Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Founded in 2002 with over 100 consultants and based in Boulder, Colorado , Spinnaker SCA designs and builds agile supply chains for leading brands across Consumer Staples, High Tech, Industrial Manufacturing, Retail & Apparel, Medical Devices, and Distribution Industries. billion in Generative AI start-up Anthropic.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Keeping records of the above is called a warehouse inventory. However, warehousing itself is usually limited to storing an inventory for a certain period of time and does not include additional services. This is how they fit together: · Shipping inventory : goods are shipped to the warehouse. Warehouse management systems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 20, 2018

In 2002 I worked for Gartner Group in the business applications practice. This model endorsed ERP as the system of record for the supply chain. The espoused vision tightly coupled planning systems to ERP. A planning system tightly integrated to ERP is just too constrictive. Some History. Data at the Speed of Business.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

As a result, many shippers are revising their strategy from just-in-time inventory to just-in-case based on the hard lessons of the past two years. Integrate with existing systems to automate repetitive processes and manage by exception. Leverage TMS technology. Consolidate shipments.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 25, 2023

This technology took a step further in 2002 when Michael Grieves publicly introduced the concept and model of the digital twin at a Society of Manufacturing Engineers conference in Troy, Michigan. But realizing their full potential may require integrating systems and data across entire ecosystems.”[5] will be taken for granted.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 28, 2013

Historically, businesses have used one of two extremes for inventory management: push-based or pull-based. Push-based inventory management uses demand forecast to manage inventory and replenish from the supply base. The pull-based method relies on the ability to replenish the “pulled” demand.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS) Examples Across Industries Retail Industry Retailers leverage third-party service providers, external manufacturing systems (EMS), and supply chain IT services (RFID, IoT, barcoding, etc.), Inventory management can be outsourced by transferring comprehensive information from A to Z to a consulting firm.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

s ability to satisfy in a timely manner all Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) required filings and the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations adopted under that Section; as well as a number of other risk factors that could affect the Company’s future performance.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 20, 2022

The aim was to highlight significant demand deviations before they became an inventory issue, not after. However, they still require a series of integrated meetings where human employees come together to analyze reports and spreadsheets, make decisions, and manually update the system. The perfect order delivered in the optimal way.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

In a nutshell, the research states there is a correlation between cost, inventory, and forecast performance. My problem is I see many organizations working hard on the forecast, but not improving inventory and replenishment processes; and, I think that the Hierarchy of Metrics did not go far enough. Just the opposite.

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QAD

MAY 16, 2019

The MMOG/LE assessment has been a go-to document for automotive supply chain best practices for thousands of global Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers since its first publication in 2002. Further emphasis on end-to-end systems integration , completely leveraging the planning system. New Way to Submit the MMOG/LE Assessment.

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AB&R

APRIL 12, 2022

This announcement followed a successful trial run with an RFID system in 2002. The pandemic accelerated the Buy Online Pick Up in Store (BOPIS) model, which accounted for $72 billion in purchases in 2020, having greater inventory accuracy grew ever more important. (click to expand).

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

As hospitals adopted consignment planning programs, inventory progress slowed. The turns are the lowest of any industry, and despite investments in technologies and processes, inventory turns have only improved 3%, and Cash-T0-Cash (C2C) cycles have declined 4%. I dusted off a 2002 presentation from P&G to share with the audience.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

It also involves tracking shipments before they reach the warehouse or distribution center , handling customers, placing inventory in the right locations, managing inventory levels, forecasting customer demand, accepting returns, and more. Inventory Tracking. A shipment arrives at the warehouse. Space Utilization.

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 4, 2023

alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. It enables the quick collection of product KPIs like inventory information, raw material use, overall efficiency, and machine working efficiency. Breaking it down In the U.S.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 4, 2020

“As countries shut down, stock markets crumble and economic activity slows to a crawl,” writes Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “it is hard to believe that in a few months the coronavirus crisis may be over.”[1]

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KEPLER Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In the absence of good product data quality, non-compliant supplier orders systematically result in poor product availability, one solution to this problem is to set up an efficient communication system with the purchasing and supply divisions that can reduce data update times up to 90 %. Some studies (Cachon and Fischer (2000); Lee et al.

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AIMMS

JULY 27, 2015

When SAP launched APO in 2002, the optimization technologies were inferior to most best-of-breed technologies in the market. It bundles Integrated Business Planning, a Supply Chain Control Tower, Inventory and Demand/Supply planning into a new cloud-based architecture based on HANA. The solution is evolving, and will take time.

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6 River Systems

MAY 8, 2020

Guy Courtin, Director of Partners and Alliances at 6 River Systems, has a 15-year history in supply chain and has long been a go-to resource for better understanding the impact of technology on the future of the industry. But have we taken too radical a view when it comes to inventory levels? The global system is incredibly resilient.

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IQMS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Gain both serialized and non-serialized inventory control support. You’ve heard the labeling horror story, now let’s take a look at a success story from an IQMS customer: Custom Profile is a profile extruder based in Grand Rapids, Michigan and has been an IQMS customer since 2002.

Manufacturing 54

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AIMMS

JULY 27, 2015

When SAP launched APO in 2002, the optimization technologies were inferior to most best-of-breed technologies in the market. It bundles Integrated Business Planning, a Supply Chain Control Tower, Inventory and Demand/Supply planning into a new cloud-based architecture based on HANA. The solution is evolving, and will take time.

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Elementum

MAY 26, 2022

The headline-grabbing issues are foreboding enough on their own, but they’re also undergirded by some systemic problems, including a continuous escalation of challenging macroeconomic factors: increasing wages worldwide; along with greatly heightened consumer expectations for service.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Some of the key benefits we’ve realized are lower transportation costs, record service levels and shorter cycle times, and better inventory accuracy. Adam joined Manhattan in 2002 after the acquisition of Logistics.com where he supported their SaaS Transportation solution.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

percent, the lowest level since at least 2002. According to Logistics Management’s 2018 Warehouse / Distribution Center Survey , “Respondents took a range of actions to lower operating costs, including improving processes, improving warehouse information technology (IT), improving inventory control, and leveraging a 3PL.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. The rigid IT systems became a barrier to the rapid pace of acquisition and divestiture. Manage the Supply Chain As A Complex System.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

Planner turnover, time to plan, ability to get to data, system usability, and talent gaps are all major issues. Organizations are happier with their systems in the areas of demand planning than supply. Due to usability issues, Excel is the planning system of choice. The reasons are numerous. The gap has grown.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

BR Williams has been an ISO 9001 Quality Management-certified company since 2002. The Significance of ISO 9001:2015 Certification ISO 9001:2015 certification is a globally recognized mark of excellence in quality management systems. We started our Logistics Division in 2010, which became its own L.L.C.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Apple, Cisco Systems, EMC and Seagate make the list in high tech and electronics while Intel and TSMC make the list in the semiconductor industries. First Phase: 2002-2006.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

Planner turnover, time to plan, ability to get to data, system usability, and talent gaps are all major issues. Organizations are happier with their systems in the areas of demand planning than supply. Due to usability issues, Excel is the planning system of choice. Why a planning system of record? The gap has grown.

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Requis

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Dave and his partner Dan Dershem started Supply Chain Ventures LLC in 2002 – just after the internet investing bubble burst. They are however, more open to tools that sit on top of current systems and solve specific problems. The successful ones learned to protect what they had and ride the globalization wave.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 40

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Requis

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Dave and his partner Dan Dershem started Supply Chain Ventures LLC in 2002 – just after the internet investing bubble burst. They are however, more open to tools that sit on top of current systems and solve specific problems. The successful ones learned to protect what they had and ride the globalization wave.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 40

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Vinculum

APRIL 28, 2020

Both Alibaba and JD.com expanded during the SARS crisis in 2002-2003. Businesses also have systems to check if deliveries are possible to customers’ locations or not to make the process easier. Not the first time. We can start by remembering that e-commerce has faced and grown significantly through other crises. Change in Actions.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

– Operational improvements (reduction of lead time, increase in productivity, and reduction in work-in-process inventory, etc.). – Does not have a system view (Six Sigma project is often executed in the department of the project members. . – Six Sigma creates a link between tactical actions and strategic focus.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Insight #1: The Industry Requires Improved Product Data Codes and a Reliable Tracking System. In large part this is due to the lack of existing coding and classification systems for tracking the sale and distribution of bioproducts by any of the federal agencies. This should include the following four elements: Improved NAICS codes.

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Precoro

JUNE 21, 2023

Accounting policies and assumptions in areas such as inventory valuation methods, depreciation methods, and criteria for estimating fair value. Trade payables typically refer to amounts owed for purchases of inventory or other goods and services directly related to the company's core operations.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 26, 2014

With the e-commerce model, this is made easier if the company maintains their online inventories as well as offering active accounts to its customers. Since 2002 Rodney has been focused on building a World Class Order Fulfilment business not just in Australia, but wordwide. Three: Return and exchange policies.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

The two companies switched positions in 1991, an event which heralded the start of a decade-long decline for Kmart, which ended in bankruptcy in 2002 and led to a subsequent merger with Sears in 2004. Vendor-managed inventory programs. To improve supply chain visibility using real-time inventory monitoring.

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