The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

However, there is now a growing appreciation that going green correlates with increased profit as demand for products with sustainable credentials grow and Asian companies get set to move up the value chain. For reasons of climate change and profitability rewards, maintaining a more sustainable approach to the supply chain is obvious.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year, nearly 40,000 attendees comprising 6,200 brands from all over the world headed to the Javits Center to see what new solutions and innovations software and hardware suppliers had in store for 2024 and beyond. Throughout the conference I met with several software and hardware providers to get a glimpse into what they were showcasing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Supply chain resiliency and sustainability are top priorities for CEOs today. To achieve these goals, corporate leadership must focus on two key areas: shift from internally focused supply chains to collaborative supply networks and actively design their supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now more than ever, organizations must prepare their supply chain for the present and the unknown challenges and opportunities in the future. Integrating external factors like consumer price indexes, GDP trends, climate change, and others into the forecast can improve signaling for supply chain design.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2023

In this conversation, Asena and I talked about autonomous planning in supply chain. Second, what is autonomous planning in supply chain, and what are some practical examples? Third, is autonomous planning feasible for all companies of all sizes? Below are some key points from our discussion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 11, 2024

Makers of weight loss drugs are looking out a big picture window of patented opportunity right now, but this rosy view is blocked by supply chain challenges. What role can supply chain play in preventing stockouts? So how can supply chain orchestration help?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

A large consumer products manufacturer with nine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instances and several divisions wanted to discuss forecasting. The planning team was defending the status quo without questioning current practices and how to improve them.) ” The next call was with a technology provider.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Technology can have a significant impact on supply chains, but supply chain digitization still lags behind digitization of other areas of business across many industries. Still, there are several technologies that are transforming supply chains for the organizations that adopt them.

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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. Connected Planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

While demand is high, ongoing product shortages continue to cause supply chain disruptions, create unpredictable shopping behaviors and drive rapid delivery expectations. If there’s a bright spot anywhere it’s the fact that, as logistics challenges have grown, so has the availability of advanced technologies to manage these challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Supply Chain Resilience Depends Upon End-to-End Visibility Service companies, where one firm takes over a set of duties that used to be done in-house, is quite common. In supply chain services, the services company plans and executes on behalf of their clients. The right IT is critical.

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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. Such constraints include things like lead times, supplier capacity, and minimum order quantities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2022

Few organizations are immune to the effects, which are acutely felt in supply chains — and the more complex they are, the greater the probability of interruptions. The study found that these leaders considered the largest gap to be between supply chain and procurement, citing it as a major issue.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2021

In a previous post , I made a case for how the Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) and Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) are smarter together. Accordingly Supply Chain and Procurement will need continuous collaboration. Such sourcing events can be in the context of direct materials or logistics capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

I’ve said it before (right here in Logistics Viewpoints), but it’s worth repeating: the digital transformation of our complex global supply chains is an ongoing journey. The entire supply chain industry was caught flat-footed by the seismic disruptions wrought by the pandemic. In other words, visibility is an enabler.

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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. It will not be over soon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper University Health Care Relies Upon Real-time Alerts to Improve Operations Cooper University Health Care, like most companies, struggled with their supply chain during COVID. The company bought a risk solution that provides real-time alerts to potential supply disruptions. We knew exactly what we couldn’t get.”

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 29, 2024

Are you interested in understanding how businesses effectively manage their supply chains? Look no further – this guide is here to help you grasp the fundamentals of supply chain management (SCM) and how it can lead to success. It encompasses activities such as procurement, supplier selection, and evaluation.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As supply chains continue to grapple with volatility and disruption post-pandemic, fashion brands, who faced increased risks during the pandemic because of lockdown, are now turning to better supply chain planning for fashion strategies with the end goal of achieving improved agility and a competitive advantage.

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ThroughPut

MAY 16, 2024

In the context of supply chains particularly, agility is what can save the day in the midst of all those challenges. However, responding to evolving market demands can seem almost impossible with legacy systems, siloed data and/or manually-driven human-intuition-based processes. What is Supply Chain Optimization?

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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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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Automation is at the center of modern manufacturing businesses, with companies exploring the possibilities of artificial intelligence in improving workflows and profitability. Industrial engineers incorporate these technologies in designing and fabricating advanced manufacturing systems. How Does AI Work?

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Logility

MAY 20, 2021

Even as the dust begins to settle from one disruption, supply chain organizations are getting ready to handle the next. But lately, their response is impacting much more than the transactional push and pull between supply and demand. Rethinking the Relevance of ERP for the Supply Chain.

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ThroughPut

MAY 30, 2024

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is a critical tool for manufacturers to effectively manage production scheduling, inventory control, and supply chain planning. We also examine how MRP supports modern supply chain management and how to integrate MRP systems with other business systems and processes.

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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. We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing.

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BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2024

For over a century, the global automotive industry has centered around one primary technology: the internal combustion engine. However, the digitalization of modern cars is now transforming the industry, with significant implications for the entire supply chain.

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Logility

AUGUST 12, 2021

But like any other supply chain in which production, processing, distribution, and consumption are interconnected, farmers and food companies must balance field productivity and biodiversity with customer demand for safe, nutrient-rich, and high-quality products. This gap in the farm-to-fork system may seem grim.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

As I was enjoying the holidays, I had an opportunity to reflect on the year past and what the future holds for supply chains. However, organizations will need to be deliberate in designing supply chains with optionality so it does not become cost prohibitive. Supply Chain Design is essential in tackling these.

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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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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Supply chain analytics combines powerful algorithms, data, and the latest technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to address the most elusive challenges in the supply chain right now – visibility and control. By 2032, the supply chain analytics market is expected to reach USD 38.78

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Paul Delbar from OMP has a different take on what integrated planning means. OMP provides supply chain planning (SCP) solutions. Resilience is About Planning for Agility. Something happens in your end-to-end supply chain. Resilience comes down to planning for agility.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Many large enterprises use one form or another of a supply chain application to help manage their supply chains. Supply chain vendors have been touting their investments in artificial intelligence (AI) for the last several years. The agent technology is much more complicated than the math.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 9, 2022

When it comes to selecting software for the enterprise, decision-makers must choose between multiple solutions. This may include choosing software for managing the enterprise (an ERP system), for supply chain management (SCM) or for customer relationship management (CRM). What does an ERP offer?

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ThroughPut

MAY 3, 2024

It’s no longer just about getting goods from A to B; it’s become a vital piece of the supply chain puzzle. Everything is connected – what happens in one part of the supply chain can shake things up in logistics, and the other way around. What is Logistics Management Software And How Does It Work ?

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

The Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS) market has experienced significant growth in recent years, with even greater potential ahead. SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. Let’s delve into this emerging concept.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Supply chain optimization has also improved in significant ways that can address these trade-offs better than before.

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QAD

MAY 23, 2024

The key to navigating this challenging environment is robust Integrated Business Planning (IBP). Leveraging our collective experience of over 70 years, my colleague Charlie Marge and I have been guiding businesses through the maze of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and IBP. Essentially, it is Ecosystem Business Planning.

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