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What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022

The Logistics of Logistics

What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022. WRITTEN BY STEFANY MARTIN / POSTED ON JUNE 9, 2022. Original Article: What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022. The peak season definition is a continued evolution of the seasons in transportation.

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Driving An Octopus

Supply Chain Shaman

Each box has an optimizer that drives output from a model based on a functional definition using enterprise data. The current taxonomy (or frame/models) for the engines does not address the issues of the global multinational manufacturing company. The testing showed great promise, but o9 stopped the testing at the end of 2022.

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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

In the spring of 2022, Asia/US ocean container rates resumed pre-pandemic levels and congestion eased in November 2022 into California ports. Challenges Traditional definitions of supply chain excellence focus myopically on cost but are too slow in making decisions in inflationary periods. The reason?

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. Using Analytics In the World of Gray.

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No Time Like the Present

Supply Chain Shaman

On this tour, I heard Jeff Ma, a former member of the MIT blackjack team, speak on the use of analytics to make better decisions in “beating the house.” In both cases, there is a clear definition of “winning.” Note in Figure 1 the gaps from recent research between supply chain planning and manufacturing, logistics, and sales.

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Do You Need a Graph?

Supply Chain Shaman

Current Familiarity with Analytic Concepts (Fall 2022 Snapshot) Preamble Supply chain leaders love their rows and columns. Let’s start with a basic definition. Demand latency (the time from purchase by the customer to order visibility by the manufacturer) is weeks and months. The focus of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.)

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

In our recent survey on analytics, today 74% of companies are attempting to improve supply chain visibility (as shown in Figure 1). The secondary problem is the lack of definition of process requirements and a buying team that cannot see past simple MRP/MRP II/DDMRP requirements. What Is Visibility? What To Do? Close this gap.