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Intelligent IBP – a new role for supply chain planners

Supply Chain Trend

In this blog : a new role for supply chain planners. Similar to the continuous automation of physical assets in the supply chain over the last 100 years, we’ve now reached the era where the knowledge worker will be augmented or automated by a machine. INTRODUCTION. THE POTENTIAL OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES.

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Realties of Declining Global Trade and Transport Rates More Evident

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights the increasing realities of declining global trade and freight rates that are occurring in the first-half of 2023. Background Global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022. billion in 2022, the company estimated.”

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Here, you can read the Rise of Autonomous , Unshackle the planners , Closing the Decisions Gaps and a new role for supply chain planners. Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process.

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Here, you can read the Rise of Autonomous , Unshackle the planners , Closing the Decisions Gaps and a new role for supply chain planners. Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Anders Herlitz used to lecture on how to buy forward profitably and how to negotiate with vendors for win-win deals. As the economy reopens post-COVID, there are still supply chain shortages. Have we lost the knowledge of how to be profitable during periods of high inflation? Deflation in oil and gas prices.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 23-27, 2014)

Talking Logistics

In other news… Supply Chain Risk Management Now a Priority for Most Businesses ( Accenture ). As Negotiating Deadline Looms For West Coast Ports, Economic Trouble on Horizon ( NRF ). Several reports have been published in recent years underscoring the growing importance of supply chain risk management.

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

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.