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“Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste” – Key Insights from the Automotive Logistics

BlueYonder

Our panel delved into the critical theme of “Bridging the gap between network planning and operational execution in production and service parts logistics.” Short-term visibility at the Purchase Order/ASN level is insufficient.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. They have tens of thousands of items they produce but there are a small number of products they purchase through a global sourcing program. Making refractory products is complicated and challenging.

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Bristlecone Flash – May 2020

Bristlecone

SAP ARIBA: Bristlecone Industry-Specific Tactical Sourcing (BITS) – Introduces industry best practices into tactical sourcing, accelerates SAP Ariba Guided Buying deployment and adoption, and enhances user experience. North America. Demand planning analysis for top personal care products company.

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Top 12 New Logistics Startup Companies Making Noise

ShipBob

Think about your most recent purchase. This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Demand planning. Freight forwarding. Handling raw materials. Order fulfillment. Inventory management.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

For example, if the supplier has several big name cosmetic industry customers (90% of their business) and you are buying specialty automotive chemicals from them (less than 5% of their business), the supplier will be influenced in the direction of the cosmetic customers and they will get the attention, products and services before you.

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POOLCORP Selects ToolsGroup to Improve Supply Chain Resilience

ToolsGroup

ToolsGroup’s service-driven multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO) provides a single view of demand and supply to help manage uncertainty and increase product availability. . “We Recent supply disruptions have made supply chain agility even more crucial,” said David Barton, ToolsGroup’s general manager of North America.

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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

The Normalcy Index calculated weekly by the Economist projects that North America is 67% of the way back to normalcy from COVID, but globally, it is lower at 50% with many flare-ups. Yet, few are willing to raise their hands and admit that current demand planning processes of forecasting based on order or shipments do not work.

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