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This Week in Logistics News (April 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon announces new changes to inventory limits. Amazon is making more changes to its inventory limits, including a new extra-large category and an increased price threshold for its small and light program. In addition, the USDA is offering a $125 incentive to pick up an empty dry container used for agricultural bookings.

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What is Supply Chain Planning Software and How Can it be Used Effectively? Part 1

DELMIA Quintiq

The detailed steps required to produce the finished items in the most efficient way through all the necessary production operations across all the different lines, machines, processes in all the different workshops must be decided. The optimization of this plan is the intention of production scheduling.

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Logistics Experts from SSI Schaefer Implement Automated Deep-Freeze Warehouse in Manila, Philippines – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

With the logistics software WAMAS ® , ORCA has a close eye on stock and ensures that all goods within the warehouse are booked and tracked in real time. This also reduces the risk of theft, which is an issue in the region. SSI Schaefer is also a leading provider of modular, regularly updated software for in-house material flows.

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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

As I write my new book, Metrics That Matter, I am studying the patterns of corporate performance based on choices in supply chain program execution. A company that is effectively working a supply chain strategy will have a nice, neat pattern at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. So, what can we learn?

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Lessons Learned from the Beer Game

BlueYonder

At JDA, one of the vehicles we’ve been using to demonstrate the benefits of effective supply planning and collaboration across the supply chain is the Collaborative Flow Planning workshop — AKA, The Beer Game. In the workshop, we play the game twice. We’ve executed this workshop many times over the last two years.

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What Buyer-Supplier Collaboration Looks Like in Real Life….

NC State SCRC

The parties decided to host a collaborative workshop. It also became apparent that there was a large amount of inventory in the system, and that there were major disconnects in information flow between the parties in the chain. Opening day of the two-day workshop. Not a forum for open book cost sharing.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2018: Real-Time, Innovation, Cognitive, Blockchain, Industry-Academic Partnerships, and Taking a Stand!

NC State SCRC

The most exciting development for me personally this year was the publication of my book The LIVING Supply Chain , co-authored with Tom Linton, Chief Supply Chain Officer of FLEX. Prediction: Real-Time LIVING Supply Chain Investments Will Separate the Winners from the Laggards. ” A control approach creates friction.