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

Supply Chain Shaman

of revenue on information technology (IT), only six percent of manufacturers drove performance at the intersection of growth and margin. Rise in Inventories. Less Effective at Inventory Management. Inventories grew twenty days over the decade. Sadly, most of it is the wrong inventory. Despite spending 1.1%

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

Logistics Viewpoints

With this information, are you any closer to knowing what to do about it, or have you just enriched your ability to admire your problem and see it close up? 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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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

Several good friends in consulting roles are sharing information on SAP HANA from SAP Insider; and this morning, LLamasoft announced the acquisition of the LogicTools assets from IBM. In parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. This inbound news adds to the story.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

Net/net, the current architectures are hard-wired into back-office Information Technology deployments with layers of security and integration, and batch processing. As such, they serve the business leaders as a system of record for planning information, but they do not serve the core user very well. The solution was too black box.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2007, Rotterdam based Flo Group specializes in Oracle focused logistics software support and deployment services capabilities. The data is then compared with the existing warehouse management system (WMS) in order to foster real-time inventory accuracy and availability information.

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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

Existing data and information might be incomplete and inaccurate, feedback from the team might be delayed. is beyond information technology and more about exploring what the customer wants. This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging.