ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 16, 2019

BOSTON (December 13, 2019) ToolsGroup, a leader a global leader in supply chain planning software, has been named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Inventory Optimization 2019 Vendor Assessment. PRESS RELEASE. About ToolsGroup.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Inventories in the chemical industry are at record lows: a forerunner of bad days ahead. While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supply chain–takes longer to recover. Retail shelves are increasingly empty.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Tom, the colorful warehouse manager, constantly heckled Frank for the increasing inventory levels while Ed, the quiet material/logistics manager, constantly questioned if there was a better way. He felt that inventory was no problem, he would just cut it at the end of each quarter to make the balance sheet goals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Five Year Performance on Business Goals (2019 – 2023) Looking at 2024 Priorities When it comes to organizational priorities across supply chain functions for 2024, APQC finds that supply chain planning remains in the top spot for the fifth year (selected by 90 percent of organizations).

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. Yannis transitioned from the role after eight years in 2019. True leaders top the chart on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, ROIC, and customer service. My reasoning?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2021

Supply shortages, low inventory to sales ratios, and hiring lags are noted as factors at play. Data as recent as the end of June 2021 show that inventories remain below 1.3 times a month’s sales, a low for the period since January 2019 included in the chart. Final Word.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Mr. Frasquet is the executive director of corporate procurement, although his responsibilities include a much broader set of supply chain responsibilities than just sourcing. This digital twin contains network costs – the inventory carrying cost is X for this product, by Y for this one.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2021

In December of 2019, the global grocery retailer Ahold Delhaize announced it was investing $480 million to transform and expand its US supply chain operations to support a strategy to transition the supply chain network into a fully-integrated, self-distribution model. Sources of Efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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Logility

APRIL 20, 2022

Since 2019, nearly 70% of supply chain leaders have been constantly responding to disruption. And for that reason, they can absorb and avoid disruption, measure variability proactively, and establish the rights strategies and inventory buffers to address it across the supply network and short- and long-term planning horizons.

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QAD

APRIL 1, 2019

As of April 2, 2019, we are pleased to announce the availability of QAD Cloud ERP 2019, the latest version of QAD’s flagship ERP solution that includes the Channel Islands User Experience (UX) and the QAD Enterprise Platform. QAD Cloud ERP 2019 Highlights. QAD Cloud ERP 2019 supports the legal requirements for 63 countries.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 15, 2020

For example, instead of simply stating forecast accuracy improvement as a benefit explain how this will ultimately reduce inventory and working capital and increase service levels. Source: How to Build a Strong Business Case for Your Supply Chain Planning Technology Investment. Alex Pradhan, published 7 June 2019.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 10, 2018

As we quickly approach 2019, there are a number of potentially game-changing global trade challenges supply chain professionals must consider in their planning, including new tariffs, trade wars, and Brexit. The post Major Influences on Supply Chains for 2019 appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 30, 2022

Then Jabil handles the sourcing and manufacturing of those products. They are sourcing from over 27,000 suppliers. She worked as a production planner, a master planner, a demand planner, and inventory manager, before leading a team of demand planners in 2015. They had over 100 days of inventory on hand.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ve found our customers are urgently seeking ways to better plan around supply chain demand volatility and improve how they source materials and products from suppliers. Supply chains will get more regional and focus more on alternate sourcing/ substitution options. Published: 17 October 2019 ID: G00450874. (2)

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Excess inventory – it’s taking up your warehouse space, tying up working capital, and limiting your planning team’s range of motion. It’s time to Marie Kondo your supply chain by eliminating excess inventory and learning how to avoid it in the first place. Let’s talk about: What Excess Inventory Is. What Causes Excess Inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Freight Rates 2019-2021. Get Good at Inventory Management. Push past cursory analysis of safety stock and embrace the concepts of form and function of inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2023

This new system of inventory management will go into effect on March 1, and will replace weekly restock limits that Amazon used for calculating FBA storage. Directors at Amazon agencies and accelerators said that these new changes will help sellers forecast inventory better. That ruling was stayed while the CTA appealed to the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2023

The February reading in the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index was -0.26, reaching negative territory for the first time since August 2019. In October of 2019, I wrote about the food supply chain being at risk. But chicken and eggs are not the only protein source that has been facing supply chain shortages.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 14, 2019

A key factor was Optilon’s ability to integrate best-of-breed solutions for production planning, demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and replenishment into a seamless process. That’s also allowing Absolut to keep its production, from sourcing materials to distilling and bottling, anchored in a small corner of southern Sweden.”

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 17, 2020

Usually disruptive events require redefinition and reconfiguring of the supply chain network in order to identify correct allocation of flows and inventory. Being able to understand if supply expected from Europe needs to be re-routed and sourced from Asia or South America is important when entire channels become unavailable.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2021

alternate sourcing strategies), while others are potentially negative (e.g. China increased its lead in global parcel volume in 2019, shipping more than 63 billion parcels last year, representing 26% YoY growth and making up substantially more than half of global parcel volume. fewer commuting miles driven), some largely neutral (e.g.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Run” will include using the platform for inventory optimization and to support interesting internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. HWI employed a crawl-walk-run methodology.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 11, 2025

A rise in nearshoring and away from single-source dependency The pandemic was a wake-up call that exposed the fragility of globally interconnected supply chains and the risks of over-reliance on distant suppliers and single-source strategies. 3 long term changes to the supply chain 1.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Source: CSCMP. Liberty Global , the world’s largest TV and broadband company, integrated advanced analytics into their S&OP to improve inventory rotation times and demand accuracy. L everaging analytics at scale is hard. The result was a 70% increase in planning accuracy. . Invest in training and skills transfer .

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The process brings together all the plans for the business (sales, marketing, development, manufacturing, sourcing, and financial) into one integrated set of plans.” Gartner: Keys to Solving the Top S&OP Challenges; Refreshed 29 October 2019, Published 12 June 2018. Read the full Melitta case study below. Read Case Study.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 1, 2019

Every supply chain professional understands inventory is a necessary evil. Carry too little inventory and you can miss out on sales and anger customers. Carry too much inventory and you increase handling costs and cut into profits. The inventory optimization challenge. The inventory optimization challenge.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK.

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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. . Access the IDC report IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Demand Planning 2019 Vendor Assessment by Simon Ellis, Sept.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization, increasing access to China as both a channel and a supply source. Expect greater variability in lead times and an increase in in-transit inventory. Inventory Management. Few are ready to rationalize the differences in the price of inventory on receipt. Take two actions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

” Or alternatively, “Is there data that could be sourced to help?” In Figure 1, we show the aggregate trend of the chemical industry in an orbit chart format showing year-over-year results at the intersection of two metrics operating margin and inventory turns. inventory turns. Ask the group what is possible?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

It is prime time for visibility / inventory management tools and outsourcing. For instance, Maersk and CMA CGM are building end-to-end logistics capability chains, while over USD 6bn was invested by VC investors in freight marketplaces alone through 2019. Source: US Census Bureau. USD 2bn in annual VC funding) from 2015-2019.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Impact of Demand Sensing on Inventory Levels. Over this period of 2013-2014 Shell made good progress on inventory, but faced unprecedented supply price volatility. The implementation was very successful. Planting the Seeds.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. What a Supply Chain Digital Transformation Means Unsurprisingly, a company as large as Mars has a highly complex supply chain involving global sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

In fact, IT spend as a percent of business capex crossed over the prior ~10 year average in 2019 and we see that trend extending in early 2020.”. And Agility Can Help Improve Profitability Too? These companies failed to realize that profitable agility relies on a mixed bag of capabilities ?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) Companies tightly coupling the budget to S&OP have significantly higher inventories and lower growth than their peer group. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Mistake #3.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Inventories in the chemical industry are at record lows: a forerunner of bad days ahead. While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supply chain–takes longer to recover. Retail shelves are increasingly empty.

Supply Chain Design Software 195

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