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Körber Elevate 2024: Chart Your Course

Logistics Viewpoints

Körber Elevate: Technology From a technology perspective, Körber has four focus areas for 2024: advanced workflow management, internationalization of order management system, enhancing the user experience, and creating a modern warehouse management solution. Advanced workflow management is the answer to this problem.

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Assess your Inventory Optimization Process with This Quiz

AIMMS

Inventory management has always been challenging. Too often, inventory is viewed from an aggregate position, likely driven by finance, who are concerned about working capital implications. Inventory should act as a buffer to adsorb variability and decouple the demand from the supply side of our supply chains.

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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System

Supply Chain Shaman

This weekend, I edited the Supply Chains to Admire report. The report was scheduled to publish in the summer of 2023, but life got in the way. The full report publishes this week. I laugh that writing the report is like a root canal. With surgery, I just never got to the report finished. Writing it takes weeks.

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Strategy. Strategy. Wherefore Art Thou Strategy?

Supply Chain Shaman

Warren Buffet, Investor This week, I finished a report. The use of descriptive analytics along with agile planning techniques (what-if analysis, discrete event simulation, and network design) helped. Products that are managed within a season. The management of these items is an area where supply chain planning excels.

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Unlocking the Power of Inventory Control Techniques

Logility

In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable global market, the secret to maintaining a competitive edge lies in a key area—robust inventory control techniques. It’s no longer a luxury but a necessity, a critical cog in the wheel of successful supply chain management and warehousing. billion each year.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s start with definitions: Self Service Planning: Decision support technologies designed for business leaders to use analytic techniques on a collaborative platform to improve business planning. Focus on improving operating margin, inventory turns, and revenue/employee simultaneously. Requires advanced modeling techniques.

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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

In the industry, supply-centric techniques reign with lots of bravado and messaging on control towers, Demand-driven Materials Requirements Planning (DDMRP), and generative AI. If S&OP efforts were that effective, don’t you think that we would have made more progress against inventory levels, margin, and growth? The reason?