Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Cargo 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Gartner 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 32

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

News that 3PL giant DHL will buy more than 1000 robots from Boston Dynamics, according to a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the two firms. How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 32

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

I will note we lost one member of our index when software maker and privately held Aptean acquired Logility early in 2025, and will soon lose another software company when non-public WiseTech’s purchase of e2open is finalized. How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015?

Supply Chain Design Software 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

CSCMP members can download a copy for no charge, and others can purchase one for a modest fee. How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? Mike Ledyard Vested Program Faculty, Vested Way / University ofTennessee Posted on: Aug, 04 2017 Excellent article. I recommend it.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Commandment 9: Insist on User Friendliness Independent of the effort put forth to design a system, purchase hardware and develop software, the single biggest test of implementation occurs when an operator attempts to scan bar coded media. How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Smith’s pilots were asked to use their personal credit cards to buy fuel and stagger cashing their paychecks.” ( See More Below) CATEGORY SPONSOR: SOFTEON At one point, the company was down to its last $5,000 — which Smith took to Las Vegas and turned into $27,000 playing blackjack. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

South Africa 41

South Africa Africa Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Gartner 41

Gartner Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

The erratic trade policy with on-again/off-again tariffs has led to price uncertainty for customers, who appear to be prepared to hold off large capital purchases until stability returns. How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? a little up from 48.5

Manufacturing Procurement 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Analysis 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 47

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. Not many companies have cracked this code. Operating Margin.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 11, 2025

For HighApexPlanning.com reviews , the domain was registered on March 11, 2015 , and guess what? That perfectly matches the brand’s creation year — 2015. Because shady brokers often buy old domains to create the illusion of longevity or rush to launch a brand without properly securing a dedicated domain. Why does this matter?

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Logility

AUGUST 7, 2017

The bottom tier measures operational excellence through schedule adherence and asset performance. These operational excellence metrics assist in identifying the root cause of readings of upper tier metrics and focusing on the specific areas that need attention.

Procurement Analytics 121

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Note that the industry aggregate actually went backwards, as did operating margin and inventory for the period 2015-2017. The Company;s senses consumer preferences to change and align their portfolio to deliver personalized products for purchase anytime and anywhere.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. Yesterday we published the top 10 most read manufacturing articles of 2015. . Top 10 Supply Chain Articles from 2015. No Purchase Orders were used.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

Last night, as I was working on the report for the newsletter, I wrote a summary of the last study which we completed in 2015 on the adoption of technology. One of the barriers to greater progress in driving supply chain excellence is the current state of user satisfaction with current technologies.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

That will be in 2015, after the peak of oil [supply].”. 2015 is less than three weeks away, and a barrel of Brent crude oil is $65.70 million bbl/d in 2015.” . And its technology assets too, like the Kiva robots Amazon purchased [in 2012] and the data centers that power its cloud computing services.

Predictive Analytics Software 260

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. The reason? Discontinued in 2011.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant’s supply chain excellence. ” As an example of this change in tone for 2015, Walmart says one of its missions is to create “economic opportunity for our associates, suppliers and people who work in retail and retail supply chains beyond Walmart.”

Gartner 336

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” This is in preparation for the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire Report. As a result, buyers should buy based on today’s functionality. These are my thoughts.

Inventory Reduction 413

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015. Founded in 1988 in Milpitas, California, SanDisk is publicly traded on NASDAQ with 8,600 employees globally, and market capitalization in 2015 over $13B. Why does it matter to you? in Net Cash on Hand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. The purchase of Rubikloud by Kinaxis shows just how little the Kinaxis team knows about demand management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. 2015 Supply Chains to Admire. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Grocery retailers that want to excel in this space — while protecting their bottom line — need to optimize their logistics planning. They can choose where and when they want their purchases delivered; retailers trying to outdo each other are providing shoppers with flexibility through more delivery options, faster speed and even lower prices.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. The Company implemented SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) including the standard functionality of Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS), yet many planners also used Excel.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 29, 2015

E2open went public in July 2012 and in February 2015 participated in a private buy-out for $273M by Insight Venture Partners. Prior to the buy-out, E2open’s stock price was battered with a decline in the company’s shares by 74% over the last year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

When your phone rings, and you and your supply chain team is called to the corporate office to talk about the expansion of your ecommerce strategy for 2015, here are my recommendations: 1) Embrace the Each. If you are going to be excellent at ecommerce fulfillment, you need to have great perpetual inventory capabilities. Redefine it.

Packaging 333

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. In July 2012 E2open went public on the NASDAQ; and in March 2015, after a series of financial earnings disappointments, Insight Venture Partners funded E2open to become private.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 27, 2015

Most leaders do not know the cost of complexity with the increase of items; and instead of introducing variety to the shopper, many companies have confused the shopper resulting in the purchase of more compelling, less complex product portfolios. 2015 is a year for belt-tightening.

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