Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I use this example to illustrate the challenges (or, perhaps, the futility) of making supply chain and logistics predictions. When I worked at Polaroid, for example, some of us were concerned about the emergence of digital cameras and what it would do to instant photography. as of this morning — a lower price than 5 years ago!

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 14, 2014

In this edition: Marion Kohlmeier, Head of supply chain planning and project purchasing at Weidmann Plastics Technology. Weidmann Plastics Technology is part of the Techniplas Group and I am responsible for three teams: Logistics planning; pre-series scheduling; and project purchasing. The third team is project purchasing.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That said, implementing Lean concepts would undoubtedly be part of that strategy, for example, - Lean Warehousing : Many firms (both retailers and manufacturers) are now aggressively rolling out Lean in their warehouse operations. This will make the supplier sluggish to respond to changes and slow moving on innovation. What can you do?

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 19, 2016

Nokia’s 150-year history is one of reinvention; recently it has been changing and innovating almost as fast as the telecommunications industry itself. In 2013 Nokia took full ownership of Nokia Siemens Networks, buying the other half of the venture from Siemens, and 2014 sold its handset business to Microsoft. By Helen Armstrong.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. This is disruptive innovation. The spark from Invention to Innovation is slow. Technology invention is happening, but the translation to innovation is slow.

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QAD

JANUARY 16, 2024

Beyond Location Tracking: Life-Saving Innovations My sisters and I have a group chat where we “gather the data” on my mom’s day-to-day activities. You’re probably thinking, “Are you crazy, letting your 84 year old mother drive after an incident like that,” but she is actually an excellent driver. Do we do that?

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Requis

JUNE 25, 2020

Susie Bodnar is part of the generation that is driving supply chain innovation forward. For example, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was high traffic for delivery times, but wait times went down. The organization is evolving, thanks to its board members who are agile, innovative people with many decades of experience.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 3, 2019

Capacity to innovate [7]. For example, a near term contract may need to amortize some costs over a larger amount of units that the current near term 3 year contract, so long term accommodations are made to impact the pricing on future units as well, before settling to the long term price. Risk: Capacity to innovate [7].

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American Global Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Amazon's relentless commitment to customer experience is another prominent example. Customers are spoiled for choice from retail to software to automotive. This focus on innovation allows businesses to stay relevant, exciting, and top-of-mind. Nordstrom, for example, empowers its employees to exceed customer expectations.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

Supply chains are the centre of gravity for innovation and transformation. Port Community Systems, Government Single Windows, Trader Community platforms are all examples of this sort of development. They need to focus the digital transformation effort on the core of the organization and their business models instead.

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

For example, the counting is carried out by personnel from another department other than the warehouse, who carry out samplings to perform surprise counts in order to check the reliability of the inventory, count more frequently the assets of greater value or greater turnover, etc. Then implant control methods. The top operators work at a 99.9%

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

Automotive. There are pre-packaged software applications which help companies in analyzing their data and give them meaningful insight into their data - examples are customers demand trends, financial analysis, sales optimization etc. New application purchases are being evaluated to be cloud deployable. Contact Us. Infosys Labs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. The Terra Technology implementation is an example of demand sensing while the DDMRP implementation is an example of demand translation of the probability of demand into materials requirements. The Demand-Driven Journey Begins.

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Vinculum

JULY 7, 2020

As people are making buying choices based on new and ever-changing global and local circumstances, the product categories that are being purchased are also changing. These are: Proactive health-minded buying (purchasing preventative health and wellness products). Example: Zomato, Swiggy, Uber Eats, Dunzo, Scootsy.

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SupplyOn

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Now, they face even higher demands as their ability to provide a “digital twin” throughout the entire product life cycle and to transfer this data in real-time is becoming the elementary prerequisite for doing business with the major automotive manufacturers. Animated discussions about ONCITE.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 3, 2012

Automotive. In this blog, with the example of Asset Management for personal health, they emphasize on identifying avenues for adding more Asset definitions to the EAM purview. A punch-out mechanism for buying medicines/equipments from a custom - catalogue which again is based on personal profile, can further do the value addition.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 19, 2016

On top of this we can see examples of marketing driven service providers that very doubtfully brand their product S&OP, or make up new names for existing S&OP processes. 64% think there is not enough coordinated innovation in S&OP processes. 64% think there is not enough coordinated innovation in S&OP processes.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Automotive. Research has proved that the use of social media can vastly improve the sales, lower costs of procurement and bring about innovation in the supply chain. For example, an internal social media application can help the purchasing team collaborate more effectively with the payables team. Supply Excellence.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Expertise: Agile Project Management, Lean Implementation in Warehouse, Supply Chain Simulation & Modelling, Warehouse Management Systems, Inventory Management, Business Intelligence (Power BI, Tableau, Google Data Studio), Advanced Excel Skills, warehouse management. F rancine Nielander Location: Netherlands/Remote Rating: 0/5.0

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Arena Solutions

MAY 5, 2022

She has used Arena PLM for the past 19 years and has benefited from its evolution into a world-class tool that has allowed her to provide excellent support to her employers. Jeff has extensive experience working with innovative companies in personal health and fitness and clean energy to help them deliver their solutions to market.

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Arena Solutions

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

As the founder of the Product Realization Group, Michael helps guide the world’s most innovative companies to accelerate delivery of their products from concept to full market scale. She spent most of those years in the healthcare industry and recently spent time in the automotive industry. Angenette was a captain in the U.S.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. The company uses various digital tools throughout its supply chain in such areas as planning, purchasing analytics, smart factory and digital customer logistics. Printer-friendly version.

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Arena Solutions

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We often see this kind of a setup with product, quality, supplier information, all sitting in disconnected systems, often Excel, SharePoint, communication being managed solely over email, causing big inefficiencies and, essentially, no single source of truth is the crux of it and ability to trace within that. Can be quick.

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ThroughPut

MAY 23, 2019

The Automotive Industry is being disrupted on all sides and is upending the traditional models of vehicle manufacturing that have evolved over the past 120 years to dominate the world. Yet industrial-scale disruption on multiple fronts requires lots of innovation.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

With new supply chain innovations , trends in logistics technology and advancements like automated robots making a big impact on operational efficiency, it seems that supply chain optimization is within reach for more companies than ever before. We needed something innovative, an idea out of the box to pull us out of the storm.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

The first thing which you call table stakes was innovative years ago. I will give you an example of predictive. I got to be able to run my operations, even the way I buy products and things of that nature. When I came from the supply chain side, I worked in automotive. It is something probably innovative and still is.

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QAD

APRIL 8, 2021

Looking back a few decades, the information for decision making was based on a small set of fact tables that had to be nicely summarized and presented in a report (in those days Excel was a revolution!) and in many businesses that is still the core of the decision-making support system. Data Opportunities. The Evolution of Data Technology.

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