Logistics Viewpoints
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Based on ARC Advisory Group’s new global market report, the five largest providers of TES, listed alphabetically, are Descartes, E2open, FourKites, Infor Nexus, and project44. The network supports a wide array of messaging types including real-time GPS, EDI, and API-based capacity requests, bookings, statuses, and customs messages.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
These teams are also more advanced in the use of planning and more advanced analytics concepts. In contrast, finance flexes inventory up and down in less mature organizations to manipulate cash flow for either investor reporting or bonus incentives. The second is there is no clear reporting on the cause and effect.
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Supply Chain View from the Field
NOVEMBER 16, 2013
I recently completed a study of 25 CPO’s, each providing their view of what procurement will look like in 2025. You can download the full report at this link. Procurement has a history that is linked in the core concepts of centralization, volume leveraging, and cost reduction.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 14, 2014
Tonight, I am stranded in a hotel in Chicago. The Chicago airport is closed for the night. When I wrote the book Bricks Matter , I cavalierly penned a chapter on the evolution of supply chain thinking from cost to value. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus. It is 3:00 AM. What Is Value?
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The budget is for a fiscal year with quarter reporting and updates. The direct connection between the two processes increases costs and increases error. Instead, it should be mapped as an input to track supply chain forecasting to financial budgets for reporting and insights. Time horizon. Bias and error. Apparel is an example.
ToolsGroup
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. I live in Chicago. When looking at global online sales, Salesforce reports 57% digital growth in 2020, and 16% growth in 2021, with eMarketer data predicting a continued increase through 2025. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories.
Talking Logistics
APRIL 5, 2018
But Uber never expanded beyond the initial three cities [New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago]…Uber also faced stiff competition in same-day deliveries from a variety of startups and larger rivals, including Deliv Inc. to small couriers,” wrote Greg Bensinger in the Wall Street Journal last week. and Amazon.com Inc.”.
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