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Taming Supply Chain Bullwhips with Artificial Intelligence

Logility

Taming Supply Chain Bullwhips with DemandAI+ Bullwhip effect is a common term used in supply chain to describe how a small change in consumer purchasing pattern or a change in any demand pattern that can cause significantly large impacts to supply. Excel-based tools lack these capabilities. Ready to get started? Contact us.

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Top 15 Logistics Stories of 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

While time slot management applications work as a stand-alone application, it is more valuable when it is integrated into with other applications on a common platform such as warehouse- and yard management or visibility solutions. Inventory Management in a High Inflation Environment ; Clint Reiser. Polly-Mitchell Guthrie ( Kinaxis ).

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Defining Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

SupplyPike

CPGs account for one in ten American jobs and the industry contributed $2 trillion to the United States gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019. Types of Consumer Goods. Consumer goods are items meant to be consumed every day. This, in turn, establishes the turnover of goods.

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Critical Supply Chain Planning Capabilities Needed to Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Supply Chain Disruptions

Logility

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. Looking back a few months, no one could have predicted the current state of the global supply chain.

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How the Supply Chain Can Thrive in the Face of Natural Disasters

Material Handling & Logistics

In this way, the delivery of raw materials, consumer goods and other components are delayed, sometimes substantially, which can seriously harm the bottom line of businesses. Unable to import or export needed parts, Toyota, GM and Nissan all closed down their facilities temporarily in Japan and the United States.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

where products sit”: the inventories of materials, parts, and finished goods stored and being handled in various stages of the supply chain. Other tools for transparency include publishing sustainability reports, disclosing performance data against goals, to show impacts and progress of all sustainability activities.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

where products sit”: the inventories of materials, parts, and finished goods stored and being handled in various stages of the supply chain. Other tools for transparency include publishing sustainability reports, disclosing performance data against goals, to show impacts and progress of all sustainability activities.