Logility

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Why don’t more kids want to grow up and solve the complexity of global supply chains? We buy our necessities online twice as much as we did before, we no longer need travel agents to book our trips, and our money transactions do not need a trip to the bank anymore. What gives?

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

.” – Sir Winston Churchill Having just returned from the 2023 Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Global conference in Detroit, these words are very fitting to encapsulate the essence of the event. Short-term visibility at the Purchase Order/ASN level is insufficient.

Waste Reduction 81

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

Today’s supply chain—with greater outsourcing, global manufacturing, and complex bill of materials–requires synchronization of the links. Bonuses and incentives align with functions and are often counter productive to driving supply chain excellence. It translates a buying requirement into a purchase order for requisition.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

You’ll note in the headline I use the preposition “of” instead of “to” when describing the “journey of Supply Chain Excellence.” The differentiator is whether Supply Chain Excellence is defined as a one-time project or as on ongoing process. Circuit City failed to adapt and is now history.

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing 100

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

The result of this cocktail is an unfortunate reduction in global agri-food production, export, and rapidly increasing agri-food commodity prices. Through trade, countries are able to buy agri-food produce from other parts of the world that are not able to grow efficiently on their own land (or region) or are not in season.

Waste Reduction 130

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Check out 10 Signs You Should Reboot Your Lean Program! Implementing a Lean program on the Manufacturing floor, in a Warehouse operation, or in a Distribution Centre is challenging enough. And your Lean program has at its core the objective of making these operations as efficient as possible. Email Address. Environment.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Global supply chain disruption, rapid technological evolution, changing buying and selling habits – wholesale distributors have had to deal with some rapid and radical changes over the past couple of years. The traditional sales rep approach is no longer what buyers are spending most of their time on when it comes to making purchases.

Inventory Management Software 97

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

The evolving pandemic, growing geopolitical tensions, nervous financial markets and increasing economic uncertainty means supply, both globally and locally, is at the very least, uncertain. In fact, global freight rates have increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic. GLOBAL CRISES DRIVE PRICES SKY-HIGH.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Driving Transformation in a Global Organization Pam Heminger knows a thing or two about transformation. My responsibility is to enable operational excellence within our total supply chain, by providing data and insights to our associates to help them make better decisions. It’s all about efficiency in how we manage our business.”

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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. This includes providing excellent customer service, so businesses can enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty. Enroll Now! Coordinate with carriers and optimize routes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

We have used Lean process systems and swim-laned ourselves to death. In the last five years, while the physician is still important, the buying decisions transitioned from the supplier to the care provider. They are primarily focused on cost management on new purchase decisions. “Does everyone realize how bad the problem is?

Modeling 236

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. On the webinar, when the participants were polled on the reason for rising inventories, over 50% of respondents indicated that it was the lack of an executive understanding of supply chain excellence.

Pharmaceutical 167

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. GEON Performance Solutions is a global leader in plastic compounded solutions and the leading brand in polyvinyl chloride compounds. It’s just a set of numbers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. Vice President of Global Operations Strategy, Seagate Technology. His reasoning?

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 19, 2022

This way, your supply chain will be as cost-effective and lean as possible. If you have a lean supply chain where you’re ordering small quantities only, it might not be efficient to run a global supply chain with suppliers halfway across the globe. Improve Your Supplier Relationships.

Vendor Strategies 109

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

In this edition: Jaro Caban, Global S&OP, Cargill Animal Nutrition. It consolidated Cargill’s global animal feed production and strengthened its internal supply chain capacity for food production and processing. Secondly we are setting up Business Process Optimisation (BPO) and my global responsibility lies between process and IT.

S&OP 107

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

With the purchase of i2 by JDA, and Logictools by IBM, manufacturing companies serious about network design started looking for a company, with a well-established community, that was more serious about network design. Mergers and Acquisitions and the Management of Global Operations. Instead, it needed to be steps of continuous designs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The increase in the item complexity, the lengthening of demand latency and the building of global supply chains with greater in-transit inventories top the list.

Inventory Reduction 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Peggy was a speaker at the Supply Chain Global Summit. AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. When her employees kept breaking their tablets on the production floor, Peggy used lean-production thought processes to innovate for new answers. .” Today, I got a quick email from Peggy Gulick. About Agco.

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DynaSys

MARCH 5, 2019

According to the latest Deloitte global ranking, France continues to lead the luxury brand market with a total of nine luxury groups accounting for 24.3% For example, European consumers prefer to buy in their region (75%), then abroad (19%) or at the airport (6%). The luxury brand market has never looked so good!

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 75

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The client leaned across the table and asked, “Is a customer-centric supply chain strategy the same as a demand-driven supply chain strategy?” An example of a global demand network is IBM iBAT. An example of social listening is the Lenovo Case Study presented at the 2015 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit.

Material Savings 181

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Warehousing is a vital function of global supply chain management, however often overlooked. Dearth of continuous improvement to drive for excellence in warehouse operations Scarcity of end-to-end perspectives in processes, costs, or external supply chain interfaces. Lean warehousing.

Warehousing 52

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Tailor your supply chain to cater to diverse businesses: In his keynote, Mourad Tamoud, EVP of Global Supply Chain Operations of Schneider Electric talked about how they are segmenting their supply network based on their customer personas and purchasing behaviors. Collaborative. Project model (for high level of configurability).

Gartner 117

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

The pressures of affordable care and global regulation are transforming the market, but are they redefining the supply chain fast enough? There is an inverse relationship between margin and supply chain excellence. Zimmer’s strategic framework focuses on growth, operational excellence and prudent capital allocation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. How easy is it to buy from your company? Bio-engineering? Customization?

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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Kinaxis

MARCH 6, 2018

I joined a supply chain software company while Gagan joined a large global manufacturer and quickly grew through the ranks to be the vice president of supply chain IT in his company. He was lean and fit, looked ten years younger and was in high spirits. Throughout our careers, we continued to meet up whenever our travels crossed paths.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 149

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper. Years ago, I knew that information sharing and the whole supplier-purchaser relationship is one of the most important things in supply chain (I talked about it in Introduction to Supply Chain Management in 1999).

Data 52

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Provenance

AUGUST 5, 2018

We have a strong social mission to create a positive way forward for commerce – making positive impact a key driver of what we buy. If you have excellent organisation and problem solving skills, with experience in software development and agile methodologies – we’d love to hear from you! More on our mission here.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 19, 2016

In 2013 Nokia took full ownership of Nokia Siemens Networks, buying the other half of the venture from Siemens, and 2014 sold its handset business to Microsoft. Today Nokia Networks, one of the corporation’s two businesses, serves more than 600 customers globally. Our supply chain strategy is built on operational excellence.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You are not alone, especially as in the time since we first penned this article, one huge and unforeseen event has raised awareness of the global importance of this vital sector—and shown it to be an attractive career choice. That event was the global COVID-19 pandemic, which erupted during the first half of 2020.

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Unleashed

JULY 25, 2021

Food waste accounts for eight percent of global greenhouse gases and has significant environmental and economic impacts. Coffee waste is also an excellent substrate for mushroom cultivation. Over a third of the world’s food produce and products are wasted. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization 1.3

Waste Reduction 98

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Kinaxis

MARCH 6, 2018

I joined a supply chain software company while Gagan joined a large global manufacturer and quickly grew through the ranks to be the vice president of supply chain IT in his company. He was lean and fit, looked ten years younger and was in high spirits. Throughout our careers, we continued to meet up whenever our travels crossed paths.

Supply Chain Planning Software 111

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Quantified Freight

MARCH 15, 2017

Since we do not purchase transportation in a box from a department store shelf — why are so many treating it that way? Are you shipping regionally, nationally, or globally? So know when to commit to your carrier partners with services needed that they own and excel at. There really is no limit. — QF.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the global world of businesses, companies often seek help from sourcing agencies to figure out how to get the things they need. But what’s a sourcing agency or sourcing agent and how does it make buying things easier? They play a big role in making sure the whole process of buying things goes smoothly from start to finish.

Purchasing Skills 73

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

entities as opposed to foreign owned entities such as global shipping and logistics companies. As a result of businesses rethinking of both their lean operations as well as their multi-echelon inventory management and supply chain resilience strategies, the report indicates that needs for warehouse space boomed in 2021. Bob Ferrari.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 52

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Arkieva

JUNE 21, 2016

How to ensure their buy-in? You can talk about using lean and operational excellence to improve the make process, about strategic sourcing and supplier development to improve the source process, or about multi-modal and real time tracking to improve the deliver process. Many companies try to run their supply chains on Excel.

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Requis

JUNE 25, 2020

This may be one of the few silver linings from this global pandemic. Now we’re developing some excellent online platforms. Yet panic buying created a shortage because supply chains of such items are not built to be agile and to react to an unprecedented spike in demand. Now it’s on supply chain.

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