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Building Resilient Supply Chains is Hard — but Essential

Enterra Insights

Prior to the pandemic, efficiency was the primary focus of most supply chain operations. I’m not implying that efficiency no longer matters — it obviously does — but a disrupted supply chain can’t be efficient. Severe disruptions during the pandemic changed that focus to resiliency. Here’s the rub.

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Want the Best Supply Chain Talent? Offer the Best Technology 

Logility

While the supply chain talent wars continue, it’s incumbent upon today’s business owners to consider whether the technology they use day to day has any ‘wow’ factor. But it’s more dire than that; many companies have embarked on aggressive plans for incremental hiring in the coming years. Beyond Excel.

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Trends Transforming Logistics and Supply Chains In the MENA Region in 2023

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Trends Transforming Logistics and Supply Chains In the MENA Region in 2023. by Dr Shereen Nassar , Global Director of Logistics Studies and Director of MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management Suite at Heriot-Watt University Dubai. billion USD by 2026. Demand Sensing for Accurate Planning and Forecasting.

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Embracing Decision Intelligence to Enhance Integrated Business Planning

Supply Chain Trend

Many Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycles around the world are based on a 30-year-old process definition supported by 30-year-old planning concepts. Planning decisions can be segmented by highly automated S&OE where the human is mostly out-of-the-loop, and augmented IBP decisions, where the human is in—the-loop.

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Outside-in planning: a big elephant that needs a bite-size approach

Supply Chain Trend

It is not new in supply chain management either. Lee’s uncertainty framework (2002) shows how segment your supply chain in demand streams and how to define your supply chain response to that. If you critically think through it, the full scope of outside-in planning is a it of an elephant.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up- February 24 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides our latest news capsule follow-up relative to updating readers to prior supply chain management developments that we have shared on this blog. January PPI Points to Persistent Inflation Over a year ago at this time, Supply Chain Matters published a commentary focused on the U.S.

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Learnings and Insights From the 2023 Gartner® Supply Chain Symposium: Part 2

BlueYonder

Last month, at the 2023 Gartner ® Supply Chain Symposium in Orlando, Florida, there were many key supply chain themes that emerged. In addition, 96% of the surveyed companies are currently or planning to use robotics and 93% are planning to increase the size of robotics fleets.

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