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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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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. These sources while functional are difficult to connect. What does an IT taxonomy mean?

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Walmart Supply Chain: Building a Successful Integrated Supply Chain for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

SCMDOJO

The ability to analyze this data enables the retail giant to make informed decisions on product procurement, inventory management, and demand forecasting. The company has strategically invested in automated distribution centers, streamlining the flow of products from manufacturers to stores.

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Podcast: Predictive Analytics and Digital Transformation Pioneer Knut Alicke

Requis

I found logistics, hardware logistics, and warehouse planning very interesting. Back then I was working on difficult optimization problems, what I called “multi-stage sequencing” which you have in warehouses. In the late 1990s the most innovative part of an automotive supply chain was to use web-based portable database images (PDI).

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

Supply Chain Shaman

A large consumer products manufacturer with nine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instances and several divisions wanted to discuss forecasting. The Company focused primarily on retail planning and wanted to extend its capabilities into a consumer products manufacturing solutions offering. The taxonomies and goals are different.

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Top Myths Around Demand Sensing

E2open

Of course, demand sensing can also use customer data, such as point of sale, store inventory or warehouse withdrawals. Companies with manufacturing schedules of 2-3 weeks often wonder, “Why bother forecasting anything within the frozen period, let alone daily since I can’t use it?” Industrial Manufacturing. Aerospace & Defense.

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

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. Direct purchases from producers or manufacturers, instead of buying through wholesalers (if your company is engaged in retail commerce).