River Logic

APRIL 8, 2016

Scenario Management Supply Chain Management Scenario Analysis

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 8, 2017

Omni-Channel Commerce Supply Chain Impacts Procurement and Sourcing Retail Supply Chain Supply Chain Execution Supply Chain Strategy Transportation and Logistics independent blog analysis and insights on supply chain management online fulfillment business challenges Supply Chain MattersAccording to a recent survey, warehouse space acquisition across the United States has reached its highest level in over 16 years, driven primarily by online fulfillment needs.

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The 21st Century Supply Chain

JULY 29, 2015

by Lori Smith What if there were little, to no, limitations to the what-if analysis you could do? Yet the value of what-if analysis is in the power to put the ability to do scenario simulations in the hands of many. The post What if there were no limitations to your what-if analysis?

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River Logic

MARCH 23, 2016

While embedding financials is the bedrock for expanding the value from S&OP , adding robust what-if analysis capabilities can unleash its maximum potential, thus delivering true Integrated Business Planning.

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Transportfolio

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Company ABC engaged with their 3PL’s supply chain engineer team, who performed a network optimization analysis and made a final recommendation to eliminate 20 of the warehouse locations. Is network analysis is a good fit for your company?

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Cerasis

JANUARY 16, 2017

Modern supply chains are evolving beyond anyone’s expectations due to increased use of cloud-computing technologies, wearables and advanced data analysis. Data Analysis Grew Exponentially, Providing More End-to-End Visibility and Continuous Improvement. Data analysis is the companion of cloud-computing technologies. LinkedIn The post The State of Supply Chain Trends Part IV: Data Analysis, Wearables, and the Cloud appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This analysis is organized into five parts: Summary of the earthquake event. Around 4 a.m. on February 6th, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake rattled southern Taiwan at the start of Lunar New Year, the island’s largest nationwide holiday.

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TMC

JANUARY 14, 2016

Setting unrealistic or unsuitable performance targets can easily put you on the road to analysis paralysis. The post Five Causes of Analysis Paralysis You Can Avoid appeared first on Connect Blog by TMC, a division of C.H. How often do you feel like you’re drowning in data?

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OPS Rules

JANUARY 20, 2015

Most often, we find that downstream emergent costs are hidden from upstream organizations, because they are not measured or subjected to rigorous root-cause analysis. The analysis we completed with the supply chain organization and the cross-functional integrators explains why they occur.

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Supply Chain 24/7

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Gartner's first Women in Supply Chain Survey, conducted with AWESOME, an executive women's leadership group, compares the representation of women in supply chain leadership roles, it also identifies practices that are increasing the engagement with and success of women in supply chain organizations

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Supply Chain Link

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

A network analysis is the process of finding the optimal logistics solution that creates the right balance between cost and service when considering transportation, distribution, inventory, and production.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 14, 2016

Gartner Survey Analysis Women in Supply Chain 2016. Gartner’s first Women in Supply Chain Survey, conducted with AWESOME, an executive women’s leadership group, and supported by Supply Chain Media, compares the representation of women in supply chain leadership roles.

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Resilinc

MARCH 29, 2016

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C3 Solutions

MAY 11, 2016

Is your company shopping for a new information system? Once you’ve identified the features you need, you’ll also have to figure out whether to select a licensed, on-premise solution or go with the cloud and subscribe to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model.

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Resilinc

JULY 1, 2016

On June 24 th 2016, citizens of the United Kingdom voted and passed a referendum to leave the European Union. Better known as “Brexit”, the move sent a shock wave through global financial and currency markets. In context of the interconnected globalized economy, Brexit is not a localized phenomenon.

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TMC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Setting unrealistic or unsuitable performance targets can easily put you on the road to analysis paralysis. The post Five Causes of Analysis Paralysis You Can Avoid appeared first on Connect Blog by TMC, a division of C.H. Performance Management Technology Analysis Data Performance

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River Logic

JUNE 17, 2016

what-if analysis product portfolioDetermining the ideal product portfolio is an important component to the success of any Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) strategy.

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Cerasis

MARCH 24, 2015

Carriers in the trucking industry and also shippers today are actively looking for ways to combat the rising costs of operating their businesses, but they often do not fully understand proper benchmarking, transportation cost analysis, and profit management are intertwined.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JULY 17, 2015

Andrew Cox’s new book “Sourcing Portfolio Analysis” represents the more traditional “power-based” view of procurement. These types of relationships do not exist in the world of Cox’s Sourcing Portfolio Analysis. A new face of procurement is emerging which is recognizing that a new set of value drivers must be developed in the face of massive environmental changes.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JULY 14, 2015

Against the many new articles and books being produced on the changing face of procurement and the importance of value creation and collaboration, Andrew Cox’s new book “Sourcing Portfolio Analysis” came out earlier this year. The book is essentially a series of prescriptive 2 X 2 and 8 X 8 matrices that establish different typologies for supplier segmentation, that ostensibly can lead to improved sourcing outcomes.

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Supply Chain Network

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Executives are turning to the bread-and-butter of supply chain management: spend analysis. While spend analysis has historically been a technology and process that’s used in house, companies are now using spend analysis technologies to support M&A action and discover the hard savings opportunities and synergies of a potential acquisition. Paul Martyn is VP of Supply Strategy at BravoSolution, the spend analysis company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 26, 2016

I am not sure because I am not done with the data analysis; but I think that it is likely. It was November. I was speaking at a client site. The topic was customer-centric supply chains. We started the morning by asking attendees to share their definition of a customer-centric supply chain.

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The Lean Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

We will discuss the process of creating the analysis below, but first here are a few sample layouts-ideas of what your SWOT analysis can look like.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 7, 2016

The projections are from BTS’ and FHWA’s latest version of the Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) , “which integrates data from a variety of sources to create a comprehensive picture of freight movement among states and major metropolitan areas by all modes of transportation.”.

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River Logic

MARCH 20, 2016

Decision Analysis Supply Chain ManagementThe topic of supply chain excellence is extremely broad and spans a smorgasbord of topics associated with People, Process and Technology.

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River Logic

MARCH 22, 2016

Supply Chain Management Risk Analysis“With great risk comes great reward”, said Thomas Jefferson. What he failed to mention was that great risk also brings the potential for great loss — just ask any hedge fund or investment manager.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The concept of text mining or social sentiment analysis is not on the radar for most supply chain professionals. Social. Mobile. Sensors. 3D printing. The Internet of Things. The list goes on and on. The atoms and electrons of the supply chain are changing.

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The 21st Century Supply Chain

APRIL 1, 2015

From there, they standardized many of their processes, worked to reduce a lot of reactionary activities and then began putting more focus on proactive activities like what-if analysis and modeling. by Meranda Powers Change, even under the most ideal circumstances, is difficult.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Omni-Channel Commerce Supply Chain Impacts Online Customer Fulfillment Retail Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics FedEx independent blog analysis and insights on supply chain management technology parcel delivery industry challenges Supply chain Matters blog trends in third-party logistics servicesLast week, FedEx formally reported its financial results that essentially missed Wall Street expectations.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 6, 2016

independent blog analysis and insights on supply chain management technology Precision division of QAD QAD ERP QAD explore 2016 Supply chain Matters blogThis week, this Editor attended and spoke at QAD Explore 2016, the annual customer conference for ERP technology provider QAD. Candidly, this was my first experience attending this conference and I was impressed from a number of perspectives. This posting is one of subsequent commentaries that will explore such impressions and insights.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 30, 2017

Apparel and Footwear Supply Chain Automotive Supply Chain Internet of Things Retail Supply Chain Supply Chain Strategy Supply Chain Transformation independent blog analysis and insights on supply chain management Supply chain Matters blog technology's impact on industry supply chainsA blog commentary reflecting that change is underway across many industry sectors, one that was profound implications for businesses and their associated supply chains.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 17, 2016

Consumer Goods Focused Supply Chain Inventory Management Procurement and Sourcing Retail Supply Chain Supplier Collaboration challenges within B2C retail supply chains independent blog analysis and insights on supply chain management Sports Authority bankruptcy protection Supply chain Matters blogEarlier this month we alerted Supply Chain Matters readers to the unfortunate filing of bankruptcy by retailer Sports Authority.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Additive manufacturing Aerospace Supply Chain Industrial and diversified industry supply chain Manufacturing Strategies Product Lifecycle Management Supply Chain Strategy General Electric General Electric acquisition of Arcam AB General Electric acquisition of ShipExpress General Electric acquisition of SLM Solutions Group AG independent blog analysis and insights on supply chain management Supply chain Matters blog

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 16, 2016

Procurement and Sourcing Supply Chain Technology BravoSolution commentary on BravoSolution acquisition of Puridiom independent blog analysis and insights on supply chain management technology Supply chain Matters blogThere was noteworthy acquisition news in the procurement software applications area last week with the announcement that BravoSolution had acquired privately-held procure-to-pay applications provider Puridiom.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 19, 2016

Aerospace Supply Chain Product Lifecycle Management Boeing 787 supply chain Boeing 787 supply chain challenges Boeing Supply Chain independent blog analysis and insights on supply chain management Supply chain Matters blogReuters reports that at an investor conference held last week, the aerospace manufacturer’s CFO indicated that will not increase 787 output and could further cut 777 product output levels unless sales of both jets improve.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2015

In April, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to news that supply chain design and analysis technology provider LLamasoft had acquired IBM’s LogicTools supply chain network design applications business unit, including rights to LogicNet Plus, Inventory, Product Flow Analyst and Transportation Analyst.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2017

In preparing our overall 2017 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains, and specifically our prior posting, Prediction One- What to Expect in Global Economic Activity, we had the opportunity to speak with both industry, supply chain and technology executives to gain current perspectives of what supply chains should anticipate in the coming months and […].

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2016

Additive manufacturing Automotive Supply Chain Manufacturing Strategies Procurement and Sourcing Product Lifecycle Management Supply Chain Strategy Sustainability in Supply Chain automotive industry global supply chain challenges Chrysler supply chain Ford Motor Company supply chain independent blog analysis and insights on supply chain management independent supply chain industry analyst Bob Ferrari Supply chain Matters blogSupply Chain Matters has been observing how U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Food and Beverage supply chain Procurement and Sourcing Product Quality Service-centered Supply Chains blogs- independent analysis and opinion on supply chains challenges in food supply chains Chipotle Mexican Foods supply chain Chipotle Mexican Grill supply chain strategy Supply chain Matters blog

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