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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. The list goes on and on.

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

The impact of the elongation of payables on receivables varies by industry, but on average across the industries increased eighteen days when comparing the past five years to the pre-recession years. It is worse in some industries. Days of Receivables by Industry. I shook my head in disgust at the waste in the process.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

Examples include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse Management (WMS_ or Advanced Planning (APS). In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. In this shift, the legacy SAP Business Warehouse (BW) implementation are especially problematic.

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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.

Supply Chain Shaman

The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving. (The The team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence. Bear with me. Be careful.

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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

He also went on to share what he sees as the five key changes making a global impact to supply chains today and gave advice for those working in or considering a career in our industry. On the global forwarding side there has been rationalisation in the form of industry consolidation with ongoing mergers and acquisitions.

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2016: The Start of the Third Act?

Supply Chain Shaman

One of the barriers to greater progress in driving supply chain excellence is the current state of user satisfaction with current technologies. We are also more advanced on transportation and warehouse planning than supply chain planning. 2004 data references the work that I completed while an analyst at AMR Research.)

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22 HR & management professionals share the most effective ways for managers to retain their best warehouse workers

6 River Systems

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), employment in the warehousing and storage industry grew from 1,133,900 to 1,194,400 from May 2020 to June 2020. In March 2020, before the economic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic made a significant impact, employment in the industry was 1,216,600.