Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 11, 2016

Purchasing. Focus for 2016. Our focus for 2016 is: Transformation – Information technologies, understanding big data, and digital supply networks are pushing supply chain management to new levels of efficiency. Share experiences and hear success stories on leadership strategies, cultural excellence and talent development.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The current state of logistics is our malady. I find no agency or entity trying to find a holistic solution to global logistics. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. The average purchase order changes 3-4X before shipment.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Drones and its future in supply chain and logistics processes. Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. Before diving into some takeaways from the sessions I attended and participated in, here are some high-level stats about Descartes (a Talking Logistics sponsor): Descartes is now a $200M+ company and continues to grow.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

But in 2016, Philip Morris International decided to change the course of its history by leading a transformation in the tobacco industry to create a smoke-free future based on products, which while not risk-free—are a better choice for adult smokers than continuing to smoke. It was predictable.

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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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QAD

OCTOBER 26, 2023

For companies concerned with operational excellence — and profitability — this needs to change and many need to address global trade management complexities. For example, the information your logistics department uses to track deliveries can be shared with your customers, and your customer support team.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 14, 2022

Wumdrop is a successful last mile logistics company in South Africa. And they said, ‘Excellent very glad to do it. So, we buy diapers from them, we have them delivered to us, we rebrand them, and because of the cadence we adjusted our business model to be a subscription-based diaper ordering business. Absolutely not!

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Locus

JUNE 21, 2022

These are expectations not just from business to consumer (B2C) sales channels but from business to business (B2B) retailers as well, making it vital for retailers and logistics providers to walk at the same pace as the customer. So, what is the last mile in logistics? billion global digital buyers in 2016. trillion worldwide.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

With Advanced Supply Chain Analytics : Advanced analytics can foresee such supply shortages by analyzing patterns, trends, and external factors, allowing the company to source alternative suppliers or adjust production schedules in advance. This includes data from suppliers, production facilities, logistics services, and customer feedback.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Customers are buying less. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. Figure 1: Expected Changes in IT Spending in 2016.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. How easy is it to buy from your company? Bio-engineering?

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. Boot Barn @bootbarn In 2016, Boot Barn improved operations at its distribution center in Fontana, California by implementing HighJump’s Warehouse Advantage WMS.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In other words, many supply chain and purchasing solutions looks at historical transaction activity (what happened in the past and is captured in our ERP systems). This can be interesting as a “post mortem” after action review, but doesn’t tell you where the puck is going!

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 26, 2019

The Internet was still in its infancy (it had about 100K hosts connecting roughly a million people), the Macintosh Portable was released (weighing 16 pounds and costing $6500), and Microsoft Excel (a mainstay of S&OP) was just four years old. Dependency on Excel. That doesn’t mean buying the first shiny thing you see.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Recently I had the pleasure of attending EBG Network’s 8th Annual Source to Pay Summit, which gathered some of the Nordic’s largest organizations and procurement profiles. Source: Deloitte’s CPO Survey 2018. Source and purchase goods and services from anywhere?—?around Source: Deloitte. Withstanding Scrutiny?—?A

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

especially procurement and logistics?—?in For this reason, blockchain technology has been viewed as the perfect match for business application within procurement and logistics. Blockchain technology won’t just enhance the way procurement and logistics professionals work today; it poses the ability to reshape the functions entirely.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Developed a process of excellence in supply chain collaboration. The study found that by this year (2016), 89% of companies expected to be competing primarily on the basis of customer experience. . That should be sobering news for any business not yet focused on supply chain excellence as a lever for business success.

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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. No Purchase Orders were used. However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant's supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Source: Gartner. I don’t for one second deny that the companies on the list have great supply chains, but there are so many advances in Supply Chain technology, talent, skills and capabilities that it is hard to believe that all of this excellence is restricted to the same group of 20 companies year after year after year.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 28, 2021

Sources: IBIS World Coffee Bean Distributors in Australia July 2020. growth (2016-21). Sources: IBIS World Coffee Processing in the UK June 2020. Sources: IBIS World Coffee Production in the US October 2020. since 2016. Source: IBIS World Tea, Coffee and Other Food Manufacturing in New Zealand November 2020.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 25, 2022

In any case, an excellent place to start is by knowing what the most vital supply chain leaders’ skills are and, of course, why you need them. A single service offering can even impair profitability , perhaps creating a situation where logistics costs cause some sales to generate losses instead of profits.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 12, 2016

He then went into global imports for the central purchasing group in Raleigh. By 2014 and 2016 revenue was back up to almost its previous high point. In 2013 we had $8M of raw material inventory – due to poor purchasing, poor safety stock decisions, and a lot of WIP in the system. Today, we are at 5.5M

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Requis

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Companies at the smaller end of the continuum were working out of Excel sheets or Google Docs or, at the other end, working with clunky, complex enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and product lifecycle management (PLM) systems. Those that aren’t already encumbered by existing purchases aren’t making the same choice.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

So in order to perhaps spawn some ideas for your supply chain excellence efforts, I thought I’d offer a brief overview of how four leading organisations are achieving their successes and cementing their mastery of the 21 st century supply chain. 4 Leading Operators with the Supply Chain X-Factor. Health and safety. Innovation.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Commercial and industrial activities such as manufacturing, R&D, warehousing, and logistics are undertaken in freeports, which are designed to attract manufacturers producing or assembling goods predominantly for export. They will also be offered temporary tax breaks, including reductions to taxes on property and new building purchases.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 14, 2020

Source: Gartner. I don’t for one second deny that the companies on the list have great supply chains, but there are so many advances in Supply Chain technology, talent, skills and capabilities that it is hard to believe that all of this excellence is restricted to the same group of 20 companies year after year after year.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

Logistics and Distribution. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. By 2016, there will be more than 10 billion mobile devices which would roughly be 1.5 New application purchases are being evaluated to be cloud deployable. Financial Services.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 2, 2016

To put that claim into some perspective, consider this data revealed by Gartner from research conducted in 2014: The research found that by this year (2016), 89% of companies expected to be competing primarily on the basis of customer experience. There is also the question of ethical procurement and purchasing to think about.

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