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Happy Groundhog Day

Supply Chain Shaman

Short of the initial launch of B2B exchanges in 2002, no brand owner drove the adoption of network technologies. In 2002, I was a Gartner analyst covering the evolution of network technologies in supply chains. (A blackhole is an astronomical term where the pull is so great that no matter escapes.) Brand Owner Vacuum.

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Tackling Item Complexity

Supply Chain Shaman

I worked with the World Kitchen team in the period of 2002-2008. The process helped World Kitchen manage inventories through bankruptcy filing in 2002. In 2002, World Kitchen implemented a disciplined process for managing product complexity. It is frequently requested, so I wanted to reshare this case study with my readers.

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WEG Joins the Logility Client Community

Logility

WEG chose Logility’s sophisticated demand planning tool to support inventory replenishment on its distribution business in the United States. Founded in 1961, the rapidly growing company now manufactures 19 million electrical motors annually. These factors include, but are not limited to, continuing U.S.

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Building Value Networks. Stopping the Backward Slide.

Supply Chain Shaman

Similarly, with the break-up of “The Bells” in the United States in 1982, personal networks grew more open. I was a Gartner analyst in the period of 2000-2002 when trading exchanges were cool. Today, with seemingly a click of the finger, the phone as a communication device is SO MUCH more than a phone.

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Latest Forecast For Global Trade Not Optimistic

Supply Chain Matters

Today, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) issued its latest forecast update on overall global trade, and the narrative is not encouraging or optimistic. Global trade is reportedly set to contract by 5 percent in 2023 compared to 2002, amounting to upwards of $30.7 This level represents a contraction of $1.5

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Next Level Apparel® Takes its Demand and Inventory Planning to the Next Level with the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform

Logility

One of the leading wholesale producers and sellers of premium quality blank apparel in the United States, Next Level Apparel has implemented the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform to modernize its demand and inventory planning processes. ATLANTA – April 26, 2022 – Logility, Inc.,

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Blockchain: Preventing E. Coli Through Enhanced Traceability

Kinaxis

While investigators traced the heads of lettuce from the prison back to a Yuma business called Harrison Farms, “they haven’t been able to reconstruct the path of the chopped lettuce that made people sick from Washington state to Louisiana to Connecticut,” McKenna writes. However, in Japan and the European Union, food traceability is the norm.