Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. When a company undergoes a digital transformation, the transformation should be based on an understanding of what they want to achieve. Dean Sorenson concurs.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 28, 2021

”[1] Moss reports that a survey published last November by Capgemini found more than four out of every five organizations reported that COVID-19 had negatively affected their supply chains. “When Chinese factories closed in early 2020,” Krause observes, “manufacturers struggled to switch to other suppliers.

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Logility

JUNE 15, 2021

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced Clarkston Consulting, a provider of management and technology consulting services, is a member of the company’s global partner ecosystem to help customers accelerate their digital supply chain transformation.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The combination of software offerings will optimize end-to-end planning–from production to purchase–equipping modern multi-channel retailers to build highly resilient, profitable and future-proof supply chains. Global e-commerce sales in the first quarter of 2021 rose nearly 40% year-over-year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Projects Being Implemented as Part of a Digital Supply Chain Transformation Project. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. The problem with supplier visibility is bookended into procurement processes that have gone back, not forward over the last decade.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Cameron Bailey, EVP of Global Supply Chain at VF Corporation, did not disappoint. Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Digital innovation across every node of the supply chain is occurring – and fast. Smart factories, smart warehouses and smart transportation are becoming a reality as manufacturers invest in technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and more.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Glenn Steinberg ( @GlennSteinberg ), global and Americas supply chain leader at EY, observes, “You’ve been hearing about ‘the supply chain of the future’ for years. How it will self-manage customer inventories. As a result, supply chain leaders continuously ask me to unravel market confusion.”[2]

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RFgen

AUGUST 19, 2020

The manufacturing industry faces a historic fight for its survival. Prior hesitancy to digitize inventory and data collection processes plague an already stressed industry. Automating data collection with mobile barcoding is a crucial step toward digital transformation in manufacturing and pandemic survival.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In a recent panel discussion with Consumer Goods Technology , Conagra Brands shared how its reworked supply chain strategy is helping the brand meet customer expectations, drive internal performance and find consistent results by transforming supply chain planning. Building a Customer-centric Supply Chain.

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RFgen

AUGUST 19, 2020

The manufacturing industry faces a historic fight for its survival. Prior hesitancy to digitize inventory and data collection processes plague an already stressed industry. Automating data collection with mobile barcoding is a crucial step toward digital transformation in manufacturing and pandemic survival.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The automotive industry has shown itself to be brave in recent times, in all areas but one: the supply chain. In order for logistics, procurement and distribution to align with the general advancements of the industry itself, these critical areas must give in to a more comprehensive transformation.

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o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Building a future-ready organization was one of the key strategic drivers that led GPI to undertake this digital transformation journey, allowing them to reimagine and reinvent their supply chain processes and make significant improvements to business planning and execution.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

The increased cost of working capital and supplemental inventory levels to mitigate fulfillment risk is likely to revert back to just-in-time inventory management. Targeted supply chain transformational efforts will further need to be extended to address added business process needs. and the United Kingdom.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

We are pleased to announce to our Supply Chain Matters readers the listening availability of our latest podcast: Overcoming Supply Chain Disruptions and Instilling Supply Network Resilience in Post Pandemic Supply Networks. He has lived and held leadership roles in Europe , Asia and the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ZF Began their Digital Resilience Transformation 20 Years Ago! I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. The ZF supply chain is complex. ZF’s Digital Supply Chain.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

… Every supply chain business, from manufacturing to logistics, should be taking a close look at the Internet of Things now.”[4] By fusing multiple data sources together, IoT weather solutions also offer more comprehensive ground weather data. Inventory and logistics monitoring. ”[6].

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 29, 2020

There’s more to supply chain transformation than systems integration. In fact, successful digital transformation initiatives focus on people and processes, not technology alone. New client engagements in life sciences, hi-tech and manufacturing. Supply chain transformation projects built on SAP S/4HANA.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 7, 2023

How to transform your supply chain (without waiting for your ERP to recover) Wholesale distribution and manufacturing (WD&M) has entered a new era where agility, speed and accuracy are no longer nice-to-haves, but rather uncompromising must-haves for meeting the new omni-channel B2B customer expectation. Here’s why.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As supply chains continue to grapple with volatility and disruption post-pandemic, fashion brands, who faced increased risks during the pandemic because of lockdown, are now turning to better supply chain planning for fashion strategies with the end goal of achieving improved agility and a competitive advantage.

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Logility

MAY 24, 2021

Tata Technologies will collaborate with Logility to offer digital supply chain transformation solutions to its customers across Automotive, Industrial Heavy Machinery, Aerospace, Industrial, and Medical devices verticals to help them achieve agility and improved resilience in the new normal.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 30, 2023

From tech giants to manufacturing leaders, the top 10 CEOs in the supply chain industry have blazed a trail of success. The Top 10 CEOs Who Have Worked As Supply Chain Professionals 1. Mary Barra Mary Barra is the Chairman and CEO of General Motors, a Fortune 500 auto-manufacturing company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

Across many of our industries, conventional wisdom about best practices for supply chain operations and logistical networks is being challenged. There are lively debates about the meaning and prioritization of scale, globalization, outsourcing, and inventory optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars has been on a journey to transform their digital supply chain. In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. You know,” Mr. Beery said, “we’re quite proud of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

Our research advisory report for 2023 begins with a review of the themes of our prior three years of predictions and the derived learning for the supply chain management community. Global manufacturing activity as depicted by the J. Morgan Manufacturing PMI® which began 2022 at an expansionary conditions value of 54.2,

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Overview In short, B2B Supply Chain Business Networks are Cloud based platforms designed to achieve end-to-end supply chain data visibility and business process decision-making synchronization. The ultimate costs in warehousing, inventory carrying costs and other dimensions are still being assessed.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

We wanted to alert our Supply Chain Matters readers to an upcoming podcast that will be of benefit to many strategic sourcing, planning, product development and procurement professionals.

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Bristlecone

MARCH 25, 2020

RAPID DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION CAN TRANSFORM SOURCING IN JUST SIX WEEKS. With AribaRDS, businesses can transform global sourcing, gain visibility, reduce cycle times and start achieving procurement savings with SAP Ariba Sourcing in as little as six weeks with minimal downtime – and at a price point that won’t break the bank.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 27, 2022

Design is the first step that happens in apparel manufacturing. For the production, the appropriate raw material is sourced or produced based on the details provided by the fashion designers in the previous step. Next, the raw materials are used to manufacture and put together the designs. And this is where it all begins.

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Logility

AUGUST 30, 2022

The partnership will enable organizations to gain value by leveraging the benefits and robust capabilities of the Logility® digital supply chain platform combined with Parker Avery’s deep retail and consumer goods industry knowledge and comprehensive, proven approach to business transformation.

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ThroughPut

JULY 24, 2022

The retail industry has been witnessing unending turmoil over the last couple of years by way of a series of challenges – ranging from shifts in purchasing habits and consumer demands to the vagaries of a relentless global pandemic that continues to trigger seismic upheavals. Retail supply chain software that creates better demand signals.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this Part 2 blog post, we will continue to explore how automotive manufacturers are carrying out effective supply chain initiatives and their innovative solutions. We want to get to know in real-time for example: If there is a supply disruption, what OEM demand will be impacted.

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Requis

APRIL 23, 2020

Supply chain means different things to different companies. For more forward-thinking companies it may mean everything in the supply-make-deliver continuum. For laggards it may mean the layer between manufacturing and logistics. COVID-19 will mean the redefinition of supply chain and going beyond efficiency to resiliency.

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Bristlecone

MAY 25, 2021

And we empower them by forming strong partnerships that continue to deliver business value to them as we work together to advance their digital transformation journey. Bristlecone was initially brought on board for a consulting engagement to advise on the client’s digital supply chain transformation strategy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

On Wednesday morning, when I finished speaking at the Foundation for Strategic Sourcing in Fort Lauderdale, an executive from J&J pulled me aside and said, “Our strengths, are now our vulnerabilities.” ” A supply chain leader from GE at another conference said, “Yesterday, we called it big data.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Model element include forecasts, capacities, inventory positions, lead-times, resource availability, costs, revenues, and profits. Finally, the model needs constant updates of customer, production, purchase, and distribution order status to ensure analysis and resulting actions reflect what is currently happening in the physical supply chain.

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