Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So, rather than get overly prescriptive, I’ll use this blog post to highlight some companies that have achieved success through excellence in inventory management , and outline some of the most effective elements of their strategies. In other words, it will be different for every enterprise or organisation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

” The industry is in a groupthink, largely missing the opportunities for breakthrough innovation. As you read this blog, I hope that you will see me as a positive contrarian versus an old curmudgeon. The company’s focus on item proliferation resulted in 40% of items moving into a non-forecastable category.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

At the time, I was fascinated how the most mature teams bucked the system. However, this mature team found the technology insufficient. Tight coupling of the supply chain forecast to the financial forecast will improve value. Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The systems–based on shipment and order data–were out of step with the market. With fixed models and hard-wired data feeds, teams could not adjust the planning systems to use consumption data or market indicators. This means building a cognitive engine to sense, learn, and adapt using market data for innovators.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Think about your most recent purchase. Regardless of what it was (new tube of toothpaste, dog treats for your pup, or a new filter for your water purification system), logistics is the system behind getting it into your hands. Technology and processes may not be as advanced. Inventory management. Demand planning.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This technology sifts through complex data to forecast potential disruptions and market trends, allowing companies to plan ahead instead of reacting in the moment. In this blog, we’ll delve deeper into the potential of advanced supply chain analytics and understand why it is the need of the hour.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Learn how Resilinc is using predictive AI and generative AI to innovate supply chain risk management. In part one of our AI in supply chain blog series, “ How is AI Revolutionizing Supply Chain Risk Management?”, Shahzaib also touched on Generative AI, which is used in Resilinc’s supply chain disruption alert system, EventWatch AI.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The cloud is arguably one of the most value-creating technologies of our time. Cloud technology for life sciences companies offers myriad possibilities. Said another way, the ultimate benefit for a research-intensive industry such as life sciences lies in the fact that cloud computing aids innovation.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 28, 2024

Food Production AI tools can drive advanced predictive analytics with precision forecasting for weather and crop yield predictions. The technology also helps set better food standards surveillance, testing products at every level, and ensuring food hygiene setups in different operational scenarios. All for the good.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This blog post formed in my head as I worked with clients this month. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. Bias and error.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 6, 2020

With a lack of clear visibility into their supply chains due to manual reactive operational approaches and poor planning tools, they miss out on the much needed deep insights. This keeps them from creating smooth, synchronized and responsive supply chain plans to achieve the desired operational excellence. Demand management.

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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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ThroughPut

APRIL 6, 2020

With a lack of clear visibility into their supply chains due to manual reactive operational approaches and poor planning tools, they miss out on the much needed deep insights. This keeps them from creating smooth, synchronized and responsive supply chain plans to achieve the desired operational excellence. Demand management.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is his third guest blog on Supply Chain View From the Field. Over the decades, EDI standards emerged that cover a variety of supply chain artifacts and activities , from Purchase Orders & Acknowledgements (EDI 850 & 855) to Invoices (EDI 810) to Shipping Manifests (EDI 856). Craig Lukasik has been busy!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

In part one of this blog series, I started the saga of the supply chain fairy tale. It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. I strongly feel that a blind focus on functional excellence will cause the supply chain to become out of balance. These technologies are mature.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

During the afternoon, as I quietly held the pieces for Jake’s monster, my mind composed my blog post for the week. On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. Too much quilting, typing and repetitive motion….)

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

Technology Services. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. » Impact of SMAC on Enterprise Software Applications. This paper uses the word SMAC to represent this technology stack. Business Services.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

If you are going to be excellent at ecommerce fulfillment, you need to have great perpetual inventory capabilities. Select your technology partners based on reliability and flexibility for ecommerce capabilities and aggressively build a multi-tier available-to-promise (ATP) signal to enable drop shipments and merge in transit capabilities.

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From harvest to hands, the food & beverage (F&B) industry leaves no room for guesswork, especially without supply chain optimization software. The key to creating an effective market-driven demand plan is access to rich forecasts based on inputs from multiple sources. And that’s pretty astonishing.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 16, 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. This Part 2 blog post will explore the next remedies and innovative solutions that will help accelerate digital transformations and attainment of benefits.

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QAD

JANUARY 16, 2024

I remember her perspective on the diffusion of WYSIWYG technology. Happily, she can still live on her own with the help of some pretty slick technology that I have diffused into her life. Technology Diffusion Supports Senior Independence My mom now has Google Nest Cams in the house so that we can make sure she is getting around ok.

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EazyStock

JUNE 11, 2020

Plus HVAC equipment is also being adopted more and more by consumers due to technological innovations and climate change driving both affordability and demand respectively. What an inventory optimization tool like EazyStock will do is assign seasonal profiles to SKUs based on their demand history.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

As the markets plummet, it is time to remind ourselves that demand is not a forecast. Traditional forecasting approaches are not adequate in a time of market volatility. In the real world, companies operate with a Mean Absolute Forecast Error of 24-60%, and have a bias of 9-40%. I think that we have a burning platform.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 14, 2013

In this first of a series of blogs, I will be exploring many of the key themes that emerged in the recent Future of Procurement study I co-authored with KPMG’s Procurement Advisory Council. Yet, a solid P2P system is just one facet of financial excellence; FUTUREBUY executives themselves must become finan cial expert s.

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Claritum

JUNE 13, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. I rapidly came to the conclusion that these articles were excellent at the helicopter view of the challenges, however seemed unable to apply categorisation to the challenges. So, let’s start this article by breaking down the domains by nature of purchases. Purchasing resource time of people.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Each blog post written is distributed into groups that reach the supply chain community as well as professionals in manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and more. Today’s post is a follow up blog post to the post written a week or so back called “Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions.”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Blog post originally published at [link] Permission to publish provided by Theodore T. Where is procurement, outsourcing, sourcing, supply chain, and purchasing going? The summary will be left up to you and how you prepare as best as you can as technology changes at a rapid rate never seen before (AI, Amazon, ….),

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. The S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems.

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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. I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector. Reflections.

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Arkieva

JUNE 21, 2016

For anybody who wouldn’t know, Supply Chain is a complex domain because it studies the interactions in a complex and networked system. They differ in their willingness to innovate or to collaborate. How to ensure their buy-in? Supply Chain Complexity 2 – Processes/People/Tools/Analytics. Not all customers are equal.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Analytical innovation and digital transformation drove step-change capabilities within the office and marketing. Momentum to Invest in Traditional Technologies. The CIO budget is hamstrung with system upgrades and software license payments. As a result, many companies are struggling. Leadership teams are uncomfortable.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

I covered my observations from the May event in a previous blog. Tailor your supply chain to cater to diverse businesses: In his keynote, Mourad Tamoud, EVP of Global Supply Chain Operations of Schneider Electric talked about how they are segmenting their supply network based on their customer personas and purchasing behaviors.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

This blog post started a series of telephone calls. A large consumer products manufacturer with nine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instances and several divisions wanted to discuss forecasting. The team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence. What Is a Forecast Anyway?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Technology Services. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. In my previous blog , I had talked about the Cash on Delivery payment option. Layaway: • The customer selects the product that she wants to buy.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 10, 2013

Technology Services. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Supply Excellence. Business Assurance: Supply Chain Blogs. Procurement Blog. Supply Chain Planning & Forecasting (59). Mobile Banking.

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ThroughPut

MAY 16, 2024

However, responding to evolving market demands can seem almost impossible with legacy systems, siloed data and/or manually-driven human-intuition-based processes. Note that supply chain optimization goes beyond just maximizing the overall supply chain performance in terms of material delivery excellence.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Not only do warehouses fulfill an essential buffer function and ensure cost-efficient distribution, their role as competitive advantage driven by digital innovations significantly enhances as they are also the last decisive step in serving the customer. Advance shipping notification. which can help nail down inefficiencies.

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