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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

PWC’s Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey reports that 83% of manufacturers say that supply chain technologies have not delivered the expected results. For this blog post, never mind the comparison. When he speaks of the supply chain, he means procurement. Let’s not quibble on the percentages. The trend is clear.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

Can we build collaborative platforms for role-based discussions across commercial (sales and marketing) and operations (manufacturing, logistics, and purchasing) teams? MRO Additive Manufacturing Not Forecastable Machine sensing to improve proactivity. Maximize Customer Service Agile 6. in inventory value.

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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. Digitizing logistics technology is innovating fast. Arcstone sells digital systems to optimize manufacturing. In one case the fuel and emissions per kilogram shipped was actually halved for a customer!

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This Week in Logistics News (August 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Earlier this week, the company announced that it will acquire Italy’s Bomi Group, which provides global healthcare logistics services. It covers 37 states and parts of Canada through a fleet of more than 150,000 crowd-sourced drivers, it says. For comparison, they spent $3.4

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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

For an industry that increasingly requires higher logistics pipeline velocity without sacrificing accuracy and at lower costs, RPA is a natural choice for high performing supply chain organisations. Procurement. Purchase Order Management. Another area where RPA is coming to the fore is in communication. Invoice Management.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. Methodology Comparison. Comparison of Methodologies.

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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.