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Study Shows Two-Thirds of Companies Yet to Execute Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

and HOUSTON, Tex. September 26, 2019) A new study by ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, and Spinnaker, a supply chain services company, has found that only 7% of companies are reaping the benefits of digital transformation of supply chain planning. BOSTON, Mass. About Spinnaker.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Houston, We Have a Problem. Houston, we have a problem. Inventories are ballooning and customer service is getting worse. In five companies that I have worked with in the past quarter, each degraded the forecast (using Forecast Value Add methodology) by 10-18%. They believed that the system was driving improvement.

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What Agile Manufacturing Means for Your Warehouse

RFgen

According to the Houston Chronicle, while lean and agile manufacturing processes have different qualities, both have helped manufacturing companies achieve reduced costs , quicker response time and improved customer service. The term came to be in use in the early 1990s.

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What Agile Manufacturing Means for Your Warehouse

RFgen

According to the Houston Chronicle, while lean and agile manufacturing processes have different qualities, both have helped manufacturing companies achieve reduced costs , quicker response time and improved customer service. The term came to be in use in the early 1990s.

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The Risks of Poor Inventory Accuracy and Order Fulfillment

Veridian Solutions

Meanwhile, your order fulfillment processes may be subpar, relying on outdated methods, numerous touchpoints, and more, says the Houston Chronicle. Poor inventory accuracy and order fulfillment will have a disastrous effect on customer service. Customers do not see all the background processes that go into ordering a product.

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Seven Thoughts to Build a Customer-Centric Supply Chain Organization

Supply Chain Shaman

It was a very regional, sales-driven culture, and there was no clarity between a sales request and a customer requirement. The First Step in Building the Customer-Centric Supply Chain Is Reliability. I am firmly convinced that the first step in the delivery of customer-centric supply chain is reliability. They were competitors.

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How Retailers and CPG companies are benefiting from next-gen Control Tower and S&OE

o9 Solutions

Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem. Control Towers support in sensing demand fluctuations as well as supply disruptions in real time, translating that into various risks – the risk of poor customer service or the risk of lower revenues or the risk of lower margins due to expensive course corrections.