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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. Also, the solutions lacked flexibility. No company interviewed was able to successfully use their current what-if solutions to model pandemic impacts. Lessons Learned. The reason?

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

Analysis of case study is certainly one of the most popular methods for people from business management background. In order to accelerate the learning, this article has gathered 20+ most sought-after supply chain case studies, analyzed/categorized them by industry and the findings are presented.

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Real-time Capacity Matching: Making Brokers More Efficient

Talking Logistics

The real-time freight visibility space was particularly hot in 2017, with two major acquisitions announced last year, including Descartes’s acquisition of MacroPoint in August 2017. In case you missed it, check out my short video interview with William and David and our write-up of the case study.

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Google Will Acquire a 3PL – And Other Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2015

Talking Logistics

So, here is my invented future for 2015, starting with my most audacious prediction: Google will acquire a logistics service provider (3PL) and/or a logistics software vendor. And its technology assets too, like the Kiva robots Amazon purchased [in 2012] and the data centers that power its cloud computing services.

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Podcast: the Daniel Stanton Interview

Requis

Supply chain is a relatively new discipline that rose out of the procurement, logistics, and operations disciplines. Procurement, logistics, and operations were seen as separate – but that perspective isn’t helpful today. Currently the aspect that’s moving the fastest is visibility software.

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Podcast: the Daniel Stanton Interview

Requis

Supply chain is a relatively new discipline that rose out of the procurement, logistics, and operations disciplines. Procurement, logistics, and operations were seen as separate – but that perspective isn’t helpful today. Currently the aspect that’s moving the fastest is visibility software.

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3 Processes to Automate to Improve Your Plant’s Performance

QAD

As a result, many supplier delivery performance issues are addressed with an ad hoc “find it, fix it” problem-solving approach, which does not lead to the identification of systemic root cause or implementation of sustainable system solutions. Instead, they are using Purchase Orders which are not effective in a repetitive environment.