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What are Digital Twins and How Can They Drive Warehouse Efficiency?

Logistics Viewpoints

How the digital twin concept drives benefit By using advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms, digital twins can provide real-time insights and recommendations to optimize operations, reduce costs, and increase productivity. Do they purchase a 3D warehouse simulation and modeling tool?

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. ” Her answer was telling.

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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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Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51 and Market6 Data

Alloy

Luckily, Kroger makes sharing data with its brands a top priority and offers in-depth web portals for analysts, account managers and inventory planners to access.Kroger has a complete analytics arm that is made up of multiple integrated portals. The purchase of Market6 was an effort by 84.51° to fill this gap, and in some ways it did.

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How Retailers and CPG companies are benefiting from next-gen Control Tower and S&OE

o9 Solutions

There is a realization that to run an exceptional supply chain, it takes a commitment to leverage data and advanced analytics to make smart, fact-based decisions, while continuously evolving product offerings, supply chain strategies, and execution capabilities. Stijn-Pieter van Houten, both Vice President, Industry Strategy, o9 Solutions.

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Building the Business to Consumer Superstar: Getting to the Promised Land with Supply Chain Control Towers and S&OE

o9 Solutions

There is a realization that to run an exceptional supply chain, it takes a commitment to leverage data and advanced analytics to make smart, fact-based decisions, while continuously evolving product offerings, supply chain strategies, and execution capabilities. Stijn-Pieter van Houten, both Vice President, Industry Strategy, o9 Solutions.

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When to do SSOs (Store-Specific Orders)

SupplyPike

Type 03 orders go to the distribution center (DC) as opposed to type 07 orders which go to the store directly. Committed Buy SSO. A “committed buy” SSO occurs when Walmart guarantees to buy a certain number of units. Typically, Walmart will provide a quantity that they are committing to buy for a set period of time.