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What Value Are You Getting From Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

Why Is Supply Chain Planning Important? Spiraling transportation costs, tariff shifts and increased expectations for customer service sparks new interest in supply chain planning. Operations complexity coupled with the rise in demand volatility increases corporate risk. Supply Chain Risk Drivers: A Comparison of Risk.

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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

The logistics of physical items usually involves the integration of information flow, materials handling, production, packaging, inventory, transportation, warehousing and often security. I have worked in Distribution Centres that also manage Freight Management, Inventory Control, Resource Planning, Strategy and more.