Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The unprecedented cargo logjams off the southern California coast wreaking havoc on supply chains show no signs of waning. Just two days before Thanksgiving, FreightWaves reported an “all-time-high 93 ships” were waiting there. Carrier capacity tops the list of parcel shippers’ challenges. They face higher costs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. The impact varies by supply chain sector and value chain. The impact varies by supply chain sector and value chain. Asset relocation takes time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Why tell this story?

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 20, 2021

Shortages of products from toilet paper to microchips during the coronavirus pandemic highlighted the value of supply chain resiliency, and the opportunities for companies that aren’t as prepared as they would like. By contrast, supply chains that are too lean may not have enough flexibility and redundancy to survive unscathed.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button by Lora Cecere , Founder, Supply Chain Insights Supply Chain Leaders Can’t Afford to Guess About the Future The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Mr. Ryan provided the best, most succinct explanation of the supply chain crises I have seen. You can browse headlines on any business news site and see the word supply chain and logistics more than you would have seen before. “You So, there was supply chain disruption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

Franklin Sports needed to protect sales in this category by improving their pickleball supply chain. To achieve that, Franklin Sports supply chain needed to be improved significantly. Without an efficient supply chain, a company can’t meet the demand that exists, and competitors swoop in and grab market share.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

Infor is one example of a supplier that offers both advanced visibility and supply chain planning. Supply chain practitioners are beginning to understand the same is true for supply chain planning (SCP) and multi-enterprise supply chain network solutions. It is just visualized differently.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2022

We’ve only just entered the second half of the year and people haven’t even taken their summer vacations yet, so why are we talking about holiday supply chains now? Shouldn’t this alleviate the pressure on holiday supply chains?”. Longer lead times make fashion items not so fashionable. Not really.

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

It took time for the situation to normalize, especially for complex products like semiconductors that require a lot of moving parts in the global supply chain. Just when it seemed that 2024 would be a very welcome year of “normal” supply chains, the Red Sea crisis proved that for global supply chains, there is no such thing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

Supply Chain Planners Analogous to Secretarial Pools? At the time, many business leaders did not know how to type and had no idea how to use a computer. In my forty years of studying supply chain planning, the groups became larger, but with questionable results. The plant was 24 acres under one roof. Why Jump Now?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

In February 2023 I wrote the article What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? It introduced the survey we had just launched to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. Meanwhile, labor constraints are as binding as ever.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Digital Twin from Infor Nexus Drives Supply Chain Agility. When it comes to driving supply chain agility there are several solutions that are important, but the key solution is a Multi-enterprise Supply Chain Network (MSCN). But even in more normal times, a supply plan usually can’t be fully executed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

While the impact on planet Earth is evident, and companies and countries are making strides to reduce emissions, climate change is also wreaking havoc on global supply chains. And there are a variety of ways in which climate change is affecting supply chains. Perhaps the biggest threat is rising sea levels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Supply chain management has been in the news. But the intricacies of supply chain management are beyond the grasp of most. One key solution used to help manage complex supply chains is supply chain planning (SCP). Supply chain planning is a complex solution.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Wilko, to start off, could you tell us more about the supply chain division you work for? . I work for Global Supply Chain, a division based in Zoeterwoude (the Netherlands). I work for Global Supply Chain, a division based in Zoeterwoude (the Netherlands). AIMMS has been a crucial partner in this journey.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

Megatrends Shaping Supply Chain Innovation. While the COVID-19 pandemic woke up supply chains around the world, the ripple effects continue to disrupt in both size and scope. How are supply chains planning for further disruption and uncertainty? Creating a more resilient supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic tested the global supply chain. Like riding a bumpy road, the supply chain leader is riding the ups and downs of changing market conditions facing greater variability day-to-day. Here, based on interviews with supply chain leaders, I share lessons learned. Over time, this changed.

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

You’ve seen the Suez Canal memes, you know furniture is taking way longer than usual to get to your door, and you may have even heard about Pelotons shipped by air to reduce delivery times. And it’s not just ocean freight. When that stopped, the industry found itself in a crunch and within just months, prices took off by some 400%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. What is supply chain visibility?

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Geopolitical concerns motivated Les Williams and Andres Franzetti , Co-founders of Risk Cooperative, to ask, “How will current tensions across the globe affect the supply chain?”[1] There is much more work needed to diversify and reinforce the global supply chain. He goes on to suggest five such steps.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

ARC has done research and writing on supply chain collaboration networks. A supply chain collaboration network (SCCN) is a key technology for improved collaboration across an extended supply chain. SCCN solutions provide supply chain visibility and analytics across an extended supply chain.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The capacity crunch has been a core concern of shippers for several years, but as 2018 draws closer to the holiday shopping season, it will become a bigger problem. LTL capacity has routinely been used as a source of added capacity when full truckload becomes unavailable. Get Your Free Copy Here. Download White Paper.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

Supply chain disruption is a fact of life for every company that moves any type of product. There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. A resilient supply chain may be stretched to the max, but it doesn’t break. Trade disputes and tariffs.

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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. At Dow, Mr. Baker had Purchasing experience in raw materials, and logistics for their plastics supply chain.

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Logility

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Why Network Optimization Is the Key to Consumer Packaged Goods Supply Chain Resiliency It has been a few years since the onset of the pandemic exposed the tragic consequences of supply chain fragility within the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. However, we might not be out of the weeds just yet.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2022

I believe many of us are spending an abundance of time reading about the Russia-Ukraine war. But the topic is also of significance to supply chain practitioners. In fact, supply chains are being impacted directly by the war and by the sanctions being put in place in response. Beyond Fossil Fuels.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the resiliency test. Let’s start here: what is supply chain resilience? What is Supply Chain Resilience? 2020 Was A Year Of Supply Chain Disruption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

A Supply Chain Design Solution from Coupa Imagine you’ve just received the job offer of your dreams. And what about those jiu-jitsu classes you’ve wanted to take for such a long time? If you have been through this process at least once, you already have a good idea of what supply chain design is about: optimization.

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 17, 2021

Part 2: Lessons from Comparing Disruptions In the previous post in this two-part series, The 7 Core Capacities of Supply Chain Resilience , we identified the core capacities that are the building blocks of supply chain resilience. In practice, a short loss of capacity?—?a Source: James B.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 28, 2024

” Towards the Autonomous Intelligent Enterprise Supply chain expert Niels Van Hove observes, “Automation has been happening for hundreds of years. We now have automated production facilities, warehouses, and transport in our physical supply chain.”[2] ”[1] These trends are not new.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

My recent conversations with the supply chain practitioners are dominated by supply chain risk — specifically geopolitical risks in light of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Let us dive deeper into how supply chains are getting disrupted. Europe relies on Russia for around 35% of its natural gas.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. The ZF supply chain is complex. ZF’s Digital Supply Chain. It turns out ZF has been on this journey for over 20 years!

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 14, 2022

The 2022 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium is back to its pre-pandemic glory, if the crowds and session lineup were any indication. Coming out of the breakouts felt a little like exiting a nightclub at closing time, and the healthy keynote session attendance and lively expo hall felt almost like old times. Today there are 3.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In short, each new user does not just make the network more valuable; they make the network much, much, much more valuable. But there is a type of solution known as multi-enterprise supply chain networks (MSCN). Metcalf’s law does not apply to these supply chain networks. These are networks.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Driving Visibility, Intelligence, and Agility through Supply Chain Technology on Cloud Whether we are talking about healthcare, food, or fashion, the supply chains which convert the raw materials to finished goods are getting more and more complex. The next question then becomes: Is your product demand predictable?

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