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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. Over the past two decades, organizations have become more insular and less willing or able to share meaningful data. In addition, Lucas used inventory as a slush fund to make quarterly earnings.

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

ZF has been working with a supply chain solutions provider called SupplyOn since 2001. When the supplier has produced the goods, they send an advanced ship notice (ASN) to ZF via SupplyOn. Which ship are the components being shipped on. Or do we need to ship this by air?” ZF’s Digital Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain KPIs You’ll Want Every Morning

Logility

Failed SCM implementation causes shipping errors. WMS failure causes Adidas to under ship by 20%. in inventory write-down and 20% drop in stock value. And better visibility requires data. Every company today runs on data – the key to using your data is choosing the right metrics for visibility into your supply chain.

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Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

are reporting that they are being inundated with requests from importers seeking to use provisions such as the “321 de minimis” rule, which allows goods worth less than $800 to be shipped to the U.S. Many companies buy forward inventory ahead of tariffs being implemented. For instance, law firms and consultants in the U.S.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. Over the past two decades, organizations have become more insular and less willing or able to share meaningful data. In addition, Lucas used inventory as a slush fund to make quarterly earnings.

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How Demand Planning Influences Supply Planning through Predicting Future Demand Patterns

Vanguard Software

And before that, in 2001, Nike also had a demand planning blunder that led to a $100 million loss in sales. Whereas supply planning projects and manages inventory or supply to meet consumer demand. Demand planning considers historical sales data and current sales, orders, shipments, and market data to predict demand patterns.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire provides real-time information and analytics based on global maritime automatic identification system (AIS) technology—Spire’s constellation of small satellites captures the courses and current status of container ships across the globe. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 A world transformed.