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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. More and more cargo shifted to ocean transport until the container imbalances resulted in issues with “rolling the freight” from ship to ship despite confirmed bookings. In addition, build a planning master data management system.

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Supply Chain Metrics - Gaining Visibility in a Data-rich World

Logility

The second part of Drucker’s quote, “if you can't measure it, you can't improve it,” really brings home the importance of having the right set of metrics. In the field of supply chain management, we have created an abundance of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). One Size Does Not Fit All.

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Top 15 Logistics Blog Posts of 2014

GlobalTranz

We’ve already listed the top 10 manufacturing blog posts and the top 10 supply chain blog posts last week. Any process or management after the sale of the product involves reverse logistics. Below you can download the LTL Freight Management presentation with notes and also view the webinar in its entirety.

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How New Supply Chain Technologies Are Boosting Efficiency

ShipBob

trillion and $2 trillion in manufacturing and supply chain planning. In fact, t he first robotics invented were used in manufacturing with the first robotics patented in 1954 and granted in 1961. Manufacturing robotics were invented by George Devol and his company Unimation, which produced the first industrial robot in 1956. .

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Three Tough Headlines: What Can We Learn?

Supply Chain Shaman

I worked with consultants defining a business case for cloud-based supply chain solutions and new vendors looking to use artificial intelligence to solve the problems of master data management. Today, on average, there are 10-25 ships sitting on the water waiting to unload. It was not a good week for supply chain leaders.

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3PL Integration: Building an Expandable and Resilient Orchestration Solution

SCMDOJO

[Read More: 6 Logistics KPIs Attributes That are Essential ] Defining ‘Orchestration’ Orchestration is a process that integrates data to connect different systems used in a business’s logistics operations. As a result, orchestration simplifies data management, making it easier for businesses to work more effectively.

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Is Your Supply Chain A Cost Centre or a Value Creator?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Whatever your Industry you should be able to make comparisons to competitors, do benchmarking, and even compare yourself on key metrics across industries. Lean for instance is equally applicable in Supply Chain as it is in Manufacturing or anywhere else. Cost and Profit Management. Promoting Supply Chain Value.