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9 Headlines Striking Fear into Shippers Lacking a Strong TMS

Supply Chain Collaborator

Headline: Daimler Trucks to Cut its Workforce at Cleveland, NC Factory by 30%. Analysis: When manufacturers look at their orders for the upcoming year and determine sales will be down significantly, they cancel orders for more and newer equipment to transport their goods. Headline: Bloated Inventories May Slow Port Activity.

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Why Companies Need a Supplier Relationship Management Strategy

GlobalTranz

Because of this, businesses are finding it challenging to forecast demand and therefore they risk escalating inventory costs or stock outs. This practice is supported by a dynamic SRM strategy that retains information that can be used for analysis. Irina holds an MBA from Brandeis University and BA from Cleveland State University.

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ERP Sustains Manufacturing during COVID-19

IQMS

a leading manufacturer headquartered near Cleveland, OH. Mar-Bal’s teams can access their DELMIAworks manufacturing ERP system anywhere from their mobile phones, tablets, or laptops to see which jobs are running, determine the inventory stock Mar-Bal has on hand, or check on order status and completion progress within seconds.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

We pulled in all a colleague out of our Cleveland office “Don” (a near retirement manufacturing expert) for some additional perspective. Our analysis of data along with Don’s diagrams were magical in illustrating to decision makers that the process was broken but indeed there was a solution.

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How does Crisp detect retail voids?

crisp

As a result, it takes sophisticated analysis to be able to identify what is actually a void. Work effectively using only sales data (since not all retailers share other types of data, such as inventory). With these criteria in mind, we began to look into possible solutions. Prototype 1: Anomaly Detection.

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