Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

Let’s start with definitions: Self Service Planning: Decision support technologies designed for business leaders to use analytic techniques on a collaborative platform to improve business planning. Their messaging is generally to an IT audience, assuming that the current definition of the solution footprint (taxonomy) is sufficient.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In both cases, there is a clear definition of “winning.” While shipping craziness is abating, the issues and implications of the Russian-Ukrainian war, energy shortages in China and Europe, food instability in Africa, and the global water crisis reverberate as disruption after disruption in the supply chain. The reason?

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The food sector may be one area where blockchain technology will prove to be extremely beneficial. Megan Ray Nichols ( @nicholsrmegan ) explains, “Blockchain can help improve the transparency and management of the food supply chain. It’s definitely needed.”[1]. Blockchain and the global food chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

No company in either the household non-durable (consumer goods) or the food manufacturing group beat their peer group on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for 2013-2022. The supply chain has two important buffers–inventory and capacity. The reason?

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Unleashed

MAY 7, 2023

With the right systems in place, manufacturing inventory management can help to reduce production and ensure all operational processes are carried out effectively and efficiently. In this guide, we cover the types of manufacturing inventory, the costs, and a few handy strategies for managing it effectively.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Especially, I would say, in the supermarket business to the food retail business and construction material business, we had a huge increase. When you look at the fashion industry, the food retail industry, when you look at their shares, their shares raised up, for example, by 100% in Zalando, 200% with HelloFresh. Birger Klinke: Yeah.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 12, 2020

In late 2019, Blue Yonder’s shared research found that £144 million ($177 million) in food waste could be prevented by the UK’s top eight grocers each year by implementing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in their supply chains. But food waste isn’t a new problem brought on by the current pandemic.

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Unleashed

MARCH 26, 2023

If you’re running a product business and using Xero for your accounting, you’ll need to implement some form of inventory management. While the platform offers some inventory features of its own, many businesses will require something with greater functionality. Do you need integrated Xero inventory software?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 22, 2022

Attabotics has been adopted by major brands including luxury department store Nordstrom and other retailers across apparel, food and beverage and home goods. Increasingly consumers expect same-day, and next-day delivery, which means inventory must be located close to consumers who typically live in urban and suburban neighborhoods.

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PINC

AUGUST 3, 2020

With expectations of higher on-shelf availability and lower inventory costs, the pressure on delivery performance has intensified—as has the need for manufacturers, retailers, and carriers to work together to create efficient, reliable, and responsive supply chains. “In The problem is that there is no standard definition for OTIF.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2023

Certain supply chains like maintenance parts, designer/fashion items, new product launches, and food service items must be managed in an agile supply chain. Inventory as Waste. Manage inventory as a liability. Inventory as a Buffer. Focus all functions on a clear definition strategy and align outcomes. Frustration.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 11, 2024

How many inventory dollars are tied up in C and D items? In conversations with retailers using Blue Yonder solutions, we guesstimate that about 40% of SKUs in a grocery store meet the definition of slow mover, selling less than one unit a week. What percentage of your SKUs are segmented as slow movers?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods. By definition, in the current state, supply chain planners work in a lose/lose environment. Wrong focus I thought. The reason? The problem?

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RFgen

JULY 18, 2019

A food recall can happen at any time. That’s why supply chain enterprises need food traceability software. When it comes to handling food in the supply chain, a recall on a food product can make a severe dent in the bottom line. Food Recalls on the Rise. Beyond Flowers Food: Recent Food Recalls in the News.

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RFgen

JULY 18, 2019

A food recall can happen at any time. That’s why supply chain enterprises need food traceability software. When it comes to handling food in the supply chain, a recall on a food product can make a severe dent in the bottom line. Food Recalls on the Rise. Beyond Flowers Food: Recent Food Recalls in the News.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 29, 2019

Do You Want Inventory Turnover Breakthrough? It’s still being recorded in inventory and accounting systems. After an asset has broken, been sold, been misplaced or otherwise become unusable, it sometimes doesn’t get properly accounted for in inventory and record-keeping. Subscribe Here! Email Address. What Causes Ghost Assets?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

Smaller, more agile companies outperform the larger and well-known brands in the retail, beverages, food, and pharmaceutical industry sectors. Companies with traditional definitions of marketing and sales struggle to beat the competition. They lack of a standard definition for supply chain excellence adds to the confusion.

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crisp

JULY 20, 2023

Along the way, Swoon will be using Crisp’s inventory, sales and velocity dashboards to ensure the campaign reaches every door they were promised, while monitoring the campaign’s performance in the coming months. Wrangling siloed vendor portal reports from each retailer tacked hours onto this process.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Container inventory is imbalanced. Fourteen of twenty-eight industries have rising inventories. We are very early in the definition of outside-in processes. year-over-year while the food increased 4.6% The United States is late in investing in port infrastructure. Containers wait at each ship node for the chassis.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

In the sector, the bullwhip impact is high, the inflationary pressures of crude oil prices immense, the variability from energy outages painful, and inventories relatively low. If ERP system input includes lead time, why is there such bloat and a problem with inventory restatements? Focus on right-sizing inventories.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

They tend to have many pretty PowerPoint slide decks–full of acronyms, pretty pictures and E2E commitments–but they lack a common definition of supply chain excellence. The company is a food and beverage company. inventory turns. for inventory turns define best-in-class performance?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Container inventory is imbalanced. Fourteen of twenty-eight industries have rising inventories. We are very early in the definition of outside-in processes. year-over-year while the food increased 4.6% The United States is late in investing in port infrastructure. Containers wait at each ship node for the chassis.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Supply chain planning (SCP) is made up of a mix of interlinked technologies, starting with forecasting and moving through inventory optimization and replenishment. The benefits can be pretty staggering: Optimized inventory levels. But you can definitely be too late. Higher customer satisfaction/service levels.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Food and beverage companies are experiencing double-digit demand. The briefings are full of terms like demand sensing, control tower concepts, digital transformation, and cognitive computing, but when I ask for definitions, the answers are not forthcoming. Let’s start with some definitions: Planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

Hoax definitions – to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous. To measure improvement, performance needs a clear definition. They want to drive supply chain excellence; but today, the definition is not clear. Inventory Turns (15%) (based on 2014 results). Reflection.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 31, 2023

The exact percentage of grocery sales coming from e-commerce depends on the source and method of analysis, as well as whether the researcher includes non-consumable items in its category definition.” As noted above, many stores still fill online orders from in-store inventories. online grocery sales grew 17.9% [in 2021] after 94.4%

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Sustainability is definitely coming of age in Asia. The applications of AI and ML can not only optimise stock inventory and cost margins, they play a key role in dynamic routing of deliveries in shortest distance and timeframe possible, to consumers. AI and ML will take the supply chain to the next level.

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Logility

MAY 12, 2020

As a former Director of Supply Chain Management for a multi-national, multi-channel food manufacturer, I experienced first-hand the variety of challenging problems faced by supply chain planners in the unforgiving Food and Beverage Industry. As the first person with a title of supply chain management at a $2.5B Product Demand Profiles.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

” The journey for value requires a clear definition and analysis of what is possible. In our analysis, only one out of ten companies successfully improves operating margins and inventory turns at the same time. Typically, it is a lack of common definition on what defines supply chain excellence. Inventory Turns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 26, 2015

Heinz Company and Kraft Foods Group were merging. The merged company will be the third largest food and beverage company in North America and the fifth in the world. Now, let me give you my take… Battered food and beverage companies struggle today. Investor unrest with traditional food companies is high.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

The concept of the Effective Frontier is that best in class companies align functional metrics to balance growth, cost, inventory and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) performance while balancing customer service metrics. The cash-to-cash definition is: Cash-to-cash= Days of Receivables+ Days of Inventory-Days of Payables.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In this posting we highlight today’s announcement by supply chain planning technology provider Logility indicating a definitive agreement to acquire Garvis , described as a visionary startup that combines large language models (LLM’s) with AI-native demand forecasting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2014

If you ask companies if they would like better inventory and global supply chain visibility, you will get an overwhelming answer of, “Yes!” In our recent report on defining supply chain visibility in B2B networks, we provide a definition based on a research study of over seventy participants.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

After six months of analysis, we decided the best fit was the combination of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital. In this orbit chart, Lenovo lags the competitor group at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin and struggles to drive improvement. The reason? Is this leadership?

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RFgen

MARCH 12, 2024

In inventory management, the FIFO (First-In, First-Out) method takes center stage, offering a performance of unmatched clarity and efficiency in the world of stock control. Imagine your inventory as a flowing river, where the oldest water—your earliest products—moves forward to be used first, ensuring nothing stagnates or loses its relevance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Definition: Brass tacks are a type of pin or nail. This trend spawned chains like Trader Joes, Walmart, Whole Foods, etc. Current State of Perpetual Inventory. Replenishment is fueled by an effective perpetual inventory signal. Collaborative relationships need a good signal for inventory. Source Wikipedia.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Driving Visibility, Intelligence, and Agility through Supply Chain Technology on Cloud Whether we are talking about healthcare, food, or fashion, the supply chains which convert the raw materials to finished goods are getting more and more complex. How do you reduce excess inventory if the innovative product is not popular?

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