Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs? But a bad forecast can do away all the good work you do in inventory planning.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs? What do you say?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs? But a bad forecast can do away all the good work you do in inventory planning.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

In the first facility management was focused on controlling the workforce through individual metrics. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs?

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

The final pillar of defense against cargo theft involves collaboration with trusted partners to track threats and report incidents – which often doesn’t happen even in today’s environment. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs? But a bad forecast can do away all the good work you do in inventory planning.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs? But a bad forecast can do away all the good work you do in inventory planning.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs? But a bad forecast can do away all the good work you do in inventory planning.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

But according to a report on the data, US birth rates rose only for one demographic: Hispanic women. births per 1,000 women in 2023 was the lowest ever recorded since data collection began in 1909, according to the CDC report. That left logistics costs as a percent of US GDP down a bit in 2024 to 8.7%. trillion, up from $2.44

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

I will note we lost one member of our index when software maker and privately held Aptean acquired Logility early in 2025, and will soon lose another software company when non-public WiseTech’s purchase of e2open is finalized. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

of GDP The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and partners Kearney and Penske Logistics are out last week with the 2025 State of Logistics Report, looking primarily at 2024 data. Again this year, Penske Logistics funded the report development. Somewhere along the way, CSCMP took over the sponsorship.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

Click here to send us your comments The Cass report showed May shipment volumes in the US were down 3.4%seasonally Click here to send us your comments The Cass report showed May shipment volumes in the US were down 3.4%seasonally Supply Chain Digest Says. In May, the Linehaul Index fell 0.5% month-over-month. in May from 0.9%

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Commandment 9: Insist on User Friendliness Independent of the effort put forth to design a system, purchase hardware and develop software, the single biggest test of implementation occurs when an operator attempts to scan bar coded media. This can be a pleasant experience (it is most of the time) or controversial.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs? But a bad forecast can do away all the good work you do in inventory planning.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

That was captured in the SOL report by the chart below, which shows uncertainty, as tracked by something called the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index from an organization of academics using the same name as the index. Source: State of Logstics Report 2025 May you live in interesting times, as the Chinese saying goes.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

There is no shortage of reporting tools, green fuel pilots or glossy ESG statements. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs?

South Africa

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs? But a bad forecast can do away all the good work you do in inventory planning.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

Another manager in the computers and electrics sector stated that: “Tariffs continue to cause confusion and uncertainty for long-term procurement decisions. The situation remains too volatile to firmly put such plans into place.“ reported in May (above 50 = rising prices), so prices rose again but at a somewhat smaller rate).

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs? But a bad forecast can do away all the good work you do in inventory planning.

Analysis

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs? But a bad forecast can do away all the good work you do in inventory planning.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

Electric Charging Station Installs Soar in Q2 According to a report from Transport Topics this week, 703 high-speed, public charging stations opened in the US in the second quarter, the second-largest such infrastructure boom on record, according to Department of Energy data. An y reaction to t hese stories?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

This morning, unexpectedly, I found myself in the middle of a debate between my two panelists on the Planning Benchmarking Panel for the Summit. Recently through my analysis of the planning benchmarking work, I have become fascinated on the role of inventory in the market-driven value network.

Waste Reduction

Logility

MARCH 6, 2020

Machine Learning for demand forecasting has matured to a level of accuracy, transparency and replicability that translates into transformative results, including in these five areas: Accuracy, transparency, thoroughness of analytical options and results. Analytical processing speed and accelerated corporate learning.

Forecasting

Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 27, 2015

Last week, I interviewed Robert Byrne, founder of Terra Technology on his demand planning benchmarking study. I enjoy creating the podcast series, and Rob’s findings in his benchmark study are always thought-provoking. This is his fifth year of studying demand processes. Figure 1: Calculating the Long Tail.

Supply and Demand

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. For businesses of all sizes, the digital transformation of supply chain planning became the most important initiative. . Planning platforms can pull data from multiple internal and external data sources.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

The implementations were longer, the purchase costs were higher, and the functionality was less robust and lacking flexibility. All of the results are reported in aggregate. Demand Planning Implementations Are Faster with Fewer Issues Than Supply. Demand planning is less industry specific than supply.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I am currently working on an in-depth study on supply chain planning benchmarking (publishes in August), and working with the team to analyze supply chain planning adoption. I find it ironic that the supply chain leaders are quite confident in their abilities to plan, but the planners themselves are not. It is pervasive.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Procurement has never played such an important role in the increasingly globalised economy. Has procurement fundamentally changed itself in the past 10 years? Strategic Procurement can mean totally different things in different industries and sectors. The time when Procurement was almost a synonym to Purchasing has long gone.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

Many organizations will play the shell game of reporting forecast error so that the numbers look better: either calculating the forecast at a higher level in the forecast hierarchy (not at the item level) or reporting the data as a Weighted Mean Absolute Error. Focus on Sensing using Independent Demand.

Supply and Demand

Logility

APRIL 2, 2020

A good KPI will be measurable against some benchmark or criteria. More advanced ones can structure and clean the data before dumping it into a format for reporting. 3 Get the metrics right. Supplier metrics should be captured about monthly. Lastly, develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) around those measures.

Negotiating Skills

Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This reality is compelling F&B companies to rethink their strategies and approach to supply chain optimization and demand planning. Staying competitive in this intense landscape demands finely tuned operations that are highly efficient and effective – from product concept to customer consumption.

Optimal Sourcing

ToolsGroup

JANUARY 8, 2019

We should look to recreate the demand drivers that generated those numbers in the first place. Enright says that poor forecast accuracy stems from firms’ inability to recreate the historical demand environment. In short, any capturable element that influences how customers purchase, whether in B2B or B2C environments.

Supply and Demand

Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

In an uncertain environment, affordability and predictability are at a premium, and a supply-chain organization can deliver these through effective management and oversight of its suppliers. This is important as it determines the supply chain footprint; which costs are fixed and variable; and how responsive it is to customers.

Waste Reduction

Unleashed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The onset of COVID and the rapidly changing environment of a pandemic-hit world has meant demand planning has become more difficult – and as a result, more critical – than ever. What is demand planning? Demand planning is the process of predicting what customer demand will be for a certain product.

Supply and Demand

ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Current State of the Retail Worker Shortage: Are Retail Workers in Demand? With reports of retail layoffs and overstaffing at companies (such as Walmart and Amazon) to cover Omicron-related staffing shortages, it would appear the shortage of workers may be abating. The risks surrounding the retail labor shortage aren’t new.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2024

For those procurement or Supply Chain executives in suitable organizations, there is an increasing number of uncertainties to manage, especially in today’s tough economic environment. Procurement consultants like ourselves are required to be highly creative and innovative to resolve the business issues across a broader management disciplines.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Unleashed

APRIL 18, 2023

The last of these can be achieved by tracking the right inventory metrics, analysing the results, and making data-driven optimisations. So, what are the ‘right’ inventory metrics, and how do you calculate them? In this inventory metrics guide What are inventory metrics? What are KPIs for inventory?

Procurement Analytics