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Next Level Apparel® Takes its Demand and Inventory Planning to the Next Level with the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform

Logility

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced the addition of Next Level Apparel® (NLA) to its customer community. Before implementing the Logility platform in January, Next Level Apparel used a mix of Excel spreadsheets and a legacy proprietary ERP system to manage its supply chain.

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The Top 15 Retail Trends for 2022

ToolsGroup

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Data source: eMarketer.

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Five Reasons Why Are We Not Making Progress on Inventory Management

Supply Chain Shaman

In the case of Apparel and Automotive industries there are slight improvements, but they have shifted inventories to suppliers. I wanted to say, “You let the consultants influence you to buy the wrong technologies based on IT standardization. Most planning happens in Excel Spreadsheets. Use of Excel Spreadsheets.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. Industry leaders invest in analytics to better use outside-in signals. Conclusion.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. The question of near-shoring or reshoring is really a question for labor-intensive industries like apparel.

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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

Logistics Viewpoints

This means we need more agile, flexible, and scalable planning platforms to process and consolidate new data sources, drive insights using advanced analytics such as AI/ML to drive autonomous decisions, and expand collaboration within and outside our organizations. We need planning platforms to keep up with all the changes.

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Welcome Puff, The Magic Dragon, to Your Team

Supply Chain Shaman

How do we harness the power of data with new forms of analytics? Today, technology providers are selling analytics. This week, I received this email from a financial institution questioning why business leaders are not harnessing more insights and redesigning processes based on analytics. S&OP Challenges. Reflection.