Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 14, 2025

Wet chemical extinguishers will protect against class K and A fires. Buy dry powder fire extinguishers for class D fires. Improperly installed furnaces and other electrical equipment, like heavy industrial presses, can be a fire hazard. Halogenated agent fire extinguishers can be used for class A, B, and C fires.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 28, 2025

Subscribe 10 Tips to Improve Industrial and Manufacturing Employee Safety! Working in the construction industry poses a lot of risks and potential harm. These could be acids, caustic chemicals, or other dangerous substances. Proper Work Pants From head to toe, you need to wear protective clothing for preventive measures.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

Putting a stick in the eye of the industry is hard work. 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. They want to talk.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

At the Supply Chain Global Summit 2018 , Francois discussed the impact of digitalization, Industry 4.0, The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2012, when I started Supply Chain Insights , I believed that I could revolutionize the purchase of supply chain planning solutions by initiating a rating and review process across trading partners. Buying supply chain planning software is hard. How are people buying software? Here I share how to challenge the status quo.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” ” I have been studying the evolution of inventory technologies as an industry analyst since 2002. All the best on your journey for supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. As an industry, we struggle to embrace new ways of thinking. Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. Evolution is messy. Challenges abound.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. The results for the high tech and electronics industry is shown in Figure 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. The availability of capacity in industries like the semiconductor industry is tight.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

The solution solved a relevant industry issue. They are industry-specific niche offerings. While there is work within SAP to rethink SNC and use the assets purchased with Ariba to build multi-tier capabilities, the progress is not encouraging. It ceased to exist in 2005 when it merged with 1Sync. Clear governance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Bundled offers (if you buy X, Y, and Z from me, I can offer a 10% discount or in case of transportation, grouping of backhaul lanes at a discount along with inbound lanes). Trying to evaluate bids with such complexity is well beyond the realm of manual methods and Excel spreadsheets. These criteria become constraints on the bid.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

They wanted to know, “ How was the market affecting the chemical supply chain?” As we traced the process that could exist using channel data, the conversation changed… DuPont served two primary markets–automotive and the building industry. The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The impact of the elongation of payables on receivables varies by industry, but on average across the industries increased eighteen days when comparing the past five years to the pre-recession years. It is worse in some industries. Days of Receivables by Industry. I shook my head in disgust at the waste in the process.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Due to travel restrictions, I cannot attend many industry events, so I observe from home, watching webinars and remote broadcasts. ” I believe that the industry is stuck. With more than forty-five years of experience in the industry, I struggle with the lack of progress and the current level of Groupthink. The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Jeff Baker, Vice President of Shared Services at Myers Industries. Myers Industries Implements John Galt Solutions. Myers Industries (NYSE: MYE) is headquartered in Akron, Ohio in the United States. Mr. Baker spent over 34 years leading procurement teams at The Dow Chemical Company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. However, most do not realize that the Days of Inventory for the industry has grown 33%. In our work with pharmaceutical companies, most executives wince when we mention inventories.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

Bonuses and incentives align with functions and are often counter productive to driving supply chain excellence. Today, over 90% of companies have deployed ERP and APS, but as shown in Table 1, inventory levels have grown not decreased in over 80% of industries studied. Days of Inventory by Industry Across Years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

The tobacco industry is changing. Traditionally, the industry has been stable. They put significantly more parametrized data variables in the River Logic model than what they were using with the Excel models. They are expanding their digital twin approach to in-market distribution optimization and raw material purchases.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. At a high level, what GEON does is purchase plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. GEON is owned by SK Capital.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Customers are buying less. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. Success of New Business Models. Disintermediation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Refractories are products that have been chemically engineered to resist high temperatures. But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes. But transforming their industry required more than siloed supply chain applications.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

And its technology assets too, like the Kiva robots Amazon purchased [in 2012] and the data centers that power its cloud computing services. 3PLs and software vendors will focus more on acquiring small and midsize customers, and on serving the needs of companies in the Energy and Process Industries. Robinson Acquires Freightquote.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We believe many practices in global supply chain management can be applied in every industry. Supply Chain Execution excellence (warehousing and transportation) improves asset utilisation, capacity and throughput whilst reducing the variable costs associated with warehousing and distribution. The evidence?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. The availability of capacity in industries like the semiconductor industry is tight.

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Unleashed

JULY 25, 2021

Industrial food waste management. Industrial food waste management involves recovering energy from food waste through techniques such as anaerobic digestion, which helps recycle food waste into energy and fertiliser. Coffee waste is also an excellent substrate for mushroom cultivation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The company is a B2B Supply Chain Operating Network supporting the automotive and aerospace industries. In our research, discrete industries–aerospace, automotive, hi-tech, and semiconductor– rate themselves as performing better, being more proactive, and having greater alignment. State of Industries.

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2023

You can then create a supply plan that stipulates which materials you should be purchasing and how you should be moving them between facilities to keep your supply chain balanced. This is where production planning software excels over enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Make sure your solution enables you to: Model constraints.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

Can we build collaborative platforms for role-based discussions across commercial (sales and marketing) and operations (manufacturing, logistics, and purchasing) teams? Through work with Georgia Tech, the supply chain team can affect 70% of market capitalization in the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

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Synovos

AUGUST 9, 2023

RS Integrated Supply’s Costanza Campi to speak at World Procurement Excellence Summit WARRINGTON, UK / RADNOR, PA 8 AUGUST 2023 – Costanza Campi, Senior Vice President of Global Procurement for RS Integrated Supply, has been selected to present at the upcoming World Procurement Excellence Summit in Cologne, Germany.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 15, 2018

For example, - In some industries such as steel, chemicals, and other heavy industries, products are highly commoditized. However, books will say that service is actually a lifeline of any business and it usually goes beyond customer satisfaction surveys. Journal of the academy of marketing science, 32(3), 293-311.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are a number of excellent reasons circular economies are desirable, including less waste and better use of limited resources. Not much movement towards circular economies has taken place since then; especially in how consumers prefer to buy, use, and dispose of products.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

This includes companies like BASF, Clorox, Eastman Chemical, J&J, Kimberly-Clark, Mondelez, Nestle, P&G, and Unilever. There is no clear definition of integrated supply chain planning in the industry. Buying From the Same Vendor Improves Integration. Large companies perpetuate this myth. We hope to see you there!

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EcoVadis

JUNE 13, 2019

Now in our sixth year supporting the SPLC, it did not disappoint: This was the strongest and the most diverse gathering of committed and capable practitioners we’ve ever seen in North America — it felt like a real groundswell of action on sustainable purchasing! Strong Focus on Supplier Practices, and Private Sector.

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Arkieva

MARCH 22, 2016

I was talking to a director of demand planning for a big chemical company at a trade show a few months ago. After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. As one refines, it is important to simulate and measure. Does it work?

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EcoVadis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Established chemical company and leading sustainability ratings provider address critical risks and establish high supplier performance standards. The global chemical company will leverage the EcoVadis platform to reduce risk, encourage innovation and drive sustainable procurement performance across its supply base. About Scott Bader.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

These were just a few of the many questions on my mind as I flew to the ARC Advisory Group’s Digitizing and Securing Industry, Infrastructure, and Cities forum in Orlando last week. Given the potential impacts across the supply chain, I was eager to listen to the speakers and learn as much as possible.

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