The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 6, 2017

Quality Management in Supply Chains: Performance and Conformance. With the increase in outsourcing practice since the 1990s, supply chains have become very complex, involving many intermediaries. In that case, the supplier produces 1% defects, which get processed by the buyer, therefore wasting valuable capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2024

For example, an agile supply chain may have real-time data, advanced analytics, decision support tools, and cross-functional teams to monitor, diagnose, and solve problems. Redundancy is the ability of a supply chain to have extra or alternative resources and options to cope with disruptions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2022

Supply chains have experienced significant disruptions in the first half of 2022, from a global pandemic to wars, rising fuel costs, and a potential recession. Throughout the past six months, rates and capacity have been highly volatile as the industry deals with other ongoing challenges.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Business leaders would do well to focus on three strategic priorities for their supply chain agenda. Resilience The first priority is to develop enhanced Supply Chain Resilience, where Resilience is the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from adversity.

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Logility

MARCH 21, 2023

Integrating all corners of business planning Finance and supply chain organizations can seem worlds apart, even though they are on the same continent. Promote the right stock at the right time Statistically, causal-driven forecasts can be used to understand how sales have historically performed.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Digitisation for Optimised Capacity and Inventory Buffers. Traditionally, supply chain profitability has long depended on minimizing surplus due to the cost of capacity and inventory buffers. Dr Nassar’s main research interest is sustainability and supply chain resilience.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 24, 2021

The increased visibility that MEIO provides empowers centralized demand planning, reduces cost across the supply chain and streamlines operations. The first case is a finite supply capacity environment with strong seasonal demand or reduced supply due to shut-down or maintenance.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2018

With the US facing a major driver shortage, some carriers are now sourcing Mexican drivers to add additional capacity, using trip-level work Visas (B1 Visa). Optimize Shipments Northbound and Southbound to Increase Capacity. Capacity is an issue everywhere these days, and it’s also true with cross-border shipments.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 5, 2019

Put customers at the center of the supply chain and keep them happy no matter how often or how fast their needs change with demand-driven inventory and capacity plans, and improved short- and long-term forecasting reinforced by machine learning.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 31, 2024

In that same Supply Chain Matters commentary, we called reader attention to a published report from The Wall Street Journal that specifically concluded with the Akio Toyoda statement: “ Japanese industry strength in the EV era will come from practical car making “over a long period of time and from experiences of failure.”

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

These are the “knowable unknowns” that can hurt your supply chain performance. Over the years, I have partnered with a number of customers across a variety of industries as part of their supply chain planning transformation journey. I used lead time as an example here.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2023

As shown in Figure 2, in a recent survey, we find that only 23% of companies are clear on the role of the supply chain as it ties to the business strategy. They also rate their supply chain performance statistically higher than those struggling to understand the strategy. Multi-year View.:

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Logility

AUGUST 7, 2017

Wait, it’s not spring; but does that mean you have to wait another eight months to review your supply chain? Often, it becomes necessary to reevaluate how supply chain performance is measured to ensure healthy operations. Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?”

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 7, 2023

Optimized Replenishment : Optimization of replenishment planning in challenging supply chain configurations such as multi-sourcing, network lost sales, equivalent products and inventory lot expiration dates. Intelligent decision making at the speed of business transforms supply chain performance.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

According to experts in our webinar, “ How AI-Driven Insights Can Save Your S&OP Before it is Too Late ,” advanced AI technologies, such as ChatGPT and Narrow AI, have an incredible capacity for translating complexity into informed decisions that drive profit and growth.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 10, 2022

She highlighted the trend of increasing ocean freight capacity, but she maintained that the capacity will not be enough. She observed that air capacity is increasing, a very good sign but she is afraid that the capacity may again decrease due to an anticipated recession towards the end of the year.

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Logility

APRIL 20, 2022

If resilience is the panacea to today’s supply chain challenges, it seems that everyone has a different prescription. Every industry article, news segment, analyst research paper, and boardroom conversation offers varying perspectives on the real issues impacting supply chain performance and the best way to fix them.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It is imperative to establish transparency, cooperation, and collaboration across the entire supply chain ecosystem, encompassing Tier 1, 2, and 3 suppliers, OEMs, logistics service providers, and even dealers. To learn how Blue Yonder can help you face uncertainty and supply chain challenges visit www.blueyonder.com.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A Hard Look at Corporate Performance. Strangely, in the last decade, while companies had the opportunity to use technology better, supply chain performance declined. Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 16, 2018

Here, gamification can help ensure better supply chain performance through the employee’s enhanced knowledge of their SCM platform. Frequent changes in suppliers and merchants along your supply chain are causing late deliveries to customers. Loyalty programs foster improvements in on-time delivery.

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crisp

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Crisp automatically ingests and consolidates up to two years of backfilled data into a consistent, ready-to-use format, helping brands easily monitor sales and supply chain performance to drive sales, operations, and merchandising decisions. View additional documentation on Crisp’s Knowledge Base.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 16, 2023

With supply chain master planning that fuels excellence in every area of the business, organizations can easily accelerate overall supply chain performance by balancing local and global performance improvements. It helps effective resource and capacity utilization for better ROI.

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Logility

JULY 4, 2018

Effective inventory reductions are best achieved by synchronizing demand forecasts, inventory quantities, and supply capacity throughout the extended enterprise. In the process chemical industry, it’s extremely challenging to align supply capacity to variable demand for thousands of items, while meeting corporate objectives.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Brands like American Eagle Outfitters focused on inventory optimization and flexibility, supply chain transformation, lower SKU counts and fewer shipments per order for improved supply chain performance.

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Logility

JULY 5, 2018

Effective inventory reductions are best achieved by synchronizing demand forecasts, inventory quantities, and supply capacity throughout the extended enterprise. In the process chemical industry, it’s extremely challenging to align supply capacity to variable demand for thousands of items, while meeting corporate objectives.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Here are the 9 easiest, fastest, and most effective ways to boost your Supply Chain performance. KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics. 11 Golden Rules for Meaningful Supply Chain KPIs.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 15, 2023

Integrated forecasting and replenishment capabilities properly determine and predict both carrier resource and fleet forecasted needs in advance, for ease of right-sizing fleet capacity and securing capacity from third-party carriers.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 11, 2020

This made SKF unwieldy, unable to react quickly enough to changes and limited its possibilities to further develop its supply chain performance. Digital transformation enables automated supply chain planning. Read more about SKF’s Gartner Supply Chainnovator recognition. million (SEK 82 million).

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

The study analyzed supply chain performance at manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers throughout 2020. This performance decrease also came as shippers were forced to pay more in transportation costs across the board. Why Does CPG Logistics Performance Matter? Let’s explore some of those a bit more in-depth.

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Logility

AUGUST 23, 2018

Effective inventory reductions are best achieved by synchronizing demand forecasts, inventory quantities, and supply capacity throughout the extended enterprise. Multi-echelon inventory optimization replaces rules of thumb with science to optimize where and how much inventory should be held across the extended supply chain.

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Logility

AUGUST 22, 2018

Effective inventory reductions are best achieved by synchronizing demand forecasts, inventory quantities, and supply capacity throughout the extended enterprise. Multi-echelon inventory optimization replaces rules of thumb with science to optimize where and how much inventory should be held across the extended supply chain.

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QAD

AUGUST 4, 2021

This created an imbalance in market supply, with more chips going toward personal connectivity technologies and less to automakers. . Scarcity of semiconductors and delivery resources will continue to grow as technology developments and delivery demands continue to surpass industry capacity trends. Solid Forecasting .

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Adexa

JULY 7, 2021

S&OP systems represent resource capacities with buckets, assume fixed leadtimes and pre-defined bottleneck resources. For example, the bucketed capacity for 1000 unites per day for product A may translates to only 100 units/day of product B.

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ModusLink Corporation

JANUARY 5, 2022

SME’s (Small/Medium Enterprises) often struggle to effectively manage their Supply Chain due to limited capacity and resources. Many SME’s take advantage of Outsourcing the core components of their Supply Chain to experienced professionals within the industry. T he definition of Reverse Logistics.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

In the report’s Executive Summary , the authors indicate that as consumers adjusted to new norms of work and social life: “ clogged ports and paltry capacity failed to meet surging and often desperate demand.” parcel volumes, and as noted in our ongoing Supply Chain Matters commentaries added considerable capacity and headcount during 2021.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 6, 2023

which is attributable to Q4 holiday sales and the subsequent dips in Warehousing Capacity (+3.6) and Transportation Capacity (+5.2) The report specifically indicates : “ November’s dip was largely triggered by a decline in Inventory Levels (-9.1) and slowdown in Warehousing Utilization (-14.0) and Transportation Utilization (-10.7).

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 4, 2023

To accomplish this, supply chain analytics collects, analyzes, and synthesizes data from a wide variety of sources. This information is then used to provide actionable insights into supply chain performance, allowing businesses to make data-driven decisions that can help improve their bottom line.

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