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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #8: Keeping supply chain information in silos (and preventing your users from making the best decisions)

Kinaxis

Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. Reason #8 Keeping supply chain information in silos (and preventing your users from making the best decisions). They do this by preventing them from getting (or making it very difficult to get) any more information than they absolutely need to do their specific job.

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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #10 Failure to adequately train your supply chain planning staff

Kinaxis

Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. Reason #8 Keeping supply chain information in silos. Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. A bad decision can result in missed orders, significant inventory, or scrapped materials.

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Guest Post: Ignoring this Performance Metric is Risky

TMC

Moreover, a new class of software applications goes further by combining companies’ bill of material and supplier facility locations to convert alert data to information regarding products and customer impacts. When Cisco saw news of wildfires in Colorado in 2012, it wasn’t concerned, because it had no manufacturing or suppliers in the area.

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Cannabis execs: digitize operations or else

TrackVia

A proper digital operations plan means managing workflows and standard operating procedures (SOPs) with one piece of technology across the entire business, from cultivation, production, quality and compliance control, facilities management, sales, distribution, inventory, etc. Raw material supply and inventory management .

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Using Modeling and Analytics to Design a Resilient Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

You can use network design models, company KPIs and other metrics to get a holistic look at your supply chain. Prioritize: Use the information from the assessment to prioritize scenarios to test further with optimization and simulation technology. Examples: moving inventory to alternate locations, changing supplier relationships.

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21 logistics experts share the most important ingredients in developing an effective logistics strategy

6 River Systems

Inventory requirements for all raw, WIP and finished goods. This latest smart manufacturing wave sees an encompassing integration of GPS technology that allows for the fluid and accurate reportage (or tracking) of employees, assets, inventory and vehicles. Storage needs for all raw, WIP and finished goods.