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We Are In Trouble. Raise the Red Flag. Be Proactive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Labor shortages abound for road freight. The Freight Rates for a 40 foot container from China to the west coast of the United States is quadruple the price of a year ago. The supply chain leader is struggling with increased cost and delayed on-time deliveries in ocean freight. The Baltic Index: Comparison In Price.

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Why Data Sharing is Limited in a Competitive Environment

Supply Chain Trend

This is a commentary on the article To Share or Not to Share: The Future of Collaborative Forecasting , Foresight 2022, Q4, by Pierre Pinson, Editor in Chief of The International Journal of Forecasting. COLLABORATIVE PLANNING, FORECASTING, AND REPLENISHMENT. Asymmetry of Data Ownership. It was a win-win situation.

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What Value Are You Getting From Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

Outsourcing–procurement, manufacturing and transportation– decreased visibility and increased data latency. Supply Chain Risk Drivers: A Comparison of Risk. 2) Forecast Value Added. Forecast Value-Added (FVA) is a measurement of demand management improvement. Reference Figure 1. 4) S&OP Feasibility.

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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

In the last decade, many companies, especially those with manufacturing operations, have evolved direct materials sourcing from an administrative function to a strategic procurement process. As a strategic process, transportation procurement may still seem very tedious and challenging. Be demand driven.

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Capitalising on Supply Chain Digitisation with Robotic Process Automation – 10 Areas of Opportunities – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Procurement. Procurement can also have RPA do dynamic searches of websites to source or conduct market research for future buys and tenders. Procurement can also have RPA do dynamic searches of websites to source or conduct market research for future buys and tenders. Purchase Order Management.

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How China’s zero-Covid policy is affecting global supply chains

Proxima

When Chinese manufacturing cities come to a hard stop on short notice, there are serious consequences for global supply chains, with delays spilling over at local ports, nearby alternative outlets, and into destination ports, causing volatility and confusion right across the market.

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The Green Corridor – Optimal Tech for Green Logistics – Making Emissions Visible

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Raw materials, parts and services are currently all running through supply chains and manufacturing processes and emitting GHGs. One can have technology for the macro level (plotting our forecasting for sales) as well as the micro level (monitoring fuel economy in a truck). Arcstone sells digital systems to optimize manufacturing.