Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 11, 2023

The concept of digital twins has emerged as a powerful foundational tool to drive improvements in warehouse productivity and efficiency. To define what exactly it is, a digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical asset, process, or system. Simulation is the most widely used benefit of a digital twin.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Let’s start with the definitions: Graph AI uses Machine Learning on graph-based technology to understand the relationships between variables to drive insights. Graph technology leverages graph structures to represent and store data. Running optimizers frequently introduce noise and error into a complex system.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This is why I host training twice a year to challenge existing technology paradigms. He feels that based on his years of experience with a software provider, he has a whizzbang technology. Rolling up a perpetual inventory signal takes eleven hours. days to get a perpetual inventory signal and 2.2

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

During the summer months, in one sector the demand for sun cream explodes while in another, it’s the demand for mineral water. Everyone is familiar with such seasonal demands. When a photo of an important influencer wearing a specific outfit, glasses or jewelry goes online, demand for the item may spike.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 30, 2024

Exploring the world of AI tools for supply chain and logistics can be quite overwhelming. That’s why we put together this guide – to help you get a glimpse of the best AI tools for supply chain and logistics, how to implement these tools, what to take care of and more. Best AI Tools for Supply Chain and Logistics 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

Let’s start with definitions: Self Service Planning: Decision support technologies designed for business leaders to use analytic techniques on a collaborative platform to improve business planning. Multiple technologists have briefed me for the last few months, eager to share their new platform. Guess what?

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Unleashed

MARCH 26, 2023

If you’re running a product business and using Xero for your accounting, you’ll need to implement some form of inventory management. While the platform offers some inventory features of its own, many businesses will require something with greater functionality. Do you need integrated Xero inventory software?

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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. Today I am writing my take on the acquisition of Terra Technology by E2open. History of Terra Technology. Terra Technology is 15-years old.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 25, 2024

Demand forecasting is a critical component of supply chain management, especially in the complex and unpredictable market landscape of 2024. Accurate forecasts are essential for maintaining inventory balance, ensuring customer satisfaction, and achieving financial stability. What is Demand Forecasting?

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Unleashed

JANUARY 24, 2022

Maintaining healthy levels of Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) inventory is essential to the smooth running of your manufacturing, distribution or wholesaling operation – even if MRO goods aren’t part of your final products. Learn more: What is Inventory Management? Techniques for 2022 What is MRO inventory?

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Global supply chain disruption, rapid technological evolution, changing buying and selling habits – wholesale distributors have had to deal with some rapid and radical changes over the past couple of years. Some measures to think about are: Utilising technology to become more agile, more efficient and more accurate.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Effective inventory management is crucial to reducing costs in any manufacturing business. This is particularly true in the food manufacturing industry, which characteristically has a high volume of products stored, and an urgent need to fill existing client orders to match ongoing consumer demand. Working with fresh food.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. ” Most have the same values in the system as when it was installed.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. The answer lies in network design, demand sensing, and the simplification of product platforms.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

The technology market is rife with unsubstantiated claims and myths. Each year, I publish a report analyzing the technologies in the S&OP space. I sent the report to technology vendors listed in the appendix with a deadline for feedback on factual accuracy for 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday. New technology is evolving.

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RFgen

MAY 13, 2024

Let’s look at lessons you can learn from Unilever’s commitment to partnering with purpose, integrating technology, and business structure, and how it can help transform your supply chain for the future. Technological Innovations : Utilizes Kinaxis’s Rapid Response for integrated supply chain planning across its global operations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. The order is a poor proxy for demand and few supply chains have access to consumption data. Demand latency is the translation of market consumption to an order signal. It’s ironic, isn’t it?

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 25, 2020

Had they gone public (nice in hindsight), they could have had funds to ride out the dot.com era and to buy the company that bought them. Why you should consider implementing a supply chain software project now. This may seem surprising but implementing a software project now makes sense.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” Spinnaker Management Group asked me to co-present on a demand-driven webinar with SanDisk. For me it was ironic, because SanDisk’s journey is not about demand. It is systemic. The discussion of customer-segmented supply chains happens often.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This technology sifts through complex data to forecast potential disruptions and market trends, allowing companies to plan ahead instead of reacting in the moment. Blind vs. Clear Demand Forecasting Without Advanced Analytics: It’s hard to predict what customers will want. is advanced supply chain analytics.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Shoppers can now enjoy more personalised buying journeys, as merchants make it faster and easier to find the products that they’re most likely to purchase. And to put icing on the cake, predicting future product trends and consumer demand has never been easier thanks to new AI tools. Let’s dive in.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

We were discussing the results of the planning benchmarking work that we have just finished, and I was sharing some insights on inventory management when one of the panelists emphatically stated, “Inventory is a waste to manage. We feel so strongly about this that we do not have an inventory planning role.”

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ThroughPut

MARCH 28, 2024

Food Production AI tools can drive advanced predictive analytics with precision forecasting for weather and crop yield predictions. Detection of nutritional constituents and allergens in food, optimizing routes and schedules of food delivery, and inventory management are some of the other ways AI is helping the food production industry.

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Vinculum

DECEMBER 9, 2020

There are few industries where a high-quality warehouse management system (WMS) is as vital as the 3PL (third party logistics) vacillate trade. As fashionable shoppers, we tend to expect food on our native supermarkets’ shelves and our on-line purchases to arrive promptly, typically but twenty-four hours when the order was placed.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 24, 2022

On that day, the barcode system invented by George Lauer, an IBM engineer, began to change the world.”[1] Most of us understand that barcodes contain information that help retailers track inventory; however, few of us know much more about them. ” How Barcodes Work. ’ But in truth a barcode is so much more. ”[3].

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Locus Robotics

MARCH 9, 2023

By Geoff Whiting, Senior Writer, Red Stag Fulfillment Applying automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to supply chain management is an excellent way for manufacturers to increase the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of operations. RPA is an excellent tool for automating laborious processes currently executed manually.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

I’ve worked in enterprise supply chain technology for more than 20 years, and, especially in the earlier years, collaborated in teams where I was the only female in the room. Employers demand skills such as collaboration, creativity, problem solving, and multitasking in the fast-paced supply chain work environment.

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Unleashed

MAY 19, 2020

Leveraging the best manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, maximising productive efficiency, and accessing management expertise early , are the strategies that will set the best apart. Brewery software: Enterprise Resource Planning for brewers. Brewery software features to look for. Auditing your business.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The client leaned across the table and asked, “Is a customer-centric supply chain strategy the same as a demand-driven supply chain strategy?” I asked the group to think of demand-driven concepts as the enabler of customer-centric strategies. To help, I wrote a few definitions on the board: Demand-Driven Processes.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The order fulfilment process covers every step required to get goods to the people who purchase them, from the moment a customer places an order to when they receive their purchase. When an order is confirmed, the items need to be collected from inventory and packaged for shipment.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

MAY 4, 2023

selected HIMPACT by Herlitz Inventory Management as its new purchasing system in February 2023. The HIMPACT System will help Krasdale Foods build up the foundation of its current solution before making a full transition to HIMPACT in the coming months. KFI) will be switching to the HIMPACT purchasing system.

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Precoro

MARCH 11, 2024

Yet there’s a proactive approach that addresses the high cost of healthcare: value-based purchasing (VBP). In the past 15 or so years, the US, which is known for its complicated and expensive healthcare system, has taken some steps towards value-based purchasing. Promotion of evidence-based care standards and protocols.

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EMERGE App

APRIL 5, 2024

The cost of operating a warehouse is influenced by numerous factors including labor expenses, the dimensions of the storage space, shipment volume, the nature of stored goods, duration of facility usage, and the sophistication of inventory management technology employed. Firstly, prioritize analyzing warehouse operations thoroughly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Initially companies believe regional planning systems easily adapt to become global, but they quickly learn otherwise and hit roadblocks. Importance Versus Effectiveness of Demand and S&OP Planning Solutions. The returns from planning systems are three to five months; but to maximize value, companies need to validate the outputs.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Have someone, like a Safety Manager, be accountable and responsible for safety and ongoing safety training. There are Labor Management Software systems that can help manage work in the warehouse. Focus on the Use of Systems & Tactical Technology. When demand changes, you have to re-slot.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2024

For most digital became an excuse to implement more traditional relational database technologies. Most companies invested in enterprise transactional systems, but their networks operate primarily through spreadsheets and email. Most are excited about their new platforms. Many of our planners, lack training.

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