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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. 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.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last decade the use of Terra Technology’s DS product improved short-term demand forecasts by 37% at 13 consumer products, and food and beverage companies. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. I hope that this helps.

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

There are two things Boeing and Airbus have in common, utilization of lean manufacturing system and strategic sourcing concept. However, the overall implementation of strategic sourcing is a bit different between the two companies. Managing transportation at this scale is the absolute challenge.

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The Pressure is Rising for CPG Companies to Improve Order Delivery Performance

Aera Technology

Large CPG companies operate hundreds of sourcing, production and distribution systems around the world, run both internally and by partners. The New Frontier of Cognitive Automation What’s needed is a bold new approach that leverages emerging technology purpose-built to optimize the supply chain and its critical OTIF metric.

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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.

Supply Chain Shaman

With the evolution of NoSQL–Graph and Cognitive Ontological learning–models can now manage multiple data sources as inputs while driving a forecast to multiple roles simultaneously in role-based views. Water buffalo butting heads symbolize the organizational issues of demand planning. Demand is a tough subject.

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Business Logistics: Tips for Saving Money on Freight Bill Financing

Intelligent Audit

Anyone who has not been living in a cave for the past two years knows about the supply chain disruptions that continue to plague local and global shippers and transportation service providers. This is according to an early 2022 report from Logistics Management. Increase Your Lead Time. Track Rates by Varying Granularities.

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Warehouse Management: Systems, Processes, & Strategies

Unleashed

It involves tasks like enhancing warehouse layouts, arranging inventory within the warehouse, managing personnel and equipment, and ensuring efficient order picking and packing. They have forks at the front that can be raised or lowered to pick up palletized goods and transport them within the warehouse.