Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It can also mean “which companies make my stuff,” tracing parts or components all the way back through multiple tiers of suppliers back to raw materials. Achieving their goal of no stockouts is impressive, but that they did so without significant buffering with inventory is a testament to the combination of transparency and agility.

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Co-opetition—a tactic where companies collaborate with their competitors—could be the surprising answer to some industries’ biggest problems. In 2007, it released the Kindle. In turn, companies have also benefitted from the availability and willingness of shippers. Keep Your Friends Close….

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QAD

JUNE 7, 2022

Many companies have taken hits to the bottom line, others have had to find new suppliers and products, a number of companies had to lay off people and some had to close their doors for good. The two major issues that hit the promo industry the hardest are lack of inventory and changing prices. . What’s Next?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The solution was too black box.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. Companies spend millions of dollars to implement supply chain planning technologies to drive insights for better decisions; however, there is a failure to design a work environment to enable success. Ironic since the company spent millions of dollars on the technology.)

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Arkieva

APRIL 19, 2016

In those blogs we have shown there is a lack of alignment when setting targets for the Cash, Cost and Service in companies. Using so called orbit charts, we have benchmarked companies on EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. As recaptured in Figure 1, the inventory turns are a measure on the ‘cash’ side of the triangle.

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AB&R

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The initiative was officially put on hold in 2007 as a result. The pandemic accelerated the Buy Online Pick Up in Store (BOPIS) model, which accounted for $72 billion in purchases in 2020, having greater inventory accuracy grew ever more important. Ultimately, though, tags were expensive, and the technology was not reliable enough.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

In reporting of the latest investment, The Wall Street Journal observed that the total investment represents Amazon’s largest investment in another company since its founding 30 years ago. Founded in 2007, Rotterdam based Flo Group specializes in Oracle focused logistics software support and deployment services capabilities.

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EazyStock

MARCH 14, 2023

The right purchasing and logistics strategies give companies an edge during these unique, uncertain times and, during the return “to normal,” a greater competitive advantage and continued growth. Rapid cost increases, interest rate hikes and reduced demand require more effective inventory management and forecasting attention.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2019

The teams in these seats did not experience the down market in 2007 or the start of the market run in 2009. The traditional processes, rooted in historical relationships with large system integrators and technologies will crumble, as companies push for answers on value. The teams are new. Digital Manufacturing Success.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As analysts from John Galt note, “Companies across industries have recently found themselves operating with supply chains designed for a world that no longer exists. 12, December 2007. Changes in today’s business world are occurring so fast they are creating challenges former generations of supply chain leaders never faced.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. Companies need to rethink the misguided thinking on one-number forecasting. #2 Only a mature company realizes that demand is a river with the need to manage the flows at strategic, tactical and operational time horizons.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Note that academics and employees of technology software companies have a statistically significant higher level of job satisfaction. In Figure 2, we share insights on five characteristics of companies with a supply chain working well. Today, companies seek a growth agenda, but the signs are omnipresent.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. While companies want to improve supply chain performance and drive value, it is easier said than done. For many companies, improving results is elusive. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. The reason?

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ModusLink Corporation

MARCH 2, 2022

Introduction – The evidence of the increasing popularity of Supply Chain automation is pushing companies to research even more performant alternatives that will keep boosting the efficiency of robots inside Supply Chains. Companies that deal with a large amount of inventory often find it challenging to find items inside the warehouse.

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ModusLink Corporation

MARCH 1, 2022

The evidence of the increasing popularity of Supply Chain automation is pushing companies to research even more performant alternatives that will keep boosting the efficiency of robots inside Supply Chains. Businesses around the world have started to integrate drones into their Supply Chain over the past years to help manage their inventory.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JULY 7, 2021

Growing up with a father who developed inventory management software for a living spawned some interesting conversations around the dinner table. Around 1980, Anders left IBM and started his own company where he introduced the Forward Buying Module, which gave much-needed financial support to his wholesaler customer base. Bank crisis.

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Taulia

JUNE 12, 2023

It can also negatively affect your working capital position, tying up cash in the form of excess inventory. Research by consulting group Kearney found that over half of consumer product companies risk missing out on growth opportunities due to inefficient supply chains. These include storage costs and insurance, for example.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

Quick solutions to employee shortages, remote working, and to ensure health and safety across the company need to be deployed. This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. Companies can develop resilience in two main ways.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2018

90% of companies are unable to drive improvement at the intersection of inventory management, operating margin and customer service.). Companies are busy. Today, over 90% of companies have corporate social responsibility statements, but 70% of non-renewable resources are in value networks. Most companies operate blind.

Supply Chain Network Software 187

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2020

”[2] Hunter Williams, a Partner at Oliver Wyman, writes, “Recessions can be make-or-break moments for most retailers, consumer products companies and service companies like those in travel and hospitality. There have been eight official recessions (including the one that began in December 2007) in the last 50 years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

The company’s focus is on biotechnology and genomic research. The company formed in 2000 by the merger of Novartis Agribusiness and Zeneca Agrochemicals. I first met Shane in 2007 at the beginning of his work with Syngenta’s value chain. He led the team during the period of 2007-2009. Shane’s Story.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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AB&R

APRIL 12, 2022

The initiative was officially put on hold in 2007 as a result [2]. The pandemic accelerated the Buy Online Pick Up in Store (BOPIS) model, which accounted for $72 billion in purchases in 2020, having greater inventory accuracy grew ever more important. Ultimately, though, tags were expensive, and the technology was not reliable enough.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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RFgen

AUGUST 18, 2021

The automotive industry manages complex inventories in addition to facing vast outside pressures. Many automotive companies have found long-term success with mobile barcoding software. Learn why three real-life companies in the automotive industry implemented mobile barcoding solutions and their significant results.

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E2open

AUGUST 24, 2018

Empty shelves send impatient buyers to competitors’ products, while too much inventory can result in unwanted carrying costs. For years, Kimberly-Clark relied on historical data to guide forecasts, but that changed in 2007 when the company began a complete end-to-end overhaul of its supply chain and invested.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Fortunately, Libby’s, which has an estimated 80% of the canned pumpkin market, had enough canned inventory to make it through Thanksgiving. In September 1999, candy giant Hershey Foods former CEO and Chairman told Wall Street analysts that the company was having trouble with its new order-taking and distribution computer system.

Supply Chain Planning Software 100

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2016

Companies moving into new warehouse space need to take an honest assessment of their current and expected business to maximize their operations. Companies and the warehouse design team must: Closely examine the company’s historical operational data. Understand how the inventory moves. Can inventory be racked?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

They are not the same, and the delivery of a demand-driven strategy does not mean the company will enable a customer-centric supply chain, or build/implement outside-in processes. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. For most companies it is weeks and months, but can be multiple quarters.).

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

When Gartner bought AMR Research, I left to build a company, and in the process, I slowly built a Linkedin audience of over 330,000 followers. Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. No company achieved improved economies of scale through M&A.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Consumer packaged goods (CPG), food and chemical manufacturers are stuck and pharmaceutical and industrial companies are losing ground and moving backwards. It is a very competitive set of companies. As an industry analyst, over the course of the last ten years, I have worked with all of these companies. They are right.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

I had never had a vendor thank me for giving a company a negative review. (I The company is now owned by JDA. During the period of 1996-2001, the company struggled. ” I used to say that companies in the household products sector–Colgate, P&G, and Unilever–built the best supply chains.

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Supply Chain Opz

MAY 25, 2013

Here at resupply points, inventory was stored for up to 8 days. Larson et al 2007 indicated that, based on a literature review, there are 4 types of interaction as below, Reproduced from Larson et al 2007. (1) Then, Ive created the conceptual model of the news as below, Conceptual Model. to another " is a bit tricky.

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synchrono

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The global economic recession that started in 2007/2008 hit the manufacturing sector hard. When consumer demand dropped due to the recession, this excess capacity could no longer be ignored because it led to mountains of unsold inventory and raw materials sitting in the supply chain.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

When someone hears the company name “Walmart” several things come to mind from a pop culture standpoint. Walmart would not have the ability to provide such low prices and have consistent inventory in the over 5,000 stores in the United States and over 1.3 million employees without a focus on good supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The company was spun out of the parent company American Software. each, the company collected some $29 million in the IPO–funds it intended to invest in research and development, as well as on sales and marketing efforts. The American Software company in 2016 invested 9.9% Selling shares at $14.50

Logility 61

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Kinaxis

JUNE 1, 2016

I am bolder on Samsung, simply because they had the highest 2016 Inventory Turns aside from McDonalds. The company just restructured into two companies, as their original structure (including supply chain) lacked the capability to succeed. Three pieces of edgy insights from this: a. My Bold Predictions were not far off.

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Oracle SCM

JULY 12, 2017

The years from 2007 through 2009 were notable for their economic volatility, reflected not only in the global economic recession but also the instability of customer demand and rapid movement in raw material, fuel, and commodity prices. Companies tripped over themselves to build ecommerce portals, and one-click purchasing grew in relevance.

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