Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 9, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS)! Starting and growing a business is already a daunting task without even considering the Supply Chain construct needed to make the business run. Expertise and capital availability does not usually prioritize Supply Chain.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

However, massive gaps in inventory management and global supply chains were exposed over the last 18 months, with the coronavirus pandemic wiping out a total of $50 billion in exports across global value networks. For manufacturers aiming to unify their inventory management, digital transformation is the answer.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2022

In a previously published Supply Chain Matters posting, we called reader attention to a perhaps different senior supply chain leadership model, which being liquor distiller Brown Forman’s new model that is led by a Chief Global Supply Chain and Technology Officer CSCTO) , with IT and global information security reporting to this senior executive.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Distinguishing Inventory Management from Supply Chain Management: While inventory management and supply chain management are closely related, it’s important to recognize that these terms are not interchangeable. Together, they ensure a responsive supply chain that adapts to changing demand.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Distinguishing Inventory Management from Supply Chain Management: While inventory management and supply chain management are closely related, it’s important to recognize that these terms are not interchangeable. Together, they ensure a responsive supply chain that adapts to changing demand.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Distinguishing Inventory Management from Supply Chain Management: While inventory management and supply chain management are closely related, it’s important to recognize that these terms are not interchangeable. Together, they ensure a responsive supply chain that adapts to changing demand.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

When I began my career there was no such thing as “Supply Chain Management” Supply Chain was not a title to be found anywhere on any organization chart. So what exactly is the definition of “Supply Chain Management”? The Evolution of Supply Chain!

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So, you are thinking about a career in supply chain? While this article is intended as an evergreen resource, to help you navigate in your search for a supply chain job, and is not a COVID-19-specific guide, the pandemic has galvanized attention on the industry and its criticality.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2014

Demand management has always been at the top of supply chain professionals’ list of challenges. I am not alone in the opinion ( see Red Wing Shoe Company webcast, Are Spreadsheets Sabotaging Your Forecast ) that spreadsheets may not be the path to supply chain success.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The current set of supply chain disruptions is being set off by a combination of COVID cases and energy disruptions in manufacturing hubs around the world, labor shortages, lack of capital infrastructure investment, misaligned transportation resources ( a lack of containers, ships, and trucks), and surges in consumer demand.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 14, 2013

In this first of a series of blogs, I will be exploring many of the key themes that emerged in the recent Future of Procurement study I co-authored with KPMG’s Procurement Advisory Council. The first of the themes we will explore is the procurement manager’s role as a support to the Chief Financial Officer.

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QAD

APRIL 10, 2024

In today’s era of digital transformation, technology is imperative to mitigate the bullwhip effect within the supply chain. The bullwhip effect illustrates how minor shifts in consumer demand for a product magnify upstream in the supply chain. The production and procurement plan begins with the forecast.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 27, 2014

European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit 2014. Building next-generation supply chains – Supporting growth through innovative and responsive strategies. The European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit has established itself as one of the leading meetings of its kind in the world. Date: 16- 18 June 2014.

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Veridian Solutions

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Understanding more about the needs and wants of customers can help supply chain leaders make informed decisions, improve inventory management, and increase profitability. In recent months, conversations about how to improve forecasting in the supply chain have focused on a subject: demand sensing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In the 1990s supply chain planning was over-hyped. The growth of the supply chain planning technology market disappointed investors resulting in consolidation and the decline of best-of-breed solutions. Why Is Supply Chain Planning Important? As a result, we introduced black holes into the supply chain.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 23, 2020

According to Gartner , supply chain organizations expect the level of machine automation in their supply chain processes to double in the next five years. As global supply chains are increasing in complexity, the margin for error is rapidly shrinking. Scouting for the Needle in the Supply Chain Haystack.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented supply vs. demand shocks across our supply chains. The shock has shaken up age-old demand patterns and has amplified uncertainty and volatility across sectors. This is truly a stress test for Demand Management Processes.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented supply vs. demand shocks across our supply chains. The shock has shaken up age-old demand patterns and has amplified uncertainty and volatility across sectors. This is truly a stress test for Demand Management Processes.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 23, 2020

According to Gartner , supply chain organizations expect the level of machine automation in their supply chain processes to double in the next five years. As global supply chains are increasing in complexity, the margin for error is rapidly shrinking. Scouting for the Needle in the Supply Chain Haystack.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 6, 2022

Disruptions that have occurred during the pandemic have shown how many manufacturers have not managed their supply chains appropriately and have reaped the consequences in terms of insufficient inventory. There are ways to manage a supply chain amid disruptions but they require changes in the way the business works.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 19, 2013

For supply chain executives, there is a need to recognize that this may indeed be the new normal. The goal for executives in this environment may indeed be just to preserve revenue through assurance of supply, and managing complex cost reduction. Are these really signs of growth? Perhaps this is indeed the new normal.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 2, 2015

With consumer markets more volatile and unpredictable than ever before, companies need to make up for a lack of forecast accuracy with supply chains that can rapidly respond to changing demand , says Chris Vosse, business systems analyst with Teradyne. Demand planners agree: the forecast is always wrong. “We

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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. Companies struggling to manage their supply chains often lack data for decision making, have siloed systems and inefficient inventory management practices.

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Vanguard Software

JULY 6, 2021

While successful supply chain management involves coordination across many business areas, planning happens in departmental siloes, leading to short-sighted or inaccurate decisions. In addition, supply chain design tends to be reactive and cannot sense, flex, and adapt to disruptions, exposing the company to demand volatility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. It is a story of supply chain innovation. The product naming convention changed to Demand Sensing (DS) in 2005. Let’s start by taking a look at history.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I recently spoke with an oil and gas executive, who shared with me his thoughts on post-award contract management. He noted that “Demand management and specification management are some of the biggest problems encountered in post-award contracting. Most operators aren’t set up to do this.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices. Let me explain.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the previous article, we covered the Future of Digital Supply Chains, Agile, connected and sustainable and the QAD DynaSys senior product management team’s vision of Digital Supply Chain Planning. . Could you tell us a bit more about Essilor’s supply chain organization? On one hand we have markets.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Unsurprisingly, the average Fortune 500 company wastes about $250 million in wages and 530,000 days in managers’ time every year as a result of ineffective decision-making. Businesses, however, need real-time, relevant, and actionable intelligence to effectively manage increasingly complex supply chain networks.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We recently had a senior data analytics professional from a large financial services organization speak in my MBA Supply Chain relationships class. The scope of the datasets his team was working on was limited to supply management, but the sheer volume of data was staggering in its complexity and fragmentation.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 27, 2015

In the first episode of this educational series focused on the link between transportation management and supply chain excellence, Chris Timmer of LeanLogistics (a Talking Logistics sponsor) outlined the attributes of a strong transportation management foundation and how to build it. Is it service?

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Logility

MAY 25, 2022

Interconnected supply chain planning enables faster, more empowered decision-making. Supply chain organizations are now caught in the clutches of a global economy creaking beneath the weight of cargo embargoes, labor shortages, jammed ports and shipping lanes, and a pandemic that continues to evolve. Let’s face it

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. Talent Management. BigDataEdge – Insights Management. BigDataEdge – Insights Management. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. SmartGridEdge – Smart Grid Management. TalentEdge – Talent Management.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 30, 2013

A recent discussion with supply chain executives in the apparel industry reveal that the problem is a tricky one to solve – and may be a function of other decisions being made by apparel manufacturers that have nothing to do with labor human rights in the supply chain. Do YOU know who is in YOUR supply chain?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. Talent Management. BigDataEdge – Insights Management. BigDataEdge – Insights Management. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. SmartGridEdge – Smart Grid Management. TalentEdge – Talent Management.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. Talent Management. BigDataEdge – Insights Management. BigDataEdge – Insights Management. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. SmartGridEdge – Smart Grid Management. TalentEdge – Talent Management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

Many times, the term is confused with the use of market data as an input in a tactical demand forecasting model. Discussions devoid of definitions are the favorite ploy of the Supply Chain Conquistadors.). Water buffalo butting heads symbolize the organizational issues of demand planning. Demand is a tough subject.

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