ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As 2021’s holiday shopping statistics proved, pandemic or not, consumers are willing to spend. (My From a digitally-transformed shopping experience to global supply chain disruptions and a pandemic that refuses to quit, there’s one thing retailers can count on: People are always going to shop. The wonderful world of retail.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Recently, I hosted the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Net/net, the current architectures are hard-wired into back-office Information Technology deployments with layers of security and integration, and batch processing. The Supply Chain Executives were not interested in the project, and as a result, did not see the value.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I seethed as the news stations celebrated supply chain success for the December holidays. The health of the supply chain underpins our economy. When the supply chain is sick, all industries suffer. The price of an ocean shipment increased 9-10X from 2020-2021. Freight Rates 2019-2021.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For the past several months, supply chains have received more press than they have in a long time — maybe ever. Supply chains are in trouble. Marcus Jeffery, Territory Manager, UK and Ireland, at Ivanti Supply Chain, observes, “Global supply chains have been under immense pressure over the past year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. When companies want to digitally transform their supply chain capabilities, moving to an integrated business planning process (IBP) is often at the heart of the transformation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 4, 2024

I take supply chain management seriously. The goal is to create a multi-tier enterprise supply chain ecosystem. To date, I have read sixteen write-ups from press, thought leaders, and analysis on the acquisition. In 2023, Blue Yonder purchased Flexis AG and Doddle. I am also known for telling it like it is.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. in the second year of the pandemic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

As a guest writer for Forbes, public relations firms constantly pepper me with requests to speak to technologists boasting of having answers to improve supply chain resilience. I strongly believe that historical supply chain practices are not the answer. They need to evolve to help today’s supply chain business leader.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. in the second year of the pandemic.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 4, 2022

Price analysis is a subject that is often overlooked in supply chain education, (although it is certainly a big part of our chapter on Strategic Cost Management in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management ). By the way, don’t forget that I told you inflation was coming on strong, back in June 2021!

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Near the end of 2021, I had the chance to make the early call on Logistics Viewpoints on what 2022 would look like across five major logistics themes. Let’s take a look at what happened with the major themes, as well as the research and analysis we conducted in 2022 to help determine what those themes will look like in 2023.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis? Are our agri-food supply chains in crisis? Do we need to relook at how we organise our agri-food supply chains? You could argue that this success story was the result of an optimisation of agri-food supply chains at a global level.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a volatile world characterized by rapidly changing technology, caution is often justified. 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.

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Proxima

JULY 27, 2023

The Government’s initial analysis in 2021 was broadly correct: Russia remains the biggest danger to UK security, with China remaining a looming threat. Applying resilience to supply chains There has been a renewed focus on resilience since the release of the Integrated Review in March which is evident throughout July’s paper.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Supply chain management is hot. Investment is flowing into supply chain companies. In 2021, more than $25 billion was invested in supply chain companies in just the first three quarters of the year. Mr. Welty understands both private equity and supply chain management. We had the demand.

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Vanguard Software

APRIL 2, 2021

Throughout 2020, manufacturing supply chains took a hit because of constraints around the COVID-19 pandemic. Positive momentum indicates pent-up demand since the October and November 2020 Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) was higher than any time since 2018. Making Sense of the Complex in Supply Chain Planning.

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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

IBP is a series of coordinated processes and supporting technologies to translate desired business outcomes into financial and operational resource requirements. Early challenges to IBP included a lack of an accepted academic definition, the absence of a governing body and a bias toward supply chain applications.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Shahzaib Khan discusses Resilinc’s journey toward AI-driven supply chain excellence From its early inception in the 60s’ to its increasingly available public access, artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way. Yet, numerous global supply chains today still struggle with mapping their global suppliers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” In August 2021, after a long road trip, this happened. I believe that it is an analogy for what is happening in today’s supply chain market. Historically, most supply chain investments were for engines–bright guys built fabulous optimization code and plonked the software onto a relational database.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 30, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. They will understand more about improving processes and learn some techniques and tools they can employ in their future careers. Goldratt and Jeff Cox convey lessons in improving processes and operational excellence through a story about a small-town factory that’s heading for disaster.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It’s time to Marie Kondo your supply chain by eliminating excess inventory and learning how to avoid it in the first place. Shipment Delays and Supply Chain Disruptions. From weather to war to congested ports , it’s no secret that ongoing supply chain disruptions cause delays, shortages, and extended lead times.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Shoppers can now enjoy more personalised buying journeys, as merchants make it faster and easier to find the products that they’re most likely to purchase. And to put icing on the cake, predicting future product trends and consumer demand has never been easier thanks to new AI tools. Let’s dive in.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The catalyst: Technology. And while yes, machines and mechanical inventions have been steady and life-changing, one of the greatest impacts that technology has had is on how we analyze, process and use information. It has most definitely impacted how people buy products of all types and in all industries.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Supply chain technology industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters Founder Bob Ferrari provides added perspectives and highlights to last week’s announced acquisition of Starboard Solutions by Logility. Noted customers include Porsche , Deloitte , CBRE , Flexe, Geodis, Miele, One Network , and Topco , among others.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

When I ask executives to draw their supply chains today (an activity that I love to do to understand their mental models), companies will often draw a dead pool around S&OP. In 1992, I worked for a supply chain planning technology provider, and the role of the forecast was clearer. Role of the Forecast.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Raw material inventory management represents a vital stage in the successful supervision of any manufacturing company’s supply chain. Improved relationships with suppliers: You can use sophisticated inventory insights to negotiate excellent deals with suppliers and vendors.

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DynaSys

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

By 2025, more than 50% of supply chain organizations will have a technology leadership role reporting directly to the chief supply chain officer. Gartner’s survey, February 2021 ) This percentage will rise with the progression of digital supply chain initiatives. What is a Digital Supply Chain?

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

This week, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) , with sponsors Penske Logistics and consulting firm Kearney , released the 33rd Annual State of Logistics Report to organization members and the industry as a whole. For 2021, U.S. trillion, representing 8 percent of the year 2021’s 23 trillion U.S.

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Requis

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Podcast: Supply Chain Data Scientist Nicolas Vandeput. Nicolas Vandeput is a supply chain data scientist who specializes in demand forecasting and inventory optimization. He has also founded SupChains in 2016 and co-founded SKU Science—a smart online platform for supply chain management—in 2018.

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HICX Solutions

JANUARY 27, 2022

The turbulent events of 2020 and 2021 have brought the world to a virtual standstill and with it a realization of just how dependent organizations are on their supplier communities. SRM allows for transparency and perspective for the supplier on how their customer, the buying organization, perceives them and their services.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 23, 2020

But bear with us because it is not really the words that matter, but the thinking and the technology behind the words. Whereas analysis is focused on understanding what happened in the past and why it happened, analytics focuses on why it happened and using this intelligence to try and work out what will happen in the future.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 12, 2021

However, as the industry standard for customer service and fast shipping guarantees, Amazon prioritizes order fulfillment in search algorithms and Buy Box placements. In April 2021, Amazon announced yet another change to inventory limits. Page View Requirements as of February 1, 2021. New Standards for Amazon SFP.

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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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QAD

OCTOBER 5, 2021

With this release, QAD strengthens our cloud ERP offering to deliver new adaptive manufacturing capabilities, increase user productivity and enhance manufacturing and supply chain efficiency. As a result, customers will improve efficiency with easier scenario planning and an intuitive integration with Excel. Highlights.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Manufacturers who excel at orchestrating analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), quality management and real-time monitoring to improve manufacturing strategies are growing 10% faster than their peers. With the advanced analytics spending predicted to grow from $136B in 2016 to $232B in 2021 , attaining an 11.3%

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Director of Ecommerce provides thoughtful analysis of market trends, strategies on how to increase brand awareness, insight on increasing online sales, and ways to improve customer acquisition and retention. This resource is a great tool for everyone from the CEO to Ecommerce Director, and everyone in between.

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