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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

The lengthening of payables by Mondelez will boomerang into rising costs, quality issues and supplier viability concerns. Determine Forecastability and Forecast Value Added (FVA). Executives will ask, “What is a good target for forecast error?” Then analyze Forecast Value Added (FVA). Step Three.

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Master the Challenge of Cold Chain with Blue Yonder (Part 2)

BlueYonder

My previous blog article focused on the size of the cold-chain market — $1 trillion by 2030 — and the huge opportunity it presents for the world’s logistics service providers (LSPs). LSPs should choose software that automates routine tasks such as forecasting, order processing, route planning, and temperature monitoring and adjustment.

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The March of the Lemmings.

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, the company, at the end of the five-year implementation, is unable to roll-up data to a corporate level to analyze the forecast or capacity planning. The technologies, implemented by a large system integrator, degraded the forecast by 31%. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030.

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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

Most companies do not analyze the coefficient of variation (how forecastable the data is), the quality of the demand forecast (Forecast Value-Added) , or the impact of the latency from the dependency on the order signal in the distortion and amplification of the supply signal (bullwhip effect). Imagine Supply Chain 2030.

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INTERPHEX 2023: Finding Contract Pharma & BioPharma Manufacturing & Supply Chain Efficiencies

QAD

While Contract Pharma & BioPharma manufacturers continue to experience an increase in demand for more projects, new challenges are emerging from nearly every angle including new regulatory and quality requirements, workforce shortages and of course, supply chain disruptions. million and cost the economy $1 trillion in 2030 alone.

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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

The focus was on margin and quality. The organization is not clear on the role of the forecast. In discussions, the role of the forecast and the budget are intertwined without clarity. The organization abandons the measurement systems for forecast accuracy, value-add from the process, and bias. Take the High Road.

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Until AI Can Solve this One Simple Task, I Wouldn’t Worry About It

Logistics Viewpoints

Experts have recently warned about the possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to the destruction of 400 million jobs by 2030. It also suggests that the total value delivered by AI will be more limited than consultants from McKinsey are forecasting. It doesn’t.