Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2015

Here are five to look for in 2015. This will be possible through a platform approach to transportation management that delivers a unified control structure, and drives savings by aggregating sourcing volumes and optimizing end-to-end transportation. As a result, several areas of focus will move to the forefront of logistics strategy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

To help, in this post, we provide you with some insights for the period of 2006-2015. In our analysis, only one out of ten companies successfully improves operating margins and inventory turns at the same time. The analysis is for two time periods: 2006-2015 and 2009-2015. Inventory Turns. A Look at History.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

OpenAI, a UK-based AI research laboratory, was founded in 2015 by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, among other notable tech figures. The plus side to this model is reduced inventory and cost savings because less storage space is required. This means that companies can manage inventory much better.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Mr. Frasquet is the executive director of corporate procurement, although his responsibilities include a much broader set of supply chain responsibilities than just sourcing. This digital twin contains network costs – the inventory carrying cost is X for this product, by Y for this one.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2014

It’s one of the most common questions I get these days from third-party logistics providers (3PLs), especially this time of the year as they’re finalizing their strategies for 2015 and beyond. They also saw inventory cost reductions of 12% compared to 9% globally and order fill rates move to 77% from 68%. Total Answers 1.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 24, 2016

Gartner research director Jennifer Loveland calls it end-to-end segmentation, where you determine first what your customers want, then create end-to-end models—from sales through sourcing, delivery, and customer service—to serve them. In a blog earlier this year entitled What's wrong with ABC inventory classification?

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 13, 2015

Datum: 24 juni 2015. China: from sourcing location to an end market. Rietdijk, SVP Global Sourcing – Vestas. Rietdijk, SVP Global Sourcing – Vestas. Order and stock optimization of your Chinese Inventory. How do you optimize your inventory levels in the volatile Chinese market? Places are limited.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2015

We founded Enspire Commerce to address gaps in the marketplace for price-competitive solutions that solve the complexities of omni-channel inventory visibility, order routing and fulfillment execution between retailers and their stores, logistics partners and vendors. And with that, have a great weekend!

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

What makes Ethereum different is that it actively encourages software development teams to use its open-source protocol to design tokens that run on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Provenance ensures transparency in supply chains, with the aim of encouraging brands to source materials and labor in an ethical and fair trade manner.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

With a wide array of products stored in its fulfillment centers, Amazon can consolidate orders and optimize its inventory management systems. Source Amazon Product Range One of the key drivers of Amazon’s success in logistics is the sheer breadth of its product range.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 29, 2022

Economic order quantity is one of the “most commonly used inventory-control techniques”. The objectives and advantages of Economic Order Qty (EOQ) are to minimize inventory carrying costs and ordering costs while simultaneously limiting the probability of stock out to avoid any lost sales or customer loss. Boston: Pearson, 2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. My caution is not so fast… 95% of companies are not making progress at the intersection of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and asset strategies. The evolution sprung from chaos. I was wrong.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JULY 7, 2021

Growing up with a father who developed inventory management software for a living spawned some interesting conversations around the dinner table. source: tradingeconomics.com. It hasn’t been lost here at Herlitz Inventory Management! source: thebalance.com. appeared first on Herlitz Inventory Management.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 8, 2019

million 60-kilogram bags in 2015. Coffee retailers Campos Coffee source their beans from Kenya to Columbia to Brazil. Find out how they manage their complex supply chain with the help of inventory management software. The inventory stock from the roasting and distributing centres must be passed onwards to retailers.

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Logility

MARCH 13, 2020

A retail industry analyst said the clients he is speaking with are scrambling around focused on near-term tactics to find inventory to place on shelves and serve consumer needs. Where will you place that inventory? In early 2015, Continental Mills knew the North American Avian Flu might disrupt its supply of eggs in the coming weeks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

In most ‘benchmarking activities’, self-reported data is the most common source. However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. 4) Best Forecasters do not Have the Best Inventory Results. This is one element of inventory.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2016

The Boston Consulting Group said at the 2015 Grocery Manufacturers Association/Food Marketing Institute (GMA/FMI) supply chain conference that 22% of polled respondents said less accurate forecasts were one of their top hurdles to improving service. They don’t know how to segregate, forecast or inventory these “extreme error” items.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Data source: eMarketer. And based on Placer Lab’s data , the investment looks promising, with monthly 2021 monthly in-store visits up across the board in comparison to 2019: Image source: Placer.ai. Image source: Bring Me the News. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Trust Google to have the answer.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The goal should be to maintain domestic sources where doing so makes sense in terms of national security and to create a global network of trusted suppliers willing to become part of the blockchain / visibility network” (p.78,

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Alloy

AUGUST 10, 2021

How do you identify and quickly respond to out-of-stocks and phantom inventory? How Youth To The People empowers field sales & upgrades inventory execution & planning. Since Youth to the People was founded in 2015, the company’s marriage of science and superfoods has driven rapid sales and distribution growth.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2016

It was back in January 2015, after reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about bitcoin, that my eyes were opened to the potential for blockchain technology to transform supply chain management. Source: “Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Overview of Fluent Applications (source: Fluent website).

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Enterra Insights

JULY 14, 2021

” Inventory Management. This allows companies to prevent stocking unwanted inventory, which is not only a waste of space but also means the customers are not getting what they want, which really translates into a loss of revenue. ”[7]. Better Decision-Making. Bain analysts, Michael C. 8] Michael C. 9] Germain, op.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

Walmart would not have the ability to provide such low prices and have consistent inventory in the over 5,000 stores in the United States and over 1.3 Benefits from its supply chain efficiency result in time savings, more cost-effective inventory management and improved product forecasting, the article said. Decades in the Making.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 21, 2021

” Cognitive computing systems generally have the capability to integrate data from disparate sources; thus, eliminating the silo problem that plagues so many organizations. They include: Inventory Optimization. … Through AI-enabled inventory management, OEMs can gain better visibility into their inventory operations.

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Elementum

JUNE 18, 2021

Sources: Gartner, “S&OE: The Secret Ingredient for Delivering Planned Business Results”, Marko Pukkila, 2015. The Supply Chain Service Management Platform. {{cta(‘246b2487-0a66-4099-8d43-f08ad12000e6′,’justifycenter’)}}. cta(‘246b2487-0a66-4099-8d43-f08ad12000e6′,’justifycenter’)}}.

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Logility

MAY 7, 2020

Structured and unstructured data including that from social media, Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain sources continue to stream in but much is left untouched. and up to date transaction data (order status, inventory positions, shipment tracking, etc.) www.forbes.com , 2015. DHL Research Brief, 2015. References.

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Elementum

JUNE 18, 2021

Sources: Gartner, “S&OE: The Secret Ingredient for Delivering Planned Business Results”, Marko Pukkila, 2015. The kind of platform you can show your friends. The kind of platform you can trust. The Supply Chain Service Management Platform.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. Source: Machine Learning – A Giant Leap for Supply Chain Forecasting, Material Handling and Logistics Conference (PDF, 28 pp.,

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2016

They initially pitched their inventory optimization project to their private equity owners as an opportunity to free up working capital. Source: Gartner (December 2015). Click below to read the story about how Findus successfully pitched their inventory optimization project to their board. This concludes your opening.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. Customer-Centric Supply Chain Processes. Market Drivers.

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Procurement Academy

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A traditional approach to sourcing—looking at potential suppliers through familiar lenses such as price, quality, and reliability—had the benefit of straightforward metrics on which to base a comparison. Choices, choices, choices. One complication is the nature of ESG itself. Green’, though, is a more slippery notion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

After, I explained this, I granted Peter permission for the council to use the Index (the use of the Supply Chain Insights content follows the principles of open source), I then said to Peter, “I am glad that you called. I get called frequently to talk to supply chain leadership teams about inventory. It is cash. Let me explain.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2015

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]. Imagine a bitcoin being a unit of inventory and a digital wallet (“bitcoin address”) being an inventory-keeping location, such as a store, distribution center, or truck trailer.

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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 much inventory do we have across our network? Where’s my shipment or truck?

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Enterra Insights

JULY 11, 2018

“Former partners can provide a constant source of leads and referrals.” Citing findings from the second annual JDA Voice of the Store Manager survey, McKevitt notes, “Store managers now juggle order fulfillment, inventory visibility, and staffing needs to satisfy customer demands. Footnotes. [1] 5] Higinio O.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Back in 2015, Irfan Saif ( @irfansaif ), a principal with Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Cyber Risk Services practice, wrote, “Internet of Things initiatives demand targeted strategies to combat the influx of new cyber risks that will invariably accompany them.”[2] Inventory and logistics monitoring. ”[6]. Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2015

Walmart Charging Vendors for Inventory, The Panama Canal is Filling Up, Apparel Companies See Africa as Next Source of Low Costs, China Stock Market Tumbling, Impacts to Follow

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