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Red Sea Ocean Transport Shipping Disruption Update

Supply Chain Matters

UPS Supply Chain Solutions has begun offering its customers added tools, guidelines and recommended pointers for best navigating this ongoing crisis. retailers are already experiencing notifications of extended arrival times of ordered inventory. Added technology tools that can identify risks and likely mitigations options.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Impact of Demand Sensing on Inventory Levels. He knew Integrated Business Planning (IBP) tools were out there, but he couldn’t sell IBP within the organization. This enabled improvements in Sales and Operations Planning.

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

The company started working with AIMMS and our implementation partner Districon in October 2015 to develop a Demand Aggregation tool. Our inventory levels on this side of the business tend to be quite high, with a rotation going to 1 year. We limited the amount of cash we needed for inventory by bringing it down by 35%.

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

The company started working with AIMMS and our implementation partner Districon in October 2015 to develop a Demand Aggregation tool. Our inventory levels on this side of the business tend to be quite high, with a rotation going to 1 year. We limited the amount of cash we needed for inventory by bringing it down by 35%.

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Minerva on track with Slim4

Supply Chain Movement

From the brand new warehouse in Paal-Beringen, Belgium, Minerva supplies around 850 stores across the whole of the Benelux on a daily basis. We were looking for a professional tool to improve the inventory management of our growing range. The initial goal was to lower the inventories so cash could be released.

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Where Would We Be Without All of the BullS&%T?

Supply Chain Shaman

It seldom snows in Belgium: the city sits in anticipation. Progress on the key performance metrics of cost, customer service, inventory, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are going backward; not forwards, for most companies. This would include rules like inventory matching, customer policy, Available-To-Promise (ATP) or allocation.

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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period of 2006-2015. Today, I unpacked my bags.