Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Consumers want to shop anywhere, and buy in the way that they want to buy. The digital consumer often wants to shop online, pick up at the store, and conveniently manage returns. Each year I go to the Consumer Goods and Technology (CGT) conference where speaker-after-speaker talks about retail/supplier collaboration.

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Locus

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Fuelled by a strong return to normalcy, ‘revenge festivities’ is a simmering trend that picked up during this Navratri in India, leading to a 15% spike in FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) sales with kirana stores stocking up 18% more. According to United States Census Bureau data , advance estimates for U.S. Schedule Demo.

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QAD

MARCH 30, 2023

RFID is a type of automatic identification and data collection (AIDC) technology. Gartner defines it as a technology that uses radio frequency waves to automate data collection and track items throughout the value chain. Passive Ultra High Frequency (UHF) tags are frequently used to track consumer products.

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Supply Chain Insights

MAY 17, 2017

Over the past several years I have been involved with some rather sophisticated technologies around consumer goods and retail. Most solutions also contain customer profile data taken from store loyalty program and even their online shopping activities. If you are a loyalty member they will have all that information as well.

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 20, 2017

As empowered consumers, we expect full inventories of the products we want all the time, easy shopping and buying online and having the precious purchase on our doorsteps the next day. As a longtime analyst in the consumer goods and retail industries; I have seen what technology has done to change the way we do business.

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Logility

MARCH 30, 2020

For the first time in history, shelves of stores across the globe that sell food, beverage and other fast-moving consumer goods (including toilet paper, hand sanitizer and cleaning products) are nearly empty. Strategy One: Get a Better Handle on Supply Chain Data. The digital supply chain thrives on data.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

High levels of fresh and fast-moving consumer goods are common in the food manufacturing industry and inventory levels of raw material, in-progress and finished goods need to be effectively managed to reduce the holding costs of the inventory. It all comes down to the data. Working with fresh food. How much do you have?

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 11, 2017

Having been a vendor for most of my career in consumer goods, I can’t be more appreciative of the extremely hard work that went into these new solutions. Data Usage. I can’t wait to see how they begin to integrate consumer marketing, social media and service data as well. I see more use of POS than ever before.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

The technology additionally provides a unique and novel data visualization capability that can optimize for unknown locations that might not be physical in nature. Starboard now has over 1400 users across 70 customers representing Auto, Consumer Goods, Retail, Industrial Products, Consulting, and Real Estate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

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. The movement of data in ERP technologies is from the enterprise out. By definition, ERP infrastructure is inside-out.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” The company is a Fortune 500 company serving four major markets: Data Centers, Client Computing, Mobile and Connected Devices and the Consumer Markets. Both improvement and performance define supply chain excellence. Why does it matter to you?

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Provenance

JULY 31, 2020

We specialise in enabling public transparency of supply chain and impact information for consumer goods brands. We’re working towards a society where buying something doesn’t make you a consumer, it makes you a citizen. Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Cycle stock is the management of stock required to cycle through production runs and procurement buys effectively. More and more companies purchasing inventory technologies, but failing to give planners time to plan. Buying the technology and not having clear processes and accountability does not help.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

News anchors broadcast real-time data on the stock market, and while there are many commentaries on the positives and the negatives, what is clear is we are in a period of change and uncertainty. The irony is that there is more market data available on true customer spending with less latency than ever before. They are not.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

Since the last report, Kinaxis successfully launched an IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange, E2open launched an IPO and then went private with a buy out by Insights, IBS and Steelwedge sought new rounds of capital, and WAM Systems and Acorn Systems have new owners. Data visualization is quickly advancing in the tools.

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Locus

MAY 4, 2022

In short: As more and more consumers begin to discover the convenience that comes with shopping online, the competition has intensified as switching brands for consumers has become easier. Timely deliveries provide an excellent customer experience and differentiate a business from its competition.

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Zipline Logistics

AUGUST 4, 2020

By working with a partner that utilizes data-driven insights, market knowledge, order-tracking capabilities, critical thinking skills, and operational efficiency programs, you can ensure that you are set-up to meet the modern retail supply chain’s demands. How Zipline Logistics Can Help You Excel.

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ITradeNetwork

OCTOBER 9, 2018

With consumers taking full advantage of the ever-expanding options to buy goods both in person and online, it is imperative that your product makes it where it needs to go—on time, every time. In a perfect world, every item would be delivered on time, in excellent shape, 100% of the time. Predictions. Connections.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

A large consumer products manufacturer with nine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instances and several divisions wanted to discuss forecasting. The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving.

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crisp

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Settle, a pioneering cash flow management company, and Crisp, a leading retail data platform, are setting a new standard for operational excellence in the consumer goods industry. What unique problems do consumer goods companies face that Settle aims to solve?

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RFgen

JANUARY 21, 2016

Many businesses supply their inventory staff members with mobile data collection devices so they can reference particular details from ecommerce, store and management demands to plan picking paths and shipment preparation on the floor. Warehouse data collection software solutions in 2016 may need to reference information from new channels.

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RFgen

JANUARY 21, 2016

Many businesses supply their inventory staff members with mobile data collection devices so they can reference particular details from ecommerce, store and management demands to plan picking paths and shipment preparation on the floor. Warehouse data collection software solutions in 2016 may need to reference information from new channels.

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Kinaxis

MAY 18, 2016

You might think, “okay, our warehouse is good” without thinking about the end to end. Procurement might have hit their cost savings metrics, but if it meant purchasing more than needed, and that might hurt your warehouse inventories. We spoke about the onslaught of data and the need for people with analytics skills.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 12, 2021

customer experience as part of the digital path to purchase) and physical customer experience (i.e., However, today’s consumers frequently use mobile apps as part of their purchasing experience regardless of whether they are shopping online or in-store. ” Consumer Goods Technology, 18 March 2021.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

Connected : The degree to which the demand planner is close to the data and people who have business intelligence important to the forecast, and is able to come to consensus on the impact events will have on sales. Therefore, a demand planner in a finance group would be able to produce an objective operational sales forecast.

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crisp

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Walmart’s Luminate platform offers a groundbreaking level of visibility – and a large volume of data for brands to ingest and analyze. This article delves into the hidden costs consumer goods companies face when they opt to manage their retail data pipelines internally. Retail data automation: build or buy?

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

Connected : The degree to which the demand planner is close to the data and people who have business intelligence important to the forecast, and is able to come to consensus on the impact events will have on sales. Therefore, a demand planner in a finance group would be able to produce an objective operational sales forecast.

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Alloy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

An Introduction to Walmart Luminate Listen to the full episode of the Shelf Life Podcast on Walmart Luminate Walmart Luminate is the retailer’s new data, analytics and reporting tool for suppliers — and it represents a massive step forward in retailer-supplier collaboration. What you will learn in this article What is Walmart Luminate?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Technology advancements and adoption are driven by better data availability and a push for better visibility, efficiency and accuracy. Centralized information eliminates data silos and strengthens information sharing through real-time communication (instead of point-to-point data transmission). Internet of Things.

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Users of Google apps were looking for low cost and collaboration over the exhaustive features offered by Microsoft Word and Excel. Polk & Co was a data analytics company that specialized in automotive data. They purchased the registration data for US consumers. Polk & Co.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Temperature control technology: Technology investments favoured by industry leaders include: RFID tags – which record and forward real-time temperature data to produce suppliers. Passive monitoring – which can provide historical shipment data. Tesco for example, buys lettuce from Spain for its store in the United Kingdom.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Blue Yonder is shown as being able to provide WMS solutions across many industries, including Automotive, Food & Beverage, High Tech, Consumer Goods, Life Sciences, Logistics Service Providers, E-Commerce, and Retail Grocery, Hardlines and Softlines.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2022

It includes free shipping of online purchases, free grocery deliveries to the home for orders of at least $35, prescription discounts and other benefits. The hands-free gadgets send and receive data over the internet. Walmart+ costs $98 per year, or $12.95

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

With demand for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), supply chains are also facing rising issues of counterfeit goods, trade compliance, and even smuggling of illicit products. Working remotely has also brought about the rise of cyber-attacks that has impeded several firms.

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ShipBob

APRIL 13, 2021

They are quantifiable measurements or data points that help gauge performance of your specific goals. Give you data-driven insights. Data is always at the forefront of every decision you make as a business owner. Costs of goods sold (COGS). Costs of goods sold is how much it costs to produce your products or services.

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Requis

JULY 24, 2020

You’re going to need to buy more machinery, etc., The reason that a lot of supply chains get into trouble is that they rely on old data—think three-month old data in SAP, Oracle or I2/ Manugistics (now both JDA/Blue Yonder)—that’s used to plan and execute supply chain decision making.”. and so you have costs going up.”.

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QAD

OCTOBER 5, 2021

From integrated multi-currency, multi-GAAP and multi-entity financials to best practice purchasing, from shared services to real-time data and flexible data analytics, Effective Enterprise Management ensures that manufacturers operate from a trusted set of essential enterprise processes that meet today’s and tomorrow’s needs.

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