Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Companies implementing supply chain planning (SCP) have traditionally been very big companies or companies with complex supply chains. Supply chain planning is not just for the big boys. The Company operates eighteen manufacturing facilities, nine distribution centers located throughout North and Central America.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

Salim: Our automotive customers are increasingly looking at how to counter inflation but at the same time how to enable supply chain resiliency. The visibility will include not just the short-term purchase order or ASN-level visibility, but also the tactical kind of forecast collaboration with the suppliers.

Automotive 85

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. Asset relocation takes time. But, even then, the relocation of capacity is not a snap of the fingers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

But when ARC has done writing on SCCN, we have written about how this solution set can help a company optimize its own supply chain operations. A company buys these solutions to optimize their business. It is not just continually changing demand and material and equipment constraints across a company’s value chain that matters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The output was just not helpful. No company interviewed was able to successfully use their current what-if solutions to model pandemic impacts. Companies need an easy-to-use sandbox deployment to visualize supply chain constraints and the impact of variability. Over time, this changed. It will not be over soon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

The visibility to spend allows them to provide excellent benchmarking in several areas. Coupa, formerly public, became a private company. Coupa has been a very fast-growing company. Coupa just released a supply chain collaboration network (SCCN) solution that runs on their BSM platform. That has recently changed.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Ah, the joy of shopping.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Overworking your limited resources or late deliveries can never be long-term solutions and that’s why every business needs capacity planning. Now you might think, capacity planning isn’t too complicated. Capacity planning is so much more than that.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Overworking your limited resources or late deliveries can never be long-term solutions and that’s why every business needs capacity planning. Now you might think, capacity planning isn’t too complicated. Capacity planning is so much more than that.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But more blatantly than ever, container liners – and especially Maersk – are on a collision course with the tech companies that provide digital infrastructure for selling goods. For a forwarder, refraining from working with Maersk today is expensive because it removes 17% of global shipping capacity. Accelerating the shift.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

This type of response is just not helpful. I find in my Supply Chains to Admire research that 96% of companies (when compared to their peer groups) are unable to drive improvement while delivering higher performance year-over-year on a balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 24, 2015

It never ceases to surprise me when I hear how many enterprises entrust a mission-critical task to the desktop spreadsheet software Excel®. Consider the Supply Chain Insights report, Research in Review (Nov 2014), that states: “Many companies have five to 30 Enterprise Resource Planning systems and two to three supply chain planning systems.

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Locus

MAY 15, 2023

The direct-to-consumer (D2C) model has been gaining popularity among customers for some time now as manufacturers get a lot more room to provide customized brand experiences that bring a lot more delight to consumers, which in turn strengthen brand loyalty. These sentiments reflect in the consistent growth of theIndian D2C market.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. While good news travels quickly in an organization, bad news travels slowly. Supply chains operate blindly on order data. The problem? Wrong focus I thought.

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Logility

APRIL 9, 2020

Just look back over the last couple of years. Error-prone spreadsheets were never designed to handle the multi-dimensional relationships and constraints involved in today’s supply chains or to provide the advance numeric or visual real-time analytics required to develop an optimal response quickly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This technology company is headquartered in Friedrichshafen, Germany. ZF transforms those purchased products into over 2,000 products. According to Mr. Sobeck, the SupplyOn solution means that when you need to “register a supplier or to update their information, you only need to do that once instead of several times.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

When it comes to running a company, when things break down executives have traditionally said “we need to improve our forecasting!” Unfortunately, most companies cannot, and will never be able to, consistently rely on highly accurate forecasts. Would better forecasting accuracy be a good thing? Absolutely! When will the recession hit?

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Locus

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

customers now have the entire marketplace at their fingertips and possess greater purchasing power than ever before. will not just cost you customer experience but also future business. The key for retail/e-commerce companies to achieve customer delight is an enhanced delivery experience. How do you do that?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Elias and Mr. Stauffer spoke about the digital transformation the company is going through. The company is still somewhere in the “crawl/walk” phase. The company has 18 plants and operating locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico as well as plants and labs in the UK, China, and Indonesia. HWI Has a Complex Supply Chain.

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Logility

APRIL 7, 2020

The Coca-Cola Company and Georgia Institute of Technology are working together to turn plastic sheeting into more than 50,000 plastic surgical shields. These are just a few of the countless and amazing innovations we hear about on a daily basis. At the same time, start a frank discussion about which metrics matter right now.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 4, 2024

Coupled with the art of trying to balance unpredictable material demand with volatile prices and its effects on the business, with the need to keep raw material to a minimum to free up capital juxtaposed to the need to import raw material with long lead times. Uncertain lead times for acquiring specific materials for customised products.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 25, 2022

These are uncertain times, with inflation and the war in Ukraine holding back economic growth. For the past two years companies have been struggling with shortages of stock, components and raw materials, which in turn have led to shortages of finished products. Can’t we just order a little less?’, they think.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

Because of this stability, at Philip Morris International (PMI), one of the world’s leading international tobacco companies, budgeting out three to five years used to be something they could comfortably do on spreadsheets. Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same. It was predictable.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

Agri-food supply chains under pressure The discipline of agri-food supply chain management aims to bridge the supply and demand gap of agri-food chains to achieve optimal place and time utility. In terms of time, the agriculture sector also needs to deal with seasons, where harvesting goes in cycles.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It was designed with linearity in mind: a singular focus on minimizing transport costs through building high-capacity, point-to-point distribution infrastructure. And as global trade has accelerated in recent decades, greater levels of investment and manpower have been dedicated to expanding capacity to achieve cost efficiencies.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Most companies rely on on-time delivery, price reduction, and quality service from suppliers to make more profit. Supplier Approval – Places the company on the approved supplier list following the supplier evaluation process. They do not relate to any overall company procurement goals and objectives.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Resilinc’s Rick Freeman weighs in on the future opportunities for high-tech and semiconductor companies Despite the stabilization of the high-tech and semiconductor supply chain, the industry still faces pressure due to ongoing import/export restrictions and changing regulations governing semiconductor production and sourcing.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

’ SCM as defined by Keith Oliver could be construed as Macro Supply Chain Management (Macro-SCM), since it involves the global network processes from the initial raw materials to the ultimate consumption of the finished product linking across supplier-user companies. .’ Nearly ten years on, what, if anything, has changed?

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

In particular, the landscape is being challenged with a number of fundamental drivers: The changing consumer preferences with the move towards fresh, natural/organic/healthy, convenience foods and locally sourced products but at the same time looking for value. Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem.

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Locus Robotics

MARCH 9, 2023

By Geoff Whiting, Senior Writer, Red Stag Fulfillment Applying automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to supply chain management is an excellent way for manufacturers to increase the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of operations. RPA is an excellent tool for automating laborious processes currently executed manually.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Just about everyone in the supply chain gets negatively impacted by wrong forecasts. Just about everyone in the supply chain gets negatively impacted by wrong forecasts. With so many changing variables, excel sheets or human intervention alone can’t gain the level of visibility needed to forecast the future. Inventory pile-ups.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Shahzaib Khan discusses Resilinc’s journey toward AI-driven supply chain excellence From its early inception in the 60s’ to its increasingly available public access, artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way. In some cases, it feels like AI is just starting to take off. Enter the future of AI in supply chain.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It aims to ensure you always have enough raw materials available to meet demand and maintain production levels while avoiding operational lost time. It encompasses the processes involved in purchasing, tracking, consuming, and relocating raw materials. Let’s dive in. In this guide: What is raw material inventory management?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Having an excellent business fleet is one of the secrets of highly successful companies. A functional digital tachograph can measure significant metrics like speed, driving time, and driver’s activity. Transportation can result in higher company expenses if you don’t track them well.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 6, 2021

So your company is looking to reduce costs, and you’ve been asked to contribute by reducing your inventory cost. that are each proven to reduce a company’s costs.? that are each proven to reduce a company’s costs.? That makes sense – inventory is one of the most capital intensive areas for any product business.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 26, 2019

”[2] Think back 30 years to around the time the S&OP concept was first developed. .”[2] ”[2] Think back 30 years to around the time the S&OP concept was first developed. Fast forward fifteen years to the time period Cecere insists S&OP processes stopped maturing. Dependency on Excel.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 16, 2023

Having complete visibility and illuminating the network across the entire ecosystems is key so that the company can preemptively predict the disruptions and impacts as early as possible. In Part 1 , we covered the complexities of logistics management in the automotive industries and the change in thinking about how to manage logistics.

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