Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. That has recently changed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2022

I was fortunate enough to spend the beginning of this week at Manhattan Associates’ Momentum user conference. It was great to be back in person at a conference, seeing people face to face. Although virtual conferences do offer convenience, they lack a personal touch and the ability to network with others in person.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2021

Supply chains around the country are in great need of warehouse and transportation workers. Furthermore, COVID-19 exacerbated the existing shift from retail store purchases to e-commerce transactions, with a 32 percent increase in 2020 US e-commerce sales, according to the US Census Bureau. Logistics Real Estate Growth.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel. Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The sixth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in August 2021 once again stressed the importance and urgency of decarbonising all sectors of the economy. Most respondents report monitoring their fuel consumption, which is a critical first step towards reducing it.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Another conference, another presentation on the scarily “big” data coming to supply chain and logistics. To do so, I will dive into data analytics and the role it could play in making supply chain logistics more efficient. Descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. And so we arrive at prescriptive analytics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. Almost two decades of reporting. They are not active on conference circuits. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.) As I listen, I struggle.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM.

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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.”. The value of IT is in how you use it.

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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 budget is for a fiscal year with quarter reporting and updates. ————————-.

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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. Cash-to-Cash Metrics. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. Here I share perspective on cash-to-cash abuse.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was certainly another strange year, but the in-person conferences I usually look forward to were a mixed bag this year. I attended my first in-person conferences and attended a number of virtual ones as well. If that trend continues as forecast, it would follow months of tight capacity and high rates in many transportation modes.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

Demand for these solutions, from both shippers and brokers, continues to grow because companies want to identify and implement better ways to plan and execute their transportation and logistics operations, which is what ultimately delivers value. At the time of our interview, Descartes MacroPoint had over 115,000 carriers and over 2.3

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Editor's Note: As of late you may have noticed we have written a lot about procurement and the future of procurement. A large part of procurement is finalizing the contract and then the follow through of the determined deliverables in that agreement. All KPIS have metrics to measure. 3PL/SLA Skills/Knowledge.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The company branded as GT Nexus in 2001 and purchased Tradecard in 2013.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 19, 2017

At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, there was a lot of talk about the latter. As I mentioned in an earlier blog about the Gartner conference , customers are demanding you deliver an experience, not just a product. Global purchasing power. Customers have always been at the heart of supply chain. Uberization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. In parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. It will delay my report. It is morning in Orlando. The sun is rising.

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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. Ralf Kahre and Patrick Gött began their presentation with an overview of BASF’s Business Process Management (BPM) Operating Model, and then discussed how they applied the model to improve the Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process.

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Kinaxis

JULY 19, 2017

Phillips, SVP of Customer Supply Chain & Global Go-To-Market for PepsiCo shared during his keynote presentation at the Gartner Executive Supply Chain Conference, this digital revolution presents enormous challenges and opportunities across the end-to-end consumer value chain. Simbe Robotics’ Tally is one such retail robot.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2023

Steve Lewis, the president of GXO Direct, the shared services division of GXO Logistics, spoke at Blue Yonder’s ICON user conference. By operating hubs comprised of several warehouses located in a campus, GXO is able to increase operational agility, reduce reducing transportation costs, and speed up delivery times.

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

For example, a Just Transition Declaration was signed by 16 governments in October 2020 at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland. If this prediction turns out to be true, what are the implications for supply chain sustainability? “We’ve seen this movie before,” he says, notably with the “net zero” idea.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. Together, we built this model. The conference will be live-streamed as we discuss five themes: Supply Chains to Admire. Financial Results.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Market Update: Transportation Industry News. In the transportation industry, there are many moving parts that can impact your day-to-day operations. IHS Automotive reported that registrations of new class 8 trucks climbed 16.7%—for Shipping costs are expected to increase as freight carriers seek higher rates.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Common interests My 2014 post noted how the profession has evolved beyond its transportation/ warehousing roots to become a strategic resource. Almost half indicated that their organizations will not begin measuring or reducing Scope 3 emissions (those associated with assets not owned by the reporting organization) for five years or more.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 5, 2019

Ken Cottrill, a Global Communications Consultant at MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, believes the pessimists are wrong. Traditional store models — and their supporting supply chains — are being redefined.”[1] Whether the path to purchase is online or in a traditional store, customers expect a good experience.

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Intelligent Audit

APRIL 12, 2022

Although fuel prices will continue to be a primary topic of conversation at the dinner table and in conference rooms for some time, many other intriguing supply chain events are worth following. Without collecting and connecting data points, shipping managers cannot correct the data points that could cut costs and maximize efficiency.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Logility Acquires Halo Business Intelligence to Expand Advanced Analytics. Descartes Reports Fiscal 2018 Third Quarter Financial Results. Kane Is Able Purchases Vintners Logistics. If transportation and logistics are an indicator of economic health, things are looking very good at the moment. economic output grew at a 3.3%

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

This is the first of a two-part series where I will curate and cull information from my 4 decades of experience in logistics cost reduction at various positions in the supply chain. In this first part, I will focus on 6 places that you can apply to your organization to reduce costs and increase profit.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 22, 2013

In short, we cannot put a wrapper around ERP, traditional reporting, or traditional fulfillment and call it Big Data, Customer-Centric Retailing or Omni-Channel Fulfillment. It requires new forms of analytics, cloud-based solutions and the design of packaged applications from the consumer back. The focus needs to be on the shopper.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

While forecast accuracy, if used well, can reduce safety stock, what I find in the study of the global multi-national is the rise of cycle stock due to increased item complexity, and the increase of in transit inventories due to longer freight lanes and longer cycles in ocean transportation. However, it is worth it.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 1, 2022

This collaboration helps carriers plan capacity needs, temporary seasonal labor requirements, third-party transportation purchases, and more down to the zip code level. For retailers, a 2021 RIS report found that shoppers’ average BOPIS order increased by one to two items during pickup.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 26, 2019

”[1] In simpler times, shoppers would return items to the stores in which they were purchased — often exchanging them for other items (a win-win for both the consumer and the retailer). More than 40% of retailers have seen an increase in ‘intentional returns’ in the past year, according to an earlier report from Brightpearl.”

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. The report pointed to underlying fundamentals remaining weak as new order volumes stagnated while business optimism was note as falling to a reported two-year low. reported at the end of March, and a 52.3 value reported for May.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 5, 2019

Gartner analyst Debashis Tarafdar says that the large size of a country (like India, China or Indonesia) can mean “significant polarization of population between urban and rural with distinctly different buying capabilities and purchasing preferences.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The order fulfilment process covers every step required to get goods to the people who purchase them, from the moment a customer places an order to when they receive their purchase. Shipping and logistics: Selecting the appropriate shipping method, arranging transport, and coordinating with couriers for delivery.

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Cathy Roberson

APRIL 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in dramatic shifts in volume characteristics for many transportation providers - first in supplying retailers in inventory restocking and direct to consumer and then, along with retail restocking and direct to consumer, supporting manufacturers as facilities reopened during the second half of the year.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 24, 2015

Editor’s Note: This post is a slightly modified guest post from Ahern & Associates , a transportation management consultancy. Without understanding true costs and using benchmarks as just that – benchmarks – carriers and shippers will struggle to effectively analyze and reduce their costs. Specialized – $1.73

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