Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The company buying his company, EXE Technologies, is now infamous among those who have followed the WMS market. It was really intended to allow us to buy a few robots and rent some space, just get us started” and prove the business model. We asked for $2 million to buy more robots and then shortly thereafter another $4m.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. Performance on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

Supply Chain Design Software 195

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 16, 2018

There is no doubt, that the retail landscape is increasingly looking like an online one as traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, such as Toys R Us, Foot Locker, and Best Buy mobile shutter hundreds of stores unable to keep up with the changing customer that wants fast, free delivery all with just a click of a button. percent in 2016.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 199

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy and sell-side markets) bi-directionally with near-real time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. This is a missionary buying market where taxonomies and technologies are not clear.

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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 translation of independent demand into cycle stock reduction in production planning and material buying in demand-driven MRP.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 31, 2016

The procurement Summit 2016. Date: 15 November 2016. Building on the huge success of eWorld Procurement & Supply – which has been running bi-annually in London since 2001 – the new Procurement Summit will bring together 150 purchasing and finance professionals from across the commercial, public and third sectors.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2017

AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. Performance and Improvement for the Period of 2010-2016 for Trucks and Heavy Equipment. AGCO envisioned employing a 3×3 training metrics: every operation would have 3 people able to execute it, and every person would be able to do 3 operations. Time to Value.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Manufacturers who excel at orchestrating analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), quality management and real-time monitoring to improve manufacturing strategies are growing 10% faster than their peers. With the advanced analytics spending predicted to grow from $136B in 2016 to $232B in 2021 , attaining an 11.3%

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. How easy is it to buy from your company? Bio-engineering? Customization?

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. Much of that growth has been fueled by acquisitions, including four acquisitions in 2016, with more certainly to come this year. The R&D team delivered about 350 product releases in 2016. Will this include drone deliveries? pic.twitter.com/rDXqt2Q7rV.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

We might use “availability in Excel directly or with Add-ons” as an “age metric’.). For example, basic optimization and statistical methods have been part of business school programs for over 40 years and core methods are part of Excel. 2016, “Defining Analytics: A conceptual Framework” ORMS Today pp.

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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.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 120

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 3, 2017

Let’s look at some of the “business” statistics of social media for 2016 thanks to the Pew Research Center: Instagram earns $595 million in mobile ad revenue per year, a rapidly increasing number. Facebook’s total revenue grew 56% in 2016, and advertising revenue grew 59%. Wait…aren’t you looking for, uh, consumers ?

Logistics Network Optimization Software 110

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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 is a radical representation, as it requires thinking that the key performance metric in this case is agility and responsiveness to customer and technological change.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

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. Gartner Survey Metric Notes: 1.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 14, 2020

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. Gartner Survey Metric Notes: 1.

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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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Locus Robotics

JUNE 2, 2025

The answers form our Net Promoter Score (NPS), a customer loyalty metric used across industries to gauge real-world satisfaction and long-term value. Achieve Metrics : I especially appreciate when Locus Robotics is a thought partner in helping identify solutions to unlock the business and achieve key metrics.

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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.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 40

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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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synchrono

DECEMBER 18, 2017

So, once you have universal buy-in on the project (see Guest Blog1: Real-world Advice for Getting Started on eKanban ), the first step toward execution is to develop a good process, or value-stream map. Metrics typically associated with eKanban projects include: Inventory turns/Inventory cost. Monitor your metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 9, 2021

Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. The myopic focus on IT standardization resulted in the purchase of technology, but not value delivery. Sadly, most of it is the wrong inventory. Alignment Barriers.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

Srihari Senior Consultant, Infosys Posted on: May, 22 2016 Great article. Mike O'Brien Senior editor, Access Intelligence Posted on: May, 26 2016 Surprised to see Home Depot fall off the list; thought they were winning with Sync? link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article!

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Once you buy and invest in ethereum , it’s a good idea to pull your crypto off the exchange and store it in your own cryptocurrency wallet that you control. With a verified account and money deposited into that account, you’ll be able to begin purchasing ethereum and other cryptocurrencies via the exchange.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

19 average) and 3 times better ROIC for the period (33% versus P&G’s 11%), note that none of these three household products companies made progress on supply chain excellence in the period of 2013-2015. P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. 21 versus P&G’s.19

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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. It is a condition of too little sleep due to fabulous late night coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51° and Market6 Data How Automation and Advanced Metrics You Won’t Get in 84.51° can help you grow your sales at Kroger and avoid inventory headaches. Market6 was bought by 84.51° in 2016 to add improved product movement data capabilities to the platform.

Procurement Analytics 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A car is necessary for the suburbs, so I plopped 5K on the used car lot desk and rode off in a 2016 Lincoln Mercury. If I do an excellent job at safety stock management, my company will have the right levels of inventory. For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere.

Supply Chain Planning Software 195

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Commandment 9: Insist on User Friendliness Independent of the effort put forth to design a system, purchase hardware and develop software, the single biggest test of implementation occurs when an operator attempts to scan bar coded media. Your Comments/Feedback Srihari Senior Consultant, Infosys Posted on: May, 22 2016 Great article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

CSCMP members can download a copy for no charge, and others can purchase one for a modest fee. Your Comments/Feedback Srihari Senior Consultant, Infosys Posted on: May, 22 2016 Great article. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! I recommend it. How could the report be improved?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

Srihari Senior Consultant, Infosys Posted on: May, 22 2016 Great article. Mike O'Brien Senior editor, Access Intelligence Posted on: May, 26 2016 Surprised to see Home Depot fall off the list; thought they were winning with Sync? link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article!

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

Your Comments/Feedback Srihari Senior Consultant, Infosys Posted on: May, 22 2016 Great article. Mike O'Brien Senior editor, Access Intelligence Posted on: May, 26 2016 Surprised to see Home Depot fall off the list; thought they were winning with Sync? link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article!

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