Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. After six months of analysis, we decided the best fit was the combination of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital. Mondelez Performance Against the Food Group for 2010-2019.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 13, 2019

BOSTON (May 13, 2019) – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, announced today that David Barton has joined ToolsGroup as the new general manager of North America. Barton succeeds Patrick Smith, who served as managing director for North America from 2011 to February 2019. Media Contact.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

BOSTON (Sept 5, 2019) – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, shared details of its participation with Optimas Solutions, a leading global industrial distributor and service provider, in the North American Supply Chain Summit (NASCES19), taking place September 10-11 in Chicago. . “One and demand uncertainty.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 7, 2019

American Tire Distributors (ATD) to Highlight How It Worked with ToolsGroup to Tackle Forecasting and Inventory Challenges with S&OP. Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2019 is the world’s most important gathering of supply chain leaders. On May 14 at 3:50 p.m., About American Tire Distributors. and Canada. and Canada.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 25, 2022

More than ever, seasonal inventory needs to be carefully accounted for during the demand forecasting and inventory planning process , ensuring right-sized inventory that can meet customer expectations while limiting the spend and use of working capital. Benefits of Effective Seasonal Inventory Management.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

BOSTON (Sept 5, 2019) – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, shared details of its participation with Optimas Solutions, a leading global industrial distributor and service provider, in the North American Supply Chain Summit (NASCES19), taking place September 10-11 in Chicago. . “One and demand uncertainty.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 14, 2019

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) analysts, Gavin Parker, Thomas Jensen, Pascale Morillon, Bill Urda, and Stephanie Halgren, write, “For grocery retailers, customer-­centricity is a bit like personal virtue: everyone agrees that it’s a good thing, and no one can possibly argue against it, but actually achieving it is a challenge.”[1]

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

BOSTON (September 30, 2019) ToolsGroup, a leader a global leader in supply chain planning software, has been named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Demand Planning 2019 Vendor Assessment. . 2019, IDC Doc # US45493217. ####. About ToolsGroup.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. Amazon’s supply chain heavily depends on the outsourcing of its inventory management. 2019), Contributions of Industry 4.0 Boston: Springer), pp.413–422. billion (based on 2018 sales).

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

over 2019—a significant leap in the face of much uncertainty during the first quarter of the year. A new report from the Food Marketing Institute and Boston Consulting Group highlights the effects increased demand had on organizations in the CPG marketplace. Retail sales, including food services, increased 9.8% sequentially in March.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 21, 2020

Thus ensuring we had the right inventory in the right place at the right time to satisfy our customers’ needs.“ ToolsGroup is how organizations achieve their target service levels while optimizing inventory, no matter how complex their supply chain is or how much demand changes.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And consider forecast data, planning parameters, cost and price information, materials details and specifications, purchase orders (and all of the accompanying changes and updates), bills of lading, labels, inventory records, and much more. ” Supply Chain Game Changer , 22 January 2019. [6] What a waste!” Footnotes. [1]

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Demand forecasting and inventory planning will bolster TireHub’s service-driven strategy. BOSTON, Mass. ToolsGroup helps companies around the world better understand their demand, resulting in increased service, minimized inventory and freed up working capital. . PRESS RELEASE.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

BOSTON and MILAN (Sept. Sarah Voorhees has spent the last 12 years of her career in supply chain leadership roles, where she’s reimagined demand and supply planning and inventory management practices at consumer goods and distribution companies.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 30, 2019

BOSTON (July 30, 2019) – ToolsGroup, a global leader in service-driven supply chain planning software, has promoted Mauro Adorno to managing director of Europe. Our customers overcome demand volatility and supply chain complexity for outstanding service levels with reduced inventory.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Achieve target service levels while optimizing inventory, even with complex supply chains and changing demand. BOSTON (February 27, 2020) ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, today unveiled a new brand identity that invites companies to ‘be ready for anything.’ PRESS RELEASE.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

ports will compete for customers, especially in 2018 and 2019 when the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) contracts will be renegotiated. Moving and planning inventories on both fixed and spot—or even pegging rates to an index—are options. Free Time and Chassis.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Deloitte forecasts a 25–35% increase in e-commerce holiday sales this year compared to 2019. Boston Consulting Group estimates that this year — and for the foreseeable future — a full 60% of stock will be sold via markdown. The pandemic hit fashion retailers especially hard. How do you discount more strategically?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 8, 2016

ports will compete for customers, especially in 2018 and 2019 when the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) contracts will be renegotiated. Moving and planning inventories on both fixed and spot—or even pegging rates to an index—are options. Free Time and Chassis.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Global supply chains are fundamentally rearranging and there’s a lot of reflection on how the urge to optimize efficiency (whether it was offshoring manufacturing to keep labor costs down, or making supply chains very lean to cut inventory costs) made supply chains more fragile. How has this year changed the way you market technology? .

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Slowing demand means 6% lower imports from the GCC vs 2019 and 10% lower than 2020 forecast before the virus outbreak.” Realising operational and cost efficiencies will reduced lead times, improved forecast accuracy and increased inventory turnover. Reported by GPCA, “China is one of the key destinations for GCC polyethylene exports.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 15, 2020

A decade ago Boston Consulting Group (BCG) analysts Luc de Brabandere and Alan Iny asserted, “The ‘what if?’ Wright concludes, “With AI, supply chain professionals can optimize orders based on factors like inventory reallocation and prioritization. If we can do the extremes, our plans will most likely survive anything in between.”

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Veridian Solutions

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

As reported in Retail Dive , “roughly half (48%) of retailers have implemented a single commerce platform, according to Boston Retail Partners’ (BRP’s) 2019 POS/Customer Engagement Survey, and an additional 46% plan to have one in place within three years.” The customer doesn’t know the channel; it is a purely a retailer construct.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It’s hard to believe that after so many years, a legend of Boston has officially called it quits. The Bosstones were a classic Boston band that somehow even featured a member that simply known as the Dancing Bosstone. Sam’s Club rolling out inventory accessory for cleaning robots. percent versus the same month in 2019.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

All of the above (and other down-stream KPIs and processes) are heavily influenced by the accuracy of a demand forecast: if the demand forecast is much more accurate, a company is more likely to have the right product, in the right quantities in inventory and will have less of the products in inventory that is not required.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2023

Patrick’s Day Boston run, I took my son to his first concert to enjoy the Celtic-punk loudness that is the Dropkick Murphys. Rivian and Amazon struck a deal in 2019 to hand over 100,000 electric trucks to the e-commerce giant. The top categories are food, beverages, apparel / accessories, and decorations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 30, 2019

When the recession of 2019-2020 happens, the whiplash will be higher than the 2007 recession. Kearney, Boston Consulting Group, Cap Gemini, Deloitte, E&Y, IBM, and McKinsey, they get more of the same. Second Step: Understand the Role of Inventory. Companies are unsure if inventory is a bad or a good thing. The reason?

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Bristlecone

MARCH 23, 2020

in 2019, making the size of this industry segment $3.9 They are the last stop in the consumer products supply chain and typically, it’s an industry rife with channel inventory. Just to give you a picture of the size of this sector, in 2019, high-tech, or simply the tech industry, was a $5 trillion industry. as compared to 3.7%

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 30, 2019

inventory) which all saves money. . Boston Consulting Group’s Stefan Gstettner stated blockchain’s challenges in this way: “It’s not enough to set up a technology platform [for blockchain]. 26 September 2019 – ID G00382872. It’s more about involving the stakeholders. Consequently the speed of innovation has been hampered.

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