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The Top Floor to Shop Floor Production Planning Handoff is Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

In its ideal form, supply chain planning should help leaders balance customer service with profits and even cash flow. There is a known problem for manufacturers in synchronizing their supply chain. Mr. Botha’s firm, SCM accelerators, was acquired a few years ago by UST. Roughcut capacity planning is also called supply planning.

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Sustainable Supply Chains: A Country Comparison

SCM Research

The global not-for-profit organization CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) has published a report: Supply Chain Sustainability Revealed: A Country Comparison. The report was written by Accenture Strategy. turn out to be particularly vulnerable.

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Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chain Planning

Logility

The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in supply chain planning is not a passing fad. AI and ML are fundamentally changing supply chain. Entering “Machine Learning” and “Supply Chain Planning” into your search engine of choice delivers nearly one million results over the last year alone.

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Economic Aspects of Supply Chains

American Global Logistics

Gain Competitive Advantage by Understanding the Economic Aspects of Supply Chains Supply chains play a crucial role in driving economic growth and prosperity. According to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) the cost of U.S. All these help mitigate disruptions to supply chains.

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Three Reasons Why SAP Supply Chain Planning Is a Risk to Your Business

Supply Chain Shaman

High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. With changing product profiles, short life cycles, constraints with downstream suppliers, and changing markets, being good at supply chain planning matters. Most of our work is focused on supply chain planning.

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Three Reasons Why SAP Supply Chain Planning Is a Risk to Your Business

Supply Chain Shaman

High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. With changing product profiles, short life cycles, constraints with downstream suppliers, and changing markets, being good at supply chain planning matters. Most of our work is focused on supply chain planning.

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Mid-market companies leapfrogging supply chain planning maturity stages

ToolsGroup

Is the latest technology enabling some mid-market companies to leapfrog supply chain planning (SCP) stages of maturity? Pharmaceutical distributor Cipla Medpro jumped from a spreadsheet-based system to what they now call “driverless supply chain planning”. The evidence suggests that it is. Stage 3 and even stage 2+ companies ….