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Aligning Supply Chain Metrics to Improve Value

Supply Chain Shaman

In follow-up qualitative interviews, one of the largest issues with organizational alignment was metric definition and a clear definition of supply chain excellence. Top Five Elements of Business Pain for Companies Larger than 5B$ Attempting to Drive Continuous Improvement Most continuous improvement programs are managed in isolation.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my favorite supply chain leaders has a stack of Palantir reports in black binders on his desk. The Palantir approach is not a good fit for the supply chain management market. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. The purchase of Rubikloud by Kinaxis shows just how little the Kinaxis team knows about demand management.

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Alleviating the Uncertainty of Peak Season: The Role of Home Delivery in 2024

Logistics Viewpoints

When shoppers were asked what would put them off making more ecommerce purchases in the future, 21% indicated they’d had negative delivery experiences, 20% said deliveries were not reliable, and 17% were dissatisfied with the delivery process. Similarly, maintaining a strong chain of custody (e.g.,

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The Supply Chain Merry-Go-Around

Supply Chain Shaman

following the reporting of fourth-quarter results. The company gave revenue guidance of significant slowdown in demand with full-year revenue guidance short of Wall Street’s estimates. The Salesforce.com model is primarily a pipeline management tool suitable for discrete markets but not process manufacturers.

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Analytics and S&OP: What is Analytics, and how to spot Buzzwords

Arkieva

To learn more, please read my previous blog ‘ A Guide to Supply Chain Management: Making Intuition More Valuable ’. Our focus today is to discuss the relevance of buzz words such as Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning, for S&OP. What is analytics?

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Best Supply Chain Management Software For Enterprises in 2025

ThroughPut

ThroughPut AI: Best for supply chain analytics and decision intelligence WATCH ON-DEMAND THROUGHPUT AI DEMO With Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), a very powerful force comes into play in your supply chain decision-making processes with ThroughPut AI.