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Funding Your Way to a Decarbonized Supply Chain

AIMMS

See how a manufacturing giant revamped their demand planning with AIMMS. Re-evaluate supplier contracts and relationships Consolidated Procurement: Bulk purchasing often leads to better rates. See how TNT, one of the world’s largest express delivery companies, achieved $260 million in cost savings with AIMMS.

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Do You Need a Graph?

Supply Chain Shaman

Primed for transactional efficiency, these legacy architectures based on relational databases drive order-to-cash and procure-to-pay efficiencies. Demand latency (the time from purchase by the customer to order visibility by the manufacturer) is weeks and months. I term this our data jail. The So What And Who Cares? Stay tuned.

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The Fallacy of the Self-driving Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

The perspective of a manufacturing leader is quite different than that of a business leader in logistics. Measure schedule adherence in manufacturing, time for purchase order acceptance in procurement, on-time delivery for inbound materials, and first-ass tender in logistics. “ Reflection. Were the plans feasible?

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Strong Supply Chains Required For an Economic Rebound: Six Steps To Take

Supply Chain Shaman

This cross-functional group (sales, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution) is an operational team to manage the day-to-day issues and exceptions in the supply chain. Figure 1 shows a market-by-market planning model by a sinus drug manufacturer. This type of planning needs to be deployed by all consumer manufacturers.

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

Traditional procurement functionality in SRM focused on improving transactional efficiency. One of the greatest opportunities to use sensor data is in the building of digital manufacturing strategies. Here are several promising trends to consider. These excite me: 1) Supplier Collaboration. An Example of a Listening Post from Lenovo.