ModusLink Corporation

JUNE 16, 2017

Most notable has been the shift from traditional brick-and-mortar shopping to online and mobile purchasing. As a result of this shift, retailers have been forced to focus on e-commerce and fulfillment strategies to ensure the online or mobile customer has the same excellent experience that […].

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

Over the past year, the Arkieva Supply Chain Link Blog provided thought leadership and informative posts on supply chain strategy tips, trends, and news. Here is a list of the Top 20 Supply Chain Strategy Blog Posts from 2016. The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2016

Today, Kelly shares the top 14 Logistics and Supply Chain Management training programs and courses available in 2016. It is important to note the necessity to build strategy of company’s logistics system development and integrate it as a full-fledged component for not less than 10-15 years. University Courses. 3) OnCampus Texas.

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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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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Many analysts believe, however, that time for caution has passed when it comes to digital supply chain transformation. Nevertheless, “wait and see” seems to be the position of many supply chain professionals. analytics) to improve supply chain processes. servomechanisms) and software (e.g.,

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DynaSys

MARCH 5, 2019

With the increase in living standards leading to the emergence of the middle class, Asian countries are at the heart of growth strategies for most brands. Sales in mainland China have grown by 18% in 2017 after a two-year crisis that spread doubt in the market (figures reported by Claudia d’Arpizio, partner at Bain).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 24, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. For example, if an investor purchased a call option for 20% above the market price of a stock, that could rise 20% by the end of the year. if it expired on December 18th, 2017. Several strategies can be used to create synthetic options, such as straddles, spreads, and combinations.

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Arkieva

MARCH 16, 2017

Supply Chain Lessons from Disney: What if we looked at supply chain management through the lens of Walt Disney? I was excited to visit Disney, but I only have two clear memories: the Mickey ears I purchased and my brother’s trying to order the most expensive item on the menu every time we ate out. Click To Tweet.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

The supply chain leader is incredibly busy and made even busier by having to navigate systems that don’t work well. Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. Make digital supply chain transformation a priority.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2022

2] Those industries include: Manufacturing; Medicine and Healthcare; Consumer Packaged Goods; Marketing; Insurance; Supply Chain Management; Energy and Utilities; Service Industry; Education; Financial Services; Government; Science; and Retail. Tech journalist Christian Rigg agrees with Wang. ” TechRadar.Pro, 12 August 2022. [9]

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Maersk has unabashedly championed vertical integration for years, advocating an “end-to-end” strategy. On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2017

When I engage with supply chain leaders , I ask the question, “Are you making progress?” The supply chain is a complex, non-linear system. As a result, supply chain leaders focus on unrealistic goals of inventory or costs, they will throw the system out of balance. Rethink supply chain practices.

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IQMS

JUNE 25, 2019

The majority of enterprises are prioritizing their blockchain pilots that concentrate on supply chains improvements (53%) and the Internet of Things (51%) according to Deloitte’s latest blockchain survey. The Supply Chain Management enterprise software market is growing from $12.2B in 2017 to $20.4B

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Machine learning is providing the needed algorithms, applications, and frameworks to bring greater predictive accuracy and value to enterprises’ data sets and contributing to diverse strategies succeeding.”[1] ” Machine learning and the supply chain. They are: 1. Demand forecasting. ” 2. . Actionable insights.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 9, 2021

This convergence in technologies is helping to drive manufacturing’s digital transformation through the integration of previously disparate systems and processes through interconnected computer systems across the value and supply chain.” Devise the Right Strategy. They include: 1. ” 2. ” 3.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

The confusion starts when a supply chain leader states the need for improved visibility without a clear definition. Well-seasoned supply chain leaders understand that visibility is a capability not an IT taxonomy. The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics. Supply chains are complex.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 26, 2019

” Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, believes S&OP is suffering from a Peter Pan complex — it’s never grown up. ” She also notes that global supply chains increase complexity and make modeling more difficult. Dependency on Excel. ” 4. .”

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Peggy was a speaker at the Supply Chain Global Summit. AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. As shown in Table A, the Company ranked 3 out of 12 companies in their peer group on driving supply chain improvement as measured by the Supply Chain Index. Use carrots not sticks.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Global supply chain disruption, rapid technological evolution, changing buying and selling habits – wholesale distributors have had to deal with some rapid and radical changes over the past couple of years. In 2017 it showed the world the D2C trend was coming by slashing its 30,000 retail partners down to just 40.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 21, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. According to Stephan Serrano at Barilliance , click & collect is an “omnichannel retail strategy where shoppers order their items online and pick them up in store.”. It is also sometimes known as “buy online, pick up in store”, or BOPUS for short. Email Address.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Maybe at the start of the S&OP project executives buy in and employees are still eager. Usually lead and motivated by supply chain who promises a great business governing model, there is some enthusiasm and support from other functions. million Youtube views and millions of books sold he obviously hit a nerve.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is his third guest blog on Supply Chain View From the Field. Supply chain partners have been using EDI , a standard electronic format, to share data and transact business for more than sixty years, and it continues to evolve. Craig Lukasik has been busy! And it’s good one!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Mingling with procurement professionals, sourcing experts, category gurus and purchasing managers under the day gave me an incredible insight into daily challenges and pain points regarding their digital procurement strategies. Source and purchase goods and services from anywhere?—?around Source: Deloitte’s CPO Survey 2018.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 13, 2018

The decisions range from big, one-off strategic choices (such as where to locate the next multibillion-dollar plant) to everyday frontline decisions that add up to a lot of value over time (such as whether to suggest another purchase to a customer). 3] Staff, “ The Era of Big Data Analytics ,” CIO Review , 15 December 2017. [4]

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. But, when my mom was buying a new vehicle, she didn’t decide to scrap the vehicle from 1993 and purchase one from 1995. But, we can’t begin our journey towards the future of procurement excellence in a ’93 Escort. Subscribe Here! Email Address. She chose the hybrid route.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The biggest challenge for supply chain professionals today is the is the accelerated pace of change, according to APICS CEO Abe Eshkenazi. Since 2006, Abe Eshkenazi has served as CEO of APICS, a trade association focused on offering research, education and certification programs in supply chain management.

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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 design of the supply chain is fundamental to making this happen. In our interview of the Supply Chains to Admire Winners, we found a unique approach at Carter’s. Supply Chain Index.

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KEPLER Consulting

OCTOBER 18, 2017

After a first era of development and opportunity catch up particularly positive and characterized by consistent purchasing gains , most of these Sourcing Offices are now searching for their second breath. Strategic actions like Purchasing Strategy definition or Negotiation preparation are not correctly documented.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Yet it was generally viewed as something to be deployed in Operations or Supply Chain. Executive Buy-In and Ongoing Support. First of all if you don’t have Executive Buy-In you are dead in the water. Check out Global Process Excellence (Part 7!) – 10 Signs You Should Reboot Your Lean Program!

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. eAuctions technology can reduce the cost of purchasing products and services by up to 20%. Macfarlane, 2017). Introduction to Strategic Sourcing. .

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Check out Do you have a Freight Management Strategy or are you Spinning your Wheels? Many years ago I started a Supply Chain Services business as a new service within the company. The fundamental premise was that we had great Supply Chain expertise, tools, systems and processes which we could easily offer to customers.

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Tompkins Blog

APRIL 29, 2014

The rapid growth in online ordering and fulfillment is changing businesses and their supply chains. Supply chain strategies should be based on continuously evolving business strategies, and they both lead to critical implications for real estate. By James A. CEO, Tompkins International. You bet it can.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

As fall becomes winter, supply chain leaders are planning their budgets and building strategies for 2017. With this in mind, in this blog, I make an argument that we, as supply chain leaders, have screwed up direct material procurement. This is not the case with the purchase of direct materials.

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Logility

JANUARY 28, 2022

In the spirit of setting some resolutions for 2022, here are five priorities to consider in a climate that continues to disrupt supply chains globally. A 2021 McKinsey report suggests that COVID has put supply chain risk on everyone’s radar. Here we see the interplay among our five supply chain goals for 2022.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 13, 2018

I read a lot of articles about the need for supply chain transformation. Dan Gilmore, editor-in-chief of Supply Chain Digest , asserts supply chain transformation is only beginning to catch the attention of many CEOs. Full visibility the length of the supply chain. What is the end game?

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