The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions. People simply want to purchase products from businesses which provide a more transparent and streamlined service, and who deliver on their customer promise, even if it means inflated prices to obtain it.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solutions Marketing team explores new business challenges and innovation solutions to change the game and manage disruptions. In this Part 2 blog post, we will continue to explore how automotive manufacturers are carrying out effective supply chain initiatives and their innovative solutions.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 14, 2015

Such systems are also instrumental in establishing aligned tactical and strategic performance metrics systems that drive improved economic outcomes (Bendoly et al., ERP systems are designed to integrate transactions from finance, human resources, procurement, operations, sales and marketing, logistics, and other functions in a firm.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.)

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 5, 2021

Resilience article and permission to publish here provided by Sam White at Argentus. Companies have leveraged digital tools, and evolving skills, to collect vast data about product or raw materials sourcing, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

” CFO of a major manufacturer. I have written many articles about Advanced Planning Systems (APS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Advanced Inventory Optimization. Companies cannot achieve supply chain excellence by working discrete projects in isolation. Ownership of Inventory as a Metric. I am a skeptic.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You are not alone, especially as in the time since we first penned this article, one huge and unforeseen event has raised awareness of the global importance of this vital sector—and shown it to be an attractive career choice. That event was the global COVID-19 pandemic, which erupted during the first half of 2020.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

We might use “availability in Excel directly or with Add-ons” as an “age metric’.). For example, basic optimization and statistical methods have been part of business school programs for over 40 years and core methods are part of Excel. One pattern is a succession of short purchases in a location away from home.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 3, 2019

The type of contract of interest in this report is for Development and Manufacture contracts in the Aerospace and Defense industries. The subcontract efforts feature the majority of military and part of commercial aviation, systems are outsourced by the overall airframe manufacturer, known as “primes” (Boeing, Airbus, Sikorski, etc.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As I drank a cup of coffee and waited, I reflected on the article I had just completed for the Institute of Supply Management. Historically, supply chain processes were functional focused on make, source and deliver. Digital sourcing? Digital path to purchase? Now the expectation is immediate or real-time.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 4, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore seven compelling reasons why you should reduce inventory and how it can be a game-changer for your business. Try thinking of it this way, if you plan to make big profits, you would need to invest and diversify your portfolio into several sources to improve your chance of success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

The research is a study of large manufacturers. Buying these solutions is far more complicated than is represented in a simple four-box quadrant. The bigger the vendor, the tougher it is to publish a critical article. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for excellence. Five Lessons to Learn.

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Procurement Academy

MARCH 12, 2024

This article is a deep dive into this course – which is specially designed to give the professionals in your team the knowledge and skills they need to excel in strategic cost management. Calculating the Cost Breakdown: This process involves working with cost, finance, logistics and manufacturing process experts.

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Taulia

JULY 5, 2021

This article elucidates VMI, starting with a concise definition before discussing the difference between VMI and traditional inventory management. As buyers source components from several suppliers, they often implement a VMI program at a third-party warehouse near the production or assembly location.

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Unleashed

MARCH 26, 2023

In this article, we break down native Xero inventory management and compare it with using an integrated Xero inventory software system. Finished goods only: Xero can’t track raw materials or works-in-progress, making it unsuitable for manufacturers or those assembling goods and tracking the components. It only tracks finished items.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By the end of this article, you’ll gain insights into which inventory health indicators you should be monitoring, how to overcome common inventory management hurdles, and see how a third-party logistics provider like ShipBob can help. These metrics provide valuable insights into how well your inventory is managed.

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Kinaxis

MAY 18, 2016

Procurement might have hit their cost savings metrics, but if it meant purchasing more than needed, and that might hurt your warehouse inventories. One thing that comes through in your LinkedIn publisher articles is your passion for the field. There’s a lot of fun – and I try to convey that with my articles.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

In this article, we’ll explain why that should be and how your company can avoid S&OP problems by investing correctly in the people and their interrelationships , without which it’s simply impossible to tie the moving parts of S&OP together. But what makes it so challenging to implement S&OP successfully?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 9, 2019

Article and permission to publish here provided by Nikita S at [link]. Procurement, or Purchasing, is an area of Supply Chain that involves and requires very specific skills and expertise. Check out this list of 25 Procurement and Purchasing questions and answers. All we have is raw purchasing transaction data.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

So in order to perhaps spawn some ideas for your supply chain excellence efforts, I thought I’d offer a brief overview of how four leading organisations are achieving their successes and cementing their mastery of the 21 st century supply chain. 4 Leading Operators with the Supply Chain X-Factor. The Sustainability Drive. Innovation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

As I spent the time reflecting over the last three weeks, the number of articles streaming into my feed on supply chain implications was high, but most of them were wrong. ” Corporations serve international markets, and the source of rare minerals (so critical for the evolution of the green supply chain) is primarily Asia.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. cities with these lockers in-place are located in states that already collect sales taxes for online purchases. Automotive. Communication Services. Healthcare.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

For retailers, inventory is more than just a list of products: It’s also the mainstay of your retail operations, the source of your revenue, and the foundation of customer satisfaction. Plan Retail inventory management begins with planning the type and variety of products to buy (and their respective quantities).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Jake Rheude at [link]. Always check the purchase price of the item you want to sell in the Amazon Revenue Calculator to see how much profit you will make after Amazon assesses their fees. Winning the Buy Box (and How You Can Lose). Subscribe Here!

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

ROIC is a widely misunderstood metric. In this article, we explain what an ROIC figure can tell you, when positive or negative ROIC figures can be useful, and – importantly – how a business can improve its ROIC. In this article: What is ROIC? Low ROIC doesn’t necessarily mean low growth – but can limit performance.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 25, 2021

In this article, we’ll break down what first-mile delivery is, why it’s important, and six best practices you can use to improve your first-mile delivery process. . Some of these inefficiencies often start with improper purchase ordering. What is first-mile delivery? The analytics are super helpful.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are a number of excellent reasons circular economies are desirable, including less waste and better use of limited resources. Steutermann notes, “While some metrics on sustainability already exist, they are mostly related to linear metrics, such as reducing waste to landfills or carbon dioxide emissions.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. by John Westerveld.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

Automotive manufacturers are remobilizing to produce ventilators. Our constraint is not our ability to help global manufacturing at scale, but to help global manufacturing in time. The Defense Production Act has been invoked to meet PPE demand in the United States.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 15, 2021

Article and permission to publish here provided by Jake Rheude at redstagfulfillment.com. Lead time is the length of time it takes from when a purchase order is generated to when an item is delivered. Cycle time refers to the amount of time it takes to manufacture a product from beginning to end. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

In the supply chain, variability and volatility come from many sources. The best way to start the design of an agile supply chain is to look at the sources of variability and market volatility that your supply chain encountered in the prior year. Ten years ago, the supply chain had two buffers: manufacturing and inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. In this article, I want to emphasize that a customer-centric supply chain meets and exceeds the customer’s needs day-by-day based on a well-defined relationship against a brand promise.

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In this article, we will discuss what logistics planning is, why it’s important for ecommerce, tips on how to optimize your logistics plan, and how a 3PL like ShipBob can help facilitate business growth by handling all internal and external logistics processes. Procurement and manufacturing. Logistical Process. Planning tips.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 2, 2020

As an experienced business professional, he has served in diverse roles ranging from Marketing and Strategy, to Procurement and Supply Chain. Several articles and reference books have highlighted Joe’s procurement transformation accomplishments at Lucent Technologies, Juniper Networks, and in the area of Supply Chain Risk Management.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Every article we publish covering logistics and supply chain KPIs piques our website visitors’ interest and receives a wealth of positive feedback. In addition, those articles inevitably stimulate readers to post questions, which, over time, we try to answer in detail by creating new blog posts to address them.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Inventory control ‘Inventory control’ covers quite a lot of the points we’ll be making in this article, so we’ll break the idea down into its components as we go. Such information should include pricing (including quantity pricing and quantity discounts), purchase currency, margins, transaction histories, and key contact information.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. The issue is that none of their IT investments in the last 10 years have moved the needle on operational metrics such as inventory levels, case fill rates, and other operational metrics. Their words.

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