The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In order to achieve this target, CEVA Logistics is incorporating environmental considerations in a variety of areas of operations, from warehousing to transportation and procurement. CEVA Logistics and other Eco-Skies Alliance leaders will work with United Airlines to collectively purchase approximately 3.4

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It is a larger acquisition than the prior purchases of Terra Technology , Steelwedge , or SCM-Icon. The focus was on automating procurement. The historic buyer of the E2open solution is procurement. As shown in Figure 1, approximately 50% of procurement buyers report through supply chain organizations.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 18, 2016

As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. I purchased my first fitness tracker, set my goals, and the competition began. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics. For example, can I schedule that new order that just came in for same-day delivery?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

How do we harness the power of data with new forms of analytics? Today, technology providers are selling analytics. This week, I received this email from a financial institution questioning why business leaders are not harnessing more insights and redesigning processes based on analytics. S&OP Challenges. Reflection.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. The orbit chart below illustrates L’Oréal’s performance at the intersection of two metrics.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. When looking at global online sales, Salesforce reports 57% digital growth in 2020, and 16% growth in 2021, with eMarketer data predicting a continued increase through 2025. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Take Burlington, for example.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 12, 2015

I was at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference earlier this week. April 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). There are many aspects to cloud computing that make it exciting, including the fact that it is providing companies with almost infinite computing power at a relatively low cost. Post your thoughts below.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Barring some unexpected twist, COP26 will end with an updated version of the 2015 Paris Agreement, with commitments from individual nations to reduce their GHGs but no binding, enforceable international agreement. One example: just before COP26 kicked off, CEOs from more than 30 large financial institutions with over $8.7

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2021

For example, Boian Alexandrov and Velimir ‘Monty’ Vesselinov, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, call big data a “bottomless ocean” and marketing expert Angela Hausman ( @MarketingLetter ), compares big data to “mountains.” Descriptive analytics. Diagnostic analytics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. Let’s take an example. In the evolution of today’s analytics most companies are evaluating concurrent optimization of transactional data. I feel strongly that it needs to happen. What is a moment of truth?

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Many pundits note, as a result of lockdowns and store closures, e-commerce sales rushed years ahead of predicted totals. With all generations getting more comfortable on the digital path to purchase, most retailers have adapted to this new reality and are pursuing omnichannel strategies. ”[5]. .’ ”[5]. ”[6].

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2015

I’ve often pointed to enVista (a Talking Logistics sponsor) as an example of how the business models of software vendors, consultants, and logistics service providers are converging , and the launch of this new software business further underscores this point. Finally, UPS and comScore, Inc. study this this week.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 20, 2019

What came to be known as BI tools evolved from earlier, often mainframe-based analytical systems, such as decision support systems and executive information systems.” ” Some analysts have tried to make a distinction between Business Intelligence, data analytics, and data mining.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 6, 2015

Descartes Reports Fiscal 2015 Fourth Quarter and Annual Financial Results. This is another example of how the business models of 3PLs, consulting firms, and software companies are converging , and why the answer to “ 3PLs, What Business Are You In? ” Ports Gridlock Reshapes the Supply Chain (WSJ – sub.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 16, 2021

”[1] His prediction proved accurate. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported, “The food-at-home (grocery store or supermarket food purchases) CPI increased 1.1 ”[2] The USDA went on to predict, “In 2022, food-at-home prices are expected to increase between 1.5 In November, the U.S. ”[6].

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

… With an ever-complex consumer purchasing path, it can be difficult for a brand to know where exactly to adjust their efforts. Data and advanced analytics. Data analytics and cognitive risk sensing are becoming increasingly important tools for organizations.” ”[2]. CPG industry and cognitive technologies.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Rebounding freight volumes and the proximity of the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate are set to change the industry in 2017, reports Sean Kilcarr of FleetOwner. Between 2015 and 2016, freight shipping rates declined significantly, and dry van rates dropped up to 15 percent. Shipping LTL Rates Will Improve.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Retailers are currently charging customers only 80 percent of the overall delivery costs, which happens to be the most expensive part of the retail supply chain. Supply Chain Dive reports that the last leg of a journey can account for up to 28 percent of a product’s total transportation costs.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In my 2014 piece, I argued that educators need to play a role here and pointed to the planned launch in 2015 of the groundbreaking MITx MicroMasters® Program in Supply Chain Management online program as an example of what educators can contribute. One example is sustainability.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2016

As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. I purchased my first fitness tracker, set my goals, and the competition began. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics. For example, can I schedule that new order that just came in for same-day delivery?

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EcoVadis

JULY 25, 2017

Below is a brief timeline of Hong Kong’s sustainability milestones in recent years: Hong Kong’s sustainable development effort has been catalyzed by the Paris Agreement, which was signed by China in 2015. ESG Reporting as a Listing Rule. The EcoVadis Methodology is able to cover over 90% of these reporting Aspects.

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Unleashed

MARCH 2, 2021

Wearable healthcare works by collecting a user’s wellbeing and fitness data, and creating a personalised database of the user’s health metrics. They work by collecting a user’s wellbeing and fitness data, and creating a personalised database of the user’s health metrics. The company’s revenue has sat around US$1.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

One of these concepts that I hear a lot; but see few tangible examples, is the idea of “customer-segmented supply chain.” I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 16, 2015

According to a recent UNHCR report , nearly 60 million people were forcibly displaced in 2014 from countries such as Iraq, Eritrea, and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, its income in 2015 will be 10% less than in 2014. Of those 60 million people, 19.5 Funding is lacking.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

A report also found that a fifth of the 2,000 largest publicly-listed companies in the world have pledged to pursue a net-zero strategy. Singapore has also embraced solar energy, having multiplied its solar capacity by more than seven times since 2015. Your Questions Answered: What is a power purchase agreement?

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RFgen

JANUARY 28, 2015

Wal-Mart and Amazon both focus on delivering cheap prices, and they utilize their supply chains in order to reduce costs below that of their competitors. According to Property Casualty 360, the major challenges of 2015 will be those pertaining to the supply chain. Lessons to Draw from Amazon’s Competition with Wal-Mart.

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RFgen

JANUARY 28, 2015

Wal-Mart and Amazon both focus on delivering cheap prices, and they utilize their supply chains in order to reduce costs below that of their competitors. According to Property Casualty 360, the major challenges of 2015 will be those pertaining to the supply chain. Lessons to Draw from Amazon’s Competition with Wal-Mart.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 7, 2016

Here are a couple of charts from the press release: By 2045, total freight on all modes – air, vessel, pipeline, rail, and trucks – is projected to reach 25 billion tons (up from 18 billion tons in 2015) while the value is expected to grow to $37 trillion (up from $19.2 trillion in 2015). Take cargo airships, for example.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Now… Is there something to be learned from this quote in Finding Nemo, that we can apply to procurement and sourcing? A gang of procurement and sourcing professionals with our backs up against the wall, and the fight is at our front door. So here we are. The common enemy: the complexity of the global supply chain. Data First.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 3, 2021

According to IHS Markit, March US purchasing manager’s index (PMI) was the second strongest since data collection began in May 2007. Within its Q1 earnings press release, for example, Amazon shared some interesting statistics on its B2B platform, Amazon Business. If 2020 was the year of B2C, 2021 could likely be the year of B2B.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For instance, The Economist reports that between 2011 and 2015 the largest 25 food and beverage incumbents accounted for nearly half (45%) of total industry revenue, but smaller companies drove nearly all (97%) of market growth. Microbrand Dollar Shave Club reached a $1 billion valuation w hen it was purchased by Unilever in 2016.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

These examples are from retail, but I sense that the same customer empowerment phenomenon is happening broadly across everything we do at Amazon and most other industries as well. According to their 2017 annual report, over a quarter of Amazon’s third-party sales (which represent half of Amazon’s sales) are cross-border.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) Understanding this relationship requires modeling. (A A Case Study.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For example, Kevin O’Marah ( @komarah ) writes, “‘Supply chain’ is a label with baggage. The term “supply chain” is a good example of that. Blanding reports, “According to the researchers, ‘Supply chain industries are a distinct and large segment of the economy. The supply chain economy.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

For example, in early 2015 Target announced it was closing all 133 of its Canadian stores due to setbacks in its supply chain. By January 2015, USA Today reported the retailer had lost upwards of $2 billion since it first announced its expansion in 2011.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

For example, in early 2015 Target announced it was closing all 133 of its Canadian stores due to setbacks in its supply chain. By January 2015, USA Today reported the retailer had lost upwards of $2 billion since it first announced its expansion in 2011.

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