The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

Founded in 2001, Seamless Distribution Systems (SDS) listed on the NASDAQ First North Premier are renowned for enabling the digitization of sales and distribution processes across more than 50 markets. Then, in 2019, SDS acquired French digital transactions technology company, eServGlobal.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Supply chain processes are not immune to this trend. EY analysts Edmund Wong and Glenn Steinberg ( @GlennSteinberg ), ask, “Are you running an analog supply chain for a digital economy?”[1] They explain, “The global supply chain is a creation from the past, ill-suited to today’s fast-changing world.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. I estimate that the company had annual sales of 30M$. ” The company’s press release rhetoric is bullish. However, the company had issues.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The supply chain is knotted. Yesterday, @DamarqueViews asked me a question on twitter: “What do you think are the greatest barriers in the adoption of social technology in the supply chain?” I find the evolution of social technologies, and the promise of social, exciting for the supply chain.

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Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods by giving customers more visibility and greater confidence to accurately predict delivery times. As this new global economic system grew, a corresponding supply chain—complex, powerful, virtually unquestioned—became its structural support system.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

Over the Memorial Day weekend, I stumbled on an old article that I wrote in 2001. It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). The high-flying company had no clarity of purpose or clear governance, but the funds kept coming. The solution solved a relevant industry issue. was controversial.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. In these sessions, the technology providers share their rational for the investment and invite questions. Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Supply chain management is hot. Investment is flowing into supply chain companies. In 2021, more than $25 billion was invested in supply chain companies in just the first three quarters of the year. One successful private equity backed company is the unicorn Locus Robotics.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Retailers have always been curious about the paths consumers take when they decide something needs to be purchased. When the Internet and World Wide Web introduced consumers to online shopping (aka e-commerce), the path to purchase became much more complex. Today the digital path to purchase is growing in importance. .”[1]

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HICX Solutions

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For example, in Germany, the new Supply Chain Act will mean that companies with 3,000 employees or more will be accountable for any exploitation of workers in their supply chains. Next, as part of the supply chain governance process, came the challenge of checking whether they were all compliant.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

Affected by changes in production, procurement and distribution methods, warehousing has continually been pushed and pulled in different directions. On the other hand, offshoring growth has fuelled the need for warehousing as part of the elongated supply chain. Technological Advances and Benefits.

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KEPLER Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Responding to the ever-changing expectations of consumers in a highly competitive digital economic environment involves having a solid, agile, and cost-effective Supply Chain. After all, companies need to minimize and monitor the most harmful supply chain management practices. Some examples of worst practices.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

“If only I had the money that the company was supposed to save from the multiple ERP and supply chain projects. This year supply chain leaders will celebrate thirty years of progress in supply chain management; but we have not made progress on one of the funamentals: inventory management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Sensing of markets and the translation of channel demand into an accurate demand signal for the company is the foundational principle of market-driven processes. In most companies sales teams use VMI processes to develop orders. I know of few areas in supply chains discussion that raise as much dialogue or ire.

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Unleashed

APRIL 1, 2020

Yet there are silver linings: firstly, with the cause of the downturn so obvious we may yet see a rapid rebound if and when a vaccine or other solution can be found. Invest in technology. 85% of companies that were growth leaders before a recession toppled during bad times, according to a 2010 study by Harvard Business Review.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The world has shrunk into a global village with better connectivity and inter-linked supply chain. Companies are struggling to stay afloat as they have never faced a disruption of this magnitude. It is of paramount importance for companies to be extremely agile, respond quickly and manage their costs.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 28, 2013

Patterns from multiple case studies also suggest that VMI in many instances is not motivated by bilateral efforts to improve supply chain performance, but rather by unilateral interests on the part of buyers to drive effortless purchasing and suppliers to lock in and secure sales. Blackhurst, J., Craighead, C., and Handfield, R.,

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Our fundamental objective at Supply Chain Game Changer is to share experiences and expertise and lessons learned. John Heffernan, Chief Supply Chain Officer at ModusLink. Everybody in the company needs to know the vision. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2022

company’s peanut plant in New Mexico. This action occurred after the company sold salmonella-tainted organic peanut butter that was used in hundreds of food products for perhaps as long as two years. Perhaps that is because these companies were using either paper-based or only partially automated systems.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Whatever maturity model or consultancy support companies use, S&OP seems to get stuck. To get some answers for S&OP practitioners, Niels van Hove from Supply Chain Trend interviewed a group of S&OP leaders. Supply Chain Trend will publish a weekly Q&A with these S&OP leaders. Introduction.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2019

While all supply chain leaders are interested in the topic of building value networks, only a few companies are actively investing in building data architectures to enable the extended supply chain. People come and go in the group based on company dynamics. The reason the seats are empty?

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