Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. In 2008, the demand planner leaves the meatpacking Company to train for the Olympics. Maximize the value of your purchase. The volatile meat market changes daily.

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3rdwave

MARCH 20, 2020

I just got off a call from the Director of Supply Chain with a retailer who is experiencing major angst because many of their products are directly or indirectly sourced overseas. His indirect supply chain is sourced through 3rd party importers who sell them on a DDP basis. Covid-19 wreaks havoc with global supply chains.

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

the “inventory to sales” ratio (inventory levels divided by a month’s worth of sales) spiked in late 2008/early 2009 as the recession caught companies with way more inventory than needed versus suddenly shrinking demand. Source: Commerce Dept. Source: SupplyChainDigest. Source: Supply Chain Shaman.

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crisp

JANUARY 18, 2022

The product evolved into a mission-driven company focused on sustainable and ethical manufacturing and a stylish, vintage-glam brand that makes sustainable choices easy and fun for consumers. The only way to do that was with data, so he turned to his retail and syndicated data sources to get some signals.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. Supply Chain Complexity 1 – Plan/Source/Make/Deliver/…. Someone even went as far in a Washington Times op-ed to say “It’s worse than 2008, it reassembles 1937…”. Read More ».

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Arena Solutions

MAY 5, 2022

We experienced or saw that manufacturers had to shut down, they reduced production, and it impacted not only the industry as a whole, but for AEye, our ability to meet our schedules and forcing, in some cases, redesign. We had to scramble and find additional exact matching sources. What advice do you have for manufacturers?

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Arena Solutions

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The PQ typically can only be done by the manufacturer according to their intended use as expressed in their custom configuration. Manufacturers can hire others to perform this validation for them so long as they can simulate their use in the final configured production-equivalent state. SEE Arena IN ACTION GET A DEMO

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