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Building Outside-in Processes: Answering A Question From the Audience

Supply Chain Shaman

During the presentation, I spoke about the future of supply chain management, and the building of outside-in processes. Shifts in Traditional Supply Chain Processes in the Building of Capabilities for Supply Chain 2030. Orders are not a good representation of demand. Demand-Driven Model. It is never smooth. How about you?

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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

We watched as customers adopted new warehousing and transportation processes, new delivery modes, new technology tools and even entirely new network models that helped them succeed in the constantly changing “next normal” state that characterized 2020 and 2021. million employees.

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For Every Tom, Dick, and Harry

Supply Chain Shaman

In my research of over sixty organizations in consumer manufacturing, no company connects the VMI signal to the demand planning processes. Instead, demand, managed in isolation, is only a signal to order management. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030. I was wrong.

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The Evolving Landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supply Chains & Logistics

ThroughPut

Most often, supply chain managers struggle to establish an end-to-end process to plan for profitable supply network accounting, especially while being faced daily with increasing globalization, expanding product portfolios, greater complexity, and fluctuating customer demand. 5) INVENTORY AND DEMAND MANAGEMENT.