then I explored how forecasting techniques will need to change. Today I want to discuss the importance of a demand signal repository. .

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Combating Supply Chain Fraud, Waste, Theft, & Abuse

Enterra Insights

“Everyday supply-chain transactions pose some of the biggest fraud, waste, and abuse risks companies face,” asserts Sabine Vollmer. “But few … Continued. The post Combating Supply Chain Fraud, Waste, Theft, & Abuse appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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From Paper to Plastic: How 3D Printing Can Change the Global Supply Chain

Elementum

Last week, an auto startup released a new type of supercar known as “The Blade”. It looks sleek, can accelerate from 0-60mph in just 2.2 seconds, and has already garnered a lot of attention from car enthusiasts. But its most intriguing selling point? It’s entirely 3D-printed. Divergent Microfactories, the company that produces the car, plans to build a limited number of cars and then sell its technologies to other manufacturers, hoping to proliferate the opportunities presented by 3D printing, a