Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

At Supply Chain Insights, we have been actively working in our own mine sweeping project. These are mainly North American-based manufacturers, distributors and retailers.) The company was then assigned to one of 37 peer groups based on the Supply Chains to Admire methodology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define.

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C3 Solutions

JULY 28, 2020

This article is part of our Retail Program. Designed specifically to support global leaders by aiding in creating a strategic plan to help them win the retail game. You can't talk retail without mentioning the 800-pound gorilla, so here's where Amazon rears its head once more as a retail disruptor. in 2004 to $0.38

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. My speech also focused on how current technologies are rapidly becoming obsolete due to market demands to do more with less and make better decisions. Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2019

Discontinuing products is a struggle with tension between supply chain and marketing functions. The lack of product rationalization results in the long tail of the supply chain with increasing complexity. Lumpy demand for product with low volume requires a supply chain redesign. The reason? The result?

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 25, 2014

. “Sensing product demand is particularly important in today’s increasingly complex marketplace,” said Patrick Folan, Vice President of Supply Chain for Campbell Soup Company in a press release of January 21, 2014. The upgrade will enhance Campbell’s forecast accuracy to better meet the needs of retailers and consumers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. In these sessions, the technology providers share their rational for the investment and invite questions. Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

This announcement continues the trend of supply chain software market consolidation. Logility is a well-established player in the supply chain software market. With over forty-years of experience in SCM software, Logility went public in 1997. In 2016, total revenues for American Software were $113.9M.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 20, 2016

I’ve spent most of this week in Dorking, England (not far from London) meeting with executives from Paragon Software Systems and several of its customers (I’ll share my takeaways from the visit, including my video interviews with clients, in a future post). Amazon Looking to License or Acquire Freight-Management Technology (WSJ-sub.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

I believe we are in the midst of a radical transformation, not just in retailing, but also in how offers are designed, produced and delivered. In Part I of this series , I discussed why retailers, manufacturers and distributors are struggling to adjust to the new demands of the omni-channel consumer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Or will companies stumble on the path by mistakenly implementing supply-centric processes and calling them demand-driven initiatives? As a writer of research on demand-driven supply chains for over eight years, I find many amusing. Supply chain leaders feel stuck. Their current technologies are inadequate.

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o9 Solutions

JANUARY 26, 2022

Today, leading companies across varied industry verticals that include retail, consumer and industrial products manufacturing, high-tech and semiconductor, life sciences, automotive, telecom, and oil and gas leverage :o9’s Digital Brain platform for transforming their supply chain, commercial and integrated business planning capabilities.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 18, 2014

In this week’s news… HighJump Software Acquires Atlas Products International, Expands Global Trading Partner Network in Europe. UPS Capital – Sponsored Study Shows Supply Chain Risk Mitigation Strategies Lacking. Penske Logistics Joins CargoNet to Enhance Supply Chain Security. SAP Launches 2.0

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 5, 2018

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. just accelerated to its best year since 2004 and Amazon could be eyeing Target as its next major retail acquisition, according to one influential tech analyst. Manufacturing in the U.S.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

Over the past year, the Arkieva Supply Chain Link Blog provided thought leadership and informative posts on supply chain strategy tips, trends, and news. Here is a list of the Top 20 Supply Chain Strategy Blog Posts from 2016. The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain. Happy new year!

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 6, 2016

Manufacturing, retail, oil & gas, aviation services – you name it, it’s likely to be applicable. It was a record store chain in the UK, which closed down in 2004 in the wake of digital music consumption. I believe this is a business transformation that will prepare companies for the future.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 5, 2018

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. just accelerated to its best year since 2004 and Amazon could be eyeing Target as its next major retail acquisition, according to one influential tech analyst. Manufacturing in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For the past twenty-two years, I have had the luxury of watching supply chain stories unfold. Business leaders came and went as an analyst, technology shifted, and markets ebbed and flowed. I also am very grateful for the following and the support of the global supply chain. I give thanks for this experience.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

At the next Logistics Bureau Free Executive Breakfast (which will take place in August), I’ll be discussing the alignment of supply chain and business strategy along with eight other important levers for supply chain performance improvement. A Long History of Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. and J-P Rodrigue (2004)).

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Aera Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2016

No one can sympathize with the unique challenges of the pharmaceutical supply chain like Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks. From there, if all checks out, manufacturing and distribution can begin, at which point, it’s been about eight years since Hank was found on the open ocean.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

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. Granularity also differs.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 8, 2016

The Key Supply Chain Challenge of Cost Reduction. Supply chain costs often represent a considerable percentage of the sales price of a good or service. If net profit on sales is 5%, for example, a reduction in supply chain costs from 9% to 4% (or from 12% to 7%) will double net profits.

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Requis

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Knut Alicke was helping to build digital control towers before most people had ever heard of them, and today advises the world’s top companies about supply chain. He is also a professor at the University of Karlsruhe where he teaches supply chain management. Supply Chain Next · 023 – Knut Alicke.

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BlueYonder

JULY 6, 2018

Welcome to Friday in 5: news from around the supply chain landscape, served up in one spot to keep you up to date and informed. As Manufacturers Position for Tariffs, Factory Activity Increases. According to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), its manufacturing index rose to 60.2 in June from 58.7

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BlueYonder

JULY 6, 2018

Welcome to Friday in 5: news from around the supply chain landscape, served up in one spot to keep you up to date and informed. As Manufacturers Position for Tariffs, Factory Activity Increases. According to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), its manufacturing index rose to 60.2 in June from 58.7

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PINC

MARCH 24, 2020

In an uncertain world where supply chain disruption is becoming a certainty, here’s how good inventory management enabled by automation can help companies gain the supply chain visibility they need to keep the wheels turning. ” A Better Way. . ” A Better Way.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

The company wasn’t a pure startup at the time (it was founded in 1981), but like all software companies during those years, it rode the dotcom tidal wave up — and then crashed down with everyone else (see period from 1999 through 2002 in the stock chart below). One of my first clients back in 1999 was Descartes Systems Group.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Financial balance sheet improvements cannot be driven by traditional supply chain processes. In the words of a supply chain leader yesterday, “Lora, please give me stories of success. When I first met Nick, he was driving a supply chain transformation at VTech Communications. Price to Tangible Book Value.

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PINC

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

There are over 100,000 warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing plants in the U.S. With nearly 4 million retail stores and eCommerce websites to support, their supply chain must be as efficient as possible. An advanced yard management system can help improve the efficiency of your entire supply chain.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

In the past, supply chain professionals are trained to handle the service issues through a planning of inventory , service level and after-sales operations. From the information technology perspective, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) get the highest attention. However, the origin of CRM is pretty unclear.

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Arkieva

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Making inventory optimization, arguably one of the most difficult tasks for any manufacturing business. For global companies, there is the need for creating a true end-to-end supply chain that eliminates supply chain silos in business divisions, and implementing a multi-echelon inventory optimization process can aid with this goal.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Here we break down the inventory management strategies of seven successful manufacturers and retailers around the globe. Samsung’s inventory management strategy Samsung is one of the world’s largest manufacturers, meaning managing their inventory is an enormous and complex task.

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EcoVadis

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

They provide invaluable insights into risks hidden in the supply chains of large international organizations, expose them and sometimes provide temporary solutions. But with the use of technology it is a different story. And it need not be technology that is particularly cutting edge or sophisticated. A Dangerous Scene.

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