Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

In March 2023, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008. In March 2023, the level of disruption fell to a level seen in November 1998. For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. Unrest in Sudan. Tougher than most understand.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Supply Chain Matters shares interview highlights with ASCM CEO Abe Eshkenazi in conjunction with this years ASCM CONNECT 2023 Conference. The Event The Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) recently concluded its ASCM CONNECT 2023 North America Conference. Starting salaries are second only to data engineers.

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American Global Logistics

JULY 19, 2023

Economics and Logistics Quarterly Update—June 2023 Uncertainty in economics is a given. Understanding the underlying data and their trends can influence how you run your business and your supply chain. Key Economic Indicator #1: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) As of June 2023, the U.S. Uncertainty in logistics is also a given.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

So far in 2023, Resilinc’s supply chain disruption monitoring platform EventWatch AI sent 7,422 disruption alerts for the high-tech industry—up just 1% from the same time period in 2022. In this blog, we dive into Resilinc’s exclusive supply chain data to uncover the top five disruptions to high-tech and semiconductors in 2023.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 15, 2024

BOSTON – January 15, 2023 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, is proud to be recognized as a Leader in five separate G2 Winter 2024 reports. The software company earns Leadership recognition in supply chain planning and demand planning across regions.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2023

Logistics Managers Index (LMI) that again dropped to an all-time low for June 2023. According to the June report summary , the primary driver of the latest decline was the inventory metric, which reportedly contracted 6.5 Consequently, the warehousing capacity metric increased a reported 6.8 percentage points in June.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

The report was scheduled to publish in the summer of 2023, but life got in the way. Working on it over the holiday break, allowed me to spend more time to think about the trends that I am seeing in the data. Data latency increases with outsourcing by 1-2 days. This weekend, I edited the Supply Chains to Admire report.

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Taulia

JUNE 12, 2023

Blog Expert Advice 8 min read 12 Jun 2023 By Taulia Share: Share via linkedin Share via twitter Share via facebook Share via email Copied Copy page URL to clipboard 10 supply chain KPIs and metrics to track We’ve listed the 10 top supply chain KPIs you can use to measure your supply chain performance and find opportunities for optimization.

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OptiProERP

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Let’s look at the top manufacturing trends for 2023. Manufacturing Industry Trends to Watch for in 2023. In 2023, it is predicted that over 43 billion devices will be connected to the internet. In 2023, it is predicted that over 43 billion devices will be connected to the internet. billion by 2023. Mobile ERP.

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ivalua

MARCH 31, 2023

Redwood City, CA, March 31, 2023. The list of award winners is part of Comparably’s Best Places to Work series and includes the overall top-rated companies of 2023 according to their employees. The final data set was compiled from over 15 million ratings across 70,000 companies globally. 27, 2022 through Feb.

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ivalua

JUNE 14, 2023

Up front efforts to define roles and responsibilities, document requirements, integrate with other enterprise systems, and maximize the value of data will be rewarded in multiple forms well beyond the conclusion of the implementation. Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Get Ready for Success!

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 13, 2023

New manufacturing data reveals the small to medium manufacturing sector remains in recovery mode, with global performance largely mapping to local economic conditions. Index figures are calculated from a combination of core performance metrics, including sales performance, purchasing and internal efficiency.

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BlueYonder

MAY 23, 2023

Earlier this month, at the 2023 Gartner® Supply Chain Symposium in Orlando, Florida, there were many key supply chain themes that emerged. Progression has to be made in terms of making access to real-time data to making real-time decisions possible. Key Supply Chain Themes There is a path to supply chain reinvention!

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Investments in Data-Driven Capabilities May Not Yield Better Decisions. I also heard Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, speak on using data to improve the odds of player selection in Baseball. I also heard Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, speak on using data to improve the odds of player selection in Baseball. The reason?

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ShipBob

APRIL 12, 2023

This includes metrics such as receiving efficiency, put-away cycle time, put-away accuracy, picking efficiency , and picking cycle time. To measure this, you’ll need to look at your OTIF metric. Conducting a thorough warehouse audit will help you collect reliable data about how different processes are functioning.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The demand planning and forecasting process The process of demand planning and forecasting can be extremely difficult, as it involves multiple teams across an organisation and data points from both internal and external sources. It also requires the ability to know how to leverage that data and put the learnings into practice.

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Blog » Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium June 26, 2023 | | Thought Leadership by Eloise Barnum As businesses navigate through supply chain disruptions, high inflation, and sustainability initiatives, procurement, and supplier management has taken center stage in driving change.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 6, 2023

Within the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, digital twins have potential uses for optimization, simulation, decision support, root cause diagnosis, reporting, alerting, and serving as a data repository for training machine learning (ML) models with a much broader data scope. 3] Michael C. 6] Weisinger, op cit.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This involves not only identifying the volume and frequency of shipments but also delving into specific requirements, such as: The advent of Digital Freight Procurement Tools , means users can now compile the above data in a fraction of the time spent previously.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Electric vehicle start-ups Rivian Automotive and Lucid Group having reported Q4 and 2023 full year financial and operational performance, continue to show signs of supply chain and production challenges. billion along with full year 2023 revenues of $4.43 For the fiscal year 2023, net loss was reported as $5.43 billion in 2022.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Blue Yonder has been named as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Order Orchestration and Fulfillment Applications for Retail 2023 Vendor Assessment (doc #US49615623, December 2023). Dashboards, reports and alerts drive employee engagement, while analytics and metrics support continuous cost and service improvements.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 14, 2023

In today’s commercial environ, we are quite fortunate in that these qualitative insights can often be reinforced with more quantitative data. As data is more readily available and as these tools evolve with a longer and larger dataset, the concerns around the accuracy of the information they provide are less questionable.

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2024

Understanding the underlying data and their trends can influence how you run your business, shaping your success in these volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) times. Key Economic Indicator #1: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the annual US GDP rate increased in December 2023.

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Precoro

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, only 30% of CPOs claim they have achieved their cost-saving targets in 2023. One of the ways that procurement teams improve this figure is by tracking and improving the purchase price variance (PPV) metric. This metric can be used for evaluating current performance as well as for financial forecasting.

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Arkieva

MARCH 28, 2023

This blog previews a webinar that discusses how to find the best data to drive your integrated business planning processes. How to Select Effective Dashboard KPIs was first posted on March 28, 2023 at 8:24 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 6, 2022

2, 2023, the money-back guarantee will be temporarily suspended for select FedEx Express® services for U.S. 2, 2023; however, it has yet to reveal when the money-back guarantees will return for the rest of its services, including FedEx Ground, Freight, Express, City, and Office. “ Beginning Dec. 13, 2022, through Jan. domestic and U.S.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 18, 2023

Harness the power of technology, including AI and big data, to identify new water growth opportunities. Generate guidance to improve NbS impact metrics for water security to demonstrate the multiple values of water. Stimulate private investment through blended financial solutions.” Measure, disclose, and report on impacts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

A large multinational is undergoing an impressive supply chain transformation that will run through 2023. But their latest supply chain transformation program, aimed to finish by the end of 2023, is a significant undertaking. Machine learning is also being used to update other forms of master data that are key inputs into the plan.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

The software architecture allows the value to be measured and those metrics are visible to the customer and the Infor success team. By 2023, attrition among these customers had fallen to 3.2%. Further, it is the job of the customer success team to ask, “how can the customer get additional ROI going forward?”

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Unlock the Power of Concurrent Planning – 5 Best Practices Victoria Klimova Published Jun 29, 2023 The Future of Supply Chain Planning is Concurrent Concurrent planning can bring significant benefits to supply chain management. Companies should ensure that their data is up-to-date, accurate and visible to all relevant stakeholders.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Moeller Maersk , operators of Maersk Line plummeted a reported 18 percent as the carrier and logistics services provider reported full year 2023 financial performance that disappointed investment markets. billion profitability in 2023, and an astounding $36.8 That compares to $9.8 billion profitability performance during 2022.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Background In our previously published blog commentary, Amazon’s Noteworthy 2023 Financial Performance , provided our readers highlights and perspectives of Amazon ’s recently reported Q4 and full year 2023 financial performance, which were very well received by company investors. They were widely recognized as a blowout performance.

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o9 Solutions

MARCH 22, 2023

DALLAS, March 22, 2023 – o9 Solutions , a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced that it is honoring Samsung SDS with The Graph-Cube Award as part of o9’s inaugural Partner Awards program to recognize the company’s impactful innovations on the o9 Digital Brain platform.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 21, 2023

But I believe that more efficient packaging is the area with the greatest potential to improve sustainability metrics within the warehouse. Xeneta’s data analysis shows that containerized imports from the far east to the US increased substantially from 2017 to 2022.

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BlueYonder

MAY 18, 2023

Lessons From ICON 2023 This blog was written by Judah Reynolds, with Panasonic Connect’s Marketing Planning & Capabilities Group. He attended ICON 2023 and shares his key takeaways. We rarely think about it, but there are extremely complex supply chain networks working behind the scenes to ensure our expectations are met.

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crisp

JANUARY 24, 2024

Discover how Walmart’s Luminate Charter plan is revolutionizing retail data analytics with these five essential reports for suppliers. One of the biggest events in retail in 2023 was the launch of Walmart Luminate , a data platform offering suppliers more visibility and data access than ever before.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Without these critical metrics, you’re flying blind. Conversely, there is no point at all in gathering data that will not help you see that progress. There are many possible reasons why companies make the mistake of using KPIs that don’t support strategy, some of which will be covered later in this article.

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