Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

What is happening to BMW today is another case study in supply chain risk management. For related commentary, see my June 2015 post, Time to Survive and Nexus Supplier Index: New Measures of Supply Chain Risk Management.]. Store-level inventory. At 9:05am today, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 View Results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

As hospitals adopted consignment planning programs, inventory progress slowed. The turns are the lowest of any industry, and despite investments in technologies and processes, inventory turns have only improved 3%, and Cash-T0-Cash (C2C) cycles have declined 4%. The shift of inventory without the sharing of data is a mistake.

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Resilinc

JUNE 29, 2021

However, fires that occur far outside factory gates are becoming a greater concern for supply chain risk managers. over the last 20 years, with 2015, 2017 and 2020 seeing more than 10 million acres burned (see below chart). The Cotton 2040 report finds that half of global cotton producing regions will be at greater risk by 2040.

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Kinaxis

MAY 9, 2016

Last year, I made the not-so bold predictions, as the Gartner 2015 Top 25 Supply Chain rankings were pretty much unchanged. Apple and P&G were put in a Master’s category in 2015. Bold Prediction #2: The Top 10 from 2015 stays the same, except for One. Inventory turns, mostly, will follow Revenue.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 14, 2021

” Risk Management. Journalist Arthur Cole ( @acole602 ) notes AI can be used to assess risk.[6] 6] He explains, “Today’s management stacks tend to flood workers with alerts without assigning any priority. ” Inventory Management. ”[7]. Better Decision-Making. Bain analysts, Michael C.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I had the pleasure of speaking with Peter Guinto, who is the President of Government, Defense and Aerospace Business at Resilinc about the ‘art’ of managing supply chains in a volatile environment. Platform unity in supply chains is essential alongside the need to establish communication.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 8, 2024

The destruction or disruption of these systems, as depicted in the movie, would make it challenging to communicate and coordinate shipments, track inventory, and manage logistics. San Andreas (2015) If California was a country, its $3.1 trillion economy would be the fifth biggest in the world.

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Logility

APRIL 10, 2017

In many cases you will discover that processes like demand, inventory, replenishment, and manufacturing planning are limited by a lack of software capability. Poor planning solutions lead to work-arounds, fat fingering, inefficient management and ineffective collaboration with partners.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2015

That liberal paraphrasing of a classic Prince song refers to particularly strong El Niño conditions predicted by the National Weather Service for winter 2015-2016—the likes of which haven’t been seen since 1998. El Niño may serve as the ultimate test of supply chain risk management and resiliency. Assess Inventory Positions.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2016

Moving on to supply chain risk management, LoJack SCI and TransVoyant announced a partnership to provide companies “with the ability to identify, prioritize, and mitigate supply chain risks by increasing real-time alerting on factors that affect global supply chains.”

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Talking Logistics

JULY 27, 2015

In a conference call with investors in February 2015, Macy’s CFO Karen Hoguet summed up the primary objective of most retailers today : “We are making investments in growth, we want to accelerate growth, but it needs to be profitable growth.”. How can supply chain management enable profitable growth? Where’s my shipment or truck?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In a 2015 TED talk, Bill Gates warned about the spread of a potential virus and that organizations and governments were not prepared for it. 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.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 19, 2016

as the advance of e-commerce continues, companies with an omnichannel approach are increasingly implementing specific order management systems. furthermore, because the continuing growth in outsourcing is making global businesses ever-more susceptible to disruptions, supply chain risk management software is also on the rise.

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Kanban Logistics

MARCH 30, 2023

These requirements include items related to AS&D-specific risk management, product configuration, design verification and validation, supplier performance, and product monitoring and measurement. Kanban Aerospace Logistics Kanban has long been certified in both ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 19, 2015

In the 2015 19th Annual Third Party Logistics Study, survey results showed the continuing, positive overall nature of shipper-3PL relationships. Estimates show that 60 million people will exit the industry by 2015, but there are only 40 million people to fill the gap. Supply Chain Risk Management.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

”[4] Some of the benefits provided by predictive analytics include: Inventory management : Griffith notes predictive analytics provide store owners “a sixth sense” when it comes to ensuring shelves are stocks, prices are updated, and when products may have to be ordered in bulk from vendors. ”[6]. Footnotes. [1]

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Supply chain planners (I’m lumping in all the silos, including demand, supply, inventory and capacity planning) today are dealing with challenges that were unimaginable when Lotus notes were the next big thing. 2015 – Nepal earthquake, 7.8 Times have changed. Let’s just look at some events: 2017 – Hurricane Irma (plus others).

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

As I wrote two years ago in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2015 : Historically, Supply Chain Design was an exercise companies undertook at most once a year, or when a significant change occurred in their supply chain, such as an acquisition. So, where does supply chain design end and planning begin?

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2016

Then, as a treat, we have 10 more bonus supply chain trends for 2016 in the form of an infographic from irms 360 Enterprise, a Cloud Warehouse Management System. A Bigger Focus On Supply Chain Risk Management, Especially Resiliency. 2015 saw a shift from the linear supply chain to the circular supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Like oil prices, interest rates impact supply chain policies and decisions, especially with regards to inventory. Insights from Kenco Customer Summit 2015.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2016

The discipline of supply chain risk management has emerged over the last decade to promote creation of mitigation plans for when disruptions occur. Fuel price drops reduced overall transportation costs in 2015, but it’s unclear whether lower fuel costs will continue. Supply Chain Cost Reductions.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 6, 2015

o Space—holding places for unnecessary inventory. o Inventory—inactive raw, work-in-process, or finished goods. When you create your Sales, Inventory, Operations and Production Plan (SIOP) monthly, or more frequently, invite your top Suppliers and Customers to the SIOP meeting. Risk Management. Brainstorm.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 4, 2016

As explained by Monica Mehta , 2015 was the year of mergers and acquisitions (M&As), valued at $4 trillion. Obviously, another factor in supply change management will always be risk management. The supply chain is inherently filled with risk. Basically, cloud computing allows for faster, easier integration.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 1, 2016

2015 has been a tough year for Turkey both economically and politically. This means that supply chains need to become more than just efficient, and supply chain leaders are now having to change their thinking beyond simply focusing on cost reductions, trucks fill rates, inventory optimisation and warehouse utilisation.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 26, 2020

The pandemic crisis had global ramifications felt throughout the entire supply chain, from raw materials to finished products, and for many companies, building the resiliency needed to weather such storms has become the #1 challenge of supply chain management. The challenge of risk management The market is hyper-dynamic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). 2015 Supply Chains to Admire. We are also working on Sales and Inventory Operations Planning (S&IOP). and Singapore. We are on the journey.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Walmart Supply Chain and Transportation Trends for 2015. Suppliers (supplier management and supplier quality issues). Inventory (inventory management policies and practices, optimizing inventory flow). Resources/Talent (people development and training). Forecasting. Technology. Distribution Centers.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 1, 2016

In today’s complex global supply chains, where production is increasingly outsourced, managing disruption-related risk is a priority. In December 2015, GT Nexus and YouGov surveyed 250 senior manufacturing executives to gauge their outlooks for supply chains in 2016. External research has shown the numbers could be even higher.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 22, 2018

Banker explains, “In addition to doing forecasting based on historical sales, consumer goods companies leverage other data sets such as their retail customer’s point of sale, recent shipments of products from their warehouses to their stores, the retailer’s orders, syndicated data, and store inventory. Footnotes. [1]

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2017

Boston startup raises $10M for retail software that predicts inventory needs (Boston Business Journal). We cannot let this happen again,” is what the American Apparel & Footwear Association said in 2015. Celect uses comparisons between products derived from transactional, inventory, and online browse data to model choice.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2016

Examples: moving inventory to alternate locations, changing supplier relationships. This data can be viewed in time-series reports showing missed orders, inventory levels, total cost and more, as a critical way to evaluate resiliency. Source: Business Continuity Institute Supply Chain Resilience Report 2015.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 15, 2015

Companies will be able to do predictive maintenance to reduce downtime, better manage their inventories, and also to become more flexible and responsive to changes in market conditions. Second, the ITU predicts that by 2015, 75 percent of the world’s population will have internet access.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

A new article out of the company reports, “ Narrative Science , the leader in advanced natural language generation for the enterprise, today announced the 2015 State of Artificial Intelligence & Big Data in the Enterprise Report. AI is a controversy of deep, lasting dimensions.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As I explain in my book, The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (MIT Press, October 2015), companies can improve their disruption detection capabilities in a number of ways. Managing adverse weather conditions is part and parcel of transportation planning. Watching the weather is one option.

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Supply Chain Network

MARCH 26, 2012

The result was improved flexibility of production, as well as better inventory and asset management. This may become a reality as soon as 2015, and they are providing global aid in other unexpected places. With these acquisitions, Coca-Cola was able to better control supply chain operations. Taking Advantage, in a Positive Way.

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TMC

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Excellent visibility to freight in transit is a must, as is readily available information on alternative inventory sources and freight options, so the shipper can collaborate with suppliers and logistics providers to deal with freight delays. Editor’s note: This blog post originally ran in 2015.

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Elementum

AUGUST 30, 2022

Around 2014/2015 another breakout of specialty applications took place, responding for the most part to the rapid digitization and personalization of commerce. Workday added its own financial and ERP capabilities, ServiceNow went deep into HR and customer support solutions. Choice for business leaders grew significantly, as did capabilities.

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