Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 17, 2022

Newly Released Conference Board CEO Study. A further data point to these notions can be found in a newly released C-Suite Outlook Mid-Year survey report, published by The Conference Board. Inventory Management Assessment- Samsung Electronics. Samsung ’s inventory balances reportedly reached the equivalent of $36.9

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

One of the goals of the conference was to challenge the audience to redefine work. At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. Similarly, after the conference, I started working with a chemical company to formulate a supply chain strategy. September 2021-March 2022.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2022

How retailers are reevaluating post-pandemic inventory strategies. Digital Twins for Inventory and Supply Planning. The company aims to use the technology to improve store and inventory planning and management and improve product availability so customers can be confident of getting what they want when they want it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2023

Companies need a planning solution to analyze the trade-offs between make, source, and deliver. A Focus on Safety Stock Is Too Narrow for Effective Inventory Management. A manufacturing company’s safety stock is 30-40% of the total inventory requirement. I commend o9 for building that space in 2021-2022. The reason?

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The conflict in the Ukraine is expected to continue throughout 2022, and will likely be a contracted conflict that will continue for perhaps five years or more. The EU economies will also be hit, especially Germany and Eastern Europe as we go into winter in 2022. The forecast is that the EU GDP growth will be reduced by 1.3 Not likely.

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Logility

MAY 10, 2022

ATLANTA, GA – May 10, 2022 – American Software, Inc. NASDAQ: AMSWA), a leading provider of innovative AI-powered supply chain management and advanced retail planning solutions, today announced that it will release its Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 financial results after the U.S. About American Software, Inc.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights select June and Q2-2022 global manufacturing and supply chain indices, with the data indicating increased headwinds and challenges in the months to come. The average global PMI value for Q2-2022 was 52.3, The June 2022 Manufacturing ISM© Report on Business reported a value of 53.0

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

The increased cost of working capital and supplemental inventory levels to mitigate fulfillment risk is likely to revert back to just-in-time inventory management. percent in 2022, to 3 percent in 2023, and consequently contract to 2.9 trillion (or five percent) compared to a record high level in 2022. percent in 2024.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

They source from approximately 15,000 suppliers with a sourcing spend of over €7 billion. For some customers, they manage the inventory using a vendor managed inventory program. For some customers, they manage the inventory using a vendor managed inventory program. But even multi-sourcing is not enough.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences. This was a noted challenge for major U.S. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. The processes of make, source, and deliver reports to a common leader in only 40% of businesses.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. In 2022, I frequently ask companies to draw their river of demand. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007.

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SupplyOn

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Andreas Zaby, President of the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR), welcomed the more than 750 participants from 51 countries worldwide to the MIM 2019 conference. and smart manufacturing systems to inventory control and supply chain management (SCM). The scientific quality of the conference was high. Likewise, Prof.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 9, 2023

Retail return rates for 2022 appear to be leveling off, according to data from the National Retail Association and research partner, Appriss. billion in retail returns will be made in 2022 - 16.5% According to the company, it provides a faster, greener, and more cost-effective way to leverage existing inventory.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 17, 2022

To learn more about the future of logistics, tune as they give a preview of the topics for their upcoming Manifest conference happening in 2023 like sustainability, connecting the ecosystem, machine learning, and intelligent infrastructure. By the way, we should also mention Manifest had its first conference in 2022, right?

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 4, 2023

alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. The global cobot market size is estimated to be worth $866 million in 2022 and is forecasted to a readjusted size of $1682 million by 2028. Breaking it down In the U.S.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

As I’ve done in prior years, I’ll make a few predictions based on what happened in 2022 – and what I think it means for 2023. Implication: the best-case scenario I see for the price of finished goods is that their prices stay relatively unchanged from the 3rd quarter of 2022….we

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2022

percent in 2022 before contracting to one percent in 2023. percent in 2022 and by 2.3 © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. This latest forecast indicates, in-part: World merchandise trade volume is expected to grow 3.5 percent in 2023 (revised downward from 3.2

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 9, 2022

A project can range from a large manufacturing operation to a small exhibit at a conference in project-based procurement to even online email marketing campaigns. It streamlines the procure-to-pay and source-to-contract processes. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on March 9, 2022.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The last 10 years represent a breakthrough period in AI’s development, spurred by the convergence of factors including the rise of big data, advancements in compute infrastructure, new machine learning techniques, the emergence of cloud computing, and the vibrant open-source ecosystem.”[1] Demand for ethical AI is rising. ”[3].

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 1, 2022

New COVID variant outbreaks occurring across broader areas of China, leading to added restrictions and material movement disruptions, now becoming more concerning both for industry supply chains, and for China ’s stated GDP goals for 2022. Friedman went on to articulate that transit times to move inventory from Asia to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The product announcement was made in conjunction with the Amazon AWS reInvent conference. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. This application is described as providing the ability to: “.automatically Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2022

These announcements were made in conjunction with the LogicPharma Europe industry conference being held this week. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved.

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Cathy Roberson

DECEMBER 17, 2022

(Source: Reddit ) There’s been a lot of supply chain pains over the years, many of which are well documented – port congestion, capacity issues, rising spot rates, plunging spot rates, hidden fees, maxed out warehouses – just to name a few but one that I’m still trying to wrap my head around is access to bathrooms.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 31, 2022

from Q4 2021 to Q1 2022 due to higher general rate increases and fuel surcharges. Indeed, positioning inventory closer to customers and providing fast and efficient delivery is the key to success for retailers in terms of financial and customer satisfaction. In June, I’ll be heading to a couple of conferences.

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Precoro

MAY 22, 2023

growth in global IT spending from 2022. It plays a vital role in managing an organization's inventory of IT assets, reducing redundancy, and lowering the risk of downtime or service interruptions. Gartner anticipates a 5.5% Therefore, IT procurement is a crucial part of an overall procurement strategy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For the second straight year between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, Tom Brady has announced his retirement from the NFL. Fast forward to 2022, and Amazon increased its production by nearly 4-times that amount in clean energy. This time, however, he says it is for good. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Requis

JANUARY 9, 2020

We’ve attended a lot of supply chain conferences in 2019, and seen a lot of talks and panel discussions about the economic potential of digitization. In business to consumer markets, there has been a rising trend towards sustainable and ethical sourcing. More success stories for real B to B supply chain digitization.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2018

Macpherson predicted that the figure will easily be 80 percent by 2022. Source: Grainger Q1 2017 Earnings Call ). Data gives distributors and 3PLs the ability to manage the entire supply chain on behalf of the customer, manage their ordering and inventory levels and providing them with insights that’ll help improve service levels.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2018

Macpherson predicted that the figure will easily be 80 percent by 2022. Source: Grainger Q1 2017 Earnings Call ). Data gives distributors and 3PLs the ability to manage the entire supply chain on behalf of the customer, manage their ordering and inventory levels and providing them with insights that’ll help improve service levels.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Takeaways from NASCES 2022. NASCES is also a favorite conference for me personally. At the end of every conference week – especially the good ones — it’s always fun to recap the major themes. They want a single source of truth that maps the steps of every process, assigns ownership, and defines due dates.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Takeaways from NASCES 2022. NASCES is also a favorite conference for me personally. At the end of every conference week – especially the good ones — it’s always fun to recap the major themes. They want a single source of truth that maps the steps of every process, assigns ownership, and defines due dates.

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Intelligent Audit

APRIL 6, 2022

On March 31, 2022, President Biden announced initiatives to encourage the domestic production of energy-efficient technology and crude oil supply. In President Biden’s press conference , he shared that the two primary causes of this enormous strategic oil reserves release were COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Order management – allowing organizations to orchestrate customer fulfillment with rules-based logic that taps omnichannel inventory information. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Robinson , FedEx , FourKites and Overhaul. . Other ERP and Tech Vendor Announcements.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The source of data for this blog comes from market triangulation. Today, innovators are testing cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and open source technologies. The choices in 2022 will be radically different from 2018. Don’t take conference presentations at face value. Relationships matter.

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Furthermore, ISZL is a member of the European Sports Conference (ECS) and the Association for Music in International Schools (AMIS), and it encourages its students to explore various sports and arts outside of academics. Thus, some people resisted the software implementation instead of embracing this opportunity for improvement.

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Precoro

AUGUST 31, 2023

For instance, they can do so by improving operational processes, making cost-efficient decisions on personnel, initiating work environment changes, upgrading technology, sourcing strategically, and so on. Take your time and ask employees if they can come up with the source of spending inefficiencies. Is your inventory optimized ?

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