Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

Modeling 169

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 18, 2025

Mike is the Head of Intermodal Solutions at SONAR, the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. Mike Baudendistel and Joe Lynch discuss the CPG supply chain.

Supply Chain Design Software 143

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Logility

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This eliminates the need for lengthy back-and-forth communications and manual data entry by delivering a single source of truth. Instead of relying on slow-moving processes and outdated information, AI provides real-time insights to stakeholders across all departments.

S&OP 224

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 10, 2023

We at Blue Yonder have the privilege of serving hundreds of consumer goods companies globally. Consumer goods companies are: Reviewing working capital investments and their CFO’s are speaking to us about our industry-leading multi-echelon inventory optimization. Integrated planning is a hot topic.

Consumer Goods 101

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 13, 2021

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used). About Ron Crabtree.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 18, 2025

Why Traditional Demand Forecasting Falls Short in Aftermarket Supply Planning Unlike fast-moving consumer goods with predictable demand patterns, aftermarket parts planning requires highly specialized forecasting approaches.

Supply Chain Planning Software 156

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. They are designed to have minimal impact on the performance of the underlying source systems. Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis. I believe this claim.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 14, 2025

Why Traditional Demand Forecasting Falls Short in Aftermarket Supply Planning Unlike fast-moving consumer goods with predictable demand patterns, aftermarket parts planning requires highly specialized forecasting approaches.

Optimal Sourcing 156

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2024

This week, I attended the Consumer Goods Forum in Chicago. ” Source: SAP Website The Discussion Not Held on the Stage The main event at the Forum was not on the main stage. ” Source: SAP Website The Discussion Not Held on the Stage The main event at the Forum was not on the main stage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

In consumer goods industries, better forecasting leads to lower fines from retailers for late or incomplete deliveries. Increasingly, forecasts are being improved by leveraging outside data sources rather than merely relying on a company’s internal historical shipment data. This increases sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

Driver dwell is a key source of driver dissatisfaction and contributes to the driver shortage. Kimberly-Clark is public consumer goods company that generated over $19 billion in revenues last year. K-C needed one solution … to understand where loads are all across the organization” based on “one source of truth.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Meanwhile, supply shortages and price inflation are getting the front page in consumer-focused publications and plenty of airtime on televised news. Many consumers, including myself, become irritated by the sight of empty store shelves where our favorite consumer goods are typically stored. Source: Descartes Datamyne.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

You can be proactive and use c ausal f orecasting to leverage data you already own, model additional data sources that could help explain demand variability… or do nothing. . Phone * Company * Job Title * Zip Code * Source Asset Source Download ID. What Exactly Is Causal Forecasting? . Some Things to Bear in Mind .

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2024

Sources are cited indicating consumer return rates across China have risen to 60 percent on some platforms compared to prior levels of 30 percent as economically stressed consumers succumb to impulse buying. They are looking for more deals to get more for their money. All rights reserved.

Consumer Goods 52

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America. If you take a big consumer goods company, you don’t need to just model products and customers,” o9’s CEO explained. “The There is no one source that can provide good sustainability data.

Supply Chain Planning Software 289

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Nulogy, for example, is a platform for collaboration between consumer goods brands and their copacker and comanufacturing partners. Chris Castle, the vice president of product management at Nulogy, said that collaboration in the consumer goods industry was more even handed than in industries like automotive.

Supply Chain Design Software 230

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

It’s easy to oversimplify the differences between sourcing for parts locally or internationally. When considering where to purchase from, the prevailing idea seems to be that domestic sourcing allows for better control and shorter lead time, but international sourcing is more cost-effective. International Sourcing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Source Wikipedia. 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. Definition: Brass tacks are a type of pin or nail.

Forecasting 353

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Don’t expect to plan for every disruption; instead, develop a strategy to overcome supply chain disruption, regardless of the source. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues. Trade disputes and tariffs.

Supply Chain Disruption 205

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Logility

JUNE 28, 2022

Serving leading companies in consumer goods, retail, discrete manufacturing, 3PL’s and management consulting across the globe, Starboard is the fastest growing Supply Chain Design Platform and the most current technology available in the market.

Optimal Sourcing 253

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 31, 2023

Unilever (NYSE: UL) is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. This multinational operates 280 factories and 500 warehouses, that source raw materials from 52,000 suppliers in over 150 countries, processes 25 million customer orders annually, that are then shipped to customers in over 190 nations.

Inventory Reduction 242

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 26, 2020

Planning and optimization software, powered by mathematical optimization, can perform calculations based on all available data sources to generate optimal plans It will help your planners manage existing resources and constraints to meet your business goals.

Sourcing Strategies 254

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 21, 2020

Whether you represent a metal fabrication company, a consumer goods manufacturer or a paint, fiberglass or paper producer, you have several ways to make the operation a more sustainable one. Switch to Domestic Sourcing or Manufacturing. Here are a few of them: 1. Perform Energy Audits Regularly.

Manufacturing Procurement 199

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 24, 2017

This is a universal shift that affects businesses up and down the supply chain, even manufacturers that don’t produce consumer goods. Part of a digital transformation needs to be creating processes and empowering employees to transform the data coming from various sources into actionable insights. Drive for Efficiency.

Manufacturing Procurement 209

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Blue Yonder recently brought together supply chain professionals in the Consumer Goods and Life Sciences industries to network on how they are planning for challenges, overcoming obstacles as they occur and embracing technology as they look to the future.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2022

ToolsGroup won the award for its deep supply chain planning expertise and cloud-based solutions for retail, manufacturing, distribution, consumer goods, aftermarket parts, and telecom industries. It was announced at Inspire 2022, the annual event dedicated to the Microsoft partners ecosystem. About ToolsGroup.

ToolsGroup 156

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Logility

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In a previous release of the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform, we touched on two core principles that we are returning to repeatedly as we think about how best to serve our customers: Most advantageous for our customers is the opportunity to be transparent with their customers; Customers expect to have their order fulfilled quickly, safely, (..)

Supply Chain Planning Software 182

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Logility

AUGUST 30, 2022

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, and The Parker Avery Group, a leading retail and consumer goods consulting firm, announced that they have formed a strategic partnership. ATLANTA (August 30, 2022) – Logility, Inc., We are very excited about this partnership. NASDAQ: AMSWA).

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 20, 2019

At this major consumer goods manufacturer, external market disruptions and internal changes (such as moving forecasting back and forth between Sales and Supply Chain) left them facing an array of demand planning process challenges. For example …. The initial forecast was perceived as being driven top-down by the budget goals.

Supply Chain Planning Software 214

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars is one of the largest fast moving consumer goods companies in the world. Demand sensing involves the use of the external data sources – particularly the latest sales and market data – to improve short-term forecasting and then be able to use that improved understanding of consumer behavior to improve their supply planning.

Supply Chain Planning Software 214

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As shown in Figure 1, there are many types of networks: industry-focused networks, functionally focused networks (like sourcing and logistics) and specialized networks for discovery (marketplaces), product serialization, open innovation. I know of no-means to drive interoperability across make, source, and deliver in a multi-tier network.

Manufacturing Procurement 195

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 15, 2020

It should deliver a single source of truth, live KPIs and continuous optimization capabilities so that you can evaluate outcomes and quickly determine the best course of action to meet your business KPIs.

Supply Chain Planning Software 271

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 29, 2018

Blockchain data can be a useful source of certified data to support the supply chain model or "supply chain twin". But, for instance, blockchain could validate the provenance of raw material in the food, medicine or consumer goods supply chain, a track and trace task that has been very difficult and expensive.

Supply Chain Planning Software 168

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2021

While Transplace did not report their revenue growth, they did put out a market update report where they wrote about key trends in the freight market: Demand remains strong with a continued surge in consumer goods manufacturing, retail shelf restocking, and a strong housing market. Carriers make more money when their trucks are moving.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 290

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Like many consumer goods companies, Colgate-Palmolive is taking steps to democratize analytics across the enterprise, including through investments within supply chain analytics engineers. Asda said it is experiencing “sourcing challenges” on some products that are grown in southern Spain and north Africa.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 290

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 21, 2025

It combines tariff-specific inputs, sourcing logic, pricing levers, and demand modeling so companies can assess margin risk, teat strategies, and evaluate trade-off in seconds, not days or weeks. According to the announcement , Kinaxis Tariff Response builds on the foundation with a focused solution for trade disruption.

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