Supply Chain Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2013

While the top three elements of the strategy—big data, demand sensing, and improved supply chain visualization did not change—the group left believing that digital manufacturing, corporate social responsibility and the impact of the collaborative economy could have a greater impact on their supply chain than before they came to the conference.

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Supply Chain Insights

MAY 17, 2017

Because the retailers are typically the common users of these applications, there is a very strong use case developing for manufacturers to partner with and participate in individual promotions leveraging these functions. Let’s start a dialogue that can involve both manufacturers and retailers.

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Supply Chain Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

This will be a monthly public two-day training course in manufacturing centers in Europe and the United States. The speakers will be the leaders of manufacturing and retail companies that have driven the best results in building supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 11, 2016

Help us to make manufacturers, distributors, and retailers more effective. At a principle level we believe that when people give to us that we should give to them. So as we celebrate our fourth anniversary and start our fifth year in operation, please do us a favor and share all of our content widely. The Focus of Supply Chain Insights.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 27, 2017

The choices that must be made by the end of each round (where each round represents one month of play) include how much of each finished good to produce and how much of each raw materials to purchase at the various manufacturing sites. Screenshot of SCI IMPACT! Results Example.

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Supply Chain Insights

MAY 10, 2017

Consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers are already changing the old paradigms of consumer marketing, and that must impact TPx. Show me a major retail chain whose marketing and merchandising people are not nervous about the impact of online shopping on their future and I’ll show you a company doomed for their ignorance.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 8, 2017

Over the past couple of years, I have noticed an increase in requests by manufacturers in several industries, not just consumer packaged goods, to utilize their existing configure, price quote (CPQ) software applications for promotion pricing. There is no correlation to a near real-time price impact, so how can that be sufficient?

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 1, 2017

Clearly, having the ability to accurately predict success of the huge amount of trade promotion spending must be one of the most important decisions a consumer products manufacturer or retailer will make. My email is abuzz with conversations about trade promotion optimization issues.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 21, 2012

To be clear and explicit this includes other analysts, academics, press, industry associations, students, technology/software firms, hardware manufacturers, system integrators/consultants and thought leaders. It is designed for all supply chain leaders around the world. It is designed to be fun.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 30, 2017

Not soon afterward, independent research companies like Vision Chain/Orchestro (now e2Open), R3, Retail Velocity and Retail Solutions, Inc (RSi) began acquiring direct POS data from hundreds of retailers and reselling the data to the consumer products manufacturers. These are aptly named Demand Signal Repositories or “DSR’s.”

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 26, 2017

It is data that depicts the end results of the corporate and local marketing of both the consumer products manufacturers and the retailers such as direct-to-consumer marketing and trade channel promotion. Penney, Kohl’s, Macy’s and Sears providing retail channel data to the discrete consumer products manufacturers as well.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 29, 2017

Further, integration of transportation and logistics data along with manufacturing, S&OP and trade promotion planning will increase the efficiency and visibility of collaborative planning and forecasting. This key component of the promotion management process has always been an area of concern for consumer products manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 17, 2017

In fact, already we see initiatives led by both retailers and CPG manufacturers where this is happening. Both retail buyers and manufacturer reps need to step up their games to ensure a smooth dialogue that leads to a successful promotion plan. It has already happened in fashion, automotive aftermarket, and hardware/DIY.

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 3, 2021

It is based on online surveys conducted among Manufacturers, Retailers, Wholesalers / Distributors / Co-operatives and Third Party Logistics Providers who have a basic familiarity (rated 2-5 on a 5-point scale) with “big data” (n=179). SUMMARY CHARTS: Big data 2014 15-Summary Charts From Quantitative Study from Lora Cecere.

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Supply Chain Insights

MAY 22, 2017

In an increasingly omni-channel world, both manufacturers and retailers believe the shopper will continue gaining power. There are two tracks of action items for manufacturers here. However, more work is needed to understand how trade promotions affect shopper behavior longer-term.”. Amen, Brad.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 26, 2016

Similarly, industries like beverages, contract manufacturing, food, oil & gas, restaurants and fast food, and retail apparel have finalists, but no winners.

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Supply Chain Insights

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Data sits–examples include images, map and location data, sentiment, telematics, warranty, and weather– on the doorsteps of manufacturing companies and retailers. However, this is not the case for B2B business processes. These signals cannot be used. Supply chains respond. They do not sense.

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Supply Chain Insights

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Today, I am excited to announce the launch of a community to help the supply chain professional. The community is open, available for all to share content, and engage in two-way dialogue in a meaningful way.

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