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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Strategy for Supply Chain Transformation in the Age of Scarcity

QAD

Cause of Supply Chain Scarcity and How It’s Impacting Auto. Amazon, a B2C powerhouse, has been at the head of this growing trend, making it easier and easier for consumers to purchase and receive daily items right from their home. Become Supply Chain Focused. Supply Chain Cleansing .

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

The pursuit of ever higher efficiency and speed have dominated transformation initiatives for more than forty years, driven in large part by the assumption that raw materials, commodities, warehouse space, transportation capacity and labor will be plentiful and immediately available at stable and often declining cost.

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What if Your ERP Never Gets Out of the ER?

BlueYonder

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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How Automotive Companies Are Transforming Their Supply Chains, Part 2

BlueYonder

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. To go through business transformation successfully, I believe change management is the first key success factor.

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Building the Business Case for Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Planning

Logility

.” The digitization of a supply chain involves creating a detailed data model that mirrors the intricacies of an actual end-to-end supply chain network. Learn more in Technology Evaluation Center’s report, The Impact of Digital Transformation on the Supply Chain.)