Talking Logistics

AUGUST 8, 2014

The bodega and building as it appears today (source: Google Maps). The post This Week in Logistics News (August 4-8, 2014) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. The bodega is where my life story begins, a story I hope to write about someday. Yesterday, my mom and uncles sold the property, bringing an end to an era.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

How do we create systems that allow everyone in the ecosystem, from suppliers to transportation partners to retailers, to be not only more agile and responsive in the face of rapidly changing market conditions, but to be able to predict issues in advance and prevent them? Integration with other key systems.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The inaugural post appeared on March 4, 2014, and was about the rising status of the supply chain profession. Some events and trends driving the supply chain’s standing back in 2014 remain just as influential in 2023. Decisive phase But some of the 2014 challenges we still witness today have become more urgent.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2023

As companies deployed new technology systems and solutions, data wound up getting siloed. Warehouse management systems didn’t share data with the transportation management systems, which in turn didn’t share data with the yard management systems. And none of them shared data with the legacy ERP system.

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SupplyShift

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Source Trust is a nonprofit founded by swiss chocolatier Lindt with the goal of transforming farmer livelihoods through grower training and community assistance. Other brand-name chocolate companies that partner with Source Trust include Ferrero, Hershey, Fazer and Meiji. The post Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. 2011-Divestiture of Pringles to Kellogg for 2.7B$ 2014-Sale of IAMS to Mars for 2.9B$ 2015-Sale of 43 P&G Beauty Brands to Coty for 12.5B$. The rigid IT systems became a barrier to the rapid pace of acquisition and divestiture. Manage the Supply Chain As A Complex System.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2021

When you’re ingesting and synthesizing data from dozens or hundreds or millions of sources (as most sophisticated platforms do nowadays), you will see duplicated records, incomplete fields, formatting inconsistencies, different languages, different units of measurement. And better data science leads to better business outcomes for customers.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2015

Casey and Paul Vigna – that opened my eyes to bitcoin’s true potential: as a new operating system for supply chain networks. The WSJ article and other sources, such as this Khan Academy video series , explain how bitcoin works, so I won’t go into it here. Source: [link].

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

In 2014, the company’s revenues were $43 million. They have subsequently moved away from Excel sheets to a system built by their supply chain business intelligence team that leverages artificial intelligence/machine learning and is connected to their contract manufacturer’s ERP systems. The Pure Storage Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 13, 2021

In Figure 1, I highlight the significant shifts in my lifetime: Just four decades ago, McKinsey coined supply chain management as managing source, make, deliver, and plan together. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. Starting in 2014, business resilience in 26 of 28 manufacturing and retail sectors began to decline.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. The impact? Until we have this kind of pervasive visibility, inventory management will continue to be largely an exercise in futility.

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SupplyShift

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Source Trust is a nonprofit founded by swiss chocolatier Lindt with the goal of transforming farmer livelihoods through grower training and community assistance. Other brand-name chocolate companies that partner with Source Trust include Ferrero, Hershey, Fazer and Meiji. The post Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

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Tompkins Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

The transportation industry can expect to see these new issues emerge throughout 2014: Shift from diesel to natural gas. Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium is the premier source for supply chain benchmarking and best practices knowledge. Press Release TMS Transportation Transportation Management System' Tightening capacity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

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. At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. Software robots need adult supervision through learning systems. ” Her answer was telling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Diversity of sources (carriers + vendors + customers). And it must integrate with a myriad of internal and external systems such as transportation management, warehouse management, order management, ERP, weather and traffic systems and many more. trillion terabytes of new data every day.). Data integrity.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2024

Record High Drug Shortages Business and general media have cited data from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists ( ASHP ) that indicates 323 critical drugs were in shortage during the first quarter of this year. The result is noted as supply being sourced at lowest cost producers, usually outside the U.S.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

Much of IWT is carried out by crime syndicates who, in addition to hiring poachers and securing buyers, are adept in exploiting the interconnected transport systems. I also advocated DHL to join United for Wildlife , a high-profile community founded by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2014.

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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. This is the biggest problem I see on the horizon.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2023

So, I scrapped the idea in 2014. I find LinkedIn to be a great source to get data. The IBP requires its own master data over and above the S/4HANA transaction system. The IT group and business leaders usually have divergent points of view (POV). The third issue is legal language in software performance contracts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

The company launched their platform in 2014. In-memory relies on system memory as opposed to disk space. Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America. There is no one source that can provide good sustainability data. This is much faster.

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3rdwave

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2014, a Supply Chain Council survey found that managing global supply chain complexity was among the top 5 major issues. Most companies do not have a systemic and measurable approach in place to manage their global transportation and/or their logistics providers whether they are carriers, freight forwarders, or 3PLs.

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SCM Research

JUNE 24, 2014

In his recent Science article, The Science of Sustainable Supply Chains, Dara argues that the field of supply chain management needs to significantly improve and integrate sustainability measurement systems and decision-support tools. He is the co-founder of GoodGuide , Inc. You can follow Dara on twitter @DaraORourke. O’Rourke, D.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

They source from approximately 15,000 suppliers with a sourcing spend of over €7 billion. But even multi-sourcing is not enough. They built them between 2012 and 2014, and then enhanced them when better supply chain risk management solutions became available. Their revenues exceed €25 billion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

While many companies assemble great sourcing and procurement teams when it comes time to renegotiate freight contracts, they often fail to provide good documentation that allows them to negotiate from a position of strength. Once that’s in place, CFOs will notice: Improved margin by lowering your cost of goods sold. Let’s not waste it.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Iron Ox says Grover is a key component of the company’s broader farming ecosystem, a closed-loop system that optimizes plant yield, reduce growth cycle time, and maximizes crop quality. The company aims to produce locally sourced fruits and vegetables that cost about the same as produce from conventional farms.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

A report proposing three system solutions that could reshape the industry and set the clean energy technology sector on a path to sustainability. Chapter 3 then introduces some available blockchain-backed tools to address these challenges as well as describes system design scenarios that illustrate possible system sustainability solutions.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 10, 2017

Gartner Research just released its new Magic Quadrant for Sales & Operations Planning Systems of Differentiation (S&OP SOD). Integration with operational planning “ Systems of Record ” (SCP SORs) also moved up, from #3 to #2 priority. Source: Gartner Research, 2017. Source: Gartner for Supply Chain Leaders Toolkit, 2014.

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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. Push your tech partners to ensure that your solutions are underpinned by the highest-quality data that can be securely shared across other systems and with your network.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In their world view, the future would be the coalescence of robotics, learning systems, and voice automation. At the end of 2014, many leaders that I work with are preparing their 2015 strategies. They want to embrace the new, but they are having problems making their current systems and technologies work today.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A year before, in 2014, a Harvard Business Review article pointed out that supply chains were becoming increasingly global and complex and consequently more at risk than before. One source reports disruptions increased over 60% between 2019 and 2020. Source: McKinsey. Review sourcing and suppliers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In addition, cryptocurrency offers the world an alternative to centralized and transparent financial systems. However, unlike bitcoin, Dash’s blockchain is managed by a decentralized “controller node” system, which allows users to control their transactions and manage the network by voting on proposals. Ether Classic.

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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. The energy and desire to effectively respond was significantly stifled by long-standing system shortfalls and “fog of war” communication problems.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The only thing that was done was to open the source code of the platform. From the beginning, the system had an open protocol. 25% of them were given to non-profit organizations, and 5% were “frozen” in the system to cover operating costs with them. Among them are: Decentralization of the open-source platform.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 10, 2021

Global Supply Chain & Sourcing Director for ECCO Global Shoe Production & Sourcing. Integration of system, digitisation of the S&OP process and broader sourcing strategies were paramount to success of this role. In 2014, I was appointed Global Supply Chain role with ECCO Shoes and relocated back to Singapore.

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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. Sources: “Annual Financials for Wal-Mart Stores Inc.” The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2014.” marketwatch.com.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Even in 2014 when Gartner wrote a case study about Danone using our machine learning to help forecast promotions, it was barely a blip on the horizon. Nikki Baird, Managing Partner at Retail Systems Research, recently offered a similar observation on Forbes.com , cautioning against the “Silver Bullet Syndrome. ”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Enterprise resilience–the ability to have consistent balance sheet returns despite market volatility– decreased starting in 2014. Each P&L leader will game the system to improve bonus structure payouts. Another misconception is that enterprise resiliency only started to decline in 2020 with the pandemic. The reason?

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