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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

It is important to benchmark forecast accuracy and similar supply chain metrics against your peers. Some suppliers of demand management software can also provide excellent forecast benchmarking for selected industries. It turns out the Super Bowl happened on February 12 th in Glendale, Arizona.

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Public Markets Reward Supply Chain Alignment

Supply Chain Shaman

The relationship between corporate financial performance and supply chain metrics was complex; and in my first attempts, I was unable to derive a correlation. I wanted to better understand which metrics truly mattered. However, as many of you know, I am stubborn. I wanted to know more. I hungered to know the patterns. Definitions.

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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

Logistics Viewpoints

To demonstrate, one California autonomous vehicle company, TuSimple, tested the efficacy of long-haul driverless vehicles in a recent trek from Nogales, Arizona to Oklahoma City, shaving 10 hours (42%) off of what would otherwise be a 24-hour trip. Keep Your Eyes on the Road. To learn more, visit [link].

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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. Aligned Metrics. While it is the best system of record in the industry, the optimizer and the planning software overall is not equal to best-of-breed solutions.

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Will that be automatic or semi-automatic to manage your supply chain?

Kinaxis

Planner A good supply chain software solution must first identify such cases where the semi-automatic (human involvement) approach is recommended, then be able to quantify the appropriate metric, which solution path is better, and finally notify the right individual to intervene quickly enough to make a difference.

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. There are too few people in the world who are really knowledgeable about inventory management software tools. At Supply Chain Insights , this is our passion. At first when you read this recommendation you might say, “DUH!?”

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Top 15 Supply Chains to Admire from the Supply Chain Insights Conference

Kinaxis

by CJ Wehlage The Supply Chain Insights annual conference was held on September 10-11, 2014 at the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona. While there was always passionate discussions on companies and metrics, the end goal was to raise awareness of supply chain as a practice. As an ex-AMR Research analyst, this was my favorite venue.