Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases. It’s rare for ocean liners like Maersk to live in the same category as tech giants like Amazon or Alibaba.

Price Reduction 177

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Logility

APRIL 7, 2020

Intertape Polymer Group is thinking outside the box and working with Stanfield’s Ltd to produce PPE garments for medical teams on the frontline battle against COVID-19. These are just a few of the countless and amazing innovations we hear about on a daily basis. But that’s not the whole story. That requires focus. Don’t panic.

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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.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The other part of my role is supporting the inventory management functions within BT Group, driving decision-making around what we buy, when we buy, and where from. With almost 30 million customers, BT (British Telecom) is the largest provider of consumer mobile and fixed broadband communications services in the UK.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 16, 2023

Salim: In a recent conversation with Kelly Bysouth, the Chief Supply Chain Officer at IAC Group she mentioned wanting to “illuminate the network.” In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solutions Marketing team explores new business challenges and innovation solutions to change the game and manage disruptions.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Analytics is a portfolio of loosely coupled methods for quantitative analysis that historically had “separate” disciplines or neighborhoods with common ancestors and occasional visits between groups. We might use “availability in Excel directly or with Add-ons” as an “age metric’.). Marketing efforts by firms such as IBM.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The other part of my role is supporting the inventory management functions within BT Group, driving decision-making around what we buy, when we buy, and where from. With almost 30 million customers, BT (British Telecom) is the largest provider of consumer mobile and fixed broadband communications services in the UK.

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USC Consulting Group

JUNE 8, 2020

This is especially true when “how things used to be” were working just fine. Panic buying lays bare inefficiencies. But due to a surge in panic buying – prompted by erroneous fears that grocery and corner stores would suddenly close – shelves were bare for weeks on end.

Continuous Improvement 64

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). To decide winners, we analyze post-recession period performance of 2010-2018 by peer group.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define. His reasoning? We want to help.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 6, 2022

However, transportation capacity is rapidly approaching a breaking point, driving rates higher than they’ve ever been. However, transportation capacity is rapidly approaching a breaking point, driving rates higher than they’ve ever been. Provide Discounts on Worthy Purchases. According to TechCrunch , U.S.

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Locus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not only this, 62% of online shoppers in the US say delivery speed is what makes for a good purchase experience. Not only this, 62% of online shoppers in the US say delivery speed is what makes for a good purchase experience. Retailers need to find ways to make sure timely deliveries are their number one priority.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

The overall theme attached to the latest report was “ Out of Sync ” which we believe is rather appropriate in that during most of 2021, logistics and transportation modes incurred non-stop disruptions and were generally not synced to just-in-time material flows as well as business needs for predictable and manageable logistics costs.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 14, 2014

In this edition: Marion Kohlmeier, Head of supply chain planning and project purchasing at Weidmann Plastics Technology. A new car needs a stunning new look and at the same time the components need to be durable, functional and lightweight. The third team is project purchasing. By Helen Armstong (Supply Chain Movement).

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

So, the parking spots are getting more and more occupied with drop trailers, meaning lot capacity shrinks while finding the trailer with the highest-priority inventory becomes even harder. For various reasons, many drivers show up unexpectedly and at the same time. Bottom line: yards are hard. But these are not intractable problems.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The order fulfilment process covers every step required to get goods to the people who purchase them, from the moment a customer places an order to when they receive their purchase. Its role is to ensure that customers receive their ordered products accurately and on time. Order fulfilment is just one part of the supply chain.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

As we enter a new year, it’s a great time to look back at how far we’ve come as an industry, set our next goalposts, and map out where we should be as an industry by 2020. Just look at how their assistance worked out for Toys “R” Us and Sears. But the road to true digitization is long and winding. They’re coming. Technology.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 9, 2016

As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative, led by Professor Robert Monczka. The principles at the time were certainly appropriate. The mid-1960s witnessed a dramatic growth of the materials management concept.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 15, 2019

It’s vital, then, to use a consistent Supplier Management system to vet excellent suppliers and secure the ones that will help your brand to stay strong. You could also hire some just to test them out, or you could create bidding wars between them. Does your business rely on at least one supplier? Search Sources of Potential Suppliers.

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This year’s Customer Excellence Award for Best Supply Chain Transformation goes to Ferrara Candy – for making incredible strides in its digital transformation journey amidst a string of M&A activity that continues to add extreme complexity to Ferrara’s global supply chain. And it’s a multifaceted, high-capacity global network.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Procurement planning functionality (essentially the planning of future purchase orders) is typically a subset of broader supply planning applications that plan manufacturing work orders, inventory levels, shipments, as well as purchase orders, to meet demand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Commerce is global and regional at the same time, the world is getting smaller and more interconnected, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in this build-anywhere and sell-anywhere market. The classical approach involves functional silos, sequential decisions, and Excel and people to render a plan executable.

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RELEX Solutions

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It also wanted to improve the life cycle management of products and cut the amount of time spent on ordering and restocking. The company chose RELEX because of its excellent track record with retailers’ online, offline and omnichannel operations. – Simon Svensson, Purchaser, Kolonial.no. Kolonial.no Kolonial.no

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving. (The The team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence. Definition. Merriam-Webster.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). To decide winners, we analyze post-recession period performance of 2010-2018 by peer group.

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Locus

MARCH 27, 2024

This situation demands not just managing costs but also turning the returns process into a positive touchpoint with customers. Meanwhile, dispatch management platforms smooth out the wrinkles in the returns process, automating the grunt work and keeping customers in the loop with real-time updates. of their total transactions.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

Which is why email newsletters just work – delivered to your inbox each day (usually) bringing a limited selection of top stories in condensed form. This is the experts’ selection – but if we had to choose just one, our go-to read is the fast-rising WSJ Daily Logistics Report. Air Cargo World. ACWmagazine.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 14, 2022

I took these breaks just to get my 10 minutes out of the office as often as I could. But just as people are always dying, they are always getting born. And they said, ‘Excellent very glad to do it. Did we appreciate that at the time? I interviewed Simon Hartley, the cofounder of Wumdrop. A guy called Roy Brawley.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This is starting to mount cost pressures just at the time when additional investments are needed to build resilience. Order delivery lead time. These are just a small subset of a very wide range of attributes one may consider for sourcing. Service level guarantee (and penalties for not complying).

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 6, 2013

L’Oréal, the world’s largest cosmetics group, has an ambition to win over another one billion consumers within ten years. Just like the company creates new skin and hair care products to meet the consumer’s diverse and infinite needs is a company trademark, there’s opportunity for innovation in the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

As I spent the time reflecting over the last three weeks, the number of articles streaming into my feed on supply chain implications was high, but most of them were wrong. In the United States, fire activity increased in February and March 2022—fire is not just a California issue. My brain struggles to communicate with my fingers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

We had a choice to either install newer high-capacity machines for the Jell-O lines (CM Bartelts) running at over 1500 packages/minute or slower, more flexible equipment (IM Bartelts) at a rate of 650 pouches/minute. The changeover times for the CM Bartlelts was 5X more prolonged than the more agile IM machines. Sharing My Experience.

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Veridian Solutions

JULY 14, 2023

Offering matchmaking and time training services, this experienced company readies its consumers for a fruitful very first date. Getting a night out together could be a time-consuming and nerve-wracking process, rather than all of us have the power because of it, specifically with employment to handle nicely. “Exactly how much?”

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In theory you could plan on a single changeover date, decrease purchases at the old DCs, pre-build inventory at the new DC, and on the changeover date, start fulfilling all demand from the 50 stores out of the new DC. For one, you will probably not have enough trucking capacity to accommodate the sudden addition of a new origin point.

Distribution 52

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In theory you could plan on a single changeover date, decrease purchases at the old DCs, pre-build inventory at the new DC, and on the changeover date, start fulfilling all demand from the 50 stores out of the new DC. For one, you will probably not have enough trucking capacity to accommodate the sudden addition of a new origin point.

Distribution 52

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By organising inventory based on factors like SKU, size, and demand frequency, you can maximise storage capacity and reduce the need for additional warehouse space – saving on rental or construction costs. This is because optimised picking, packing, and shipping processes can expedite order processing and reduce your order cycle times.

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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

But research suggests the most widespread and stinging criticism of IBP was that it was just mature Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) by any other name. These critics sensed a sinister “rebranding” ploy designed to get companies to purchase technology and services they already own but perhaps have not fully implemented.

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