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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

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This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. Amazon’s supply chain heavily depends on the outsourcing of its inventory management. 2020), Impact of Industry 4.0 Oxford Economics and SAP (2020). billion (based on 2018 sales).

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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

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Rise in Inventories. Less Effective at Inventory Management. Inventories grew twenty days over the decade. Yes, companies held more inventory (measured in days of inventory) in 2019 than at the start of the 2007 recession. Sadly, most of it is the wrong inventory. Despite spending 1.1%

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

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The fall ritual precedes the dropping of the ball on Times Square to ring in 2020. Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. It is all consuming.

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Staying Ahead of Supply Chain Paradigms – LogiSYM September 2020

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While leadership and supply chain teams around the world are fighting against the impact of Covid-19, trade and technology 2020, prevented rate increases in certain lists and reduced some tariffs, but since the driven tensions between Beijing and Washington, never went away. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – September 2020.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

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Companies tightly coupling the budget to S&OP have significantly higher inventories and lower growth than their peer group. Deployment of deeper statistical engines for inventory management with a focus on safety stock will improve inventory levels. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

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In parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. In the research for my inventory optimization report, the lowest level of satisfaction with multi-tier inventory optimization is with clients of the SAP inventory solution (previously purchased from SmartOps).

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

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When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions. Tracking Progress.