Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2023

manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. companies were further rattled after Chinese authorities recently questioned workers at Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Co. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

BOSTON, February 16, 2022 : ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, has partnered with Planalytics to integrate their weather-driven demand (WDD) analytics with ToolsGroup’s retail planning solutions, enabling customers to isolate, measure, and manage the influence of weather on their businesses.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 30, 2024

MILAN, ATHENS, and BOSTON – 29 July 2024 — ToolsGroup and its Greek partner, THellas, announced that SLF Greece -a distributor of KIKO MILANO products in Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and Romania- has implemented ToolsGroup SO99+ software.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 2, 2023

FeaturedCustomers is the leading customer success content marketing platform for B2B business software and services, helping potential B2B buyers make informed purchasing decisions through vendor-validated content. ToolsGroup earned a Market Leader award in the category. See ToolsGroup’s listing on FeaturedCustomers here.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 16, 2023

Real-Time Retail connects the JustEnough planning and execution solution with Inventory Hub ® – a dynamic data unification platform – to collect near-live data from siloed systems and serve that information immediately to Allocation, Replenishment and Fulfillment applications to: Track events and changes to inventory across selling channels.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

The attendees were sitting on the edge of their seats to hear about the next release of Llamasoft software. They came to Boston to tell us the story of Llamasoft. Network design tools were essential to manage the improvement of both together. As I listened, I began to reflect. Reflections. Cost-to-Serve and Top-to-Top Meetings.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 6, 2022

Solutions enable real-time inventory availability and fulfillment optimization for retailers. BOSTON—June 7, 2022 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, today announced its acquisition of Onera, a provider of real-time inventory availability and fulfillment software solutions to retailers.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Leaders from Bose, Boston Scientific and ON Semiconductor shared key lessons from their supply chain transformations, including what led them to consider change. Planners can’t work with contract manufacturers. Purchasers don’t have visibility into existing inventory. The IT team volunteers its time to improve your software.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 20, 2022

BOSTON and MILAN, April 21, 2022 – ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, announces its Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+) digital supply chain planning software is now fully integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365. Visit SO99+. for Dynamics on AppSource. About ToolsGroup.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Boston and Milan, 15 December 2021 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, is proud to announce that it has joined the Microsoft Partner Pledge, an initiative with the aim of promoting a sustainable environmental future. “At About ToolsGroup.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 7, 2023

The dynamic sourcing capability automatically smooths inventory targets day after day and ensures target service levels are achieved regardless of supplier constraints. The SO99+ Supply Chain Planning Solution is the market leader in dynamic planning, helping supply chain teams make informed decisions faster. Version 8.60 release HERE.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 7, 2021

”[1] Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers were not immune to this trend. ” For many consumers, the most important touch point they have on the digital path to purchase is their smartphone. .”[2] In the mobile arena, the smartphone is clearly the dominant player. ” 1.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 14, 2022

Named a Supply Chain leader in annual list of most innovative and transformative retail technology solution providers. In making this selection, Retail Today’s editorial team has analyzed the universe of Retail solutions in 16 categories—scanning nearly 7000 applicants and nominees. About ToolsGroup. About Retail Today Magazine.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Joint Microsoft and ToolsGroup planning solution will support POOLCORP’s goals of improved service to customers and increased profitability amid demand and supply volatility. ToolsGroup is how organizations improve product availability while right-sizing inventory, no matter how complex their supply chain is or how much demand changes.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Introduction: Procurement Planning for Distribution-Intensive Businesses Procurement planning is not a widely recognized category of supply chain software, but it should be. The resulting plan should maintain adequate safety stock levels for each purchased item while reducing inventory costs.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 30, 2022

BOSTON (May 31, 2022) – ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, announced today that Joe (Yossi) Shamir will retire from his role as CEO. In her previous role, she was the CEO of 1010data, the leading provider of cross-enterprise data analytics tools.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 31, 2022

In a world that rarely follows the rules, our retail and supply chain planning suite optimizes and automates supply chains from production to purchase, enabling manufacturers, distributors and retailers to be ready for anything. That’s why global leaders like Absolut, BP and Harley-Davidson rely on us year after year.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 22, 2022

According to analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), “It has taken 30 years since the term was coined in 1992, but big money has now moved into the metaverse — accompanied by big hype.”[1] These systems can run their external software brain based on input from virtual sensors and then determine how they should respond.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 22, 2022

According to analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), “It has taken 30 years since the term was coined in 1992, but big money has now moved into the metaverse — accompanied by big hype.”[1] These systems can run their external software brain based on input from virtual sensors and then determine how they should respond.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

MUNICH & BOSTON — 23. November 2021 — ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, has been selected by Emma – The Sleep Company to support its goal of creating a resilient, intelligent supply chain process to accommodate the company’s rapid growth.

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Arena Solutions

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This article defines engineering change orders (ECOs) and describes the role they play in new product development (NPD) and manufacturing. Often small to medium-sized businesses make do with the tools they have to manage their product data. These tools can wreak havoc when product information is released into production.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

Lockdown of cities and manufacturing plants have significantly impacted many industries’ supply chains. But the COVID-19 crisis, has required rapid operational solutions to unforeseen roadblocks. Quick solutions to employee shortages, remote working, and to ensure health and safety across the company need to be deployed.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Produce or purchase more inventory to bring undersupply locations up to target stock levels. This will incur increased inventory holding costs and purchasing costs. MIT Study at Boston Scientific. If a product is in short supply, you may need to pay expediting fees to suppliers. Inventory balancing.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Our supply chain involves a contract manufacturer, a third-party testing facility, warehouses to store inventory and a freighting company. For example, if my contract manufacturer is late with an order it can cause me to incur excess costs with the freighting and warehousing companies, respectively. Will it go obsolete quickly?

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

That means consumer preferences change every hour, yet retailers make purchasing decisions almost a year in advance.”[1] “Although the world of industry and manufacturing is in the midst of a digital revolution,” they write, “the supply chain sphere is lagging behind. Software as a Service (SaaS).

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Following on from its other two highly popular subway maps of supply chain software vendors and logistics service providers, the quarterly magazine Supply Chain Movement has now published the third edition of the Consulting Subway Map Europe showing the European supply chain consultancy sector. Manufacturers find themselves at a crossroads.

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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! This underscores the importance of China being the world’s manufacturing hub in the past decade, and most likely for the next few decades. Introduction. Products are the lifeline of your business.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 5, 2021

Like other economic sectors affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the manufacturing sector has had to reevaluate past business strategies to ensure they remain on track to survive and thrive in the post-pandemic environment. “Talk of Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing,” he writes, “has been around for years.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 18, 2020

1] Aleesha Khaliq reports, “In a bid to tackle the shortage, The NT News provided a practical — if unconventional — solution. Manufacturers, paper industry executives say, are raising production to meet demand, but there is only so much capacity that they can or are willing to add. ‘Run out of loo paper? .”[2]

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USC Consulting Group

JULY 21, 2020

Yet for business leaders – especially manufacturers and shippers – the words “unpredictability” and “uncertainty” will likely epitomize 2020, as they’re something organizations continue to experience as the country and consumers emerge from the nationwide lockdown amid supply chain disruption.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 18, 2024

In response to high food prices, a survey by Kantar found, “Local and regional brands represented 47% of purchases, while private label sales increased by 0.5 ” Analysts from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) point out that different types of retailers (e.g., percentage points to reach 22.7%. Discount retailers achieved 10.5%

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Multichannel selling allows customers to shop and purchase through whichever channel they prefer. For example, a manufacturer who is selling to a few wholesalers would have sent out a catalogue to them. The wholesalers would then have to call the manufacturer and order over the phone, or via email. What is B2B eCommerce?

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EMERGE App

JANUARY 1, 2020

As a wholesaler and distributor, I’m willing to bet that you’re dealing with at least two currencies for your purchases and sales. World exports of manufactured goods increased from US$ 8 trillion in 2006 to US$ 11 trillion in 2016. Developing countries make up the bulk of suppliers and manufacturers today.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

Founded in 2014, this Boston based robotics technology firm leverages capabilities that are described as mimicking human hand-eye coordination, leveraging machine-learning to a vision system on a gripper and allowing mechanical fingers to bend and twist around objects to perform piece-picking tasks.

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JDA software

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Understandably, these knock offs are creating some significant trust issues between retailers and their consumers, and , retailers and manufacturers. In fact, more than one in every four seafood purchases were found to be mislabeled. Only 36% of shoppers trust companies to do what’s right according to a Boston Consulting Group study.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Our prior full edition of this column was published on July 14 and featured news related to global battery manufacturer Panasonic and warehouse services start-up Flexe. Procurement sourcing and tail spend solutions provider Fairmarkit announced the completion of a $35.6 Expands C-Suite Amid Increased Technology Demand.

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Xeeva

MAY 3, 2018

Last week a mix of supply chain professionals were brought together in Boston to learn about digital trends affecting manufacturing and gain insights into why development, digitization, and innovation are important. He also discussed what AI is and how it’s impacting manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, and other industries.

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