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A Better Approach to Supply Chain Segmentation?

ToolsGroup

Gartner research director Jennifer Loveland calls it end-to-end segmentation, where you determine first what your customers want, then create end-to-end models—from sales through sourcing, delivery, and customer service—to serve them. In a blog earlier this year entitled What's wrong with ABC inventory classification?

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Supply Chain Segmentation: One Size Doesn’t Fit All

BlueYonder

Last month JDA teamed up with IndustryWeek and Altera Corporation to present a Webcast on the topic of supply chain segmentation titled: One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Altera’s Supply Chain Segmentation Journey to Profitable Growth.

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How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity

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For example, MEIO enables inventory policy to accurately reflect all the sources of demand and supply variability across the enterprise chain. In a nutshell, moving up to Stage 4 SCP helps companies make the sounder trade-offs and tougher calls to achieve profit-oriented supply chain optimization (see figure at top of blog).

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Why Segmentation and Profitability Go Hand in Hand

BlueYonder

I also had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable session on supply chain segmentation along with Bob Heaney , Aberdeen’s lead analyst for Supply Chain Management. It was the general consensus of the group that there is value to be delivered from supply chain segmentation.

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Keeping Tire Manufacturing on Track in the New Normal: Supply Chain Optimization is the Best Route Forward

BlueYonder

In the current market environment, this places high demand and risk on manufacturers to balance an ever-growing complexity of article portfolios, with the right level of stock across their supply chain. With this in mind, manufacturers have relied on customer service as a partial saving grace.

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Globalization Drives Market Need for SC Segmentation

Supply Chain Movement

Businesses continue look to their supply chain operations for opportunities to streamline business processes, reduce costs, improve customer service, gain a competitive edge, and face any disruptions caused by global commerce uncertainties. Fluctuations in customer demand (50%).

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Think Differently. Drive New Outcomes. Let Us Help You Build A Guiding Coalition.

Supply Chain Insights

We can help by testing customer satisfaction and sharing what matters by channel partner. We will test to understand how you stack-up to your competitors and how to make customer service actionable. Customer Centric Policies. The traditional supply chain is supply centric.