Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Building Supplies. Supply chain shortages abound. The supply chain impact is unprecedented. I volunteered to write a report on supply visibility. I thought I knew what supply visibility was, but I was not thinking about it holistically enough. Semiconductors. The list goes on and on.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Learn how Resilinc is using predictive AI and generative AI to innovate supply chain risk management. In part one of our AI in supply chain blog series, “ How is AI Revolutionizing Supply Chain Risk Management?”, What is Predictive AI? It answers the question, “What might happen in the future?”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2021

Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, posed that provocative question to supply chain professionals on her LinkedIn feed. Kinaxis is a top supplier of supply chain planning software. She went on to say, “visibility is widely considered a new supply chain imperative. Or are you asking where your truck is?

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Supply & Demand Chain Executive just announced the Women in Supply Chain award winners—and Resilinc’s Senior Director of Customer Success, Beth Cook, is a 2023 recipient! There’s always something new in supply chain and opportunities to learn, no day is ever the same.

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

While the cure for COVID is well on its way, there is no vaccine for what’s afflicting container shipping. Spoiler alert, it has the cost of shipping a container up from under $3,000 to as high as $16,000 (yes, more than a new Toyota Yaris ) and taking double as long – if not more – to make it across the Pacific. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But it also looks at what the most important risks are likely to be in the short term – a horizon of two years, and the long term, over the next ten years. Current Global Risks Regular readers of the news should not be surprised to see the energy supply crisis, the cost-of-living crisis; and rising inflation as the top three risks.

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2022

In this Q&A, industry expert and Logility EVP and principal Mark Burstein describes the current business climate and spells out how the fashion industry should respond to increasing pressure to embrace supply chain traceability maturity. Meanwhile, new regulations are on the horizon. An example is New York’s Fashion Act.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Keep in mind that in mid 2022 supply chain issues were also contributing to inflation, so the government wasn’t totally focused on the implementation of UFLPA. Many came to us and asked what we were doing, or what we could do, to help. Resilinc: And where did you start, in terms of offering solutions to help navigate the UFLPA?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 18, 2022

At the end of a long day of a strategy session on supply chain excellence with a client, I needed to fill up some time in an agenda. Over the last decade, I find fewer and fewer companies understand supply chain planning. Over the last decade, I find fewer and fewer companies understand supply chain planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

A large multinational is undergoing an impressive supply chain transformation that will run through 2023. A Complex Supply Chain. Not surprisingly a company this big, delivering different solutions to a variety of industries, has a complex supply chain. Comand and Control Center Application from Kinaxis.

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Resilinc

APRIL 11, 2023

Supply chain disruptions are (unfortunately) here to stay. In 2022, Resilinc’s 24/7 supply chain disruption monitoring platform reported a 32% increase in disruptive supply chain events year over year: geopolitical events, bankruptcies, factory fires, extreme weather , and leadership transitions contributed to much of the chaos.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 3, 2020

Prior to the novel coronavirus pandemic, supply chain professionals labored in near-anonymity. When the outbreak hit the world like a wrecking ball, supply chain operations became front page news. The pandemic taught supply chain professionals a lot about the resiliency of their supply chains.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 17, 2023

The impact of supply chain planning on sustainability According to Wikipedia, “sustainability is a societal goal that relates to the ability of people to safely co-exist on Earth over a long time.” The emissions that are generated to produce or transport, can be greatly influenced by the way supply chains are planned.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Powerful, AI-driven dynamic planning is good news for everybody – from executives to planners to consumers. At ToolsGroup, we spend a lot of time working and partnering with our customers to overcome their top supply chain challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Digital Twin from Infor Nexus Drives Supply Chain Agility for Molex. The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. The Molex Supply Chain. The Molex global supply chain is complex. It is part of Koch Industries.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The defined maturity model consists of five stages, which means there is plenty of opportunity for organizations to make improvements in their supply chains to enhance visibility. Stage 5 also entails achieving visibility across supply chain planning and execution. Sarangdhar V., Devereux, P.;

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Resilinc

MARCH 22, 2023

This blog will define operational resilience, the steps you should take to achieve it throughout your supply chain, and the benefits of pursuing it. This blog will define operational resilience, the steps you should take to achieve it throughout your supply chain, and the benefits of pursuing it.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

What is a digital twin? What data constitutes the “right” data depends on what a city seeks to accomplish. Dassault Systèmes and SuperMap are working together to improve how connected systems and geographic information system (GIS) maps can be combined to improve urban planning. Holistic Planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And now, the old phone is ready to take on a new life. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Amazon says its prepared for supply chain snarls for holiday season. Amazon says its prepared for supply chain snarls for holiday season. Gopuff arrives in New York. Apparently the past has arrived.

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Resilinc

JUNE 28, 2022

While it’s nowhere near as critical as the shortages of baby formula that have distressed families since March, the predicted shortage of sriracha hot sauce reflects how badly extreme heat waves are already disrupting supply chains this summer.

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Logility

AUGUST 25, 2020

A quick scan of the Internet will yield a long list of “the biggest-ever supply chain disasters”. Would access to better supply chain and IT performance information have helped avert or mitigate these failures? Their supply chains must be flexible and responsive to customer and market needs.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 22, 2018

It’s safe to say that the pace of change in supply chain management, especially from a technology standpoint, has continued to accelerate. Everybody seems to be talking about the digital supply chain these days, but what exactly does that mean? Digital Transformation of Supply Chains is Taking Hold.

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Multichannel Merchant

APRIL 7, 2022

Recent challenges have added fuel to the fire, bringing the supply chain out of the shadows and onto front page news, helping accelerate sustainability initiatives. For shippers worried about the pressure to green up their shipping operations, and the associated costs and resources required, there’s good news.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 30, 2022

As supply chains continue to garner negative headlines — thanks to snarled transportation systems, closed factories, and product shortages — supply chain professionals are facing a future in which severe weather will continue to give them headaches. ” Supply Chain Climate Change Risks are Rising.

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Resilinc

JUNE 27, 2023

Resilinc’s 24/7 monitoring system, EventWatch AI , is designed to track over 50 types and 400 sub-types of supply chain disruptions. Mergers & Acquisitions, especially by key supply chain partners, can significantly impact partner companies and the supply chain at large.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 15, 2013

Everyone talks the language of being demand-driven, but I am not sure what it really means? ” “To become demand-driven, I need to work with new technologies. I am convinced that this is not what I get from the conventional ERP project. Do you have a picture of what this looks like?” I like it black.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 1, 2014

The curtain is rising on the third act of supply chain planning. Over the course of the last two decades, we have seen two evolutions of Supply Chain Planning (SCP) software. My goal is to enable you to be more equipped to purchase and select new forms of software for the third act. Tips for the Road: A) Cloud.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 22, 2024

But we wondered, what are distributors across the board doing to master these challenges? Suboptimal allocation due to disrupted supply and demand. And, like every business, wholesale distributors need to contend with constant surprises and disruptions, from product and labor shortages to blocked shipping lanes.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 5, 2014

by John Westerveld Imagine yourself in this scenario; You wake up at the usual time, and over coffee, you review the news. You have a supply chain risk management strategy in place. The problem is most companies are relatively immature when it comes to Supply Chain Risk Management. A major earthquake in Taiwan.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

We finished our report on the maturation of hospital supply chains , and I have put the finishing touches on the Healthcare Supply Chain Index for this Thursday’s webinar. We cannot process map ourselves out of this problem, it requires new thinking.” Supply Chain Leader of a Large Hospital. “We

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

As we go into the first week of 2023, many are wondering what’s ahead for global commerce and supply chains. As I’ve done in prior years, I’ll make a few predictions based on what happened in 2022 – and what I think it means for 2023. Inflation will persist. Inflation will persist.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2013

Music is blaring, my toe is tapping, and I am hard at work on what I love. I am currently writing an article on supply chain excellence. ” Or twisting the arm of the COO to use an Enterprise Resource Planning system to build the “right house of best practice ” to drive supply chain excellence.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Today, is day two of our annual year-end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 5 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , Transportation Management , Freight. The Top 10 Supply Chain Blog Posts from 2017. What are the specific technologies to understand in the digital supply chain.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 1, 2014

by John Westerveld Reason #5: Not having a supply chain risk management process. Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Reason #3 Not having end-to-end supply chain visibility.

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Provenance

JUNE 10, 2020

What can we do to eliminate waste from product production? How can we build resilience into our current supply chains? And what sort of collaboration and data systems do we need to start turning businesses into a more circular model? But before we jump into solutions, let’s be clear on what problem we’re trying to solve….

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2017

2017 started right where 2016 left off: with plenty of supply chain and logistics news. But before diving in, any guesses as to what this routing map is all about? What to make of all this news? I hope everyone had a fun and relaxing holiday. Below are the headlines that caught my attention this week.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 13, 2013

In the process, I discovered that the average process manufacturing company has reached a plateau in supply chain performance. I believe that we have reached a plateau and that supply chain performance is declining. In the second report, I wrote about the current state of supply chain technologies.

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