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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. Demand forecasts are improved with access to downstream data (point of sale, Nielsen retail data, and access to competitor promotion schedules).

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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

Logistics Viewpoints

There will still be a workforce needed to maintain those driverless vehicles or costs associated with maintenance done by the manufacturer or a 3rd party. In a word, it’s data. By analyzing data, monitoring KPIs and making decisions based on facts, you can better predict the market and plan for better business outcomes.

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Let the Qs Begin

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply Chain Improvement is based on the work that we completed with an Arizona State University Operations Research team to determine the Supply Chain Index. Can you help us with what you see in the data?” The use of channel data into advanced analytics to sense demand. ” Yes, I said. Outside-in Processes.

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Happy Labor Day! Insights on Building Supply Chain Talent

Supply Chain Shaman

Before I started doing this research, I believed procurement and manufacturing were aligned. While this is the case in 50% of the organizations, there are many organizations with large alignment gaps between finance/operations and procurement/manufacturing. Digital manufacturing is also a disruption. I was wrong.

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Supply chain reshoring: where things stand now

Resilinc

Analysts like EY and Reshoring Initiative include foreign direct investment (FDI) when they tally reshoring data. manufacturing facilities. In Europe, FDI in manufacturing declined by 20% in 2020, according to EY. But the firm’s analysts see “reasons for optimism” in the data and forecasts for industrial producing manufacturing.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

The selection of metrics is based on prior work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, correlate to market capitalization and price to book value. We calculate the results based on public data from the period 2012-2021. Organizations are drowning in data that they cannot use. Congrats to all.

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U.S. Freight Rates Reach Six Year Low Milestone

Supply Chain Matters

That is not good for retailers and manufacturers, each under the looking glass to reduce not only transportation but also inventory carrying costs. government data indicates that trucking employment in March declined at the most significant rate since the early days of the pandemic. percentage points below the February value of 54.7,

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