Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Just last week, my colleague Clint Reiser wrote an article about the top logistics and supply chain conferences to attend in 2024. Best Logistics and Supply Chain Conferences to Attend in 2023 ; Clint Reiser Welcome 2023! And with the new year comes an increasing return to in-person supply chain conferences and trade shows.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

.” – Sir Winston Churchill Having just returned from the 2023 Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Global conference in Detroit, these words are very fitting to encapsulate the essence of the event. These issues are further compounded by heightened customer expectations and increased market volatility.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 17, 2022

Newly Released Conference Board CEO Study. A further data point to these notions can be found in a newly released C-Suite Outlook Mid-Year survey report, published by The Conference Board. Inventory Management Assessment- Samsung Electronics. Samsung ’s inventory balances reportedly reached the equivalent of $36.9

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Despite supply chain costs increasing and available capacity almost a rarity, retailers are undertaking a variety of ways to make sure they receive their inventory in time for the ever-important holiday season. “We feel good about the composition of our inventory. It's been difficult to plan inventory flow with much precision.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

Pete Bennett, and his co-presenter, Mary Byrne, the vice president of supply and demand planning, spoke during a presentation at Kinaxis’ user conference Kinexions. The medical segment’s supply chain consists of 61 North American distribution centers and 27 global manufacturing plants. He added, “we needed results in the first year.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. Inventories at U.S.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I was attending the Zycus Horizons 2014 conference at Amelia Island today, listening to speakers. The first response, from Anders Lillevik, Global Head of Procurement Support Services, QBE North America, provided a very interesting perspective: “I’ve been doing procurement for a long time, in many different companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Each year I go to the Consumer Goods and Technology (CGT) conference where speaker-after-speaker talks about retail/supplier collaboration. It is for this reason that I sit on the back row at most conferences watching, listening, and smiling. Current State of Perpetual Inventory. I am a disbeliever. Get Good at Data Sharing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2018

The group meets quarterly with monthly conference calls in between the quarterly meeting. There is an active group in Europe and North America. 90% of companies are unable to drive improvement at the intersection of inventory management, operating margin and customer service.). The reason?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Last week’s 2015 LogiChem conference was held in Philadelphia, PA, the birthplace of the signing of our Declaration of Independence. I always come back from these conferences inspired and fascinated at how diligent chemical supply chain managers must be to mitigate risk and adverse events. ChemSolutions®, a division of C.H.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 7, 2019

American Tire Distributors (ATD) to Highlight How It Worked with ToolsGroup to Tackle Forecasting and Inventory Challenges with S&OP. Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2019 is the world’s most important gathering of supply chain leaders. Disruptions large and small confront today’s supply chains on a daily basis.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

P&G has consolidated hundreds of offices and warehouses across North America and set up six so-called mixing centers, where computer algorithms work with robots and humans to load trucks with the optimal mix of products to ship to retailers. Once complete, P&G said its new supply chain will enable 80% of U.S.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

More specifically, it took 83 days for container transport from Europe to Asia, and 88 days from North America to Asia. According to the Conference Board, despite lockdowns and COVID-19 related restrictions, consumer confidence in Asia rose in the last quarter of 2021 to 128 points from 126 points.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences. Canadian and U.S. China Silk Road Rail Link Disrupted.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 9, 2018

Last week, I attended Innovate 2018 , the company’s first user conference, and as I stood on stage to deliver my keynote presentation in front of 140+ attendees, the answer was clear: Yes. One of the new capabilities highlighted at the conference was Continuous Pool Optimization. New TMS Capabilities.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 18, 2016

As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. We focus on reducing miles driven, making a delivery in hours instead of days, minimizing inventories, or increasing the utilization of our workforce. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Note that neither company is making progress at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Performance of BMS and Merck at the Intersection of Inventory Turns and Operating Margin. Orbit Chart for Novo Nordisk at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the period of 2006-2015.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 14, 2017

CX North America Releases Freight Vision Mobile App. Introducing Prime Fulfillment by Ingram Micro Commerce & Fulfillment. LLamasoft and LynnCo Supply Chain Solutions Announce Partnership. Paragon enhances routing and scheduling software with advanced fuel usage visibility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The translation of demand in traditional advanced planning systems determines safety stock, but there is a greater opportunity for pharmaceutical companies with an inventory turn level of two, and great demand and supply uncertainty, to determine inventory strategies including buffers, push-pull decoupling points, and postponement.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2016

As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. We focus on reducing miles driven, making a delivery in hours instead of days, minimizing inventories, or increasing the utilization of our workforce. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2015

As I mentioned in last week’s Friday News Roundup, I spent some time in Atlanta attending the Home Delivery World, Click & Collect Show USA, and ETail Show USA joint conference. I had the pleasure of catching Tom Barone, VP of North America Operations at eBay Enterprise present on the changing nature of commerce.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

I need it for my conference on September 10th-11th, 2014. Prior to joining Starbucks, he worked at the executive leadership level in Europe, Latin America and North America at ICI, a global chemical company. My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. I am behind.

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BlueYonder

MAY 10, 2019

Each year in late April or early May, JDA team members, along with 2000 or more customers and partners, get together for our annual customer conference. Sprint was using spreadsheets and databases to forecast and plan its network inventory purchases. That’s why this is my favorite time of year. billion pieces to be packaged annually.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The director for North America channel sales for Iron Mountain stresses the importance of leveraging the right technology to grow and scale warehouse space sales. He leverages on-demand warehousing during unexpected peaks to relieve his core warehouses of 15 – 20% of their inventory. Leverage technology to grow revenues.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

As was confirmed for me yet again this week at a conference, the most utilized supply chain and logistics application, the reigning champ of them all, is the Excel spreadsheet. Forget cloud, social, and mobile. Forget WMS and TMS. Forget BI and analytics. As the saying goes, old habits die hard. Robinson reported total net revenues of $463.3

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 15, 2011

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) released its 22nd “Annual State of Logistics Report®,” presented by Penske Logistics, today at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Inventory carrying costs increased 10.3 The report reveals that business logistics costs rose to 8.3 percent of U.S.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 2, 2016

</h3></blockquote> <h4><strong>Leverage technology to grow revenues </strong></h4> <p>The director for North America channel sales for Iron Mountain stresses the importance of leveraging the right technology to grow and scale warehouse space sales.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

From Tesla the unicorn, China, why EVs aren’t consumer lead and why batteries may not be the only solution, Mark Gallivan sat down with Joe McCabe of AutoForecast Solutions at the Southern Automotive Conference 2023. North and South America, East and Western Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For the second straight year between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, Tom Brady has announced his retirement from the NFL. Moller – Maersk is turning to flying drones to manage inventory counts in its warehouse network, the Danish firm said. This time, however, he says it is for good. Maritime containership giant A.P.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Whereas APICS itself once was focused largely on production and inventory control, since its acquisition of the Supply Chain Council in 2014 the organization has reestablished itself with a focus on helping its members achieve supply chain excellence. MH&L sat down with Eshkenazi at the recent APICS 2017 conference in San Antonio, TX. .

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JDA software

MAY 10, 2019

Each year in late April or early May, JDA team members, along with 2000 or more customers and partners, get together for our annual customer conference. Sprint was using spreadsheets and databases to forecast and plan its network inventory purchases. That’s why this is my favorite time of year. billion pieces to be packaged annually.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Why NASCES Gets our Nod Elementum has always made it a point to attend the North America Supply Chain Executive Summit (NASCES). It’s a well-attended event with several hundred supply chain leaders, consultants, and partners all converging at the Westin event center in North Shore Chicago.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Why NASCES Gets our Nod Elementum has always made it a point to attend the North America Supply Chain Executive Summit (NASCES). It’s a well-attended event with several hundred supply chain leaders, consultants, and partners all converging at the Westin event center in North Shore Chicago.

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Freightera

MAY 1, 2018

Freightera, “Expedia for Freight”, celebrates its 10,000th shipment, on target to achieve best LTL inventory in the US and Canada. May 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Freightera, North America’s rapidly growing online freight marketplace, celebrated its 4th birthday today as it booked over 10,000 shipments.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

As a result, at conferences, I am often introduced as a consultant. Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period of 2006-2015. If you trace the year-over-year pattern, you can see that P&G made progress on inventory turns and operating margin 2006-2007, 2009-2010.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2022

At our recent customer conference Blue Yonder ICON , we heard first-hand the chronic and new challenges supply chain, logistics, and commerce executives are facing and their strategies and implementations to realize the next visions. A North America?n Digitalization Through the Eyes of Our Customers.

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