Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 5, 2017

Let’s face it, the definition of demand-driven is evolving. There is no single definition. Today’s processes are supply driven. The base definitions of the SCOR model are inside-out, and supply-centric. The Definition of the Supply Chain Long Tail. Demand-Driven Definitions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Let’s start with a definition: any device that can perceive its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal is engaged in some form of artificial intelligence (AI). But, in the supply chain realm, machine learning (ML) is where most of the activity surrounding artificial intelligence has been focused.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The promise of mathematical engines to improve business decision making is the basis of the supply chain planning, trade promotion management, revenue optimization, and supply chain execution markets for transportation/logistics. Raise your hand and ask for definitions. The assumptions were: Clean data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

Industries that have formed cross-functional leadership teams combining source, make and deliver together have made the fastest progress. In parallel, when supply chain concepts are well-integrated into the design of trading partner relationships by both sales and procurement, there is an acceleration of value.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The creation of a new digital ecosystem has enabled these and other changes that will shape the definition of supply chain agility and resilience in the 2020s and beyond. Upstream sensing intelligence will proactively identify disruptions and deliver recommended resolutions to eliminate supply chain risks and vulnerabilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2021

In my Logistics Viewpoints article in January 2021, “ The New Definition of Supply Chain Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World ”, I highlighted that modern supply chains must be built on a foundation of extreme agility and responsiveness.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Procurement categories are a grouping of materials or services that have similar supply and usage characteristics to meet business objectives. Category management is different from the “strategic sourcing process”. Category management is most definitely not about putting a new veneer on the strategic sourcing methodology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. Examples include alternate sourcing, bill of material changes or alternate modes/routing between the planning, procurement and transportation.) I don’t think so.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It enables all supply chain ecosystem participants to collaborate on the same data and provides views and actions on orders and shipments down to individual items. While these systems do compile and present copious amounts of data from various data sources and partners, users are unable to act on what they see.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 2, 2023

1] The definition, structure and scope of an SSC generally are formed first within the enterprise. In many cases, enterprises sometimes engage external providers to consult with various elements of the design, structure, location options and execution options. appeared first on Supply Chain Resource Cooperative.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

Only 5% of public companies meet the definition for the Supply Chains To Admire for 2016. In completing the analysis, one of the things that strikes me is that regional supply chains are making more progress than global or multi-national companies. The supply chain is a complex system with non-linear relationships.

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Exiger Perspectives

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Exigers platform offers a risk-illuminated knowledge graph, leveraging proprietary and open-source data to map supplier networks down to the raw material level. Governments worldwide are taking decisive action, enacting stringent regulations against forced labor that mandate corporate accountability and ethical sourcing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 7, 2017

Market-driven is a more mature definition of demand-driven. The original HANA supply chain applications, introduced in 2013, were SAP IBP and Demand Integrated Signal Management (DSiM). My struggle is that open source software–Apache Foundation’s work with HADOOP and Spark–is moving quickly.

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Oracle SCM

AUGUST 1, 2018

One of the Supply Chain Management trends apparent at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in May was highlighted by several vendor/customer presentations focused on the value of Collaboration and Visibility projects. Nevertheless, I like the definition. Tom McDonough , Sr.

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Supply Chain Opz

MAY 1, 2018

The Definitive Guide to Order Fulfillment and Customer Service You can't say that you are a logistics management professional if you don't understand the customers. Delivering Customer Value through Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Many people don't know that procurement is a part of integrated logistics. Reference - Flöthmann, C.,

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Supply Chain Opz

APRIL 1, 2018

The Supply Chain Revolution: Innovative Sourcing and Logistics for a Fiercely Competitive World Pros: This book will show you how to plan and execute procurement and sourcing strategy like the world's leading companies. Career patterns of supply chain executives: an optimal matching analysis.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

New sources of revenue. Challenges of customer-focused supply chain digitization. Most supply chain executives used to be expected to deal with working capital, operating costs, and customer service. Adding to that, we have “Uberization” and climate change which challenges the designs of the supply chain.

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DynaSys

JUNE 4, 2019

The cost of waste is not just the wasted cost of sourcing, manufacture, packaging, and disposal. If the market knows that the company is saving the environment X tons of packaging material and Y barrels of fossil fuel every year with your green supply chain initiatives, it will definitely resonate in the mind of customers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

In the past, in the consumer value chain, retailers merchandised the shelf and removed units from the case and placed it on the shelf. Ecommerce has changed the definition. As a result, the average company is increasing investment in supply chain management technologies by 6 percent and rethinking architectures.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 21, 2020

Supply chain control towers have few standards, often lack needed information, and often have to deal with global operations. Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, explains, “There is no class of technologies, or common definition, for ‘supply chain control towers.’

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I attend and speak at many supply chain and logistics conferences throughout the year, but among my favorites are those that bring a relatively small group of executives together to discuss timely and important industry topics. Source: Adelante SCM. Source: Adelante SCM. Source: ProLogistix. Source: Kenco.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Revolution: Innovative Sourcing and Logistics for a Fiercely Competitive World Pros: This book will show you how to plan and execute sourcing strategies like the world's leading companies. Author Credentials: Suman Sarkar is a supply chain consultant with more than 20 years of experience.

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E2open

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

For business-orientated supply chain executives, subtleties around when and where costs hit and how customers are affected is too often lost on everyone else. For this reason alone, supply chain definitely belongs at the C-level. Cost is king, but so is service. Cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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Arkieva

JUNE 21, 2016

I was lucky to attend the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix last May. I can easily see multiple layers of complexity that require time and hard work, to get you through and to bring you to the level of a supply chain professional. Supply Chain Complexity 1 – Plan/Source/Make/Deliver/….

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In September, SCM World released its annual Chief Supply Chain Officer Report based on its survey of over 1,000 supply chain executives across all industries and geographies. Supply Chain Nation sat down with Kevin O’Marah, Chief Content Officer for SCM World, to discuss four key findings of the study.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 30, 2021

The study “discovered that 87% of respondents plan to invest in supply chain resilience in the next two years, while 98% are looking to invest in agility.”[1] At the same time, 60% admit that their supply chains have not been designed for resilience, but cost-efficiency.

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Supply Chain Network

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Specifically, the other flows in the firm I’m speaking of are cash, people, leads or potential sales, actual sales, capital, new products/revenue sources. The time is now for all Planning and Supply Chain executives of the world to arise and stake your rightful places as the logical digital leaders within your corporations!

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 19, 2023

In our Ferrari Consulting and Research Group’s 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains , we also noted that a heightened need for data standardization and more universal definitions across logistics modes remains a challenge toward achieving end-to-end visibility of physical goods.

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Changes in demand, late shipments, quality issues, point of sale, weather patterns, production schedules and projected inventory positions are just some of the myriad of things you want to be able to see so you can make better and more informed decisions as a supply chain executive. Execution Layer. Visibility Layer.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

MAY 4, 2022

This has been driven by the rapid decline in the cost of cloud computing, new data sources, and new analytical techniques. Just about every supply chain software vendor now claims to incorporate AI into their forecasting and planning products. Part of the challenge in understanding AI is confusion over definitions.

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DiManEx

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We’ve all heard about its potential to upend supply chains and business models. But to this day, the benefits of 3D printing, also referred to as Additive Manufacturing, remain elusive to most supply chain executives. 3D printing is only one of the many technologies affecting supply chains.

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 16, 2017

But more recently a number of significant developments in various other fields have led to an expanded definition. Robots are becoming cheaper and easier to deploy thanks to less expensive sensors and free open source software. That could be why more supply chain executives are starting to take note.

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Supply Chain Cowboy

MARCH 23, 2015

Do I Have to Study Sources Beyond the APICS CSCP Learning System? I disagree, but it shows what at least one high up supply chain executive thinks about each. If interested in procurement, definitely look into the CPSM certification from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). Absolutely.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Does it mean you have included the sourcing and procurement departments in your global S&OP meetings? David Bourgoin] Yes, definitely. This close collaboration, with the sourcing and procurement department during the pandemic, gives us ideas to build stronger relationships to secure our supply chain.

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Shipsy

JUNE 20, 2017

Key Trends in Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain Rankings 2017 (Source?—?Gartner) They are able to take pre-emptive action in either transporting or configuring shipments to reduce turn-around-times and increasing a resulting efficiency of the supply chains. Net income/total assets Inventory turns?

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 25, 2022

Customer order promising and goods fulfillment is predicated on having full visibility to item-level inventory balances available from inventory, direct shipment from suppliers or other source locations. However, what location that inventory is specifically stored, other than a generic definition, becomes a challenge.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 15, 2024

A further area is Smart Operations for Maintenance that will reportedly enable customers to combine maintenance data with real-time asset information, workforce and supply chain data to provide continuous monitoring and enhance predictive maintenance.

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