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What Value Are You Getting From Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply Chain Risk Drivers: A Comparison of Risk. The problem is that the acceptance of lanes by the carriers does not force the carrier to accept the freight when tendered. If the carrier does not accept the freight, the manufacturer loses time in moving the freight and is often forced to go to the open market to source freight.

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Shoveling Snow with a Dustpan (Takeaways from BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

I encouraged the audience to ask themselves that question and provided them with this comparison of companies of yesterday versus companies of tomorrow. When it comes to addressing the supply chain challenges and opportunities of today and tomorrow, are you still using a dustpan?

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CPFR or Demand-Driven replenishment for your supply chain? Choose wisely….

The Network Effect

Prior to today’s advanced capabilities around Demand Driven Value Networks, the prevailing strategy was to implement Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR). In fact some vendors have even published comparisons of the workflows in their systems to the structure of CPFR. What is CPFR?

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What’s the Difference Between Logistics and Distribution?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Logistics management activities typically include inbound and outbound transportation management, fleet management, warehousing, materials handling, order fulfillment, logistics network design, inventory management, supply/demand planning, and management of third party logistics services providers.” ” [link]. Distribution.