Kinaxis

JULY 13, 2018

While I attend several supply chain conferences in any given year, SCM World is a favorite of mine for a couple of reasons. There was some concern that the role of supply chain gets elevated only when a crisis hits and product cannot ship. “Thick data” vs big data, the power of the supply chain profession, and cybersecurity.

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BlueYonder

MAY 18, 2023

I wanted to learn more about supply chains, so recently I attended Blue Yonder ICON 2023 , a three-day conference, where practitioners and decision-makers exchange insights on the future of global supply chains. This event is put on by Blue Yonder, which is the leading supply chain software company.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 17, 2014

by Melissa Clow As we have mentioned a couple times, Kinexions , the Kinaxis Training & User Conference is taking place later this month. And as the saying goes, ‘You can’t manage what you can’t measure’ and questions remain regarding what metrics to use to measure the success of new planning solutions within EMEA Automotive.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

We draw a timeline on a conference room wall and using customer shipment and compliance data, we plot the issues with customer service and product outages. Most companies cannot get to data by customer on orders shipped incomplete to understand root cause analysis. Analyze Past Results in Customer Service. Let’s take an example.

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E2open

APRIL 3, 2017

Effective February 2017, Walmart is requiring its suppliers to meet either a same-day or two-day shipping window instead of its previous four-day window, and has upped its required compliance rate from 90% to 95% (Source: Walmart’s new on-time delivery standards may create supply chain challenges for its suppliers ). Monday 3 April 2017.

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E2open

APRIL 3, 2017

Effective February 2017, Walmart is requiring its suppliers to meet either a same-day or two-day shipping window instead of its previous four-day window and has upped its required compliance rate from 90% to 95% (Source: Walmart’s new on-time delivery standards may create supply chain challenges for its suppliers ). Monday 3 April 2017.

Packaging 60

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E2open

APRIL 3, 2017

Effective February 2017, Walmart is requiring its suppliers to meet either a same-day or two-day shipping window instead of its previous four-day window, and has upped its required compliance rate from 90% to 95% (Source: Walmart’s new on-time delivery standards may create supply chain challenges for its suppliers ). Monday 3 April 2017.

Packaging 60

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

I’m a pretty jaded conference goer, so it is difficult to please me, but I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the keynotes and sessions I attended. The general theme of the conference was about transformational change. It immediately brings home the need for trade-off across competing metrics and objectives.

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Alloy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It’s no accident that Moose Toys was awarded Walmart Toy Supplier of the Year at the retailer’s annual supply chain conference earlier this year. Even when you’re looking at doing port splits and shipping product, there are other ways you can ship into the Walmart supply chain that sometimes their own teams aren’t aware of.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. When I hear them at a conference, I squirm uncontrollably in my seat. The supply chain is vertically integrated and global shipping almost 2 million units daily. First, it is a conference for supply chain leaders designed for supply chain leaders. Source: Dictionary.com.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2018

This unprecedented change, and the challenges and opportunities it creates for CPG companies and suppliers, was a hot topic of conversation at the Nulogy xChange 2018 conference a few weeks ago where I delivered a keynote presentation and moderated a panel discussion with industry executives (more on that later). . Tim Koers (Visual Pak).

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Postal Service announced intentions to consolidate roughly 21% of delivery units into large-scale shipping centers. The first of the new shipping and delivery centers will open in Atlanta, GA, in the fall of this year, with more than 100 additional sites under consideration nationwide. . million metric tons. .

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 4, 2023

alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. Metrics monitoring Real-time data can be accessed globally using cloud computing. Breaking it down In the U.S. 3 What’s the allure?

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Scope 3 indirect emissions associated with companies’ value chains—their upstream supply chains and logistics and all the downstream activities required to get products to wholesale or retail customers—have been much harder to monitor because they are produced by thousands of suppliers, shipping companies, and other vendors.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

This week, I will speak at Llamasoft’s conference on improving supply chain network design. One of my favorite interviews on this topic, that I recently completed for my upcoming book Metrics That Matter , was with Amway’s Chief Supply Chain Officer George Calvert. Service level is our most important metric.

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QAD

JUNE 27, 2019

The city of New Orleans played quite the host this year to our growing community of manufacturers for our largest annual customer conference, Explore. This year at Explore, many of the conference attendees were very excited about QAD’s advanced technology direction, including the debut of Production Execution in the QAD Labs.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2018

At the BluJay Soar 2018 conference this past May, I conducted several video interviews with BluJay customers on the growing importance of customer experience. Is customer experience a supply chain metric at your company? Perspectives from BluJay Solutions Customers. You can watch excerpts from the videos at the research website.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 8, 2013

When I started Supply Chain Insights, I ran into Scott DeGroot, Director of the Customer Supply Chain Team; Rick Sather, Vice President of the Customer Supply Chain Team; and Mike Kalinowski, Director of Supply Chain Operations, at conferences. Each faces four years of deterioration on this important supply chain metric.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

Yes, there was lots of the usual hype coming from NRF, and CES conferences filling the airways. Today, on average, there are 10-25 ships sitting on the water waiting to unload. but underneath this bravado, there was some grim news: 1) West Coast Ports. Here at home, things are busy. The program is shaping up.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2015

All KPIS have metrics to measure. As an example, our shipper customers who come to Cerasis for better and more efficient transportation management , meet with our account managers to review their shipping activity and use our analytics within our TMS to set new benchmarks and update KPIs so the shipper is continuously improving.

KPI 120

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

That was my opening question to the executives attending last month’s Elemica reveal 2014 Conference in Frankfurt. Gelangenserklärung (“Confirmation of Arrival”) was a hot topic of conversation at the conference. What do the Germany World Cup Team and the Boston Red Sox have in common?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

In my work as a supply chain analyst, and Founder of Supply Chain Insights, I attend many supply chain conferences. On a day like today, when I am struggling with jet lag and recovering from sleep deprivation, I tell my friends that I attend more conferences than I would like to attend. Shipping Standards.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. Drones and its future in supply chain and logistics processes. Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture.

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Freight Plus

MARCH 20, 2020

Come up with a set of internal metrics that will go towards eliminating problem areas. After early/late deliveries, improper ASN (advanced shipping notices) violations account for the second most chargebacks. You may also want to consider setting up a quarterly conference call to review scorecards and discuss any changes to policy.

Vendor Strategies 52

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Freight Plus

MARCH 20, 2020

Come up with a set of internal metrics that will go towards eliminating problem areas. After early/late deliveries, improper ASN (advanced shipping notices) violations account for the second most chargebacks. You may also want to consider setting up a quarterly conference call to review scorecards and discuss any changes to policy.

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Freight Plus

APRIL 16, 2018

percent of the nation's freight by tonnage shipped and 81.5 Wages continue to rise for America's truckers as the trucking industry contends with driver shortages coupled with an increased demand for shipping services.". Freightwaves reports. , "Freight trucks are the lifeblood of America's consumer economy—they represent 70.9

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2013

At this conference, we are excited to share three detailed analyses of corporate performance over the last decade: Performance on the Supply Chain Effective Frontier. Which supply chain metrics correlate to market capitalization by Morningstar sector? Which companies have made year-over-year improvements? Supply Chain Resiliency.

Supply Chain Planning Software 282

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

The first post in this series broke down what is supplier quality management and the steps to evaluate suppliers and the second post gave you insight into the metrics to look out for by 6 major industries. A unique way I used to improve Supplier Quality Management (SQM) is by The Supplier Day Conference.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

As we discussed this drawing the dialogue flowed in the conference room. The use of customer segmentation strategies to define order policies for lead times, discounts, allocation, and shipping priorities. .” I drew the picture shown in Figure 1. Drawing from the Whiteboard: Building Customer-Centric Supply Chain Strategies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

We outsource about 80% of the primary ingredients of our crop protection business, and pack it in finishing plants and ship to warehouses. At this conference, we will unveil the results of our second study on supply chain performance and improvement. It is unlike any other conference. Network with Leaders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

There is more in-transit inventory–sitting on the water in larger ships, in-transit through international sourcing strategies, or work with contract manufacturers–as a result, to avoid inventory write-offs, the foot needs to hit the brake faster. Sensing the channel is critical to match manufacturing flows to the channel.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

In the words of a person that I once heard speak at the conference,”It is much easier for a supply chain team to run downhill than uphill.” At the conference, we will be challenging supply chain leaders to focus on Supply Chain 2030 through a programmatic focus on five themes: Supply Chains to Admire. Move quickly!

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Come up with a set of internal metrics that will go towards eliminating problem areas. After early/late deliveries, improper ASN (advanced shipping notices) violations account for the second most chargebacks. You may also want to consider setting up a quarterly conference call to review scorecards and discuss any changes to policy.

Vendor Strategies 40

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric. The good news is that the team was aware of the results and feel that they have righted the ship in 2014. We named it the Supply Chain Index.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Let's talk about the outputs, or desired metrics worth measuring, in each category of what a logistics company might provide. As we have now taken a step back to first understand how to create stakeholder value for the organization (shipper) who is looking to engage in the partnering with a logistics company.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Source: Machine Learning – A Giant Leap for Supply Chain Forecasting, Material Handling and Logistics Conference (PDF, 28 pp., The machine learning algorithms in IBM’s Watson platform were able to determine if a shipping container and.or no opt-in).

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Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

Supply chain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways from the 2018 Gartner supply chain conference. I just returned from the highly engaging and inspiring Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The site was launched in eight weeks. Digital process prototypes.

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