Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This manufacturer produces plastic reusable material handling containers and plastic fuel tanks. They also are also one of the largest distributor in the US of tools, equipment and supplies for the tire and wheel service industry. Mr. Baker spent over 34 years leading procurement teams at The Dow Chemical Company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Definition: “Someone’s efforts, resolve, or viability are tested; things are meaningfully challenging. The supply chain team’s past thirty-two months of disruption were a long, winding road full of surprises. ” Following the announcement, Ford’s stock closed at the lowest valuation in eleven years.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, having an efficient supply chain department is more important than ever. A streamlined supply chain can make a significant impact on the overall success of a business, improving operational efficiency, increasing customer satisfaction, and driving revenue growth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

The Franklin Sports Supply Chain 75% of Franklin Sports goods products, by revenue, are produced by third party contract manufacturers. 40% of the finished goods are shipped directly to retail clients by their contract manufacturers. This did not endear them to their contract manufacturing partners. Jennings’ name.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Maturity in S&OP. What did we find?

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QAD

MAY 31, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business environment, companies need to be agile and responsive to meet the changing demands of customers while maintaining profitability because making trade offs between efficiency, agility and resilience will fail. In this blog, we will discuss why an S&OP process is critical in supply chain planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Still, organizations are less willing to test and try technology innovation due to the restrictions and guide rails placed on software procurement and deployment. ” Let’s set the stage. Focus on Cost. Less Collaborative.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Here are nine considerations: #1 S&OP Budget Constraints. Background.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Still, organizations are less willing to test and try technology innovation due to the restrictions and guide rails placed on software procurement and deployment. Manufacturing equipment lead times were 19 months. Focus on Cost.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over the last five years, I have helped two companies, Sonoco Products and Owens Illinois (OI) with their selection of technologies to improve Sales and Operations (S&OP) planning. Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. S&OP Matters. Here I contrast their results.

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Logility

AUGUST 23, 2021

To ensure long-term growth and protect customer loyalty, businesses need to strive for the automation of supply chain planning – from anticipating emerging demand and optimizing manufacturing capacity to adjusting inventory allocations, minimizing costs, and increasing efficiency when required. Minimizing Manufacturing Changeovers.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Here’s the rub. Mindy Davis , SAP’s Vice President of Global Marketing for the Digital Supply Chain, explains, “Supply chains need to be risk-resilient and efficient. They need to take into account cost, speed, profit, customer service, and risk. This helps to minimize data disconnects and process silos.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Spiraling transportation costs, tariff shifts and increased expectations for customer service sparks new interest in supply chain planning. Outsourcing–procurement, manufacturing and transportation– decreased visibility and increased data latency. 4) S&OP Feasibility. On customer service?

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ThroughPut

APRIL 21, 2022

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a critical business process instrumental to realizing continued growth in any industry. To ensure alignment between business goals and operational plans as well as optimal business performance, it’s essential to get S&OP right. Here are our top nine.

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QAD

MARCH 9, 2023

Instead, geopolitical, inflationary and environmental forces have created new challenges for manufacturers and their supply chain partners. Supply chain planning is more important today than ever before and there’s good news: Manufacturers have options for mitigating global supply chain risk and keeping costs in check.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2018

Today, we continue this conversation and look at six must have capabilities that drive supply chain improvement for F&B manufacturers. The amount of inventory required is a byproduct of customer service levels, supply chain design, product quality and a company’s ability to predict demand and produce product in a timely manner.

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QAD

MARCH 6, 2024

Enterprises need to seamlessly optimize these three challenges for effective customer service. Accurate forecasting models become ever more critical to meet customer demand as companies add more product lines and the value chain expands. Now, let’s deep dive into the key steps of the demand planner function.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

More advanced supply chain leaders model the role of complexity (product and customer), the impact of risk, and opportunity of innovation as well as product shipping and manufacturing locations, and inventory policies. The executive focus should be on the output of strategic planning into the tactical process of S&OP.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Additionally, 54% are seeking improved service levels in the coming year, and only 14% have a machine learning project underway, meaning for many AI-augmented planning is still more hype than adoption. Because digital transformation can involve selecting and implementing several different solutions, the early stages are often protracted.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Importance Versus Effectiveness of Demand and S&OP Planning Solutions. This allows shared services of procurement and transportation to function smoothly to achieve the economies of scale. In the last three years the company has embarked on a path to improve Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Those without any chutzpah define the “supply chain” as an organizational function that focuses only on distribution, manufacturing and procurement. Many supply chain teams have aggressively cut costs to fund an organization’s growth. The later definition fits most organizations that I see.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 14, 2021

We had to break them up into a lot of different modules, such as production management, order management, procurement, MRP, etc. It’s why it can assign the driver to the customer, optimize the assets, provide full visibility and control, and have automatic failover. That’s a business network operation.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It’s a fast-paced, evolving industry that has a lot of challenges, but also plenty of rewards, including a potentially lucrative income. We have Courses like S&OP deployment, Supply Chain Digitalization , , and Negotiation in Procurement. Here’s an easy way to learn how to apply it to Supply Chain.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2014

This blog post is in response to recent results from the APICS/Logility Survey, Consumer Goods S&OP research, and ChainLink’s end-user research. They had faster turns, lower inventory, and better customer service. I recently read a very good survey by Consumer Goods Technology , focused on S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2013

Some days when I need a pick-me-up, I watch the videos of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests. In this research, we define an agile organization as one that is designed to withstand the levels of demand and supply volatility and deliver the same levels of cost, quality and customer service. I like art, and love unusual sculpture.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

New Year’s Eve is a time for parties. In the process, facts become gray and what’s ‘true’ is uncertain. To gain competitive economies of scale and drive the segmented response, the back office operations–procurement, manufacturing and transportation–are automated and effective.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

I will also pen my 95th report for this week’s Supply Chain Insight’s newsletter. It is one that is often asked: “S&OP How Do I Get Started?” ” S&OP: How Do I Get Started? I asked, “Why is S&OP important to your business?”

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

With AI-powered capabilities, F&B companies can collaborate and negotiate with a fact-based sales and operations planning (S&OP) foundation and keen visibility across the global supply chain network to pivot quickly when new opportunities and risks arise.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2017

Supply chain mistakes like the five common examples I’m about to reveal , all have the potential to handicap business performance—which is why your company should avoid them (or address them if it’s too late for avoidance). Do you have customers which aren’t profitable at all? High CTS/low revenue yield – WHAT?

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Enterra Insights

JULY 28, 2020

” Alex Saric ( @alexsaric ), a procurement expert at Ivalua, told Eason, “There is a huge appetite to develop cognitive supply chains, which is only set to increase as more success stories come to light. The outcome can be better, personalized customer service with lower inventories and a better utilization of factory hours.”

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DynaSys

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The overall objective of network design is to develop the most efficient network possible, meet your customers’ service requirements, and accomplish this at the lowest viable cost. Challenges will continue to pop up stemming from regional outbreaks, partners and customers having financial difficulties, and related issues.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. That''s why we ask our experts a very simple question " How to improve the operational efficiency in global supply chain?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Inventory management is a crucial aspect of supply chain management, and effective strategies can help businesses reduce costs, improve customer service, and increase profits. The answer depends, of course, on your company’s objectives and, particularly, on your customer service promises.

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Vanguard Software

MARCH 26, 2021

Transportation methods Procurement Inventory policies Distribution costs Forecasting and demand planning Customer service levels. From sourcing the raw material to getting the finished product into the customer’s hands, every supply chain stage is part of the supply chain and a target for supply chain cost optimization.

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Logility

JULY 3, 2018

Procurement and manufacturing plans need to be created and executed based on these forecasts. Supply Chain Planning and Optimization Solutions help to determine when and from who to purchase materials and when and where to manufacture products to maximize customer service while minimizing total supply chain costs.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 26, 2015

A new global Manufacturing structure with new operating models has been created. Product Line Managers, Procurement, Product Development) and external suppliers ensuring product availability against agreed business policies and service level agreements (SLA’s). Your role as Global Supply Chain Director. Department.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 6, 2017

At a board meeting I had just outlined how this lady’s business could save $10 million per year, when she let me have it , with both barrels. One of the fastest ways I know to burn money in Supply Chain management is not to have clear customer service policies or to have service policies that are poorly implemented and communicated.

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