Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 13, 2023

No one knows, but in my discussions, business leaders agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here, and the projected impact on supply chain technology looms large sending the industry into very different gyrations. Our research shows that the projects failed to deliver value in 75% of companies.) What Will Be the Value?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

I love new forms of analytics, but I think we need to rethink the models and the overall approach to maximize value. Good planners are scarce and expensive. Often, the planning group has high employee turnover and low job satisfaction. What is the value of the gap? This is how we should jump. How do I improve the plan?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 4, 2024

Some are a recap of the press release (which is of no value, in my opinion to the business leader trying to make a decision), while others are congratulatory. Each with a different platform focused on a different value proposition. The investment valued Blue Yonder at USD 8.5 The value for Blue Yonder is questionable.

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2023

The consumer goods industry may have experienced tremendous growth, but figuring out what consumers want is an ever-evolving puzzle. This experience is not only frustrating industry executives – it’s compelling them to reassess their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 8, 2024

CBP statistics show that more than half a billion dollars of goods presumed to have been made by Uyghur slave labor have been detained and prohibited from entering the country since active enforcement of the UFLPA law began on June 21 st of last year. The value of the shipments detained was over half a billion dollars.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Well, how often do you hear industry analysts say they underestimated a market’s growth rate? I picked a good time to cover what is now well-known to be a hot market. Vanderlande is a member of Toyota Industries Corporation within the Toyota Advanced Logistics Group. Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

An analysis of improvement, performance, and value of over 500 public companies in 28 industries over a decade. (I However, writing it is a great time to get into industry patterns and think. Customer-centric Innovation Drives Value. ” Compare the results to the industry trends. I posted my working summary.)

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 16, 2024

While many industries have undergone a significant digital transformation to improve workflows and lower costs, that is not the case for most supply chain and procurement professionals, who are left to the mercy of disconnected software tools, utilizing spreadsheets to try and form actionable insights from complicated and disjointed data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

That’s the question that continues to bedevil the global supply chain industry. Widespread industry collaboration and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other cutting-edge technologies to interpret all of these signals will also help leaders move from reactive management to proactive mitigation of disruptions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

By combining classic on-premises systems with a cloud solution, the potential of value chains can be fully exploited. Therefore, a hybrid IT infrastructure – also known as edge computing – is the solution for future-oriented value chains: System-critical software programs with high real-time requirements run on-premises.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

I propose it’s high time we acknowledge the futility of the “new normal” conversation and put it to rest, once and for all. Things have changed, for good, and the environment we now work in is one of constant volatility. Closer to home for supply chain professionals, driver shortages continue to plague the industry.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 27, 2021

On the surface, it seems like the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry performed better than most during the COVID pandemic. Consumer goods e-commerce sales for example increased 91% year over year according to a NielsenIQ analysis. Make Sure Your Inventory is Healthy. Read more of Granarolo’s story here.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 13, 2022

Weather delays can affect shipping lanes, manufacturers face product shortages, demand continues to spike for certain products, containers are difficult to acquire, and the trucking industry faces a driver and capacity shortage, just to name a few. High value goods. High market demand goods. Systems access.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

There are also promising technologies that we expect will deliver great value. Finally, there are technologies that do generate value that few people have heard of. Hyped technologies are getting a lot of publicity but have little proven value. Are they worth piloting? Or can companies safely ignore them? Hyped Technologies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Employee scarcity and high worker turnover are of critical impact to the efficiency and productivity of the nation’s warehouses, particularly when factoring in the costs of continually replacing and training new employees –which can equate to almost 25% of a worker’s average annual salary. Helping to Move Goods and to Do Good.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

The supply chain industry is on a years-long digital transformation journey, and one of the key objectives that industry leaders almost universally aim to achieve is true end-to-end (E2E) visibility across their complex global networks of suppliers, partners and customers. It’s the right goal.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2023

According the National Today staff, “It was a successful initiative and received active participation and appreciation from high school students, educators, parents, and other community members. In comparison, service industries report very slow growth because innovation is limited. As manufacturers seek to fill 4.6

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

If you have been through this process at least once, you already have a good idea of what supply chain design is about: optimization. A company can choose to maintain a high level of costly inventory to ensure short lead times, and a family can decide to live farther away from work and school but buy a bigger house.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

trillion by 2027, according to latest figures by This surge is nothing short of transformative in the dynamic eCommerce sector, enabling merchants to provide a diverse range of goods and services to satiate a multitude of consumer needs, all accessible at the touch of a button.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 31, 2023

The food and beverage (F&B) industry has always been highly responsive to changes in consumer behavior, but rising food prices have brought about new challenges—pushing manufacturers to search for new ways to adapt and remain competitive in a rapidly changing market. What is an example of sustainable food?

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

percentage points higher that the December 2023 ending value. Further reported was that the upturn in output broadened within all three production sectors, which being consumer, investment and intermediate goods. The HSBC India Manufacturing PMI® (renamed in December) climbed to a noted 16-year high level of 59.1

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Inflation in the grocery sector has remained stubbornly high and consumers are changing their behavior in response. ” Consumers are Looking for Value During the height of the Cold War, the military coined the term “more bang for the buck.” However, value is a subjective concept.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

To examine supply chain management priorities, performance, and anticipated trends, APQC conducted its 10 th annual Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research, including a survey of more than 350 supply chain professionals from around the world and across multiple industries. For more information on the research, click here.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, OMRON Corporation is a multi-billion-dollar, diversified company with business units producing industrial automation products, device & module solutions, healthcare, and social system solutions. Fascinated by the world of industrial automation technology. What potential does Industry 4.0

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This honor comes after Blue Yonder was named a Leader in the Transportation Technology Value Matrix 2023 earlier this year! Blue Yonder’s WMS , a SaaS solution, empowers businesses to deliver consistently high service at a value-driven cost. Industry templates are enabling deployments of less than six weeks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2023

Afterwards, Mr. Lewis spoke in more detail to industry analysts. They offer multiple customers across different verticals access to warehouse space, technology, and value-added services that includes e-commerce shipping and returns. The company generates $9 billion annually and serves customers across a breadth of industries.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. Industry Week, 26 January 2023. [4] Cavanaugh , a business process design consultant at Uniorg Inc.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2023

On the one hand, technology has undeniably helped the supply chain industry solve a multitude of previously intractable problems, making supply chains significantly less fragile in the process. Step 1: Unlock the full value of your data. Step 2: Identify high-impact use cases.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

Nations are regularly remapping their foreign policies while entire industries are rethinking how they do business across borders. These shifts, in turn, have solidified the need for establishing efficient checks and balances via healthy compliance practices along the entire length of global supply chains across industries.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 13, 2023

A strong consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector is essential for a healthy U.S. Consumers are looking for higher quality foods and goods, more ESG-friendly options, and bigger values. Brad Cook and Steve Hewitt , partners at Wipfli, report, “Consumer spending accounts for nearly 70 percent of U.S. economic activity.”[1]

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper successfully coped with the crisis, but the high costs they had to pay for critical supplies and the late nights searching for those supplies convinced the organization that there had to be a better way. The volume of goods needed to serve their patients is also significant. They’re valued, yes, but not strategic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

ProMat is the first public exhibition of this product, although it is currently live at a customer site in California for the unloading containers filled with dry goods. And the product is a 32 foot high autonomous case handling robot (ACR) that is easy to see across the exhibition floor. Let’s swing over to the South Hall.

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Logility

JULY 20, 2023

Good forecasting leads to good demand planning —and good demand planning means better profitability. When you choose the right solution, you can stay ahead of fluctuations in customer demand, achieve high levels of forecast accuracy, handle seasonality, and drive collaboration across supply chain stakeholders.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2021

Emerging technologies play a role in managing disruption and are driving change in the transportation and logistics industries. So when we talk a lot about Industry 4.0 Information Driving the Transformation of Value Chains. What applies to personal information, also applies to information sharing across business value chains.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 14, 2021

Business value created by visibility solutions is a function of time in use and coverage and does not come with the tracking of individual shipments. In this contribution we outline the current status and developments of the supply chain visibility market and the challenge of extracting “higher order” business value from visibility services.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Tive ‘s solution provides data generated by its industry-leading trackers allowing clients to actively optimize their shipments, improve their customers’ experience, and unlock supply chain insights in an actionable real-time manner. About Tive. Key Takeaways: The Tive Story. Chemicals Condition Monitoring. Handling Damage Monitoring.

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