Unleashed

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Just-in-time inventory (JIT) is the antithesis of just-in-case inventory and can be a valuable method of reducing waste and streamlining the supply chain. This means lead times can remain short and they have relinquished the responsibility and associated risks of carrying stock that does not have a purpose.

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Unleashed

MAY 15, 2023

CRM minimises the manual aspects of B2B business processes , enabling you to spend less time on tedious admin tasks and more time on role-specific duties. B2B CRM software allows you to be more productive with your time and more efficient with your cash flow. That’s where a quality CRM system comes in.

Inventory Reduction 105

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 22, 2022

Arial, Times New Roman, Calibri, or Century Gothic are some of the most often used fonts for resumes in the logistics industry. Arial, Times New Roman, Calibri, or Century Gothic are some of the most often used fonts for resumes in the logistics industry. For example, consider using a bright backdrop color instead of a dark one.

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Unleashed

MARCH 2, 2022

Here we give you eight real-world examples of how businesses use Kanban, a popular lean tool that’s helped companies in a huge range of sectors improve efficiency – especially those in the manufacturing industry. If you already know what Kanban is and just want the case studies, scroll down! Each card represents one work item.

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Manufacturing Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain Lean Examples 98

Demand Solutions

AUGUST 7, 2013

Remember when you didn’t care how long your lead time was, as long as it was consistent? It wouldn’t have been such a bad system, except that lead times are never consistent. So companies like yours began maintaining a safety stock, “just in case.” Better to go with “just in time.”

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Unleashed

MAY 1, 2023

An inventory control chart, also known as a stock control chart, is a visual diagram that reflects the minimum and maximum stock levels of a business over time. The X axis represents time. Lines and points are added to the chart to show min and max stock levels, reorder quantities, and supplier lead times.

Inventory Reduction 52

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Unleashed

JULY 12, 2023

Inventory examples Inventory is used widely across numerous industries and sectors. It can mean different things to different organisations, so let’s look at some common inventory examples in various business models. Inventory is often the largest current asset in a business. What is inventory?

Inventory Reduction 52

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Effective production scheduling can mean the difference between a happy customer and a job that was cancelled because it wasn’t completed on time. For the customer, production schedules aim to shorten lead times and improve the quality of goods produced. In this production schedule guide: What is a production schedule?

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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Ware2Go

APRIL 11, 2023

Sustainable eCommerce is more than just a buzz-word: Both consumers and small midsized businesses (SMBs) are growing more concerned about the impact of eCommerce on the environment. Learn how businesses of all sizes can help build a more sustainable eCommerce industry, with examples of environmentally friendly brands that are leading the way.

Examples 52

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Clear Spider

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Real-Time Performance Monitoring lets vendors adjust inventory levels at customer sites to match changing demand, eliminating stock shortages (lost sales) and overstocked items (high storage costs). What sets industry leaders apart from other businesses? In today’s fast-paced, demand-driven economy, businesses can’t afford to be inefficient.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 21, 2017

After doing a deep dive into the Household Products (Nondurable) industry segment to show why Proctor & Gamble did not make the Supply Chains to Admire TM winner list, I wanted to show an example calculation for a company that made the winner list. I thought they would be a great company to use as an example. That’s amazing!

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Let’s take an example. Let’s take another example. I just went live this year with a Fortune 25 company, and their factories book against their orders online. ” Followed by, “We just implemented an end-to-end solution at Unilever; the results are impressive.” Is there value?

Optimal Sourcing 335

Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software Manufacturing Procurement Modeling 335

DELMIA Quintiq

AUGUST 31, 2023

We live in times when not long after imagining a certain robot, it becomes a reality. Often, software robots use Artificial Intelligence algorithms, as, for example, chatbots use AI to better respond to human questions and to be able to communicate more naturally. Where are Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Heading?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2024

A good example is saying “What are my demurrage issues at the Port of Long Beach?” This check involves connecting carrier contract data and shipment dwell times. This kind of reasoning absorbs a lot of time and effort. However, in the supply chain realm, despite the rhetoric, the current use cases for generative AI are limited.

Modeling Software 219

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper University Health Care Relies Upon Real-time Alerts to Improve Operations Cooper University Health Care, like most companies, struggled with their supply chain during COVID. The company bought a risk solution that provides real-time alerts to potential supply disruptions. But there was a cost to this.

Supply Chain Planning Software 248

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Logility

AUGUST 18, 2023

Despite these challenges, integrating supply chain planning into your corporate strategy isn’t just an operational imperative — it’s a critical strategic move that can drive your supply chain performance forward. Each of these hurdles presents its own unique issues that can disrupt alignment and hamper efficiency.

Supply Chain Performance 188

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

It took time for the situation to normalize, especially for complex products like semiconductors that require a lot of moving parts in the global supply chain. Just when it seemed that 2024 would be a very welcome year of “normal” supply chains, the Red Sea crisis proved that for global supply chains, there is no such thing.

Negotiating Skills 289

Negotiating Skills Optimal Sourcing Price Reduction Vendor Strategies 289

Logility

AUGUST 7, 2023

Just think about the last time you brought your car to the service or asked a service for your dishwasher only to hear, that the part required to fix the problem was not available and had to be ordered from the central warehouse and it would take a few days. What did you think about that? Have you looked into inventory solutions?

Customer Service 214

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

Infor is one example of a supplier that offers both advanced visibility and supply chain planning. There are just a few suppliers that offer both solutions – E2open, Infor, Kinaxis, One Network, and SAP. It is just visualized differently. And as new information comes in, that plan, across all the time horizons, can change.

Supply Chain Planning Software 246

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

For example, Google Maps app is a public cloud application. Increasingly, large enterprises have decided to do just that. It would be cheaper to build just one multi-tenant solution,” Kevin Samuelson the CEO of Infor explained. “But This in turn rests on developing solutions far more industry-focused than their competitors.

Vendor Strategies 225

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. For example, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law a year ago this week. Day in and day out, my newsfeed is full of headlines about companies that are looking to make sustainability an integral part of their business.

Resource Reduction 205

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The dynamic pricing strategy, a new approach to price optimization, maximizes margins and revenues and reduces waste by automating optimal lifecycle prices for each SKU in each channel – and it’s just one example of the powerful benefits of responsive AI. But it’s not just about the bottom line. Download the report HERE.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

And third, it is the starting point for understanding the level of an organization’s GHG emissions at a given point in time. FourKites , the global leader in real-time supply chain visibility, has launched a Sustainability Dashboard where companies can see miles traveled to create a baseline for emissions.

Benchmarking 217

Benchmarking Sustainability Optimal Sourcing Sourcing Strategies 217

GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

We conclude our series on supplier quality management (SQM) today with a look at some case studies and examples of benefits derived from the application of a supplier quality management system. Examples and Case Studies from the Implementation of a Supplier Quality Management System.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Just-In-Time Supply Chain Model vs. Just-In-Case Supply Chain Model Several years ago, when the pandemic became a full-blown global crisis, most supply chains used the “just-in-time” model, which relies on resources and goods being available right when they’re needed.

Modeling 130

Modeling Modeling Software Supply Chain Design Software Optimization Modeling 130

Operations and Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 25, 2021

Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s logistic arm Cainiao launched a container booking service last week in response to the global shortage. A Chinese worker looks on as a cargo ship is loaded at a port in Qingdao, eastern China’s Shandong province. to Asia are “going back empty.”. Limited alternative.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

One example from healthcare involves using generative AI integrated with Oracle’s electronic health record (EHR) solution to create a Clinical Digital Assistant that enables providers to use voice commands to produce rough drafts of new patient forms that would be reviewed but would still save significant labor.

Supply Chain Software 218

Supply Chain Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Network Software Vendor Strategies 218

Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

FourKites CEO, Matt Elenjickal One of the two leaders in the real-time transportation visibility market is FourKites. ARC considers real-time visibility solutions, like the one from FourKites, one type of SCCN solution. ARC considers real-time visibility solutions, like the one from FourKites, one type of SCCN solution.

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Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Visibility Inventory Reduction Agile and Lean Supply Chain 218

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 31, 2023

A number of unification examples and their benefits were provided. When it is time to choose the next trailer to pull into a dock door, yard and warehouse management work together to select a trailer and door combination that minimizes travel distance for the eventual put away tasks.

Conference 205

Conference Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Planning Software Optimization Software 205

Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But here’s the thing: AI has already impacted how we do things, how we interact with one another, and how, for example, we do business. In addition, they were never engineered to dynamically think about changeable data or navigate in a real-time environment. As of this past June, the chatbot had over 100 million users and 200 plugins.

Resource Reduction 130

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SCM Research

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The report contains short articles on very interesting topics including Brexit, predictive analytics, striking staff, supply chain tech investments, just-in-time vs. just-in-case, chip crisis, robotics, food waste, air cargo, and sustainable commerce. It is not the first time that I am writing about Raconteur’s reports here.

Waste Reduction 143

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Let’s say, the fashion industry, who just sell from stores, couldn’t get rid of probably their stock at all. And other companies were, let’s say, over the years preparing already a complete online strategy, and they only set up for that, as for example, Zalando or HelloFresh. Check out the video below. Transcript.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

Emergency vehicles, for example, would be exempt, and the California Highway Patrol could authorize the system’s disabling in certain other cases. The fund had a slow start with reportedly just $110 million invested into startups in its first year. Well, this week, I saw a new story about a bill in California that is turning heads.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But, at the same time, labor shortages represent a crushing obstacle to getting daily work done. To truly capitalize on automation and robotics, companies need a solution that matches all resources to volatile demand, strategically balances tasks across labor and robots, and replans work in real time as conditions change.

Supply Chain Planning Software 279

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 19, 2023

These same pundits also predict that AI could lead to increases in global GDP by trillions of dollars in the same time frame. For example, as a picker is moving through the warehouse, their scan gun will read, “go to location XB312 and pick three cases!” A true WMS is a real-time system. A WMS tells workers what to do.

Supply Chain Design Software 237

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Network Software Optimization Software 237

ToolsGroup

JUNE 10, 2022

Here’s a look at six customer experience examples to help you maximize long-term customer loyalty. 6 Examples of Excellent Customer Experiences. Their time is highly valued. Each customer is treated like a friend, one worth investing time and energy into. There are lots of reasons for retailers to love loyalty programs.

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