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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. 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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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period studied. Orbit Chart of VTech for the Period of 2006-2015 at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns . We would sell a toolbox complete with tools. Higher percentage growth than the industry average.

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Winning strategies for distributors and manufacturers during an economic downturn

EazyStock

Rapid cost increases, interest rate hikes and reduced demand require more effective inventory management and forecasting attention. What the last recession taught us An article from McKinsey & Company (2022) analyzed the performance of about 40 publicly traded distribution companies during the 2007-2009 recession.

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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) enables self-monitoring tools to monitor and communicates their real-time performance. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. Pricing decisions can be integrated with demand and supply planning.

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6 WAYS TO MITIGATE COVID-19’S IMPACT ON YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN

Bristlecone

The financial crisis of 2007-08 was referred to as a black swan event because it caused catastrophic damage to the global economy and triggered widespread disruption to people’s lives. Increasingly, businesses are driven by the need to improve productivity, minimize costs, reduce inventory and drive up asset utilization.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

The initial software product release name was Real-Time Forecasting. DS replaced rules-based forecast consumption with better math (statistics and pattern recognition). In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting.

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Effective Product Transitions in Complex BOM Environments

Kinaxis

Avaya has been a Kinaxis customer since 2007 and has generated tremendous value from the use of RapidResponse. Over the past several years we have focused on either configuring RapidResponse to help us manage supply, demand, S&OP, product cost reduction and most recently inventory.