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This Week in Logistics News (July 15-19, 2013)

Talking Logistics

SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013. Here are some additional details from the press release: Data Services data sets will include mode-specific transportation costs and transit times, facilities cost estimates, demographics, risk metrics, duties and taxes, sustainability metrics and others.

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Don’t Perpetuate the Hoax of the Gartner Top 25

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory Turns (15%) (based on 2014 results). Growth 10% (Year-over-Year comparison of 2013 versus 2014). Every year we identify the companies that best exemplify the demand-driven ideal for today’s supply chain and document their best practices, which can help all companies move closer to their demand-driven goals.”

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Retail Link – How Does It Help?

SupplyPike

Are you a supplier for Walmart who is looking for a central repository for the information, documents, reports, and special applications to manage your business with Walmart? Consequently, they can reduce their inventory risk and related expenditure. Retail Link had a small beginning by just helping out with the inventory.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During We believe that a supply chain leader is defined by both the level of performance on the Effective Frontier (balance of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Profitability and Inventory Turns) and driving supply chain improvement.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2014 : hybrid DCs, 3-D prototypes, location-based inventory system, and more. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2015 : solar-powered vessel, robot dispatcher, 3-D printed flight parts, and more.

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At the Starting Line: New Year’s Resolutions for Supply Chain and Logistics Executives

Talking Logistics

The good news is that leading practices in supply chain risk management are well documented in various books and publications , and new software applications are emerging to help companies manage this process. Simply put, many companies are still falling short on supply chain risk management , and they continue to pay the price.

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Why we need S&OP Vision, Culture, and Language

Supply Chain Trend

For Our Company, S&OP Is Operations (O) and Inventory without Involving Sales (S)! What Do You Mean “Document Assumptions”? When It Comes to Metrics for S&OP, “One Size Fits All.”. Adam Grant (2013) divides people into givers, takers, and matchers. Give and Take , Weidenfeld & Nicolson, April 2013.

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