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.

Negotiating Skills 60

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 5, 2014

This key supplier had been identified and sure enough, you have a second source primed and ready to go. We have a problem.” The alternate source uses the same supplier in Taiwan. Adding to this challenge is the reluctance of suppliers to share their sources with their customers for competitive reasons.

Inventory Reduction 267

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Claritum

APRIL 25, 2018

Promotional merchandise is a valuable marketing tool that can help to establish brand awareness of a company among consumers. However, it is important for companies to manage the process of sourcing promotional goods effectively. 2014 – $20.0 Source: PPAI Sales Volume Study Summary. Sourcing off catalogue.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Diversity of sources (carriers + vendors + customers). The same is true of supply chain network data, which require the latest data tools and services for ingestion, processing, automation, security and virtualization, governance and the like. trillion terabytes of new data every day.).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When filing a lawsuit for medical device liability due to defects, the lawyer only has to prove that the defect was present at the time of immediately after the medical device or tool was manufactured. The 2014 Rule was for class III devices. It outlined specific requirements and standards on how medical devices should be labeled.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Global Sourcing Director – Methods, Tools & Responsible Sourcing (Bel Group). She is the Global Sourcing Director – Methods, Tools & Responsible Sourcing, and she has 10 years of experience in Responsible Purchasing. Pascale de Felix . Pascale, how did you get into responsible purchasing?

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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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Elementum

MAY 10, 2017

Cognitive computing, as defined by its developers in mid-2014, makes a new class of problems computable as it addresses complex situations that are characterized by ambiguity and uncertainty. This is where cognitive computing comes in. Cognitive computing does not entirely debunk the traditional sense of risk management strategy.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 5, 2015

Launched – 2/25/2014. The new state-of-the-art facility for digital manufacturing and design will develop and innovate the manufacturing tools and processes needed to streamline and maintain a networked supply chain. Launched – 1/24/2014. Lots of experience in traditional marketing techniques and tools as well.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. The adoption of Terra’s products were brisk until 2011, but during 2012-2014 sales softened, resulting in employee layoffs and downsizing. The Company has a checkered past.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 22, 2019

With that, global businesses are committing to key sustainability objectives such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions , eliminating slave labor , avoiding plastics , conserving water used in production , tapping into renewable energy sources and more. Start making better sourcing decisions today with the Value-Based Sourcing Checklist.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

According to a July 2014 supply chain research study from Accenture focused on Big Data and supply chain risk management, most organizations have high hopes for using big data analytics in their supply chain but many have had challenges in deploying it. This is where the platform approach to supply chain management comes into play.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As the utility of these tools becomes more established, expect to hear many more questions about the health of your organization’s digital immune system in the year to come, and what you’re doing to strengthen and protect it.”[7]. ”[7]. … Hyperautomation enables scalability, remote operation, and business model disruption.”

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

They have the potential to democratize ownership and mobilize alternative economic organizations devoted to open-source licensing, member-owned cooperatives, social financing and platform business models.”. They elaborate, “We’ve been watching the deployment of digital agricultural tools for the last five years. 7 October 2014.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). It was a strategic/tactical analysis, disconnected from day-to-day operations, and the software tools were difficult to learn and use. For related commentary, see Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014.

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Unleashed

MARCH 14, 2021

The food supply chain refers to the process of preparing a food product from start to finish: sourcing the raw materials and taking the food through a manufacturing process, through to the final packaging of the product, the sale to the customer and the final delivery. What is the food supply chain? Food supply chain challenges and issues.

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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. Below is an excerpt from the section on Supply Chain Visibility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

Recently, I spoke to a major European retailer that lost 5% of their grocery revenues to Amazon in the first quarter of 2014. I sometimes wonder if I should create a new class of technologies for the network design tools because they have changed so much.) These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together.

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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] Footnotes. [1] 8] Mary E.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 3, 2018

Instead of having to deal with an ineffective point-to-point communication system like EDI and the complexity of reconciling multiple data sources with multiple permission models, Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) provides a singular mechanism to securely integrate, harmonize, and synchronize data for all participants.

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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] ”[1]. ” In Part 1 of this article, I discussed some of the background involved in the Farming 4.0

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

Founded in 2014, this Boston based robotics technology firm leverages capabilities that are described as mimicking human hand-eye coordination, leveraging machine-learning to a vision system on a gripper and allowing mechanical fingers to bend and twist around objects to perform piece-picking tasks.

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TMC

JULY 6, 2017

Spot bid tools give the capability to source capacity for the most critical of shipments and benchmark rates within your carrier network to mitigate additional costs as much as possible. Think back to the Hanjin bankruptcy, the Polar Vortex of 2014, or pretty much any time there is a strike at the Port of Los Angeles.

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Freightos

MARCH 3, 2015

In fact, according to eMarketer, there were estimated 1.75bn smartphone users worldwide in 2014. During the 2014 holiday season in the US, IBM Digital Analytics estimated that 25% of US online sales were via mobile. The office supply store, Staples began offering similar services in 2014 in the US. This represented about 24.4%

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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. It’s a great tool for personal productivity. For example, with Excel you can’t easily: Integrate information from many sources.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 25, 2019

In 2014, Syngenta embarked on a journey to harmonize its forecasting and S&OP processes. It had a maze of complex processes with 28 different forecasting and S&OP tools. With such a large number of tools there were many versions of the processes prevailing across geographical and commercial units.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As well, we need to be agile, lean and digital enough to integrate the new partnerships in our S&OP process and tools. But in such a case, with the different lockdowns worldwide, either for market, for factories and for some customs, we had to move to more fast and agile simulation tools. On one hand we have markets.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Potential Sources of Disruption. Give employees the tools they need to transition quickly into recovery mode under shifting circumstances. Identifying sources of risk and developing a plan are only part of the story. What alternative plants/factories/sources of supply do they have at their disposal? Loss of talent/skills.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 1, 2015

Transparent supply chain management and effective supply chain visibility is a critical tool in a company’s continued growth and successful brand image. An interesting development, as discussed in The Economist’s Why American wage growth is so lousy , stated 2014 showed that 1.3

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2014 : hybrid DCs, 3-D prototypes, location-based inventory system, and more. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 4, 2017

However, in the rush to source globally from low cost countries, the risk of product quality defects resulting in products recalls has often been overlooked by supply chain managers. With Trump’s call to limit global sourcing imports into the US, the global offshoring model may be at risk for a number of different reasons.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Roadnet® Technologies Introduces Advanced Business Intelligence Tool, Insight. December 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Transportation Department pushes tough oil train standards – sources (Reuters). million, respectively, for the full year 2014. UX had revenue and adjusted EBITDA of $113.2

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TMC

JULY 6, 2017

Spot bid tools give the capability to source capacity for the most critical of shipments and benchmark rates within your carrier network to mitigate additional costs as much as possible. Think back to the Hanjin bankruptcy, the Polar Vortex of 2014, or pretty much any time there is a strike at the Port of Los Angeles.

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TMC

JULY 6, 2017

Spot bid tools give the capability to source capacity for the most critical of shipments and benchmark rates within your carrier network to mitigate additional costs as much as possible. Think back to the Hanjin bankruptcy, the Polar Vortex of 2014, or pretty much any time there is a strike at the Port of Los Angeles.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Their 2014 Super Bowl commercial, Puppy Love , has been ranked the most popular ad in the history of Super Bowl. The craft beer segment relies heavily on perceived value, craft beer enthusiasts expect high quality, creativity, and traditionally brewed beers with innovative flavours, using locally sourced ingredients.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

of Continuous Move Planner (CMP) and Paradox Routing Tool (PART) Now Available. XPO Logistics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Results. million companies, including two thirds of those on the 2014 Forbes Global 2000 list, are connected to Ariba® Network. Version 11.0 Menlo Logistics Unveils Innovation Speaks.

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