Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Finn-Tack, with an international customer base with growing global demand, has two production plants in China, and the Ukraine, manufacturing riding equipment and clothing. It also has a further four warehouses in The Netherlands, North America, Russia, and in Finland.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Demand management General News Supply chain management Business Business intelligence Enterprise resource planning (ERP) ERP Friday Lead time Manufacturing Sales and operations planning Supply chain'

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

During the 1980s, I was on a management team for a large manufacturer. The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. by John Westerveld Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Over the next several weeks, I’ll outline these issues and discuss some ideas around how to avoid these practices.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies. At that time, the demand processes were largely regional. I also worked in manufacturing during the period of 1978-1992 trying to plan demand. Let me be transparent on mine.

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Kinaxis

JULY 18, 2014

It has about 6 million components which are manufactured in 30 countries by 550 unique suppliers. Best practices Demand management General News Supply chain collaboration Supply chain management Aerospace Kinaxis Lockheed Martin Manufacturing Sales and operations planning Supply chain Supply Chain Insights'

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 30, 2022

The company engages in contract manufacturing services for companies. Then Jabil handles the sourcing and manufacturing of those products. Using a contract manufacturer allows companies to focus on their core competencies, which usually are not designing a product for manufacturing, production, or supply chain management.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2014

Demand management has always been at the top of supply chain professionals’ list of challenges. For example, I attended a manufacturing symposium a few months ago and sat through several S&OP software implementation presentations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 15, 2018

Digital Manufacturing. Manufacturing Execution Systems with Data Historians have inched along over the years, but we have not been able to radically change manufacturing. Now, the use of systems like Think IQ at General Mills enable Track & Trace capabilities through manufacturing conversion points.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. They are impatient that they know more about pizza’s status for lunch before their zoom meeting than the inbound shipment status for their critical manufacturing run. Reflection. The supply chain career is new.

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Logility

MAY 10, 2022

Demand Management, Inc. Demand Management serves clients such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation. Demand Management serves clients such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Demand forecasting is the process of making future estimations of how much of a given product will sell by location and time period. Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Will IoT design enable us to get demand signals from the products and sensory information from the entire set of physical infrastructure for planning? It is evident that this is crucial, as most manufacturers are still citing incidents of supply chain disruptions resulting from the lack of information visibility. What do you think?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Today, it is a skewed distribution with only 7% of manufacturing and retailers claiming to be innovators to drive first-mover advantage through technology. Instead, they are attempting to measure demand forecast error and lamenting the lack of perfection on imperfect demand data. Innovation. Engines, Models and Workflow.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 22, 2024

Orders are up, business is booming, and your manufacturing operation is expanding. You lack visibility into your finances Inventory management is challenging and you either find yourself running out of material or overstocking your supplies, tying up cash. The post Is Your Manufacturing Business Ready for ERP Solutions?

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 9, 2014

To support the company’s vision, NCR’s Global Operations team has developed a “Next in Class” supply chain strategy to enable it’s manufacturing and distribution network to efficiently and effectively respond to customer requirement’s. To view the video in its entirety, watch it below or here.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Manufacturers have incurred significant financial losses due to supply chain disruptions and the subsequent inventory management challenges. With companies producing more and more products worldwide, the issue of keeping track of enormous amounts of parts and materials used in the manufacturing process has grown increasingly complex.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. When it comes to distribution, primary distribution involves getting big bulk deliveries by pipeline and truck to their manufacturing sites. Pinnacle Propane Delivery to a Farm.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 29, 2014

Of course, like any industry, Semiconductor and HDD manufactures are faced with a set of unique challenges in their space that puts their supply chain at risk. As suppliers of technology embedded in more complex products, Semiconductors and HDD manufacturers find themselves further back in the supply chain, often 3-5 levels down.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2014

3PL’s, Contract Manufacturing, Suppliers, Logistics providers…. Demand management General News Supply chain management Supply chain risk management Amazon Apple Boston Consulting Group Brand Google Internet of Things Supply chain Zero Moment of Truth ZMOT' They trust other online reviews over the brand.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Following a significant investment in 2021 from tech-focused private equity firm Accel-KKR, ToolsGroup has expanded its product offerings through the Just Enough demand management acquisition in 2021 and Onera retail execution acquisition in 2022. We are very excited about this new chapter in Evo’s journey.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In manufacturing, IoT sensors ensure that each step of the process is tracked, ensuring that all materials meet required quality standards. Another challenge is device compatibility—different manufacturers produce IoT devices with varying standards, making it difficult to ensure frictionless communication between systems.

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Vanguard Software

JUNE 22, 2021

In the new normal of supply chain disruptions, it has never been more important for planners to strategically manage disruptive events, which create dramatic spikes or dips in demand, shortages in parts or supplies, and unexpected changes in shipping schedules. Connected Planning Drives Demand Management and Supply Chain Resiliency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2024

This is especially true in the world of demand management. Too few are questioning the products that should have never been manufactured. Let’s face it our historic practices for demand planning create waste in a more variable world. The Functional Manager. Supply-centric or Manufacturing Thinking.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 15, 2019

Being a successful food or beverage manufacturer in 2019 is no small feat. It requires an efficient supply chain and demand management, quality control, and a willingness to adapt to an ever-changing industry. That being said, let’s explore why digitalized operations is essential to today’s […].

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Companies that are good at demand management understand the need for design–form & function of inventory and push/pull decoupling points –and the orchestration of demand to make better decisions in sourcing, transportation and delivery. Retail forecasts are never a good source of data for the manufacturer.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 20, 2014

by John Westerveld Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. For example, a survey from 2012 showed that average forecast error by industry ranged from 15% for retail to 39% for manufacturing/industrial and consumer packaged goods.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 11, 2020

Serving more than 130 countries, 40 industries and 17,000 customer distributors/dealers, SKF’s vast supply chain includes 94 manufacturing plants in 24 countries worldwide. Create a map of the supply chain network This is a view of how SKF’s items are manufactured, stored, moved, and sold around the world.

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Logility

JANUARY 13, 2022

Demand Management, Inc. Demand Management serves customers such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation. Demand Management serves customers such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2013

This will often mean the reimplementation of demand planning. Attribute modeling is a more advanced form of demand management that is only found in more advanced technologies like Logility, Oracle (Demantra), and SAS. Analyze opportunities to pool outbound freight with other manufacturers. Collaborative logistics.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Demand Management, Inc. Demand Management serves customers such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation. Demand Management serves customers such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation.

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Bristlecone

MAY 8, 2025

But large-scale moves like reshoring manufacturing, shifting suppliers, or making meaningful investments in agility are mostly on pause. What was surprising, though, was how little action most companies seem to be taking in response. Watchful waiting appears to be the default strategy. The most common refrain?

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Demand Management, Inc. Demand Management serves customers such as Siemens Healthcare, AutomationDirect.com and Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 2, 2015

Teradyne is determined to give customers exactly what they want, despite the volatility that marks much demand today. Even with the outsourcing of manufacturing, it has vowed to maintain high levels of service and customer satisfaction. Teradyne can’t just build to a forecast supplied by marketing. “We We need to own this,” says Vosse.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Whereas retailers once purchased merchandise largely based on the gut instinct of trend-savvy buyers and the push of whatever manufacturers tried to sell them, nowadays, they need to take a much more customer-focused and data-centered approach. You sell a full pallet of the item every week in most of your stores.

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ModusLink Corporation

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Carefully assessing how tariffs affect your cost structure is crucial for maintaining profitability and managing expenses effectively. tariffs on key imports and exports could impact manufacturing costs. Optimize Inventory and Demand Management Proactive inventory management is crucial in the face of tariff-induced delays.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Operations complexity coupled with the rise in demand volatility increases corporate risk. Outsourcing–procurement, manufacturing and transportation– decreased visibility and increased data latency. Additionally t he move from regional to global supply chain management decreased visibility. Reference Figure 1.

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