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Getting Away from Excel Spreadsheets: A Project Logistics Case Study

Talking Logistics

The process generally involves placing a purchase order with a supplier that says ‘Please deliver to us a cooling system to the attached specification’,” explained Ms. However, prior to implementing their current solution from Axit, this was all done via Excel spreadsheets, as Ms. Hennecke explained: “It was very challenging.

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. The audience assumes that the presenting company is outperforming. As a result, the lessons given in case studies and at industry forums do not help the industry progress.

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5 Greatest Books for Supply Chain Executives

Supply Chain Opz

Basic concepts and strategies such as performance measurement, identification of improvement opportunities and development of supply chain system are presented succinctly. Simply put, this book tells you what really works and this help a lot with getting a buy-in and corporate-wide support.

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. An example of social listening is the Lenovo Case Study presented at the 2015 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. We are driving functional excellence and incrementally. (To Moving Forward.

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

Several customers addressed those questions in excellent case study presentations: Dr. Bernhard Herzog, Oxea GmbH – “Business Impact of a Supply Chain Operating Network”. BASF’s goals included: Automating the end-to-end Purchase-to-Pay process from purchase requisition to invoice.

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How Food Manufacturing Software Drives Profit [w Case Studies]

Unleashed

Even pre-cooked, processed and vacuum-packed products are perishable items with a limited shelf life, presenting operational, planning and inventory management challenges. Unleashed Software’s Business Intelligence tools are a case in point. How businesses need to think about food manufacturing software.