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Editor’s Choice: 8 Supply Chain Planning Challenges Retailers Will Face In 2022 And Tips To Overcome Them

Logistics Viewpoints

It is not a surprise for customers to walk into stores with empty shelves or for companies to not receive shipments from their overseas suppliers. It is not easy for companies to cope with customers’ sudden increases in demand without agile planning capabilities. As we welcome 2022, we also welcome new supply chain challenges.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Vendor Selection: What they Won’t Tell You

Logility

A successful relationship with your vendor can last many years so companies may embark on supply chain planning implementations once every 10-15 years – or longer. From an outcomes workshop, supply chain technology buyers will have a catalog of important outcomes they must set their sights on as they drive the project forward.

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Unleashed Cash Flow Workshop: Experts Share Tips for Generating Cash Flow & Mitigating Risk

Unleashed

Overstocking became a necessary evil for many companies as they struggled to meet customer demand throughout the recent onslaught of supply chain disruptions. As a result, significant amounts of cash flow remain tied up in unmoving inventory. It’s getting the basics right.” Less friction means more sales. Look at it fresh.

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Achieving the Best Outcomes with Change Management

QAD

Disruption is the watchword for manufacturers these days – even without the global COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturers constantly deal with supply chain interruptions, fluid customer demands, global economic pressures, and technology-driven competition, among other forces. Business Change Management.

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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

As I work with companies, I often contrast the strategies, approaches and outcomes within a peer group. Over the last five years, I have helped two companies, Sonoco Products and Owens Illinois (OI) with their selection of technologies to improve Sales and Operations (S&OP) planning. The companies are similar in size.

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Industry 4.0 was Delayed, not Cancelled, by the Pandemic

Enterra Insights

” If manufacturers didn’t believe that truism before, they certainly believe now it — thanks to 2020. ” If manufacturers didn’t believe that truism before, they certainly believe now it — thanks to 2020. “Pilots were fruitful enough to convince manufacturers about the importance of data. .

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

Kinaxis

by John Westerveld Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. A bad decision can result in missed orders, significant inventory, or scrapped materials. Why is this a problem?