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Network Supply Chain Transformation at UScellular

Logistics Viewpoints

The Association for Supply Chain Management ( ASCM ) hosted its annual conference, ASCM CONNECT , on September 18 – 20 in Chicago. This team in Chicago is responsible for logistics and coordinating efforts with vendors. Then earlier this year they added a supply chain planning function to the Chicago team.

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Do You Need a Graph?

Supply Chain Shaman

Or a unified data model across source, make, and deliver for planning? Creating data semantics is analogous to mapping grammar and style rules in content writing style guides (Think Chicago Style Guide 10). The greatest value in the network is making effective trade-offs between source, make, and deliver. Why is this needed?

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Retailers receiving inventories any which way they can

Cathy Roberson

Despite supply chain costs increasing and available capacity almost a rarity, retailers are undertaking a variety of ways to make sure they receive their inventory in time for the ever-important holiday season. “We feel good about the composition of our inventory. It's been difficult to plan inventory flow with much precision.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory Is an Egregious Symptom of Supply Chains Gone Wrong. Today, inventory fire sales abound. Headline news included Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl’s and Macy’s struggling with inventory bloat and offering deep discounts. Wall Street Journal Headline on Retailers Using Containers to Store Excess Inventories. My take away?

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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

Freight rates have plummeted, brokerages are struggling, and the industry is still bloated with excess inventory. While many companies assemble great sourcing and procurement teams when it comes time to renegotiate freight contracts, they often fail to provide good documentation that allows them to negotiate from a position of strength.

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Stack It High and Watch It Fly: Is Vertical Inventory Storage Always the Answer?

6 River Systems

And this made sense when warehouses were truly pass-through for inventory. It used to be that you would source, manufacture, store, send to a store and then the consumer would access that inventory. Inventory now has to be much more nimble and therefore supply chain nodes can no longer resemble their static nature of old.

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From Real-Time Visibility to Real-Time Decisions: Data’s Value Is Propagating Across Global Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

The paradigm is shifting from foundational visibility to real-time decision-making, with positive implications for supply chain teams spanning sourcing & procurement, to production, to yard & DC operations and beyond. He lives in Chicago. Why is this shift such a big deal? We don’t have to think back very far. Lesson learned.