Logility
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The accuracy of conventional time-series forecasts eventually hits a ceiling. Why? Because historical data is a flawed predictor of supply chain conditions over a short period of time. Even high-volume consumer packaged products with well-understood seasonality established over decades continue to experience high near-term forecast error rates. Consider adding demand sensing to your planning mix.
Unleashed
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Product recalls are commonplace and are to be expected in many mass-inventory industries such as in the automotive, pharmaceutical and food industries. The risks and consequences involved in navigating the recall process can be unnerving. A product safety issue usually triggers a recall, so there are significant financial, legal and reputation risks involved.
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Kuebix
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The History of Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day existed in a variety of forms before settling into its fixed date of February 14th. It can be traced all the way back to a mid-February holiday on the ancient Roman calendar, existing as a day to celebrate the possibility of new life even before Saint Valentine was […]. The post The Supply Chain of Your Valentine’s Day Flowers appeared first on Kuebix.
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
…the weekend is just around the corner. Happy Valentine’s Day to all my blog readers. This is my 440th blog post and the tenth anniversary Supply Chain Shaman. It seems hard to believe that I have been typing away over these years building an audience of over 20,000 global readers. My friends would tell me to relax and get my Groove on b ut, I find myself deep into a presentation for a client’s design thinking session next week.
Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller
As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
DynaSys
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
We are back with Dr. Diadie Sow for the third and final part of our series dedicated to Data Science. The first part was dedicated to the story of Data Science up to now , and the second part focused on the daily tasks of a Data Scientist. In this article, we will explore the value that Data Science brings to Supply Chain. Spoiler alert: huge innovations ahead!
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Earlier this week, the death toll from the Wuhan coronavirus rose to over 1,000 people, invoking memories of the 2003 SARS outbreak. While the human aspect of this outbreak is clearly the biggest story, the virus is causing major disruptions in global supply chains as well. As my colleague Steve Banker pointed out yesterday, the global high-tech supply chain has been hit particularly hard.
GlobalTranz
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Listen to “Inventory Forecasting Lessons for Improved Supply Chain Network Optimization” on Spreaker. Supply Chain Resources to Download The Supply Chain Trends to Know in 2020 Download White Paper Why Blockchain will Create Extreme Supply Chain Management Optimization Download White Paper Revenue Growth At The Hand Of Improved Digital Supply Chains Download White Paper The.read More.
Demand Solutions
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Sales and operations planning, also known as S&OP, is a key business activity for production heavy firms. It integrates sales & marketing strategies with supply chain considerations, allowing for a more unified mission across multiple departments of the business. So how can your firm improve your sales and operations planning? This is a short guide on how to do so.
Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.
Logility
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Multivariate Demand Signal Management isolates actual demand signals from inconsistent market activity and improve forecast quality. Multivariate Demand Signal Management (MDSM) brings order to the chaotic flood of structured and unstructured market data a business generates and consumes, revealing complex patterns and helping planners separate actionable demand signals from “market noise and nonsense”.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Today’s headlines are filled with disheartening news about climate change, resource depletion, pollution, hunger, access to clean water, and poverty. The world is paying a high price for the traditional “take, make, use, waste” philosophy that failed to consider the long-range social and environmental consequences of mass consumerism. In response, in 2015 more than 190 countries joined to endorse 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) ?
GlobalTranz
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Shippers around the globe continue to express concerns for the state of the freight economy 2020 industry. Experts disagree on whether we are heading for a recession or a boom. The reality is simple; organizations that can roll with the changes and adapt supply chain processes will evolve and experience productive years. Unfortunately, those that.read More.
DAT Solutions
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Coronavirus is getting a lot of attention, but it hasn't had much impact on domestic freight in the U.S. so far. If the slowdown in Chinese exports continues beyond the end of February, however, the effects could ripple through worldwide supply chains and reduce demand for freight transportation here. Trucking will likely be the last transportation mode to be affected.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Enterra Insights
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Valentine’s Day is named after a Christian saint, who, according to the BBC, was willing to give up his life for the sake of love. They write, “The popular belief about St. Valentine is that he was a priest from Rome in the third century AD. Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage because he thought married men were bad soldiers. Valentine felt this was unfair, so he broke the rules and arranged marriages in secret.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Global hi-tech companies are struggling with the impact of the coronavirus. While the mortality rate at 2 percent does not sound like it should shut down global supply chains, 25 percent of those infected end up in intensive care. The high-tech industry is impacted particularly hard because so much of their contract manufacturing resides in China and they run JIT supply chains.
ivalua
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The impact of the Coronavirus continues to be felt globally and the World Health Organization and government continues to urge caution as they implement controls to stem the flow of the infection. The death toll has reached over 900 and the number of confirmed cases has exceeded more than 40,000. Even more concerning is that the death toll has spread outside of mainland China and ships outside of ports in Hong Kong and Japan are being quarantined. .
Supply Chain Collaborator
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Too often, shipping organizations focus only on costs when selecting a TMS solution. Whether automating logistics for the very first time (saying goodbye to spreadsheets and phone calls) or seeking to replace an outdated incumbent technology, implementation and subscription costs are not the most important consideration. What’s much more critical is understanding how quickly your investment will pay for itself and begin adding padding to the bottom line.
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Enterra Insights
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Supply chain visibility remains elusive despite decades pursuing it. Arnaud Morvan states a simple truth, “It’s difficult to see, measure and improve what’s happening across the supply chain.”[1] And that’s a problem. Morvan notes, “The management guru Peter Drucker suggested, you can’t improve what you can’t measure. To go back a step further, you can’t measure what you can’t see.
Supply Chain Game Changer
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Delivery drones article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Simon Pleass at 2flow.ie. Also known as an “unmanned aerial vehicle” (UAV), a drone is an unpiloted aircraft or spacecraft. Drones can be operated remotely by a person or they can be controlled intelligently by computers, or in most cases, a combination of both.
QAD
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Germany is the largest economy in the EU, and it’s the second most populous country. It is the fifth largest economy in the world. . After WWII, Germany was divided into two sectors, the FRG (West Germany) and the GDR (East Germany). In 1990, after the end of the Cold War, Germany was reunified, and the country has invested heavily in improving infrastructure, productivity and wages.
Arkieva
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The tragic outbreak of the Coronavirus has again demonstrated the need for ever vigilant health care services and fast response. It has demonstrated that supply chain interruptions from a manufacturing excursion to a port strike to an infectious disease outbreak require two actions from any firm: preparation and response. Coronavirus a Substantial Supply Chain Interruption – The Importance of Digital Supply Chain was first posted on February 11, 2020 at 7:43 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Lin
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Shippers and logistics service providers are pressured to match the “Amazon effect” for fast and efficient service across multiple B2C, B2B, and D2C channels. Perfect order delivery - on-time and in-full at the lowest possible cost – is critical. However, recent surveys of supply chain stakeholders reveal that many don't have the technology necessary to achieve it.
Supply Chain Movement
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
During conferences or interviews, chief executives can regularly be heard to say that their company is currently undergoing a digital transformation. But what kind of transformation do they actually mean? Are they talking about an operational transformation – about ‘digitizing’ existing, paper-based processes? Are they referring to a tactical change to their operational model, like when Netflix switched from sending out DVDs to streaming films online in 2010?
Roambee
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Air shipments are the quickest and safest way to transport goods, but when it comes to tracking them, the options could get tricky! The in-air segment of your air cargo’s journey is only one part and constitutes a considerably smaller part of the journey’s time on an average, the remaining comprises of the first mile, time spent in storage, time spent at airports, and the last mile.
BlueYonder
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
This is the sixth blog in our ICON 2020: What’s New series. Stay in the know about the biggest and best supply chain conference of the year with our blog series highlighting the latest developments as they unfold. In case you haven’t heard, we officially changed our name from JDA to Blue Yonder ! Blue Yonder ICON – May 4-7 in Denver, Colorado – is coming up fast and we continue to announce exciting new event details before we jet to the Rockies!
Tecsys
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Please enjoy this republication of a Supply & Demand Chain Executive article. Supply chain predictability… The post Predictability Is the Key to Supply Chain Sustainability (Part 1 of 2) appeared first on Tecsys.
More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.
Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
As public health epidemiologists warn that the coronavirus epidemic is far worse than earlier envisaged and that other countries should consider tough containment measures similar to those imposed in China, the likely human cost of the outbreak is enormous. The ease with which the virus can be spread, even by people who have never been to China, let alone Wuhan, was highlighted by a case in the United Kingdom.
Veridian Solutions
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
With the holidays over and 2020 underway, one of the biggest challenges facing today’s supply chain is the current public health scare and its associated disruption in the supply chain. The coronavirus, now officially named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a “global-public-health-emergency” that originated in Wuhan, China in late December 2019.
BlueYonder
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Claudia Behnke brings a story of perseverance and determination to today’s Wednesdays for Women blog. A contract specialist at Blue Yonder (formerly JDA Software, Inc.), Claudia dives head first into adversity without fear of failure and doesn’t take “no” for an answer. Having lived in two different countries by the time she was 10, Claudia learned from a young age that the unknown doesn’t always have to be scary.
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