Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Among other things, ZF manufactures electrified powertrains, car chassis technology, active and passive safety systems, and advanced driver assistance systems. ZF offers product and software solutions for established vehicle manufacturers and newly emerging transport and mobility service providers. The ZF supply chain is complex.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 12, 2019

Nigel Duckworth ( @nigelduckworth ), a marketing strategist at One Network Enterprises, notes it can be difficult for manufacturers to concentrate on the long game with a swirl of new technologies constantly vying for attention. Sixty-four percent of the manufacturers surveyed are looking for increased market share in their existing markets.

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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). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. At the time, I was a junior Gartner analyst. was controversial.

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Arena Solutions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Some include: Lack of understanding of the end-user goals and challenges Inability to mitigate risks or unforeseen disruptions Poor product quality or design Lack of product differentiation To illustrate, the Segway Electric Scooter’s introduction was met with a fast demise in 2001 due to its inability to solve consumers’ real-world problems 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

While there is much hype on DDMRP and the use of orders as a proxy for demand, companies need to remember that orders carry latency: they are out-of-step with market purchase behavior. There is no place to put this data in traditional supply chain planning software, and companies are slow to change existing concepts.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

… Consumer purchases and decisions will increasingly be voice-driven and machine-augmented, with companies’ relationship with customers machine-to-machine, values-based and digital-first.” ” You can’t talk about digital transformation without discussing the importance of data. Yet cooperation will be key.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 15, 2017

The hype cycle was my favorite Gartner model when I was a Gartner analyst in 2001-2003.) Most of the newer technologies–cognitive computing, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, cryptocurrency, the use of drones for sensing, additive manufacturing, wearables, and blockchain are early in evolution.

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Logility

AUGUST 25, 2020

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. Management must be cognizant of issues of procurement, manufacturing, inventory, and distribution that impact satisfaction and loyalty. Bankruptcy.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 16, 2024

Inside Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess ( Paid subscription ), was far reaching in the implications of the latest incident. The Journal report makes reference to a white paper published in 2001 penned by a then Boeing aerospace engineer. These costs do not vanish merely because the work itself is out-of-sight. ”

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technologies create a more efficient marketing and sales team, but they are not good listening posts for customer data. The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. Supply chain systems are based on transactional data. Absolutely! Is there promise?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Today the Company’s core businesses are cordless phones, contract manufacturing services and children learning products. The North American operation is the top manufacturer in the US cordless market. The first presented in June 2001 outlined where we were in supply chain and what we needed to do. The analogy I use is a watch.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The company branded as GT Nexus in 2001 and purchased Tradecard in 2013. The goal is deeper analytics to sense and respond across make, source and deliver. It is clear.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 9, 2015

After highlighting some of the results from the IBM study I worked on this past fall on procurement analytics, I introduced Rich Hughes, former Chief Procurement Officer from Procter & Gamble. We needed to digitize as many of our source to pay processes as we possibly could.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

” CFO of a major manufacturer. I have been an industry analyst since 2001. However, through this period, I did not have the access to financial balance sheet data to judge if the companies that were deploying the technologies were making an impact on the balance sheet. What I See in the Data. I am a skeptic.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 27, 2015

How Can USMTO Reports Help Drive Manufacturing Sales and your Bottom Line? The United States Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) data report is compiled monthly by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). Who is Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT)? What is the USMTO Data Report?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

They need accurate and timely channel data. In today’s architectures, there is no place to put outside-in data like VMI, Point of Sale (POS) or rating/review data. Won’t we have the same issue for Internet of Things data? I also worked in manufacturing during the period of 1978-1992 trying to plan demand.

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RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2022

This guide is intended to help food manufacturers and distributors: Consider the requirements of FDA traceability compliance, Calculate the potential costs of a recall, Review solutions other companies have used successfully to track food, Gain practical advice for how to improve traceability systems and processes, and.

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KEPLER Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Non-updated product sheets in ERP (purchase price, MOQ, Incoterm,…) resulting in non-compliant supplier orders . Exhaust-data analyses (OTD, pallet volume, transport, suppliers, returns, etc.) that use unreliable data to misrepresent supply chain decisions. 2/ Order processing. 3/ Workflow Management.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

These include data granularity, decision frequency, business impact, system complexity, and human centricity. For over a century, we have seen increasing automation in supply chain, especially in manufacturing and the pace has quickened in the past decade with robotization in production, warehousing, and transport.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

The example that I give in the first post is the focus of manufacturing strategies to drive strong results to improve Return on Assets (ROA) that have actually caused a deterioration in operating margin. Instead, I would like to see companies invest in new forms of analytics to better use existing data. Here is my argument. You got it!

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EC Sourcing Group

OCTOBER 12, 2020

October 13, 2020 / EC Sourcing Group, a leading global provider of SaaS sourcing technology solutions, has announced its acquisition of procurement solution provider, BidMode, with full terms of the merger remaining confidential. About EC Sourcing Group. Founded in 2001 and based in Morristown, N.J.,

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KEPLER Consulting

MARCH 23, 2018

The purpose of this article is to share our experience in the use of machine learning to generate quick saving opportunities and homogenize purchased pricing across business units / regions in large groups. Utilize benchmarking to identify gaps across BU/Regions and optimized sourcing strategies. 45, 5-32 (2001)). Breiman, L.,

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Unleashed

APRIL 1, 2020

Fewer than 30% of businesses that lost market share in the downturn of 2001 were able to regain their positions, according to the Bain study. They are working to produce prototypes for face masks at their manufacturing facility in America, with other facilities to follow when ready. In short, the time to act for future success is now.

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Requis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

My professional history in supply chain has mostly been in manufacturing and sales and operations planning. There’s a big gap in manufacturing: it’s a huge industry with a huge body of best practices. CIPS talks about AI in procurement, but not about what key skills you need to be a user of AI in procurement.

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Vanguard Software

JULY 20, 2021

And before that, in 2001, Nike also had a demand planning blunder that led to a $100 million loss in sales. Demand planning considers historical sales data and current sales, orders, shipments, and market data to predict demand patterns. Supply planning includes distribution, manufacturing, and procurement.

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Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

Gravity and Spire are collaborating to offer an enhanced level of information gathering for companies, governments, and organizations with the ability to plug in real-time data about upstream supply-chain realities. This enhanced visibility of vessels for those awaiting their arrival enables managers to make better, data-driven decisions.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 28, 2013

In the pursuit of finding a way to off-load inventory (read “working capital”) from their books, many large manufacturers are moving towards so called “Vendor Managed Inventory” systems. The logic couldn’t be easier to follow: ”why not have our suppliers own the inventory up to the point of use?

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The food and drinks manufacturer and owner of brands including Lay’s, Duyvis and Quaker has been using that ERP system since 1 November 2013. Quaker Oats has only been part of PepsiCo since 2001 and Duyvis since 2006. SAP has helped to harmonise the master data and processes in six factories and ten countries. Inheritance.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 15, 2015

Source: Adelante SCM based on World Bank LPI data. Source: World Bank. Back in 2001, my friend and logistics expert Art Van Bodegraven traveled to Cuba as part of a logistics delegation. Germany through Japan are the Top 10, Cuba through Somalia are the Bottom 9, with other countries shown for reference.

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Requis

JULY 8, 2020

When I earned my business degree in 2001, supply chain was not available as a degree— it wasn’t even a very common term). Back then, supply chain was divided up into five or six different services, like manufacturing, logistics, operations, etc. What’s changing in supply chain and disposition.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Kirkegaard holds a BS in manufacturing / industrial engineering and a Masters Degree in Finance. In 2001 Mr. Kirkegaard founded DCRA Inc a supply chain solutions firm leveraging best of targeted management consulting and supply chain technology solutions with an emphasis on S&OP. The DCRA Inc.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 7, 2020

In 2001, La Poste had become a leading player in the express parcel business in Europe. In 2015, I had the honor to visit the Flex Pulse Center with wall-to-wall touch screens and flowing data visualization before it officially opened. The main push comes from manufacturers and brands. In 2019, digitization got some traction.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups. As the phenomenon of Big Data has taken hold in the private sector, many firms which as recently as 10 years ago devoted minimal resources to large scale database mining and analytics have reversed course.

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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. Just-in-time techniques have led to more products arriving directly from manufacturing to the end-customer, shrinking warehouse use. Now There are Data Warehouses Too.

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crisp

APRIL 13, 2023

With Integral Group’s Commerce Desktop, Vanilla Studio can simultaneously share live inventory data with customers including Home Depot, Lowes, and Wayfair, leading to higher service levels while streamlining the team’s clerical workload. They needed fast and accurate data transmission to reduce manual intervention and errors.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Liquor wholesalers buy beer, wine, spirits and other alcoholic drinks from manufacturers, and sell them to pubs, bars, supermarkets and other liquor retailers. Brewers have captured the drinkers that have traditionally purchased light and premium brand beers. The Complete Guide To Calculating Total Manufacturing Costs.

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Veridian Solutions

MAY 20, 2023

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