Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 14, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our April 14, 17, 2023 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis capsule of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news. million in Series A financing. million in Series A financing.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). I use this example to illustrate the challenges (or, perhaps, the futility) of making supply chain and logistics predictions. 2015 is less than three weeks away, and a barrel of Brent crude oil is $65.70 Do Facebook and Twitter Need a Logistics Strategy?

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 5, 2014

You have a supply chain risk management strategy in place. A few hours later, your procurement head walks in the office. “We The problem is most companies are relatively immature when it comes to Supply Chain Risk Management. It’s going to be a crazy, busy day. You don’t panic because you are ready for this.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights a breaking news development involving Tesla’s existing Nevada based Gigafactory that will be of interest to Automotive EV manufacturers and their supply networks. The announcement makes reference to the initial 2014 investment in the Gigafactory Nevada complex and a statement that upwards of $6.5

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide a capsule synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

For the supply chain leader it is not a game… The stake is business continuity. Gamers do well in the world of supply chain. Designing value networks and managing what-if conditions is fundamental to managing supply chain risks. The move from global to regional supply chains increased risks.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 30, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, Executive Editor Bob Ferrari pens highlights of the 2022 Crossroads Event recently conducted by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. Regarding the latter, MIT CTL researchers have been working with the U.S. Background. Conference Highlights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. Is Steelwedge a Tragic Hero of Supply Chain Cloud Technology? The supply chain management software market had soured. My answer? I am not sure.

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Requis

JULY 14, 2020

Venture capital (VC) investor, columnist and educator Brian Aoaeh is part of the new generation of investors who are unlocking the opportunities in supply chain. Steeped in the investment world since 2008, Brian decided very early on to focus on supply chain and operations investment.

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CormSquare

JANUARY 24, 2017

But the question is, what are the other main challenges in procurement being faced today? This survey was done on 324 senior procurement lea ders fr om 33 countries offering a deep insight into current procurement preoccupations. and the automated system can work round the clock, unlike the employees it replaced.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2014

A new approach focuses on the way these products are procured. The infiltration of fake medicines into the pharmaceutical supply chain is a major problem, and conventional methods for detecting fake medicines are generally inadequate. In these situations, essential drugs are usually sold at inflated prices.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. In these sessions, the technology providers share their rational for the investment and invite questions. Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We named it the Supply Chain Index. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Background on the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

This landed me in front of the Vendor Review Board at Gartner to defend my research. <This I asked companies to “Navigate through the hype focusing on the feasibility of scope and technology.” In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The debates were heated.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. Subscribe Here! Email Address. My girlfriend and I have a dog, named Charlie. We were well prepared.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 9, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights high tech and consumer electronics bellwether Samsung Electronics and its warning that Q4-2022 quarterly profitability and revenues would fall short of revised estimates. That profitability warning represented the lowest profit for the company since Q3-2014.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

As supply chain clichés take flight, clients struggle with execution. One of these concepts that I hear a lot; but see few tangible examples, is the idea of “customer-segmented supply chain.” The discussion of customer-segmented supply chains happens often. This makes me yawn.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To achieve this the customer shares information on sales and product needs with the supplier, who is then able to ensure the correct amount of inventory is supplied. VMI creates efficiencies in the supply chain as it ensures data from sales is a key part of the inventory management system.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

The success of your business links inextricably to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The atoms and electrons of the supply chain are changing. I am passionate about the topic of the digital supply chain, and I apologize in advance for the length of this article. The third Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is over. It is an agenda designed by supply chain leaders for supply chain leaders.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 28, 2016

He was one of my instructors at Northeastern as part of the supply chain certificate program I completed almost 15 years ago. The case studies we analyzed and discussed in his class opened my eyes and mind to the beauty of supply chain management, a field that was still relatively new to me at the time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

” Supply Chain Leader. The manuscript is due to Wiley on March 1st for an August 2014 publish date. I need it for my conference on September 10th-11th, 2014. The research is the fun part of the process. As background, Peter Gibbons is the Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain for Mattel, Inc.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2016

We’ve made our predictions , but it’s the unexpected that makes supply chain management so exciting and demanding. Did you come up with any New Year’s resolutions to improve as a supply chain and logistics leader this year? Supply chain management is risky business — and the risks are growing every day.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

We believe that supply chain excellence helps a company to better balance demand and supply. We also believe that it helps companies to be more resilient: weathering demand and supply volatility while maximizing opportunities and mitigating risks. What does the future of supply chain excellence look like?”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Check out Procurement Report Card: Most Executives Think Procurement Isn&#8217;t Strategic Enough! Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Check out Attracting Millennials Gets Your Digital Supply Chain in Order! Everyone knows that the demographics of the Supply Chain industry are changing. They have to. But this tendency is changing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices. Let me explain.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the previous article, we covered the Future of Digital Supply Chains, Agile, connected and sustainable and the QAD DynaSys senior product management team’s vision of Digital Supply Chain Planning. . Could you tell us a bit more about Essilor’s supply chain organization? On one hand we have markets.

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RFgen

AUGUST 14, 2017

If counterfeit electronic parts make it through the supply chain and into a mission-critical military asset, the potential for a worst-case scenario increases. In 2014, Massachusetts resident Pierre Picone pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit integrated circuits (IC) to the U.S. Navy over the course of 5 years.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Most of those emissions are associated with corporate supply chains. Clearly, companies need to begin to more fully consider their supply chains, working to make them more resilient, sustainable and ethical.” He writes, “Promoting sustainability throughout a complex supply chain is incredibly challenging.”[2]

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ivalua

JULY 27, 2015

So please forgive this regrettable oversight and kindly note that my opinions are born from firsthand discussions with manufacturers, a steady diet of market research, and a practical desire to identify and solve real customer challenges with enabling technology. Perhaps it is time for a more comprehensive description.

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ivalua

JULY 27, 2015

So please forgive this regrettable oversight and kindly note that my opinions are born from firsthand discussions with manufacturers, a steady diet of market research, and a practical desire to identify and solve real customer challenges with enabling technology. Perhaps it is time for a more comprehensive description.

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

Reducing supply chain forecasting errors by 50% and lost sales by 65% with better product availability is achievable with machine learning. Automating quality testing using machine learning is increasing defect detection rates up to 90%. Supply chains are the lifeblood of any manufacturing business.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 20, 2014

With the industrial revolution, man was able to achieve great scientific and technological advances were available through the utilization of non-renewable resources that has been vital to the economy of the United States. As an example, in the 1950s, the U.S. chemical and plastics industry was responsible for over 5 million U.S.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 1, 2014

Walmart Stores and the MIT FreightLab have collaborated to create a tool that reduces truck transportation planning time and lowers costs. The struggle to find a balance between robustness and flexibility led a research team at the MIT FreightLab to investigate whether Benjamin Franklin’s advice is right when planning the movement of freight.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I had the opportunity to present at a hearing in Washington last week – this was a public meeting of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Sub-Committee. In fact, speakers at the December 2014 BIO conference noted that the level of VC funding was at a 4-year low! What will be required to attract investors to this market?

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This approach has been used for many years, and tends to limit the opportunity for innovation, cost savings suggestions, and introduction of new technologies into the process, as noted by Anne Rung in her memo during her time at the Office of Management and Budget. At that point, production and system operations commence (DSMC, 2001).

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