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Supply Chain Optimization: Leveraging Integrated Scenario Planning as a Margin Multiplier

Logistics Viewpoints

Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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How Supply Chain & Logistics Companies are Mitigating Labor Shortages

Logistics Viewpoints

The study also provided insight into what companies are doing to address it. The research report What Are Companies Doing to Survive the Supply Chain and Logistics Workforce Challenge? In addition, the report shows what companies are doing to attract and retain employees to mitigate workforce challenges today and in the future.

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Top SEO Strategies for Logistics Companies to Improve Online Visibility

SCMDOJO

Search engine optimizations is one of the best digital marketing hacks out there for your industry since it helps buyers hunting for a transportation and logistics company find you online – and you don’t have to pay for PPC advertising. A website traffic estimator tool can be used to achieve this.

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How To Prove Training Impact And Measure Training Outcomes

Procurement Academy

So you’ve invested in your workforce, you’ve introduced training and development plans , but now you want to know exactly how effective these initiatives really are… Training and development is so important in the modern supply chain and procurement industry, but being able to measure and show the results of it is just as vital.

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How a Global CPG Leader Optimized $500M of Direct Materials Spend and Exceeded Savings Goal

A Fortune 500 CPG company partnered with GEP to improve end-to-end category management, optimize direct spend categories, and increase strategic focus on tail spend. The result was a year-over-year savings of more than 3%. This is essential reading for all procurement and supply chain leaders.

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Strategy. Strategy. Wherefore Art Thou Strategy?

Supply Chain Shaman

In contrast, those who outperformed were better at strategy and aligned with outcomes. We find that companies with an analytics center of excellence drove progress faster than those with a supply chain center of excellence. While companies build Supply Chain Centers of Excellence, most are not clear on what good looks like.

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Elevating Inventory Management with Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization

Logility

Enter Inventory Optimization (IO) as a vital strategy to combat supply chain stress. Yet, recent research suggests a more advanced approach, Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO), surpasses traditional methods. This urges a shift from the unsustainable practice of buffering against uncertainty with high inventory levels.

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Next-Generation Fulfillment Strategies and Operating Models: A Strategic Playbook

Faced with many fulfillment constraints and older operating models that can’t keep up, companies must look to the future. Download this GEP playbook to learn more about the next generation of fulfillment strategies and operating models.

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Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability

The secret is mastering strategic cost management strategies. Discover how these strategies can boost your enterprise's financial health, helping not only to keep up but to excel in today's market. Discover how these strategies can boost your enterprise's financial health, helping not only to keep up but to excel in today's market.

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New Supply Chain Design Software Benefits Calculator

How much can you save by optimizing your supply chain network? Take our calculator for a spin to see how much you can save per year by optimizing your supply chain network. Our benefits calculator helps you find out. What's the ROI of supply chain network design software? We often get asked this question.

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Digital Transformation: Why You Can’t Afford to Wait

Even global manufacturers –– companies across industrial, automotive, chemical, and energy industries –– are scrambling to mitigate the impacts of labor, material and energy shortages, delays, inflation, and unexpected events. It’s not just small and medium-size businesses that are caught off guard.

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Building AI to Unlearn Bias in Recruiting

Research shows that the hiring process is biased and unfair. While we have made progress to solve this, it’s potentially at risk due to advancements in AI technology. This eBook covers these issues & shows you how AI can ensure workplace diversity.

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Just In: Inventory Optimization Research

How are organizations performing on inventory optimization? Although nobody could have predicted the degree of disruption most companies experienced last year, the pandemic did expose the many challenges organizations face when it comes to inventory. The technologies in use and the benefits of optimization.

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Leading Successful Change to Remote Training

Speaker: Dr. Britt Andreatta, PhD, CEO, 7th Mind, Inc.

This creates challenges for all new workers and the people who train them, leading many to ask this vital question: How can you train people remotely and effectively, without disrupting the flow of work?

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TMS+: Go Beyond Transport to Optimize Cost, Service, & Resiliency

What’s also clear is that to not merely survive but thrive in the today’s volatile global market, companies need to take a more synchronized approach to their various business processes. Today’s question becomes: How do you leverage data to automate and optimize across the full order lifecycle?