Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. The reason? The results are questionable.

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Unleashed

JULY 25, 2021

Over a third of the world’s food produce and products are wasted. Food waste accounts for eight percent of global greenhouse gases and has significant environmental and economic impacts. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization 1.3 billion tonnes of food – over $9 billion worth – goes to waste each year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 18, 2022

At the end of a long day of a strategy session on supply chain excellence with a client, I needed to fill up some time in an agenda. This large food manufacturer used a popular technology to forecast monthly using orders as an input. The large food company operated regionally. The result? Background. The takeaway?

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Excess inventory – it’s taking up your warehouse space, tying up working capital, and limiting your planning team’s range of motion. It’s time to Marie Kondo your supply chain by eliminating excess inventory and learning how to avoid it in the first place. Let’s talk about: What Excess Inventory Is. What Causes Excess Inventory.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Every manufacturer knows the importance of raw materials – without them, there’s no final product. Raw material inventory management oversees the procurement, handling, and storage of raw materials. In this guide: What is raw material inventory management? Let’s dive in.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2023

We find that companies with an analytics center of excellence drove progress faster than those with a supply chain center of excellence. While companies build Supply Chain Centers of Excellence, most are not clear on what good looks like. When you ask, “What defines supply chain excellence?” The other issue?

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Understanding the most valuable inventory control techniques, along with utilizing inventory control template Excel, is essential if you want to ensure effective inventory management. The primary goal of inventory control is to reduce the costs associated with holding stock.

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Synovos

AUGUST 9, 2023

RS Integrated Supply’s Costanza Campi to speak at World Procurement Excellence Summit WARRINGTON, UK / RADNOR, PA 8 AUGUST 2023 – Costanza Campi, Senior Vice President of Global Procurement for RS Integrated Supply, has been selected to present at the upcoming World Procurement Excellence Summit in Cologne, Germany.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Inventory replenishment is reordering stock in the right quantities, at the right time. Too much inventory can increase costs, limit cash flow, and leave you with expired stock. In this inventory replenishment guide: What is inventory replenishment? Bulk buying can also provide leverage for discounted delivery costs.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 2, 2023

As members of one of the most highly regulated industries in the world, medical device manufacturers face numerous challenges. From stringent quality standards to comprehensive documentation requirements, Class 1 and 2 manufacturers must navigate a complex landscape to ensure compliance and product excellence.

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RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2022

Overview: Food Traceability Is a Growing Compliance Challenge. Calculating the Cost of a Food Recall. Additional Food Traceability Resources. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first exercised new powers granted under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) to shut down processing at the Sunland Inc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

Can we build collaborative platforms for role-based discussions across commercial (sales and marketing) and operations (manufacturing, logistics, and purchasing) teams? Through work with Georgia Tech, the supply chain team can affect 70% of market capitalization in the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 29, 2023

Inventory management software helps businesses keep track of stock and be more efficient in their daily operations. It automates tedious manual tasks that can be prone to human error, improving the accuracy of a company’s recorded inventory levels and reducing inventory carrying costs.

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2023

Your Comprehensive Guide to Production Planning Software The benefits of production planning software vs scheduling are about the granularity of the plan: capacity plans (or master production schedules) are not granular and factor in less granular things, like high level capacity, forecasts, inventory, and transfer times.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 6, 2021

So your company is looking to reduce costs, and you’ve been asked to contribute by reducing your inventory cost. That makes sense – inventory is one of the most capital intensive areas for any product business. Here we explain how you can do this with 16 cost reduction strategies in inventory management?that

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 28, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides the second in a multi-part series addressing the renewed importance of production planning and operational excellence in this very uncertain and constantly changing business environment. Production facility planning challenges occur when attempting to react, in a timely manner, to new customer or product needs.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Manufacturers and brick-and-mortar retailers have been using software to manage their inventory for years – but inventory management is even more important when you’re running a business that operates in the complex eCommerce space. Learn more: Guide to Effective Multichannel Selling What is eCommerce inventory management?

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RFgen

JUNE 8, 2023

Key Takeaways: Inventory management software with built-in automation has been found to increase accuracy and profits. There is no one-size-fits-all solution for inventory management software—it’s about the best product for your business objectives and industry. And with the average on-hand inventory quantities up 8.3%

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Unleashed

JANUARY 24, 2022

Maintaining healthy levels of Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) inventory is essential to the smooth running of your manufacturing, distribution or wholesaling operation – even if MRO goods aren’t part of your final products. Learn more: What is Inventory Management? Techniques for 2022 What is MRO inventory?

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 20, 2014

by John Westerveld Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. Except that your inventory costs millions of dollars.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In this guide to barcodes in inventory management: In order to apply barcodes to inventory management, it is important to understand the basics of the barcode system. Hence, some companies will find corded barcode scanners to be all they need, where other companies require wireless scanners to support their online inventory management.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

I started to work at General Foods’ largest plant in Dover, DE, in the summer of 1982 at the age of 24. Frank, the line manager for manufacturing, dominated the meetings. He felt that inventory was no problem, he would just cut it at the end of each quarter to make the balance sheet goals. For me, this was a tough choice.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Crisis management for crisis avoidance – capacity planning in food industry. Industries like food, beverage, and other related processing face some unique production issues. Paving a smart path for food – from warehouses to houses.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Crisis management for crisis avoidance – capacity planning in food industry. Industries like food, beverage, and other related processing face some unique production issues. Paving a smart path for food – from warehouses to houses.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods. As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. The reason?

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Unleashed

MARCH 26, 2023

If you’re running a product business and using Xero for your accounting, you’ll need to implement some form of inventory management. While the platform offers some inventory features of its own, many businesses will require something with greater functionality. Do you need integrated Xero inventory software?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. Over the last decade the use of Terra Technology’s DS product improved short-term demand forecasts by 37% at 13 consumer products, and food and beverage companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. After six months of analysis, we decided the best fit was the combination of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital.

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Zipline Logistics

JULY 14, 2020

Food distributors are often a necessary part of taking your brand to the next level. With seemingly hundreds of established and independent food distributors with varying connections, how do you choose when to use who? However, this is a prerequisite for determining which food distributor to use. What is a Food Distributor?

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Logility

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Just like every aspect of our modern society, the COVID-19 pandemic has tested how food and beverage (F&B) networks navigate continuous and dramatic changes. According to Deloitte , “maintaining transparent and integrated partnerships is critical to sustaining a well-functioning and agile food value chain.” We couldn’t agree more.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

IoT supports operational efficiencies in areas such as asset tracking, inventory management and forecasting, improving productivity and aiding decision-making across the supply chain. Here are just a few examples: Predictive maintenance: In manufacturing, predictive analytics supports predictive maintenance.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

How to calculate Safety Stock levels in Excel. You can calculate safety stock levels in Excel by setting up your spreadsheet as per the image below. The safety stock formula can be calculated in Excel with a simple table. Safety stock levels for manufacturers. 2 is the number of the row for that SKU.

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IQMS

MARCH 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed manufacturers to rapidly shift gears, from addressing work-from-home policies to managing extreme swings in demand and uncertain supply chains. In the process, it has highlighted an aspect of manufacturing ERP that is not as visible in more normal times— business continuity.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 31, 2022

They’ve inspired their teams with their persistent drive to deliver excellence and helped our customers keep service levels high despite demand and supply irregularities. ToolsGroup is how organizations improve product availability while right-sizing inventory, no matter how complex their supply chain is or how much demand changes.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 29, 2019

Do You Want Inventory Turnover Breakthrough? It’s still being recorded in inventory and accounting systems. After an asset has broken, been sold, been misplaced or otherwise become unusable, it sometimes doesn’t get properly accounted for in inventory and record-keeping. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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