Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. One of my insights from doing the industry analysis for the Supply Chains to Admire each year is that smaller and less well-known companies outperform larger and better-known manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On Friday, I presented an overview of outside-in planning to a consulting group. I love the questions when I present. For example, in manufacturing, the shift in focus is away from OEE to focus on first pass yield and schedule adherence.) Start by analyzing your Forecast Value Added by demand stream. The reason?

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ThroughPut

JUNE 12, 2023

Forecasting has forever been at the heart of efficient supply chain operations – driving the much needed predictability to source raw materials, manufacture products and fulfill customer needs at the right time, right place and in the right quantity. Clearly, supply chain forecasting has become more complex.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 4, 2022

When demand can be anticipated with accuracy, it can be delivered efficiently with demand forecasting techniques. Using an AI-driven retail replenishment software and planning solution that tracks inventory can help planners easily forecast and balance store demand to provide accurate SKU level replenishment.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With ToolsGroup’s AI-powered demand forecasting, the plant-based food innovator revolutionizes its supply chain, maximizing accuracy, speed, and business performance. For more information about how AI-powered probabilistic forecasting lays the foundation for supply chain growth, read the full case study here.

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Logility

MARCH 21, 2024

AI has presented challenges and opportunities for business leaders seeking to leverage its potential across their organizations to improve efficiency and increase profitability. Capabilities of GenAI show the user the data source that corresponds to the answer for each question the user asks.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2022

Prestigious award presented by Microsoft at the Inspire event. ToolsGroup won the award for its deep supply chain planning expertise and cloud-based solutions for retail, manufacturing, distribution, consumer goods, aftermarket parts, and telecom industries. About ToolsGroup.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Allyson Hatfield, demand planner at MARS Petcare presented. In our research, we find that 72% of planners primarily depend on Excel and desktop analysis despite the rollout of advanced platforms for planning in 92% of manufacturers with greater than 5B$ in revenue. Allyson’s presentation was just that. ” “Oops!,”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 9, 2023

The panel group is sourced from my group of LinkedIn followers. It also supports that companies with strong manufacturing scheduling capabilities in process-based companies score better on S&OP. Or the use of Channel Forecast Data? My goal is to help. I openly conduct and share research in front of the firewall.)

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Unleashed

JANUARY 14, 2024

Manufacturing inventory management is crucial to the success and profitability of your manufacturing operations. This guide for manufacturers explains how it works and explores the most effective ways to manage inventory in manufacturing.

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AB&R

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Opportunities for manufacturing Walmart is not the only retailer that requires RFID – and you can expect many to follow suit. As more follow in Walmart’s footsteps, we predict retailers purchasing your manufactured goods will also start asking for RFID-labeled items. They will comply, shelf the project, and won’t think about it again.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Anthony’s clients varied from construction, trucking, industrial, software, manufacturing, and retail industries. He led analysis around M&A, pricing sensitivity, competitive intelligence, and annual sales forecast for the executive team. About FreightWaves. Learn More About Understanding Freightonomics. Anthony on LinkedIn.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the conference, I was fortunate to see a presentation from Brent Wilson, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Qualcomm. As Brent mentioned in his introduction, it has been a challenging few years for semiconductor manufacturers. Qualcomm turned to more automation in its semiconductor manufacturing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute a wide range of consumer products, including bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. GP, for example, has also had success in demonstrating that Causal AI can solve difficult sourcing problems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 12, 2017

I get the fact that today’s forecasts are not good enough to drive replenishment, and that rules-based consumption to translate monthly demand to daily demand was a mistake. They calculate the buffer based on what is close to a naive forecast based on incoming orders. (In In my simple mind, I think of this as a forecast… ).

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. In nine out of ten supply chain planning systems that I test, I find that companies have a negative Forecast Value Added level. Definition of Form and Function of Inventory: Source Supply Chain Insights. My take away? SAP and IBM failed the market.

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AB&R

APRIL 12, 2022

Opportunities for manufacturing. As more follow in Walmart’s footsteps, we predict retailers purchasing your manufactured goods will also start asking for RFID-labeled items. Now, when manufacturers tag their products before they leave the plant, all distributors will need to do is implement readers and software to capture their data.

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Unleashed

MAY 7, 2023

With the right systems in place, manufacturing inventory management can help to reduce production and ensure all operational processes are carried out effectively and efficiently. In this guide, we cover the types of manufacturing inventory, the costs, and a few handy strategies for managing it effectively.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

” I believe that the focus should be improving reliability (Forecast Value Added (FVA), first pass tender and yield, and manufacturing schedule adherence) while decreasing process, demand, and data latency. The discussions are full of vacuous presentations and over-hyped promises. Sensing and Proactive Alerting.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

Leaders will again be presented with an environment of uncertainty and differing economic, financial and risk based outlooks, depending on geographic region, or specific industry product demand or supply network sector. World economic growth was forecasted to slow from 3.5 percent in 2024. This level represents a contraction of $1.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” The budget is not sufficient and is often a detrimental input for supply chain forecasting. Background.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Checkout the presentation posted on slideshare. ). During the presentation, I spoke about the future of supply chain management, and the building of outside-in processes. Retail forecasts are never a good source of data for the manufacturer. Before using, test the forecasts to understand the bias and error.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2019

Planners need to contend with inconsistent consumer buying behavior, the need to satisfy multiple channels, complex sourcing options and proliferating “sub-seasons,” collections and assortments. It is quite common to create a long-range forecast that can stretch out 12 to 36 months.

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ThroughPut

MAY 22, 2024

Following this, data sources are identified and shared, and success metrics and business outcomes are defined so that everyone works toward the same goals. Such quality validation is crucial, as a seemingly simple mislabeling of a product category could potentially lead to, for example, a 10% inefficiency in demand forecasting.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 11, 2018

Jörg Schlager describing SKF's Integrated Planning (Source: Optilon). Digital transformation ” is tough for any firm, but when you are $9 billion industrial manufacturer, it is a sizable undertaking. Each product has “one global forecast, one planning method, one responsibility, and true end-to-end accountability,” says Jörg.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 12, 2021

Food manufacturers will find new opportunities in the alternative protein market as consumer demand surges for non-meat proteins: insect, plant and algae-based products, and ‘lab meat’ cultivated from animal cells. The demand for alternative proteins has surged in recent years, creating an opportunity for food manufacturers.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Here we provide an overview of the latest pet food industry trends, and answer the question: how can pet food manufacturers respond to changes in consumer demands to take advantage of these new trends? manufacturing had seen five years of consistent growth. manufactured?pet pet food manufacturers?significantly grow to $2.9

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QAD

JULY 21, 2022

“Economists have blamed product shortages such as semiconductors and the present spike of inflation, to an extent, on the bullwhip effect,” reports a recent article from BusinessThink at the University of New South Wales. The bullwhip effect has multiple causes that distort the supply chain, including: Changes in demand forecasting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

In my work with manufacturing companies recently, I am thinking a lot about the need for diagnostic testing. ” Or alternatively, “Is there data that could be sourced to help?” I laughed at a recent presentation of Mondelez trying to achieve the cash-to-cash performance of Dell. Step Three. Let me explain.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Effective inventory management is crucial to reducing costs in any manufacturing business. This is particularly true in the food manufacturing industry, which characteristically has a high volume of products stored, and an urgent need to fill existing client orders to match ongoing consumer demand.

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ModusLink Corporation

MARCH 8, 2023

According to Reuters ’ data sources, “long-term contract rates finished 2022 about 20% lower than the pandemic peak of more than $8,000 per container. That forecast would put rates at about $3,200 versus the pre-pandemic rate of around $1,500 (Baertlein).” Leverage Bulk Packaging Solutions to Get Lower Costs.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 16, 2023

Thanks to new technologies like ERP manufacturers and distributors can now harness the power of automation in their supply chains. Accurate forecasting for supply chain. A further way in which ERP helps reduce costs and improves customer experience is through accurate, AI-driven forecasting. Data-driven decision making.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

2] They are: #1 Your organization uses a manually intensive end-to-end forecasting and planning process. If this describes your planning framework, Singh says, “You may be ready for a fresh look at how you are forecasting. ” #3 Your “best fit” forecasting turns out to be “whatever fits”.

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Logility

JUNE 30, 2022

resigned from their jobs in durable goods manufacturing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that, while the manufacturing sector as a whole is projected to have some pandemic recovery employment growth, it also contains 11 of the 20 industries that are predicted to have the most rapid employment declines.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

As the markets plummet, it is time to remind ourselves that demand is not a forecast. Traditional forecasting approaches are not adequate in a time of market volatility. In the real world, companies operate with a Mean Absolute Forecast Error of 24-60%, and have a bias of 9-40%. Markets drive supply chains.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As we close the year of 2015, we want to take a look at some manufacturing trends for 2016. We look at 6 core areas that manufacturing companies will take a long look at as they gear up for a successful 2016. E-Commerce for Manufacturing. Manufacturers will seek custom (or specifically tailored) e-commerce solutions.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Source: The Enterprise System Spectator. However, she disagrees with DDMRP’s principles of forecasting and the use of demand sensing technologies. She says she believes DDMRP “buffers are only a piece of the answer” and that “forecasting plays a vital role in determining the rules for inventory buffers.”

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