All Things Supply Chain

JUNE 13, 2022

Event Title: Supply Chain Digitalization Conference Conference Date: 17th – 18th October 2022 Event Type: Virtual Event Event Organizer: ptn events The Supply Chain Digitalization Conference organized by ptn…

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I love the stories but question the fit of the metaphor(s) for a supply chain conference. Note in Figure 1 the gaps from recent research between supply chain planning and manufacturing, logistics, and sales. The gap between logistics and procurement; and logistics and customer service increases process latency. The reason?

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Talking Logistics

MAY 27, 2015

That’s how JDA Software’s CEO, Baljit Dail, summarized the feedback he was getting from customers and partners at FOCUS 2015 , the company’s user conference held last month in Orlando, FL, which had more than 2,000 attendees from 30 countries. “It feels like a new JDA.”. Not all customers and prospects are created equal.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Effective inventory management is crucial to reducing costs in any manufacturing business. This is particularly true in the food manufacturing industry, which characteristically has a high volume of products stored, and an urgent need to fill existing client orders to match ongoing consumer demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

As the world for non-essential workers moved to on-line meetings, conference calls, and uncertainty, essential workers redefined the workplace to mitigate risk. The healthcare value chain was slow to respond—the majority of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was in Chinese warehouses. Step #5 Safe Manufacturing. Recovery Team.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Ensure that your warehouse operation is safe. Analyze labor reduction for any warehousing operation. There are Labor Management Software systems that can help manage work in the warehouse. Incentive programs for warehousing employees do work. Try warehouse mobility in your four walls. They have great ideas.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. Ironically, the organization efficiently produces goods that will only sit in the warehouse.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Alexa Heads to the Warehouse (WSJ – sub. Warehouse Space Growing Tighter on Rising E-Commerce Demands (WSJ – sub. So if you can provide warehousing, transportation and/or material handling equipment to support disaster relief efforts, I encourage you to contact ALAN. Alexa in the Warehouse.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 18, 2019

The International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA) brings an extensive network of warehouse logistics leaders together with warehousing suppliers in this three-day trade show. If you’re looking to improve your warehouse logistics, this event is the right choice for you! Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 31, 2019

Three shippers answered that question during a panel discussion at the 2018 DAT User Conference in Portland, OR. From left to right, Cori Purrington, David Domencic, and Gerald Hahn during a panel discussion at the DAT User Conference. – David Domencic, Senior Manager of Transportation Procurement, Armada Supply Chain Solutions.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 30, 2018

At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, analyst Marc Halpern clarified three key concepts about supply chain digital twins in his presentation “Busting the Myth of Digital Twins to Deliver Value.” The experience of our customer SKF, the world’s largest bearings manufacturer , bears this out.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 31, 2019

Three shippers answered that question during a panel discussion at the 2018 DAT User Conference in Portland, OR. From left to right, Cori Purrington, David Domencic, and Gerald Hahn during a panel discussion at the DAT User Conference. – David Domencic, Senior Manager of Transportation Procurement, Armada Supply Chain Solutions.

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Oracle SCM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This year’s conference is being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from September 16 – 19. Supply chain organizations have been on a long journey to improve customer fulfillment and collaboration, especially in logistics functions such as transportation and warehousing. Procurement Cloud.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?”

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Veridian Solutions

MARCH 20, 2019

The four-day conference brings together 950 exhibitors and the thousands of supply chain and manufacturing software vendors. The conference is so expansive that it can be hard to decide which seminars and booths to visit. The conference is so expansive that it can be hard to decide which seminars and booths to visit.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. The focus of APICS is manufacturing, CSCMP’s foundation is in logistics, and ISM serves the procurement organization. The silo’d organization is insular.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Proudly, I had led my division to have the lowest manufacturing costs with the highest Return on Assets. I believed that we would find a company with the lowest distribution costs (warehousing and transportation), and the lowest manufacturing costs, and this would result in the best overall cost structure.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

If the word collaboration was listed on a card as a drinking game at supply chain conferences, we would be drunk at many. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order. Here I share perspective on cash-to-cash abuse.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

As we see from Deloitte’s CPO Survey in 2018, AI is only fully deployed in 2% of procurement organizations and is far from making any real impact at scale within the digital ecosystems procurement teams are so eagerly trying to build. For example, robots performing key process steps in manufacturing plants” ( arkieva.com 2017 ).

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Oracle SCM

AUGUST 1, 2018

One of the Supply Chain Management trends apparent at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in May was highlighted by several vendor/customer presentations focused on the value of Collaboration and Visibility projects. A high-tech contract manufacturer was growing rapidly through acquisition. Tom McDonough , Sr.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

Companies are the most satisfied with warehouse and transportation management and the least satisfied with demand planning. 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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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Its manufacturing capacity is at the highest level in the company’s history, and just two years ago Carhartt began opening its own retails stores across the country (with stores in 17 states as of the end of September 2016). Procurement & Contract Management. Location Management. Capacity Management. Rate Management.

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Requis

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The following article is a sample from Loic Coyot’s presentation, “Insights on New Technologies Across Industries,” that he will be presenting at the 2020 Conference and Trade Show in Scottsdale, AZ , April 19 – 22. __. Logos on boxes and/or vehicles to determine the manufacturer. Determining an item’s location in the warehouse.

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Requis

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The following article is a sample from Loic Coyot’s presentation, “Insights on New Technologies Across Industries,” that he will be presenting at the 2020 Conference and Trade Show in Scottsdale, AZ , April 19 – 22. __. Logos on boxes and/or vehicles to determine the manufacturer. Determining an item’s location in the warehouse.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. Source: Machine Learning – A Giant Leap for Supply Chain Forecasting, Material Handling and Logistics Conference (PDF, 28 pp.,

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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. West Coast ports and in inland warehouses earlier.

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Requis

JANUARY 9, 2020

In the past few years we’ve seen the rise of new leadership roles in the C-suite, including the chief procurement officer and chief supply chain officer. Heavy industry pays a lot of money to warehouse unused assets that could be sold to other enterprises dealing with similar projects, smaller players, or even back to original OEMs.

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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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Talking Logistics

MARCH 4, 2016

This self-service 4-session course provides an overview of how to build a strong transportation management foundation, with a focus on strategy development, procurement, the role of technology, and the importance of enabling a continuous improvement culture and processes. Descartes reported record revenues of $185.0

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Global supply chains are fundamentally rearranging and there’s a lot of reflection on how the urge to optimize efficiency (whether it was offshoring manufacturing to keep labor costs down, or making supply chains very lean to cut inventory costs) made supply chains more fragile. They, like us, were better prepared to react and respond. .

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Services Matias Offer on SCMDOJO Logistics Consulting Maritime Freight Sourcing and Procurement Logistics Technology Sourcing Executive Mentoring Guide: Matias, our supply chain consultant, has also created Maritime Freight Sourcing and Procurement Guide , which is available from SCMDOJO Academy.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Having an agent detect how long it takes to ship from a supplier site to a manufacturing facility, and then doing a running calculation on how the average lead time is changing, is trivial math. But very few vendors are taking those alerts and automatically feeding them into their manufacturing planning solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

Throughout the conference I met with several software and hardware providers to get a glimpse into what they were showcasing. This allows for allocation of inventory to stores and warehouses before it has been unloaded, making it possible for retailers to update their inventory plans more quickly.

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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. Digitalization of Warehousing Operations. Digitalization Through the Eyes of Our Customers.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. It would have changed warehouse operations to create an agile value-added services organization. Automotive. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 8, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « Infosys team at Pulse 2012 - Day 2 | Main | Flying Robots in a Warehouse? Today was the last day of the conference and Pulse was open only until 4 PM. Procurement Blog.

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