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2024: Planning for Success Amid the Uncertainty

Logistics Viewpoints

Sourcing and procurement comes in close second at 88 percent, followed by innovation at 87 percent. Logistics and inventory management rounds out the top four focus areas at 82 percent. Other critical functions include order management, manufacturing, and product development.

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Essential Technology Capabilities for Supply Chain in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Despite their best efforts, current events and market dynamics caught up with them, leading to issues managing their suppliers and sourcing the materials needed for their products. If nothing else, the last few years highlighted the importance of sourcing strategically. Upcoming Recession? Price Volatility.

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

Increasing Maturity of the Role of the Forecast for the Supply Chain Leader This gets me back to why technologies are not improving enterprise leadership’s ability to forecast and manage revenue. He provides services to companies on master data management and is more familiar with transactional processing than decision support.

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Unilever’s Relentless Commitment to S-Curve Transformations

Logistics Viewpoints

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. These include such well-known brands as Dove, Vaseline, Hellman’s and Ben & Jerry’s.

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Overcoming Supply Chain Disruptions with Shanna Greathouse and Tony Nichols

The Logistics of Logistics

He has over 25 years of experience across all functions of the supply chain and IT in multiple industries including consumer products, life sciences, and industrial manufacturing. She has led programs ranging from acquisitions to technology deployment with a strong focus on lean manufacturing and data management.

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Supply Chain Network Design: 3 Ways to Prepare for Trends Stirring Up 2023

Logility

What does all of this mean for manufacturers and distributors? Logility NDO enables you to improve your resiliency by continuously assessing tough tradeoffs between sourcing and distribution options, lead times, and logistics costs. More and more manufacturers will aim to control costs by casting a wider net for suppliers.

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2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Prediction Five

Supply Chain Matters

2024 Prediction Five: The Attention, Scope, and Landscape of Business and Supply Chain Data Management Will Transform in 2024 to Pave the Way for the Benefits of More Cognitive and Generative AI Based Decision-Making Capabilities. In this posting, we share excerpts of our fifth prediction.