The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The global supply chain industry has by default, a large environmental impact, through its carbon footprint. As part of the CMA CGM Group, CEVA Logistics has a global reach, which means that we can make a global difference. We pledge to adopt better ways of doing business with the aim of becoming an industry standard.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

Working on it over the holiday break, allowed me to spend more time to think about the trends that I am seeing in the data. The performance of large global branded companies with extensive IT portfolios shows decline. ” Compare the results to the industry trends. The paradigm needs to change to buck the trend.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Reversing The Trend. How do we reverse the trend? While the input from sales on market trends is invaluable, sales should never be asked to forecast. As supply chains moved from regional to global, intransit and cycle inventories increased. The Focus Inside-out Supported by Functional Metrics. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

The global supply chain is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of reasonably priced logistics, and low variability. In March 2023, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008. However, variability and global unrest is rising. Unrest in Sudan.

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 4, 2023

The global manufacturing sector has seen an upswing, a technological renaissance of sorts. With the expectations of landing an enticing career in the engineering/manufacturing sector, several trends and issues could impact your career path moving forward. Breaking it down In the U.S. 3 What’s the allure?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Responsible for 8% of global greenhouse gases, the fashion industry is a major polluter, especially with the onslaught of “fast fashion”, where people will buy clothes for an Instagram photo and then never wear them again. Global Assets in a Constantly Shifting Supply Chain. & & Changing Landscape”.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 25, 2016

3 Key Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance Beyond Cost Reduction. 10 Soft Metric Considerations in Measuring Supply Chain Performance. GPS : Global Positioning System (GPS) is a navigation system that depends on satellites to locate vehicles anywhere on Earth. View our Trends Category to stay up to speed. .

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting we highlight published September 2022 indices of global supply chain volatility ( GSPI ) and US Logistics Index ( LMI ) activity trends along with our view of the implications. In a prior Supply Chain Matters posting, we highlighted both September and Q3-2022 global and regional PMI indices.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights two additional indices of global and US supply chain volatility relative to July 2022 global supply chain activity levels. In a prior published Supply Chain Matters commentary, we provided highlights of the various July 2022 PMI indices across select global supply chain regions.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 30, 2022

Members of the DotActiv team observe, “The global COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on consumers, their behavior and ultimately their shopping habits. 7] Mark Hamstra, “ Pandemic trends, supply shifts impact center store shopping ,” Supermarket News, 6 August 2021. [8] And who are they choosing?

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Unleashed

MARCH 2, 2021

The global wearable healthcare technology market is made up of devices that users wear – on their wrists, feet, heads, or as fabric – and includes smartwatches and activity trackers like Fitbit, as well as medical monitoring devices used to track serious conditions such as diabetes and asthma.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

In the review of my first book, Bricks Matter , Keith Harrison, former Global Director of Product Supply at P&G asked me, “You mention the need for supply chains to shift from a focus on cost to value. The supply chain is complex non-linear system that is easily thrown out of balance through a focus on functional metrics.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Interview with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights and Author of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter ( published December 2014 ). Metrics that Matter became a three year research project. I realized that many organizations are very confused about metrics. So I started this book as a summary of this research.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Now, we can do better than that by using advanced analytics, which can be extended to include more dimensions, such as trends, and provide further insights. Price index and price elasticity are useful metrics on their own, and a combination of these can help determine the right price point to maximize revenue and profit.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 20, 2017

The question becomes, “how are you comparing your transportation metrics to what’s happening around you?” When you connect to a global trade network (GTN), you can benchmark your company’s performance against the performance of all the shippers in the network. You need to explore the metric relationships to see the full story.

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QAD

JULY 1, 2021

Improving communication between departments and comparing metrics across them. QAD’s solutions help global manufacturers increase profitability, improve productivity, provide better customer service, and manage their key manufacturing business processes for scalable growth opportunities.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues to highlight for readers specific global and regional supply chain indices that depict both trending production activity levels, as well as supply chain volatility. Newly published indices reflecting global supply chain volatility and U.S. Global Supply Chain Pressure Index.

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OptiProERP

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Let’s look at the top manufacturing trends for 2023. Manufacturing Industry Trends to Watch for in 2023. IoT is one of the top trends in the manufacturing industry. While many manufacturers have already turned to predictive maintenance to reduce downtime, this trend will continue in 2023 and beyond. Industry 4.0

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Aside from the new administration, Amazon’s supply chain continued push deeper into new and existing markets will define additional trends in the supply chain throughout the coming year. Fortunately, these five trends may alleviate some of the strains of competition by giving supply chain partners an advantage in the global market.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 13, 2020

Death of Global Supply Chains article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Globalization has dominated as a widely practiced business strategy during the past 15–20 years. Is COVID19 the death of Global Supply Chains? Globalization, Internationalization & Localization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2021

I will miss our spirited debates and sparring matches on market trends. As a strong proponent of maturity models, many discussions centered on the movement from program-based to functional metrics and how to drive alignment. Our discussions, influenced the model shown in Figure 1 from the Book Metrics that Matter.

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

At Ivalua, we recognized the need to stay ahead of these developments and organized our first annual Ivalua Summer Symposium in London on a wonderful sunny evening on the Thames to discuss the latest trends in procurement and supplier management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

These consumer products global leaders paved the road for supply chain excellence by defining new supply chain practices. Over the last decade, each company took a different path to power global growth. This analysis helps us to see the trends It is a study of year-over-year progress. It is a strong downward trend.

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Zipline Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Since much of the previous year in business and elsewhere was defined by a global pandemic, we are left asking what will 2021 look like for food and beverage shippers. Food trends had an interesting 12 months as things changed quite a bit throughout the course of COVID-19. Plant Products Continue Food Trend Prevalence .

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Food waste has become a major global problem with real consequences to the planet. According to the UN Environment Program’s Food Waste Index, 923 million metric tons of food is wasted globally every year. of global greenhouse gas emissions. To learn more about future food trends, download our ebook here.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

The Descartes Global Logistics Network has 16,500+ customers on it, with more than 13 billion messages processed per year and more than 66 million routes/resources managed per year. Over the past decade, Descartes has acquired 35 companies and has evolved into a technology platform company, with its Global Logistics Network as the foundation.

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Supply Chain Opz

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

However, establishing and managing relationships on a global scale can be a challenging task. In this guest commentary, professor Ayman Omar who is a global supply chain expert from Kogod School of Business at American University will shed light on this issue.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

We loaded 493 financial metrics from balance sheets and income statements for each company into the data lake for the period of 2004-2016 using YCharts data. In addition, we enriched the data lake with 20 market indexes on cost, growth and market trends. Correlations Between Survey Factors and Financial Metrics. Shifting Trends.

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Logility

MAY 5, 2020

Managing the supply chain of such a global enterprise is challenging. We’d never had a global view of our organization,” explained John Smith, Data Warehousing Manager. “We Our biggest headaches were very basic – we couldn’t easily switch between metric and imperial measures, and currency conversions were a nightmare.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Focusing on the transportation metrics that have the greatest impact on the supply chain can help managers stay attentive to both short-term and long-term goals and needs. . Download the White Paper: Over the Road Freight Management Trends. Download the White Paper: Over-the-Road (OTR) Freight Management Trends. Learn More.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

Interview for Metrics That Matter. My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. As background, Peter Gibbons is the Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain for Mattel, Inc. I recently interviewed him for my upcoming book, Metrics that Matter, that publishes in August 2014.

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3rdwave

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In today’s turbulent trading environment, strong global transportation management capabilities deliver exceptional benefits and value. In 2014, a Supply Chain Council survey found that managing global supply chain complexity was among the top 5 major issues. Global supply chains are highly complex…even the simple ones.

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Logility

JANUARY 4, 2022

The partnership enables Logility customers to layer in Planalytics’ predictive demand metrics to better understand impacts across their customer base and proactively capitalize on sales opportunities created by favorable weather while mitigating risks when demand is negatively impacted. ATLANTA – Jan. 4, 2022 – Logility, Inc.,

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Logility

DECEMBER 28, 2020

But the pressure to do even more with less is relentless, especially in a volatile business climate such as the one the global community is currently experiencing with the pandemic. Specifically, practitioners can use intuitive displays to drill into safety metrics, product quality, on-time delivery, cost efficiency, and much more.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the advent of globalization, the Internet, and more recently, the proliferation of mobile technology into every aspect of our lives, there has been a remarkable shift in the world of retail from a product-centric to customer-centric model. How lean retail impacts business goals and revenue targets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2014

If you ask companies if they would like better inventory and global supply chain visibility, you will get an overwhelming answer of, “Yes!” ” However, if you ask companies how they define and deliver global business visibility, you will get stares like, “Doesn’t everyone know what global visibility means?”

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Logility

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But the pressure to do even more with less is relentless, especially in a volatile business climate such as the one the global community is currently experiencing with the pandemic. Specifically, practitioners can use intuitive displays to drill into safety metrics, product quality, on-time delivery, cost efficiency, and much more.

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