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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Customer service couldn’t call the DC, only email them, and her emails weren’t getting responses. Only persistent calls got my order back on track.

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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. Using Analytics In the World of Gray.

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Using Analytics to Manage Last Mile Delivery Costs

Intelligent Audit

Many innovative advancements have occurred in the past few years within the transportation network , including a focus on last mile delivery costs and shipping rate management through analytics. With that in mind, shippers need to understand the value of using analytics to track and reduce costs in the last mile.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

A multi-enterprise supply chain network platform provides network-based order fulfillment applications and advanced network-based supply chain risk analytics. These procurement professionals can look at how forwarders and carriers are performing by lane, and what the performance trends are for these partners. Keys to Success.

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From Real-Time Visibility to Real-Time Decisions: Data’s Value Is Propagating Across Global Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

The paradigm is shifting from foundational visibility to real-time decision-making, with positive implications for supply chain teams spanning sourcing & procurement, to production, to yard & DC operations and beyond. Why is this shift such a big deal? We don’t have to think back very far.

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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

Here I want to address the question, “Why is the focus on the basics of supply chain a barrier to adopting new forms of analytics and supply chain processes? ” (The use of the term “basics” is usually code for the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.).

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

The answers lie in investments in supplier development teams, the simplification of the bill of materials and product platforms, and analytics to forecast requirements based on consumption. Today, we have an additional factor with inflation to add to the mix of issues, that changes the requirements for the “buy plan in procurement.”