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The Supply Chain “Change” Dilemma!

Kinaxis

Also, pushing the organizational supply chain change issues to a set of mere “team building” workshops will not suffice either. It is wrong to assume that the collective intelligence of a thinking group can be subsumed in the so-perceived “automated Internet of Things (IoT)” world. What are your thoughts on this matter?

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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

Their goal was to visualize excess capacity and make it available to enable their sales teams to offer upstream opportunities to their clients. 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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Logistics Experts from SSI Schaefer Implement Automated Deep-Freeze Warehouse in Manila, Philippines – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The scope of services provided by SSI Schaefer includes the fully automated high-bay warehouse in silo design with four SSI Exyz storage-retrieval machines and a storage capacity for 20,000 pallets, a conveying system, Advanced Pick Stations (ergonomic goods-to-person picking stations) and the logistics software WAMAS ®.

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Step Two: Stage Five Supply Chain Planning System of Record (SCP SOR)

Kinaxis

Capacity Planning. Inventory Management. Proof of concept workshops provide you the confidence you need to make the right decision. I recall a Site Director once asking me how I was reducing inventory so quickly. The short list includes: Sales and Operations Planning. Demand Planning. Supply Planning. Demand Management.

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My Busy day at the Richmond Supply Chain Forum

DynaSys

For this event we also took the opportunity to run a 1 hour workshop which everyone had the option to attend. These are typically doing well in terms of revenue growth but they are starting to struggle to continue to meet the growth and have either very high inventory, capacity issues or both.

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

NC State SCRC

The parties decided to host a collaborative workshop. By end to end, in this case, we included the demand forecasting process, the order management process, manufacturing planning and scheduling, capacity planning, materials management, in-bound material handling, supplier releases for all raw materials, and quality inspection.

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Playing the Beer Game with JDA

BlueYonder

Interestingly, both teams wound up with high excess inventory in the chain. In the workshop, Andre Martin shared his experiences in implementing Flowcasting across multi-stage chains. Over time, they can deal with more fundamental issues such as lot/batch sizing, capacity, and re-optimizing their outbound networks.