ToolsGroup

JULY 13, 2023

Hear more about this exciting launch from our CEO, Inna Kuznetsova: Omnichannel fulfillment introduces new complexity into sourcing decisions. How Dynamic Fulfillment Works Dynamic Fulfillment, as opposed to traditionally static, rules-based sourcing logic, is built on a comprehensive, cost-based approach.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 5, 2023

What role do you believe KIVA played in Boston becoming the robotics hub that it is today? MARK: Kiva was absolutely fundamental to the germination of the robotics community in Boston. A supply chain team was also just hired to build out global sourcing and customs CM and MFG. Kiva put supply chain and design together.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The GCC chemical industry is second largest manufacturing industry in value add, after refining. 2017 Facts and Figures report by Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA), the chemical industry accounts for 3.1 Supporting localisation – To increase resilience, means to decentralise sourcing.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 15, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides readers another industry example of efforts underway to reexamine supply network strategies in the light of two years of disruptive impacts, with the goal of augmenting needed agility and more direct control. Background.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In this particular posting, we share our review of: Profit From The Source- Transforming Your Business By Putting Suppliers at the Core. The book is authored by- Christian Schuh, Wolfgang Schnellbacher, Alenka Triplat, Daniel Weise, each of whom are Boston Consulting Group Partners , Managing Directors and thought leaders.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 5, 2023

Delivering unparalleled value to customers, these exciting new capabilities join other recent dynamic planning enhancements to SO99 , including: an Industry-Leading NPI Dashboard that enables users to better leverage historical data to create and refine forecasts for new products. Version 8.61 The release of SO99+ V8.61

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Despite ongoing and protracted supply, labor, and industry disruption, the smartest retailers are doubling down on the improvements necessary to create differentiation and revenue growth.”. IHL Group is a global research and advisory firm specializing in technologies for the retail and hospitality industries. About ToolsGroup.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

BOSTON — Sept. I was envisioning a long road ahead in getting the supply chain industry educated enough as to why it was important to recognize women in the supply chain. I’m proud to call these women mentors, role models and industry friends. This year, we received over 280 submissions. About ToolsGroup.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 3, 2022

BOSTON — August 4, 2022 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in AI-driven retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, announces it has appointed Jon Purdy as Chief Financial Officer and Joseph Luciano as Chief People Officer. ToolsGroup welcomes Jon Purdy as Chief Financial Officer and Joseph Luciano as Chief People Officer. .

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 1, 2019

Industry 4.0 is the popular name given to the fourth industrial revolution ushered in by the digital age. Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) explain the first three revolutions were driven by steam, electricity, and automation. ” Some pundits believe Industry 4.0 What really makes Industry 4.0

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Although people have used fossil fuels for thousands of years, the world didn’t begin to carbonize substantially until the first Industrial Revolution. The steam engine made by James Watt became the main driver of the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution changed the way people worked and traveled.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It’s hard to believe that after so many years, a legend of Boston has officially called it quits. The Bosstones were a classic Boston band that somehow even featured a member that simply known as the Dancing Bosstone. To import products from the region, companies will have to document that they aren’t sourced from forced labor.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

1) Streamlined Data Flow and Process Automation Is all about AI At the heart of effective supply chain automation lies the seamless flow of data across various sources and digital platforms, akin to a well-constructed highway for data. This results in more accurate recommendations and efficient process automation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2023

What role do you believe KIVA played in Boston becoming the robotics hub that it is today? MARK: Kiva was absolutely fundamental to the germination of the robotics community in Boston. A supply chain team was also just hired to build out global sourcing and customs CM and MFG. Kiva put supply chain and design together.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2022

In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, two men, disguised as police officers, talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where they blindfolded and tied up the two security guards, and made off with thirteen works of art. How a global nickel shortage could disrupt the electric vehicle industry.

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Arena Solutions

MARCH 9, 2023

On May 15 – 18, 2023, professionals across the industrial enterprise will have the opportunity to attend PTC LiveWorx in person at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with industry experts and peers to develop effective strategies that help future-proof your business.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 29, 2022

So, if you are a supply chain professional and apply this model in your industry, you have to review the results of your planning efficiency. Author : Emad Atef – CSCA, MBA (Candidate), Procurement and Sourcing Manager. Jay & Barry Render Heizer, Operations Management , 10th edition (Boston Munich: Pearson, 2011), 507.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. There are no value network solutions in the market to enable plan/source/make and deliver visibility holistically. Reflection. To illustrate the point, let me share a story.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

One of the most interesting panels from the Boston Procurement Leaders conference was focused on Talent Management. My Accounts Payable and Sourcing people are looking like value drivers focused on driving P&L realization to the bottom line. I’m not sure as an industry we have matured enough. But are they ready?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Steve Rowen is a Managing Partner at Retail Systems Research, an industry market intelligence firm that helps retailers make more strategic decisions about the role of information technology in their enterprise, and helps solution providers better meet those needs. Founder & CEO of OneRail @OneRail .

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

According to analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), supply chain disruptions are likely to outpace resilience.”[1] Jeremy Kay , Managing Director and Partner at the Boston Consulting Group, insists many organizations “struggle to get a handle on how resilient they need to be.” Here’s the rub.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2014

I watched a TED Talk video by Philip Evans, from Boston Consulting Group and shuddered to think that all our traditional fulfillment and inventory models can be drastically transformed by the “consumer”. They want to assure the sourcing meets their “sustainable” expectations. It’s the consumer.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 31, 2022

Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) explain, “Francis Fukuyama once described trust as ‘the single most important commodity that will determine the fate of a society.’ It helps establish a single source of truth and implements a system of checks and balances for all parties within the supply chain.”[4].

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 17, 2021

BOSTON, March 17, 2021 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, is proud to announce that ToolsGroup Director of Professional Services for Europe, Michael Haiber, and Vice President of Professional Services, Stefano Novati, were both named 2021 “Pros to Know” by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine.

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EMERGE App

JULY 11, 2018

Google a phrase like “sourcing products from China” and you’ll instantly be faced by almost 39 million results! You need to source for products to sell at wholesale prices to your retail customers. And the place to source for most, if not all, of your products is in China. Introduction. Get Professional Help.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My first focus was on China sourcing. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) I gave thanks when the Patriots jet—championed by Mass General and Robert Kraft (owner of the Patriots)—landed in Boston with a million masks. The airline industry? Explore alternative analytics and data sources to eliminate black holes.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 20, 2023

He writes, “If you source from outside and haven’t made checks in a while, it’s worth auditing your supplier list and seeing where parts have changed in spec, increased in price without increasing in quality, or even been quietly substituted for ‘equivalents’ you never agreed.” ” • Business Information Risks.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Most people have heard the term “Industry 4.0” ” used to describe the emerging fourth industrial revolution. To reach this goal, policymakers and industry leaders seek assistance from technological innovations, including big data, IoT, analytics, and cloud computing.”[3] ”[1]. . Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

AMR Research was an industry analyst firm in Boston. I argued for industry collaboration to define and drive process innovation. We don’t have a clear industry definition of supply chain excellence. He retired handsomely with the equity from the sale of his company and is no longer active in the industry.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Trade might not be the source of that inequality — the increasingly regressive nature of the US tax code looks a more obvious culprit — but the timing has created the perception that it’s a bad thing for less well off people.” ” With so many jobs heading to China, China quickly became a target for U.S. ” Concluding thoughts.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Hans-Paul Bürkner, Chairman of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and his colleague, and Arindam Bhattacharya, write, “We are living in a confusing, polarizing world of dizzying complexity and puzzling contradictions. If you don’t have a first-tier supplier who’s sourcing from China, then your supplier’s supplier is.”[7]

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 7, 2016

In response to some challenges with provenance on their product, Boston-based seafood distributor Red’s Best created its own software to track where they get their fish, and where it goes once it leaves the warehouse. It’s no secret consumers, in general, care more and more how and where their food was raised and sourced.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 21, 2020

This has proved to be a major source of risk. Poor business continuity planning, lack of risk management programs and single source suppliers, have magnified the impact of such risks. A pandemic-induced blow finally laid bare the vulnerabilities of the supply chain industry largely premised on lean production principles.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 1, 2021

What they might not know is that the shortage of semiconductors affects almost every industry. As a result, last week President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring a federal review of supply chain risks for chips and other critical items in the communication and pharmaceutical industries. ”[2].

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

Jane is asking for the best route from Boston to Chicago. This is called freight under management (FUM) in the industry. Knowing if current pricing is at, above, or below the industry average, empowers shippers to make better procurement decisions. Dick is asking for the best route from his house to a local restaurant.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The United Nations has predicted the agricultural industry will need to achieve a 70 per cent rise in overall food production in order to feed the estimated 9.1 To date, however, Boston Consulting Group analysts assert, “Digital agriculture has not yet lived up to its potential.”[1] technologies and procedures. .”[3]

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Boston area is a hub for warehouse robotics companies. For companies across industries, transforming existing DCs and narrowing this technology gap is key to competitive advantage in a changing economy. A resilient supply chain is able to recover quickly from these disruptions.

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