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

Logistics Viewpoints

The concept of digital twins has emerged as a powerful foundational tool to drive improvements in warehouse productivity and efficiency. But do you really need to look specifically at digital twin solutions, or might some of these already be available in the automation you already have?

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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

Logistics Viewpoints

Even worse, I work for a company who makes solutions to help companies solve these kinds of problems, which I listen, speak and write about for a living! The distribution center (DC) hadn’t released the order, but customer service didn’t have access to the right systems to see exactly what was wrong. I should have known better.

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Pillars Supporting the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

Even before the coronavirus pandemic closed physical stores and forced consumers online, they were journeying on the digital path to purchase in increasing numbers. ”[1] As a result of increased digital-path-to-purchase activity, online marketplaces have flourished. . Staying Current Using Real-time Analytics. ”[2].

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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. The solution was too black box.

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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. End-to-End Definition Implementation of enterprise data architectures to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. The reason?

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Supply Chain Best Practices during a Quarantine

SupplyPike

Distribution centers are overrun and fairly chaotic right now trying to prioritize and fulfill orders, so be mindful of DC appointments and collect ready times to avoid OTIF or ORAD fines. You’ll need to work with your buyer on revising their purchasing plans to favor high demand items. Forecasting. How SupplyPike is helping.

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The Amazon Revolution, Part II: Tuning Your Multichannel Supply Chain to Compete

ToolsGroup

Today’s blog analyzes how to compete in this multichannel environment that requires serving the customer in ways that remove the barriers that make consumers think twice about making the purchase. And Gartner reports that more than half of supply chain executives say they are increasing their investment in analytics and smarter algorithms.