SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In this post, we’ll go over the most important things you can do this year to set your supply chain transparency efforts up for success in 2021. 2021 Supply Chain Transparency Checklist. When you complete your exercise, you should come away with a clear list of milestones you’ll hit. What synergies exist between us? (

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

An exercise that I love to do in my training is to ask business leaders to draw data flow in their current decision processes. Procurement Operates On An Island. Business process outsourcing and procurement automation evolved to make the procurement organization more efficient and less effective. The reason?

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 11, 2022

“In a recent survey from Gartner, conducted from December 2021 to January 2022, it was found that 27% of supply chain leaders have conducted a climate change risk assessment to identify their most critical supply chain risks.”[7]. Make and exercise contingency plans. Denial of risk.”[6] ”[7]. 8] William B.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 2, 2023

In this special edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech , we highlight for readers a workforce reduction underway at procurement technology provider Coupa Software. Business procurement spend management support technology software provider Coupa Software initiated this week a corporate wide headcount reduction.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Herculean efforts by Procurement and Supply Chain departments to keep supplies flowing have prevented even more extreme disruptions than what we’ve experienced, but have inadvertently created additional risks. . Too often, the process is distilled down to a “check the box” exercise on individual suppliers. Few knew until impacted.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In 2021, the new ideal balance was 57% technology and 43% humans. While many companies tout their sustainability initiatives, without the data to back it up, it’s nothing more than a greenwashing exercise. That didn’t, however, discount the role of humans – it’s that their tasks are changing as technology takes on manual processes.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 15, 2022

Bicycle demand levels reportedly soared 46 percent in 2020, and 4 percent during the same period of 2021. Fitness and exercise is not the only category of products that reflected explosive product demand during the pandemic, without the ability to fulfill that demand to customer expectations. West Coast were in excess of 200 days.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

The basis of our 2022 predictions were our belief that the 2021 predictions theme of Renewal was shifting toward one of Reexamination of business process practices and decision-making needs. Our stated belief was that the multi-industry supply chain challenges of 2021 would not abate and would linger in some cases into 2023.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

We’ve interviewed executives in Retail , Public Sector , Procurement and other industries and disciplines to get a sense of how the industry is reacting, not only to navigate the immediate challenges, but to future proof themselves from future disruption. The latest major disruption that has the entire supply chain world buzzing?

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2021

Science writer John Schwartz ( @jswatz ) reports, “Federal scientists forecast that 2021 could see in the range of 13 to 20 named storms, six to 10 hurricanes, and three to five major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher in the Atlantic.”[1] Well-run disaster exercises also help prepare everyone involved to deal with the unexpected.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 13, 2023

In Part Two of this blog series , we provided highlights our third prediction, that supply chain management teams will continue to exercise more direct control of direct materials sourcing, and these efforts will be a prominent element of business strategy for CSCO ’s and CPO ’s this year. million in 2021. After the existing U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Suppliers exercised timely product innovation, business, and respective supply network pivots to accommodate these unanticipated market needs, overcoming their own respective challenges. © Copyright 2021, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and. Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Background Global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022. Our specific prediction was that manufacturers and retailers will exercise considerable pressure on carriers for re-negotiating existing transportation and logistics contracts.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Further reported was the fastest uptick in new orders since January 2021. This exercise will more than likely require a good amount od scenario based or what-if planning approaches. The August report was headlined as sales and production levels rising at the fastest rate in almost three years.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

The company will henceforth outsource the manufacturing of its stationary exercise bikes and treadmills to a Taiwan based contract manufacturer. This week, the company announced a reversal in manufacturing and supply chain strategy, as well as a major turnabout.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As noted in our ongoing Supply Chain Matters updates, there are now shifts from primarily supply constrained product demand that occurred in 2021 and early 2022, to predominately demand constrained conditions which places a top priority on preserving sales revenues, cash preservation or profitability among businesses.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The October report further indicates: “ Of the seven ASEAN nations covered by this survey, five recorded a deterioration in the health of their manufacturing sector, the highest number of countries to report a decline since August 2021.”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 17, 2021

Having done our research and knowing that other dealerships did have that exact vehicle, we figured that they would just procure it from another dealer, and we’d be set. Then I remembered that I had already gone through this inventory availability exercise before I had even been to a dealership. All Rights Reserved. A True Story!

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Three professors from the University of Tennessee, Ted Stank, Tom Goldsby ( @ThomasGoldsby ), and Lance Saunders, warned back in June 2021 that the bullwhip effect was already in play. 1] Ted Stank, Tom Goldsby, and Lance Saunders, “ Commentary: Caution—Bullwhip Effect Ahead ,” The Wall Street Journal, 14 June 2021. [2]

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 23, 2023

It includes real-world examples from companies like Amazon and Starbucks, case study discussion questions, computer-assisted exercises, and programming projects, making it an ideal choice for anyone looking to learn about supply chain management and the analytics involved.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In October of 2021, we highlighted for readers indications from the CEO of Airbus that the subsequent 12 to 18 months will be the most difficult part of what this aircraft manufacturer would have to achieve to really recover from the Covid 19 impacts on airline travel and on the aerospace industry as whole. Background.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

These moves represent efforts by branded companies to exercise a ‘ China-plus one ’ supply risk mitigation strategy, especially as geo-political tensions have increased relative to China. spiked above $20,000 at its highest point in 2021, the spot rate has now dropped below $4,000 per 40-foot container.

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Procurement Academy

DECEMBER 29, 2020

By 2020-2021, 98% of corporations are planning to incorporate eLearning into their programs. Learning procurement and supply chain management helps companies streamline their operations and maximize profits. As a result, it leads to more cognitive load, and employees start to lose interest in learning procurement and related concepts.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While supply chains are starting to stabilize, Resilinc hopes the pandemic’s lessons will lead procurement and supply chain managers to shift to more regionalized sourcing models. and global OEMs have optimized and globalized sourcing and procurement to reduce labor and other input costs. Over the past 40 years, U.S.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 18, 2021

Procurement teams article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks. Procurement is a function that has long been at cross-roads; dare to transform within people, process & technology, or keep doing what has always worked just fine. Procurement practitioners are hard-wired to avoid risk and secure profit/cost gains.

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o9 Solutions

JANUARY 19, 2022

Subscription models will turn implementation projects into plug-and-plan exercises. . Like in 2021, many will think of just getting through the early part of the year, and then all will be normal. These next-generation cloud providers will be easier to engage with and their solutions will encourage more automation and outsourcing.

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HICX Solutions

JULY 26, 2021

Procurement network and intelligence platform providers, Procurement Leaders, hosted a webinar featuring Supply Chain and Procurement experts, Dr. Elouise Epstein , Partner at Kearney , and Costas Xyloyiannis , CEO at HICX. Digital technologies drive path to strategic procurement. An exciting time for Procurement.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2022

In the company’s fiscal year 2021, Apple reportedly paid out $85.5 Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has indicated in-part: “ We (the United States) have become too vulnerable to countries using their market positions in raw materials, technologies, or products to exercise geopolitical leverage or disrupt markets for their own gain.”.

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