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Capitalising on Supply Chain Digitisation with Robotic Process Automation – 10 Areas of Opportunities – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Procurement. RPA can automate the uploading of reporting and contract data for transactions from contracts into Transportation Management Systems (TMS) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems with greater speed and accuracy. Inventory Management. Regardless of how efficient and effective, all supply chains carry inventory.

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What Do You Mean By Supply Chain Visibility?

Logistics Viewpoints

FourKites CEO, Matt Elenjickal One of the two leaders in the real-time transportation visibility market is FourKites. I attended my first Visibility conference in 2020. In 2020, the company had expanded beyond providing over the road visibility to providing end-to-end visibility across multiple modes and regions.

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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. Belief in efficient procurement.

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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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Procurement and supply chain executives are struggling in the current environment of high inflation and missed deliveries.

NC State SCRC

The report was published in the last month, and reflects some of the increasing challenges and disparities that exist between procurement and supply chain executives. One of the problems that often emerges in organizations is not only misalignment between procurement and supply chain, but also between senior executives and their managers.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Prior to 2020, they were paying around ten cents a mask. During 2020, Cooper was paying up to a $1.50 2020 it was just a scramble for PPE,” Dr. Runkle explained. “We If they were dependent, did they have East Coast distribution centers where they could preplace inventory before the strike occurred.

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2020 Supply Chain Management Trends

EazyStock

Intro to 2020 Supply Chain Management Trends. The new year is upon us, and with the end of 2019 we reach the end of the decade – and the beginning of 2020. 2020 supply chain management trends will further these shifts. 2020 supply chain management trends will further these shifts. Greening” the Supply Chain.