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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. The decline in inventory turns uses cash. I pulled up my covers to go to sleep four hours later. Background.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

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. At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. The solution was too black box.

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The Evolution of Integrated Supply: From Piece Price to Total Cost of Ownership

Synovos

This approach provides organizations, particularly manufacturers, the opportunity to make supply chain decisions that offer shared benefits. Each purchasing transaction, whether a quote request, purchase order, invoice, or something else, has an associated cost. This has changed over the last 10 to 15 years.”

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What is “Integrated Supply” And How Can It Help Your Organization?

Synovos

This approach provides organizations, particularly manufacturers, the opportunity to make supply chain decisions that offer shared benefits. Each purchasing transaction, whether a quote request, purchase order, invoice, or something else, has an associated cost. This has changed over the last 10 to 15 years.”

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Seeing Supply Chain Visibility through Different Lenses

Bristlecone

In order to quote a lead time, the customer representative had to follow a long, drawn-out process of calling the tile distributor in the state of Washington and leaving a message – only to finally get back to me the next day to tell me that the shipment might be available around next week. I chose predictable availability.

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Trends 2022: Manufacturing

Enterra Insights

The manufacturing sector covers such a broad spectrum of products and processes that any discussion about industry trends must take place at a very high level. One of the megatrends that has been driving manufacturing for over a decade is digitization. Manufacturing Trends. And the manufacturing sector overall looks strong.

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Top 14 Logistics and Supply Chain Management Training Programs and Courses in 2016

GlobalTranz

To protect yourself and your business I offer you to take a look at this list of top programs and courses that will take place in 2016, which will help you to understand main concepts of this powerful tool and learn how to successfully apply it on practice. 2) Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management at Western Washington University.