Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2017

For years, supply chain leaders have struggled to achieve a sophisticated level of supply chain visibility that would drive continuous improvement, optimize spend and reduce risk. Now, that intelligence has arrived – and with it comes the next generation of supply chain management.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Companies need to be fully aware of global climate change conversations and how they will impact their supply chain in the near future. Outside of the Paris Agreement, the European Union (EU) has a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport by around 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Corporate Responsibility.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three-part series on Supplier Quality Management processes and how to evaluate your suppliers from Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chain. Therefore, it is paramount for you as a logistics and supply chain professional to have a keen sense of how to properly evaluate a supplier.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The Institute for Supply Management conducted a special survey that asked members to assess how Harvey might impact six key business metrics and whether they may be impacted by shortages of input materials due to Harvey. "Our Broadly speaking, the six metrics organized by severity of impact into three groups.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 18, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. And given that nothing can happen without a leading and supportive Supply Chain, by extension what is a “Nature Positive Supply Chain”? Clearly these are breakdowns in end to end Supply Chain Management which impact on nature and our environment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

In my interactions with supply chain teams, I find that this type of decision process happens frequently. While there are many types of visibility (see Figure 1), the most common use case is either sourcing or transportation visibility. The focus is on functional metrics, but are unable to get to overall supply chain metrics.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 17, 2022

They write, “The matter is even more urgent when considered alongside another UN analysis that tracks the problem further up the supply chain, and shows 14% of food production is lost before it reaches stores. The supply chain is another part of the problem. By any metric, the situation looks grim.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 17, 2022

They write, “The matter is even more urgent when considered alongside another UN analysis that tracks the problem further up the supply chain, and shows 14% of food production is lost before it reaches stores. The supply chain is another part of the problem. By any metric, the situation looks grim.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

We believe that supply chain excellence helps a company to better balance demand and supply. We also believe that it helps companies to be more resilient: weathering demand and supply volatility while maximizing opportunities and mitigating risks. What does the future of supply chain excellence look like?”

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Talking Logistics

MAY 13, 2015

Over the years, I’ve come across many large, brand-name companies that have been successful by many measures, such as revenue growth and profitably, but when you peeled back the onion on their supply chain processes and capabilities, they were far from best-in-class. From the article: Columbia Sportswear added $415.6

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 9, 2013

This month, the Supply Chain Insights team will announce the Supply Chain Index. The Supply Chain Index is a formulaic representation of supply chain excellence based on market valuations. Based on inquiry, we do this analysis free of charge for members of our Supply Chain Insights Community.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2022

To succeed in the transportation and logistics business, 3PLs need to be able to hire and retain the very best talent while keeping a lid on costs. based transportation and logistics providers. She graduated from MIT with a chemical engineering degree and a Theater Arts concentration.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

the biggest challenge supply chain and logistics professionals face today is not change, which is something they have always faced, but keeping up with the rapid pace of change across a variety of dimensions — technology, regulations, economic and political landscapes, demographics, and so on. What benefits are they achieving?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 27, 2016

As digitization continues to modify the global supply chain landscape, its unprecedented data sources and solutions will lead to not only the demise of disparate information systems, but to the rise of true, end-to-end, supply chain visibility. Identify shortage and quality problems along the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

Supply chain management, as a practice in commercial operations, is now thirty years old. When we look backwards and use the results on corporate financials as a litmus test on supply chain excellence, we find that: We have made Improvements in Productivity. Balance Remains an Issue. Complexity has Grown. 3) Leadership.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Supply chain disruptions are inevitable, whether resulting from natural disasters, technical failures, worker strikes, or other unforeseen incidents. What can supply chain managers do to ensure that action is taken quickly and efficiently when disruption strikes? Identify Risks in Your Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2013

I have worked for Gartner Group, AMR Research, Altimeter Group and now my own company, Supply Chain Insights. I have now been an industry analyst in the supply chain management space for ten years. This month, I am proud that the Supply Chain Insights team will announce the Supply Chain Index.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 2, 2017

Rather, it’s about winning the ongoing competition between shippers and third party logistics (3PLs) providers to secure those assets in order to maintain supply chain velocity. Minimize utilization disruptions by integrating your logistics management team with the supply chain and S&OP team. Benjamin Franklin.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Supply chain disruptions are inevitable, whether resulting from natural disasters, technical failures, worker strikes, or other unforeseen incidents. What can supply chain managers do to ensure that action is taken quickly and efficiently when disruption strikes? Identify Risks in Your Supply Chain.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Supplier performance management provides detailed information about the risks your suppliers may have, so you can take action to reduce or eliminate risks in your supply chain. Therefore, the success of supplier performance management directly affects the quality of the entire supply chain. How is it possible?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare. It is seldom positive for the line-of-business user.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Today, I published a new report on supply chain excellence. To prepare the report, I worked with Abby Mayer ( @indexgirl ) to analyze ten years of supply chain financial ratios. One story that stands out for me is the race for supply chain excellence within the CPG peer group. Oxford Dictionary.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. Yet, voices of realism are vitally important as corporations redesign their post-COVID supply networks. One of those voices is Hitendra Chaturvedi, professor of practice in supply chain management at Arizona State University’s W.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

” Van Hove argues one reason for this lack of progress is supply chain bias. He explains, “S&OP has been developed as a supply chain capability, not as an end to end business capability.” ” Emerging technologies can help overcome this supply chain bias and bring S&OP into the Digital Age.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I always come back from these conferences inspired and fascinated at how diligent chemical supply chain managers must be to mitigate risk and adverse events. The chemical supply chain continues to faces significant challenges, with more global and complex supply chains, leaner inventories, and rising customer expectations.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

The comment caught my attention because later that morning I was going to moderate a discussion with Dan Dershem , General Partner at Supply Chain Ventures, about emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous trucks, and digital freight. The supply chain is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

They will soon change your supply chain. Designed in the 1960s when a Megabyte (MB) of disk storage cost the same as a Terabyte (TB) does today, relational databases form the basis of today’s supply chain systems and IT architectures. Not all supply chain data is transactional in nature.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Retail was slow to adopt supply chain processes to drive new business models; and as a result, traditional retail redefinition of supply chain processes got caught in the omni-channel hype while Amazon worked its magic to become a market leader. A Closer Look at Consumer Value Chains and the Value of the EACH.

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Precoro

MARCH 31, 2023

Optimizing the supply chain can play a significant role in reducing a company's adverse influence on the environment as their Scope 3 emissions are directly affected by their suppliers. Many organizations have responded by introducing policies and practices to prevent and address child labor in their supply chains.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Typical manufacturing products made in Belgium include engineering and metal products, automobile assemblies, transportation equipment, scientific and precision instruments, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, textiles, glass, petroleum and food and beverages. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. Both the U.S

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Will the supply chain ever catch a break? With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. .

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Logility

JUNE 28, 2017

Process chemical manufacturers face complex supply chain challenges including dealing with hazardous and perishable ingredients whose characteristics (potency, color, composition, etc.) I believe there are several key ingredients to formulating a winning process manufacturing supply chain. can vary from lot to lot.

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4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

Based in Silicon Valley, they’re fully scaled in California but have operations in China and South Korea, giving Cliff an up-close perspective on offshore manufacturing, supply chain, and more. The front end is where we make silver nanowires, we synthesize the chemical process. Why a leader needs to be a mentor… and be mentored.

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4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

Based in Silicon Valley, they’re fully scaled in California but have operations in China and South Korea, giving Cliff an up-close perspective on offshore manufacturing, supply chain, and more. The front end is where we make silver nanowires, we synthesize the chemical process. Why a leader needs to be a mentor… and be mentored.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Inventories in the chemical industry are at record lows: a forerunner of bad days ahead. The health of all sectors is dependent on the chemical industry.) The value chain supporting all industries is sick, requiring a leadership step-change. Supply chain leaders have little say in the business.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

As I spent the time reflecting over the last three weeks, the number of articles streaming into my feed on supply chain implications was high, but most of them were wrong. Some stated that the war marks the end of the global supply chain. By definition, this requires a global supply chain.

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