Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. billion globally, and I forecast it to grow to $9.9 In my own defense, things kind of took off after 2014. I will soon be publishing the 2021 base-year study with a five-year forecast through 2026. billion in 2019.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

As 2013 comes to a close, here are some of my thoughts regarding the supply chain trends we are likely to see emerge in 2014. Another major source of risk is the unreliability of global logistics channels, especially the challenges associated with ocean freight lines, which are becoming increasing unreliable.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The folks at BI Intelligence published a report this week, and they estimate that about $100 million of merchandise will be ordered via same-day delivery in 2014, generating about $20 million in shipping fees (the analysis covers just 20 U.S. Source: [link]. What do you think of BI Intelligence’s forecast for the same-delivery market?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

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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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

In most ‘benchmarking activities’, self-reported data is the most common source. However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. 2) Characteristics of Best Forecasters. 3) Forecasting Pitfalls. The activity was inductive.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

Riding a rising five-year trend, retail juggernaut Walmart® grossed $476 billion in the fiscal year that ended in January 2014, up from $408 billion in fiscal 2010, according to The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch. The operations portion of a supply chain focuses on demand planning, forecasting, and inventory management. gartner.com.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

As the markets plummet, it is time to remind ourselves that demand is not a forecast. Traditional forecasting approaches are not adequate in a time of market volatility. In the real world, companies operate with a Mean Absolute Forecast Error of 24-60%, and have a bias of 9-40%. Markets drive supply chains.

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Demand Solutions

MARCH 27, 2020

They're the teams responsible for forecasting inventory requirements, managing inventory replenishment functions and sourcing inventory from suppliers. This isn't the first time the company's culture is acknowledged by the business community: the Atlanta Journal named AutomationDirect a Top Place to Work in 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2020.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I forecast that this interest will grow and the market is going to become more confusing. The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. The Company’s revenue forecast for February 2020 is $335M. For Llamasoft it is sourcing rationalization and risk management network design.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

The company launched their platform in 2014. Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America. o9 Solutions’ clients also have access to their partner PredictHQ’s event data, which drives improved forecasting. There are vendors that supply this data. “The

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 13, 2015

Last year around this time I made a lot of predictions about what 2014 would hold in store…Let’s revisit some of these, and see what has happened (or what hasn’t!) Here are my predictions from 2014, and an update on what I think will happen in these areas.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « Use of Predictive Analytics in Supply Chain | Main | Is Agile methodology a good solution for ERP implementations » Adding intelligence in the Forecasting process to support Supply Chain Segmentation.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Oil prices have risen to well over $90 a barrel — their highest levels since 2014 — in recent days as fears of war have grown,” reported the New York Times last week. Disruptions will be both direct and indirect—with the most significant indirect impacts already manifesting in the form of upward pressure on oil and gas prices.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 27, 2015

While traditional companies are still looking at improving traditional forecasting technologies and improving the rules for forecast consumption, I think that it is time to take a different stance: Item Rationalization. Traditional approaches like consensus forecasting can make this bias even worse. Need for Demand Sensing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Likewise, labor can’t do its thing when there are severe equipment shortages, and rectifying those shortages requires difficult-to-source raw materials. Insist on state-of-the art forecasting and decision tools. You can put more containers on a chassis, but if there aren’t enough people to move the goods, it’s of no use.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 3, 2014

April 2014. March 2014. February 2014. January 2014. UCLA Anderson Forecast. International Food Fest Brings Flavor of Diversity to Anderson » 03/03/2014. Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast and Chauncey J. Posted by UCLA Anderson on 03/03/2014 at 01:17 PM | Permalink.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 28, 2024

The company’s forecasted outlook for production levels in 2024 was upwards of 9,000 vehicles, and industry watchers indicated that added financing would be needed in order for the luxury auto maker to be able to grow sales and global wide production needs. According to reporting by Axios , factories across the U.S.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 27, 2020

ii] We observed an intense and immediate response by the Joint Acquisition Task Force to rapidly source supplies and quickly institute a robust vendor risk assessment process. health care system and risks in a supply chain dependent on global sourcing, would buffer the country from unanticipated disruptions. Levellers Press; 2014. [i]

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Supply Chain Digest

MAY 8, 2009

Demand Planning/Forecasting. Content Being Accessed: White Paper: Improving Forecast Accuracy. White paper from Logility on Keys to Improving Forecast Accuracy. Supply Chain Digest is the industry’s premier interactive knowledge source, providing timely, relevant, in-context information. or Search by TOPIC.

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ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

To reduce inefficiencies and fraud, grant activities are governed by several regulations including these two relatively recently enacted laws: The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) – This law expands on federal awards reporting reforms that began with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2022

The previous five-year labor contract was ratified in 2014 , after a total of nine months of contract negotiations and considerable urging from government officials for both sides to reach resolution. If and when the current China restrictions lift, it could provide a wave of shipments destined for U.S.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JULY 7, 2021

source: tradingeconomics.com. Forecast: Core rate 1.4% source: thebalance.com. The law of supply and demand, coupled with other environmental and political factors, have led to two months of inflation that are higher than we have seen in 30 years (see table below). ?. It hasn’t been lost here at Herlitz Inventory Management!

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 9, 2023

That profitability warning represented the lowest profit for the company since Q3-2014. Samsung’s and other ongoing semiconductor and electronics supplier’s warnings and forecasts reinforce the specific implications of changing product demand and supply market dynamics in the coming year. . Total revenues are expected to decline by 8.6

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We spent a good deal of time collecting research from a variety of different sources, to put together a picture of what the biobased economy looks like. Congress mandated the upcoming study in the 2014 Farm Bill. Biobased Products Commodities forecasting Emerging Issues in Supply Chain Procurement Sustainability Sustainability'

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 24, 2015

Consider the Supply Chain Insights report, Research in Review (Nov 2014), that states: “Many companies have five to 30 Enterprise Resource Planning systems and two to three supply chain planning systems. For example, with Excel you can’t easily: Integrate information from many sources. Provide in-depth analysis using complex analytics.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 20, 2015

Planning and forecasting in an increasingly complex and volatile global environment presents many management challenges, as supply chains are exposed to an many sources of disruptions and resulting financial impacts. Bloomberg News has just released its rankings of forecast accuracy through the end of Q3 2014.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 13, 2021

Back in 2014, Joris Toonders ( @joristoonders ), the entrepreneur behind Yonego, wrote, “Data in the 21st Century is like Oil in the 18th Century: an immensely, untapped valuable asset. 1] Joris Toonders, “ Data is the New Oil of the Digital Economy ,” Wired, July 2014. [2] ”[7]. Footnotes. [1] 8] Mary E.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 17, 2015

In May, 2014 Raytheon gathered a group of its largest suppliers in Boston, MA to discuss the launch of the company’s Supplier Advisory Council. The company also realized a 10% increase in stock price since the summer of 2014, in a highly competitive and regulated market. Connect your supply chain. trillion US dollars.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Forecasting Demand. Predictive analytics help manufacturers forecast future sales based on past sales. Good predictive analytics modelers find additional factors that influenced sales in the past and apply those factors into forecasted sales models,” he notes. Between 2010 and 2014, the number rose to about 171,000 units.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 27, 2015

Supply chain management spans many functions and processes, including demand planning, sourcing, merchandising, supplier relationship management, inventory management, inbound and outbound transportation, distribution management, and store operations. Are products selling faster or slower than forecasted? Where’s my shipment or truck?

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Arkieva

AUGUST 22, 2016

Source: Wall Street Journal. Source: Arkieva Supply Chain Blog. Source: Supply Chain Shaman. Target admitted in 2014 that the intrusion into the systems came after network credentials were stolen from a third-party vendor. Source: CBR. The value of retail sales fell 0.1% in June to a seasonally adjusted 44.14

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Enterra Insights

JULY 27, 2021

Businesses need to: Drive planning processes that strive to reduce emissions and satisfy demand with sustainable, ethically-sourced supply. Increase forecasting accuracy to reduce obsolete inventory. 4] Markus Zils, “ Moving toward a circular economy ,” McKinsey & Company, February 2014. [5]

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Talking Logistics

JULY 1, 2016

Here are some details from the press release: Today, over 210 global brands from multinational manufacturers including Newell Brands, Del Monte, and General Mills, and their omni-channel retail partners rely on Orchestro’s analytics to improve on-shelf availability, promotional effectiveness, new product introductions, and forecast accuracy.

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Vanguard Software

APRIL 22, 2021

Supply chain sustainability is defined as embedding environmental, social, or corporate governance considerations as raw materials are sourced, converted into products, and delivered to the market. A great example would be when the hospitality industry initiated towel reuse programs back in 2014 and the subsequent savings on water and energy.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

” Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) add, “Over the past decade, public and private sources have dedicated impressive amounts of energy and resources to digital agriculture in developing countries.”[2] billion people forecast to be living on the planet in 2050. Footnotes. [1]

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Freightos

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Whether it’s agile sourcing of hoverboards or finding the perfect gift for the person who has everything, technology is fixing the problem for good. The Ghost of Christmas past may have been a year-long production cycle, with proprietary tech and careful sourcing. Source: Soar Boards, via Flickr. But it comes at a price.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

According to sources, Stevedores are demanding advance payment in cash. However, a 2014 report by University of Tennessee on managing risk in global supply chains points out that 90% of the firms surveyed do not quantify risk when outsourcing production! Any such event will cause congestion in the ports.

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