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Transportation Metrics That Matter Most to Track and Improve Performance

GlobalTranz

Creating a data-driven supply chain tracking important transportation metrics helps shippers respond and adapt as quickly as possible to known and unknown events. Why Monitor Transportation Metrics. Transportation metrics provide visibility that helps drive operative and competitive advantages.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Is supply chain inventory the problem?

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

The fall ritual precedes the dropping of the ball on Times Square to ring in 2020. Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. It is all consuming.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

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. 2020), Impact of Industry 4.0 Oxford Economics and SAP (2020). billion (based on 2018 sales).

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2020 Demonstrated the Importance of Managing Demand Variability

Logility

It’s time to show the value of clear guidance codified in playbooks, modeling, constraint-based analyses, clear metrics, inventory strategy, and designing the supply chain. It took a Black Swan event and the resulting unprecedented demand roller coaster to provide the urgency needed for an invitation to the top floor.

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A New Decade: Give Science A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

When I started my business in 2012, I frequently wrote about the future using the moniker of Supply Chain 2020. At that time, Supply Chain 2020 seemed so far away. I then want to illustrate the point by sharing some client experiences in 2020. (I Days of Inventory Comparison. My focus was simple. What can we learn?

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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

Rise in Inventories. Less Effective at Inventory Management. Inventories grew twenty days over the decade. Yes, companies held more inventory (measured in days of inventory) in 2019 than at the start of the 2007 recession. Sadly, most of it is the wrong inventory. Despite spending 1.1% Alignment Barriers.