Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 27, 2023

Our invited thought leader guest is Doctor Yossi Sheffi, the Elisha Gray Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also serves as long time Director for the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL). and the Future of Work.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

In this article, we share insights on the current state and give actionable advice that teams can take to make improvements. Previously, the focus was on a more siloed approach to improving manufacturing, procurement or logistics. The traditional technique is to forecast what manufacturing should make.

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EC Sourcing Group

DECEMBER 1, 2021

9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. If you are a small or mid-size company in manufacturing, agribusiness, retail or distribution, your transportation spend can be substantial. Demystifying Transportation Sourcing.

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EC Sourcing Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. If you are a small or mid-size company in manufacturing, agribusiness, retail or distribution, your transportation spend can be substantial. Demystifying Transportation Sourcing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Seemingly, most supply chain leaders that are reading the press, or going to industry conferences, would believe that all four statements are true. I have averaged about 100 articles a year. Today’s supply chains were built assuming that manufacturing is the primary constraint and that oil was a $10/barrel.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

At a CSCMP conference session, participants offered case after case of how business decisions—both unintentional and intentional—can wreak havoc on transportation spend. Jim Stevens, one of the panelists and director of Customer Logistics at Continental Mills, related one story. I worked for a company that manufactured granola bars.

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Requis

JANUARY 9, 2020

In most of the supply chain trends articles you’ll read this month, there’s a lot of excitement about technologies like AI, IoT, blockchain, and in some sectors, BIM (building information modelling). It’s no secret that B to C organizations are the leaders in supply chain innovation, and B to B is playing catch up. Digital twins.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Dave will be speaking on his journey along with other supply chain leaders at the Supply Chain Insight sGlobal Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona on September 10th and 11th. These interviews of supply chain leaders will be collated into our fourth book on supply chain excellencewhich will publish at ourconference in September 2015.

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Precoro

JANUARY 15, 2024

Every procurement professional faces a time when they have to make a purchase in unfamiliar territory. Alternatively, when an organization embarks on a new project, procurement managers are tasked with finding the ideal supplier that aligns with the project’s requirements. That’s when RFQs and RFPs come into play.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This article, which is focused on the different types of artificial intelligence used and the types of problems they are solving, is aimed at helping practitioners cut through the hype. But very few vendors are taking those alerts and automatically feeding them into their manufacturing planning solutions.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

I also provided an early look at one of the supply chain physics laws that I will be working on with my colleague Tom Linton, who also presented at the conference: Supply Chain Physics Law 3 : Shorter distances between parties in the supply chain improve efficiency, communication, and speed of execution. and will operate more efficiently.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

”[1] Bolstering his argument, he cites a conference presentation given by Francesca Gamboni, a Senior Vice President for supply chain at Groupe PSA. Gamboni told conference participants, “We need new ways to forecast demands.” ” Cognitive technologies and supply chain planning. Why is this important?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 14, 2023

Up until then, collective liner pricing organizations (conferences)— which America was not part of—had gained so much market power that they had the ability to unilaterally raise rates and reduce services. As a result, the U.S. This article by Nat Josef of Extensiv was a winner of the Supply Chain Brief MVP Awards 2022.

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Arkieva

MARCH 31, 2017

Talks of creating a supply chain have slowly transformed into a catchphrase that’s often touted at Supply chain conferences and lengthy S&OP meetings. However, for most manufacturing businesses, the concept is elusive and at best abstruse. And it’s not because it’s a difficult concept to understand.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 17, 2019

That’s why we’ve created this list of the top logistics and supply chain journalists and thought leaders that we follow and suggest you check out in 2020. . Top Logistics & Supply Chain Journalists & Thought Leaders We Follow. where he wrote daily articles about international and U.S. Paul Abbott. Dave Blanchard.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 13, 2016

These leaders all have 20+ years S&OP experience and published books, whitepapers and articles in renowned magazines. My first one was for the 2015 annual APICS conference in Las Vegas where a board member of SAPICS attending my presentation inquired if I would be interested in presenting at their conference in Sun City, South Africa.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fall is conference season, and this year, with pent-up post-pandemic energy to return to events, I hit the trail to share insights on the value of outside-in supply chain planning along with recent research on the current state of supply chain management. Here are some articles to read. For additional reading check out this article.)

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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Precoro

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recall how manufacturers had to limit their on-site staff due to coronavirus safety regulations; more recently, food production in Ukraine was disrupted, which in turn affected the sales channels of Ukrainian products and everyone around the world who uses or distributes them. How many employees are involved in the procure-to-pay cycle?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This is not only true for financial investments, but also for supply chain and logistics predictions. Like I said last year, making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target: sometimes you get lucky and hit the mark; other times you miss the bullseye by a mile. Photo By: MAJ Aaron Haney.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

NOTE: Ron Giuntini also participated in the roundtable, but his contribution on the servitization trend will appear in a separate article. . In the world of economics, articles abound regarding the controversial issue of whether in the future the U.S. Automation, Robots and AI. Drones & Autonomous Vehicles.

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