Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But regardless of whether you plan to read a book every week, go running every day at 6 AM, or finally put some money in your IRA, I believe the New Year is a perfect time to make some resolutions about your supply chain. New Year’s Resolution #1: “I resolve to put effective supply chain performance measures in place.”.

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Logility

AUGUST 7, 2017

Wait, it’s not spring; but does that mean you have to wait another eight months to review your supply chain? Often, it becomes necessary to reevaluate how supply chain performance is measured to ensure healthy operations. Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supply chain results; yet, sadly, only four percent of public companies succeed. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. Now, I view the company as a supply chain laggard.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Sean is the Founder and CEO of STORD , the leading Cloud Supply Chain that enables companies to compete and grow with world-class logistics. Sean Henry is the Founder and CEO of STORD , the pioneer of the Cloud Supply Chain and a leader in end-to-end logistics services and technology. About Sean Henry. About STORD.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 16, 2024

.” He adds, “If this scenario sounds familiar, you’ve likely fallen victim to the ‘decision abyss’ — the disconnect between engineering and product design, supply chain planning and procurement within organizations that hinders quick, informed decision-making and visibility.”

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Enterra Insights

JULY 14, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting every economic sector including supply chain operations. Germain observes, “AI has changed the supply chain process from reactive to proactive, which creates a larger change in how data-driven processes will operate in the future. Area Where AI Can Optimize Supply Chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Each year at Supply Chain Insights we study performance and improvement of companies in each industry. The level of performance in 2015 is the same as 2006. Performance of BMS and Merck at the Intersection of Inventory Turns and Operating Margin. Understanding What Drives Supply Chain Excellence.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 7, 2016

We continue our series on the top 5 blogs in our 4 main categories ( Freight , Manufacturing , Logistics , and Supply Chain ). Today's post will cover the top 5 supply chain blogs from 2016 so far. Top Supply Chain Blogs from the First Half of 2016 So Far. Current State of Today’s Supply Chain in 2016.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This is my 440th blog post and the tenth anniversary Supply Chain Shaman. It is for this reason, that I use COV analysis to type logical supply chain flows. Companies do not have one supply chain, they have many. Most companies have a high volume and predictable supply chain (COV of less than.5),

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2015

Two major shifts are changing the face of global transportation management as we know it: Supply chains are becoming increasingly complex, relying on partners and data beyond the four walls of the enterprise; The very definition of global transportation management is broadening and expanding well beyond the traditional TMS scope.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. Historically, the traditional supply chain focused on improving costs. Today, more mature supply chain teams focus on delivering value. To help, in this post, we provide you with some insights for the period of 2006-2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We named it the Supply Chain Index. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Background on the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

These consumer products global leaders paved the road for supply chain excellence by defining new supply chain practices. Today, each leader wants to take their empowered team to new supply chain heights. At Supply Chain Insights, we published a report card yesterday. Who is poised to win?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

(Included in this post is Cummins’ digital award for the 2016 Supply Chains to Admire. I want to understand why some companies outperform on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter while others do not. All too often supply chain leaders are good at high level vision, but weak at connecting the vision to execution.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2017

In the field of supply chain management, we have created an abundance of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). For the past 30 years I have been involved with multiple efforts to build a set of supply chain metrics and have learned a few things along the way. One Size Does Not Fit All. Accessibility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

My focus in this post is to highlight changes in supply chain analytics, and what this can mean for your business. Today, if you ask a supply chain leader about analytics, their response is all about reporting. I also believe supply chain analytics is defined too narrowly by most IT and supply chain professionals.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 11, 2020

SKF’s use of a digital twin for analytics to support integrated planning demonstrated exceptional supply chain innovation. According to Gartner, “the Gartner Supply Chainnovator Awards is an annual research program that identifies, assesses and awards outstanding examples of Supply Chain Innovation.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Bottom line: Machine learning makes it possible to discover patterns in supply chain management data by relying on algorithms that quickly pinpoint the most influential factors to a supply networks’ success, while constantly learning in the process. How Machine Learning Is Redefining Supply Chain Management.

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

JULY 15, 2021

trillion in 2015, almost twice the size of the retail industry. Operationally, profit margins have been stubbornly flat and supply chain performance measured in inventory performance has been worsening over the last five yearsii. Industry Challenge In the US, the wholesale industry traded $5.4

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Demand Solutions

JANUARY 8, 2015

In my last article , I explained why I think New Year’s resolutions are important in the supply chain planning sphere—even for people who don’t make New Year’s resolutions in their daily lives. I discussed the importance of putting useful supply chain performance measures in place for 2015.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Those questions are particularly pertinent today because most consultants are advising business leaders they need to transform their Industrial Age organizations into Digital Enterprises —and that transformation often begins with the supply chain. Answering those nagging digital supply chain transformation questions.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The introduction of E-Procurement: Price and availability are not the only factors to be considered in a purchasing decision, especially now that a strong supply chain has become an unmissable element for every company in today’s business climate (Namulo, 2017). These steps aim to improve the overall supply chain performance.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

The success of your business links inextricably to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth.

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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.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 14, 2024

Supply Chain Matters draws reader attention to a published report profiling luxury auto maker BMW ’s strides in electrical vehicle production. Performance in Electric Vehicle Production The New York Times published report, BMW Is a Surprise in Electric Vehicles (Paid subscription or metered view) is a noteworthy and insightful read.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

Supply chain leaders are competitive. The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. Now in 2018, we are starting to see the evolution of “Gods” with new business models that are redefining supply chain processes.

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The Network Effect

DECEMBER 15, 2015

One of our running themes in 2015 has been showing how cloud-based technologies are enabling logistic providers to provide their customers with services that extend beyond traditional logistics and transportation services and into their customers’ wider supply chains. Supply Planning and Inbound Services .

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

As supply chain clichés take flight, clients struggle with execution. One of these concepts that I hear a lot; but see few tangible examples, is the idea of “customer-segmented supply chain.” The discussion of customer-segmented supply chains happens often. How do they buy from you?”

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Regarding supply chain trade-off curves: trade-off, shmade-off…if you don’t like your current frontier, change it. That was the uplifting message from a keynote session delivered by Dr. Sean Willems at Logility’s Connections 2015 customer event.

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KEPLER Consulting

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

In few years only, Supply Chain Management became one of the trendiest topics for organizations facing globalized markets. Through this exercise, we clearly see how the essence of Supply Chain Management (systemic approach, vision sharing, animation principles…) is essential to face all challenges emerging. STATEMENTS. #1

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 31, 2017

The overlooked supply chain model. Gartner, an American technology research and advisory firm, considers demand planning accuracy at the top of the list of key supply chain performance indicators. Project supply chains. Project supply chains are strikingly different from make-to-stock supply chains.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 17, 2015

When I was asked to organize the Innovation and Thought Leadership track at FOCUS 2015 , I recognized that I would need to assemble some high-impact speakers who would get attendees thinking about the radical changes they need to make in their supply chains. Becoming Customer-Centric: Best Practices. Big Data, Big Challenges.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Many of the projects students in my MBA 541 class have been working on this semester will focus on analytics… coincidentally, the subject of our upcoming SCRC meeting on December 7-8, 2015. We continue to hear about the power of “big data”, as well as how important analytics are to driving performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

For many years (1992-2001), I worked at Manugistics, a supply chain planning technology provider. It was refreshing for me today to talk to Adexa and see their fresh approach to supply chain planning. Today I am deep into writing reports for the Supply Chain Insights newsletter. I experienced many layoffs.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In conjunction with the reporting of cumulative nine month 2023 financial performance , commercial aircraft producer Airbus reiterated its full-year aircraft delivery commitment of 720 aircraft. We expect the supply chain to remain challenging as we progress on the production ramp-up.

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AFFLINK

MAY 17, 2017

Customers want what they want, and there should be a supply chain plan in place that supports those needs. But what happens when your hospitality supply chain isn’t flexible enough to provide for the customer? Green Supply Chain. Never fear, though. Logistics Management. The reason?

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