Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

They write, “This includes tackling bigger issues such as compliance, supplier relationship management, risk and disruption, responsible sourcing, and transparency. The answer: One bite at a time, of course! ” Inventory optimization. ” Sourcing optimization. Companies are no different.”[4]

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Note: The following is an excerpt from “ Omni-Channel Logistics Leaders: Top 5 Inventory Insights ,” based on research conducted by Adelante SCM and LEGACY Supply Chain Services with input from nearly 100 supply chain professionals from retail, manufacturing, and logistics service providers companies in the United States and Canada.

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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. So, instead of waiting for formal updates, each team sees the immediate impact of changing demand on inventory, production schedules, and budgets.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Procurement professionals can contribute significantly to the S&OP process by providing valuable insights into supply chain dynamics, identifying potential risks, and optimizing sourcing strategies. Enroll in SCMDOJO’s flagship Sales & Operations Planning Blueprint course! Click here to learn more and register today!

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Freightos

JUNE 6, 2023

Listen to the full podcast interview here ) Source: Fort Of course, this stark reality was faced by many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) during the peak of the pandemic. Businesses quickly began to notice a different beast: a significant decrease in consumer demand compounded by looming inventory excesses.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

For instance, a student struggling with inventory management concepts can receive supplementary materials, interactive simulations, and one-on-one tutoring sessions tailored to their needs. Conversely, a student who quickly grasps procurement strategies can be challenged with advanced case studies and leadership projects.

Supply Chain Planning Software 97

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SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Two platforms that stand out in this field are SCMDOJO academy and Coursera supply chain courses , among many others. When it comes to online learning, Coursera is a well-known learning platform offering a wide range of courses across various disciplines, including supply chain management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It is making use of inventory that is the easiest/fastest to get to the customer, no matter through which channel the order was placed. Numerous supply chain disruptions affected the ability to get inventory in time – or at all – and now that the backlog caught up, many organizations are experiencing a surplus of inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2023

In order to achieve this, demand planning, inventory planning, supply planning via procurement and/or production planning, along with fulfilment/allocation and even transportation planning need to be integrated. Dynamic Cross-dock allocation takes into account sales rates and current inventory at the stores.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 17, 2025

Of course its a positive development, driving significant economic benefits. They must track inventory, orders and returns in real time, at all times. But first LSPs need to overcome these four common challenges weve witnessed firsthand: Inventory and order handling gaps. But lets be honest.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Over the last six years, we studied the connection between business results (growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)) and the link to company characteristics. To change course, learn from history, to unlearn to rethink outcomes. What did we find? For most, this requires a supply chain redesign.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What is Source to Pay (S2P)? Yet in the case of source to pay, it is wholly justified. That said, many organizations, including large enterprises, may not think in terms of source to pay as an end-to-end process, if they think about it at all. Yet there are good reasons to do so.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Over the course of the five months, we iterated on the model over seven sessions. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. There are no value network solutions in the market to enable plan/source/make and deliver visibility holistically. My personal learning?

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 11, 2025

Starting from delivery monitoring to inventory analysis and demand forecasting. For teams seeking to build these analytics capabilities from the ground up, the Supply Chain Information Systems (SCIS) for Success course provides essential training. The tools used by the team often play a crucial role in achieving goals.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

These include alternative sourcing strategies, backup transportation routes, and emergency inventory reserves. For example, companies can use project management software to track supplier performance, monitor inventory fluctuations, and automate alerts for potential risks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Over the next five weeks, seventy business/technology and consulting leaders will complete the course. The implementation of NoSQL for inventory management gives them an inventory signal with little to no process latency. Using network design technologies calculate the form and function of inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The answer, of course, is yes. Lastly, this single source of truth for all parties positively impacts customer relationships. Where customers gain the ability to make informed decisions based on improved visibility into their inventory, 3PLs can reduce their cost of service, while simultaneously enhancing productivity and profits.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ve found our customers are urgently seeking ways to better plan around supply chain demand volatility and improve how they source materials and products from suppliers. Supply chains will get more regional and focus more on alternate sourcing/ substitution options. Companies will also look to shorten and localize supply chains.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Of course, AI is already in use in the supply chain, adding its capabilities to myriad other efforts to optimize operational efficiency. That’s because supply chain itself is huge, Koganti argued. In any given country’s economy, it represents around 20% to 30% of GDP. It employs 450 million people globally, and contributes $1.45

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The only way to manage these changes profitably is to become aware of them at the earliest opportunity, by using software to ingest and analyze real-time data from across the supply chain as well as external sources like social media, news and weather. What if a sudden high-priority customer order comes in and inventory is scarce?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

While there are many types of visibility (see Figure 1), the most common use case is either sourcing or transportation visibility. For example, only 29% of manufacturing companies can access total cost data and 31% struggle to see the impact of business decisions on inventory. In this blog post, I give a framework to drive discussions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In manufacturing-based companies, 70-80% of costs are in the processes of source, make and deliver. While the practices of finance are over 200 years old, in contrast, supply chain as a cross-functional practice (the combination of make, source and deliver) was recently defined in 1982. Is talent a cost or an asset?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. Instead, in the SanDisk journey , they adjusted the speed of response to their customer segments, and actively designing inventory postponement strategies. The journey began with a one size fits all approach in 2008, and the policies evolved over the course of the last seven years. It is systemic.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. A bad decision can result in missed orders, significant inventory, or scrapped materials. By doing this, they could potentially save the company millions of dollars in excess inventory. CPIM is broken out in to 5 modules that each have an optional instructor led review course.

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2022

It’s a complex problem, but you can successfully optimize inventory levels with the right approach and technology. With all of today’s supply chain disruptions, and new ones no doubt lurking around the corner, companies without optimized inventory are risking overpaying and underperforming. Inventory Optimization Challenges.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

Despite two decades of advancement in supply chain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. Over the course of the last year, I have written about this extensively. These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together.

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Logility

MAY 9, 2021

Inventory buffers are recalculated and reallocated to fend off unnecessary regional shortages and surpluses. Of course, today’s diagnostic systems are incredibly digitalized and data-driven – and we wouldn’t dare consider going back to manual checks. View inventory projections by resource and specific capacity details.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

But for that to occur, all of the dominos must fall into place: the product must be available to promise, there needs to be enough shipping capacity, and there needs to be an understanding of how inventory will be moved between mills and distribution centers. Of course, getting a promise right is vital.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

For example, the One Network platform for supply chain planning and execution is used by the Ministries of Health in Nigeria, Ghana, and Rwanda, providing comprehensive inventory visibility across all health facilities for real time supply demand matching and collaborative decision making. Identify the source of the problem and fix it.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. Products, of course, can be picked up at the branches. Process is a very big topic, but two sets of processes are worth mentioning in more detail are Ferguson’s sourcing and global trade compliance processes. 22,000 containers move annually through 53 ports.

Supply Chain Design Software 300

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 11, 2025

Reported on April 24 For the moment, we have paused certain purchases from China that were destined for the US market, and will rely on our current inventory to meet short-term demand. Recall, we purchased targeted additional inventory in late fiscal '25 and early fiscal '26, ahead of tariffs. Christopher J. from China.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Is inventory bloating your costs? A scorecard acts as your dashboard, providing crucial visibility that helps you: Make Data-Driven Decisions: Replace guesswork with facts when evaluating suppliers, processes, and inventory levels. Improve Efficiency: Understand process timelines and inventory holding to streamline operations.

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Logility

MAY 3, 2021

Business planning is, of course, essential, but the real proof is in the execution. S&OP integrates plans for every department , combining the needs and opportunities facing customer support, sales, marketing, development, manufacturing, sourcing, and financial into one tactical strategy. S&OP Defined.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 31, 2024

New scope of managed services brings new challenges for LSPs The scope of managed service is expanding from transportation to other supply chain services including inventory management, demand forecasting, supplier management, raw material sourcing, robotics, and supply chain and transportation modeling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source. Of course it would! If they were dependent, did they have East Coast distribution centers where they could preplace inventory before the strike occurred. Dr. Runkle averred.

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QAD

MARCH 30, 2023

As I discussed in a recent article in RFID Journal , RFID technology has changed a lot since 2005 and could be the secret to ensuring greater visibility and inventory accuracy this year. They don’t have an internal power source, so range and data storage is sacrificed to gain cost efficiency and lifespan. What is RFID Technology?

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