Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Interestingly, in Q3 2023, 38% of manufacturers, distributors and retailers missed their target for revenue guidance for the quarter. The result was restatement.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

That includes everything from raw materials and manufacturing to packaging and logistics. Tesco and Walmart have announced procurement policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability throughout their extended supply chains. Known as Scope 3 emissions, these are also the most difficult to measure and manage.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

The Manufacturing Supply Chain Journey through AI and Automation Manufacturing Supply Chains Explained The manufacturing supply chain comprises all the processes a business uses to turn raw materials and components into final products that are ready to be sold to customers, whether these are consumers or other businesses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2023

His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. As a result, demand planning is largely manual, inventory management is a series of manual inputs, and production planning is via spreadsheet. (BTW,

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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 18, 2025

What Contractors Need to Streamline Procurement in 2025 By Ian Summers (pictured) Content Writer 111 Views You’re on-site before dawn, the framing crew’s ready, but the steel shipment’s stuck in limbo, the invoice isn’t approved, and your project management app just pinged you for the fourth time.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

According to a release from Unifor — a trade union that represents DHL Express Canadas 2,100 drivers, couriers and warehouse workers across seven provinces — the company issued a lockout notice on June 4, four days before negotiations were scheduled to end.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 20, 2025

Moller-Maersk Extends Lease at Port of NY and New Jersey Sealand - A Maersk Company Launches Hispaniola Service SupplyChainBrain Women in Procurement Struggle for Equality, Still More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

The paradigm is shifting from foundational visibility to real-time decision-making, with positive implications for supply chain teams spanning sourcing & procurement, to production, to yard & DC operations and beyond. Why is this shift such a big deal? We don’t have to think back very far. Lesson learned.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Especially grievous are the gaps between finance and operations, manufacturing and procurement, and the operations and commercial teams. Lane RFPs focused on cost reduction, but few asked if they had a feasible plan.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Many different terms, such as less-than-truckload (LTL), procurement and transportation management, describe supply chain management processes. For example, transportation management often focuses on the journey of products after manufacturing. The Definition of Procurement Logistics. Purchased parts and similar items.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This global, Tier 1 manufacturer is headquartered in Stockholm and had revenues of over $8 billion last year. in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. Professionals from procurement, compliance, logistics, sustainability, information-security and several other internal stakeholder all use the solution for different reasons.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

To all of my supply chain, demand planning, and forecasting friends who found the year challenging (if not traumatic), rest assured: You were not alone then – and you’re not alone now. It’s time to re-think how our products are manufactured and distributed. Lesson #2: Finding solutions in warehouses and distribution centers. “We

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. It is safe to say that if a warehouse operation is not implementing Lean, it is falling behind its competition. But, it can be overdone.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

The regulation is designed to provide European consumers with extensive data about the provenance of the items they purchase, all the way back to the sourcing of raw materials. Time to Start Preparing for the Digital Product Passport SCB FEATURE Selling Into the EU?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

Within an organization, the words “Demand Planning” stir emotions. Seldom do we find a team excited about demand planning. They want to improve demand planning, but they remain skeptical that they can ever be successful in improving the process. Usually, it is not a mild reaction. It is too simplistic.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 19, 2025

The message from markets is finally sinking in with shippers and 3PLs after nearly a decade of conflicting economic signals, demand volatility and heightened customer expectations: Uncertainty is the only certainty; risk, complexity and costs aren’t likely to ease, and no help is coming. Just be prepared for anything and keep going.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Procurement has never played such an important role in the increasingly globalised economy. Has procurement fundamentally changed itself in the past 10 years? Strategic Procurement can mean totally different things in different industries and sectors. The time when Procurement was almost a synonym to Purchasing has long gone.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2023

In order to achieve this, demand planning, inventory planning, supply planning via procurement and/or production planning, along with fulfilment/allocation and even transportation planning need to be integrated. DC procurement is also automated by aggregating the needs of the MFCs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

For clarity, the definitions are: -Strategic Planning: The frequency is either monthly or quarterly and the focus is on long-term planning. It combines decisions across sell, deliver, make and source processes to drive value based outcomes. Tactical Planning: This process is usually monthly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

During the 1980s, I was on a management team for a large manufacturer. The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. The So What?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Webinars Watch: An Alternative to Traditional Battery-Making Technology for EVs Sourcing/Procurement/SRM Watch: Getting Ahead of Customs Compliance Violations Regulation & Compliance Five Ways AI-Enabled Digital Twins Will Shape the Future of Supply Chains Technology Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

There is a known problem for manufacturers in synchronizing their supply chain. The shop floor to top floor disconnect reflects the difficulty of synching the plans finalized in an integrated business planning executive meeting with what the shop floor is capable of manufacturing in the short-term time planning horizon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. Having an agent detect how long it takes to ship from a supplier site to a manufacturing facility, and then doing a running calculation on how the average lead time is changing, is trivial math. Demand Planning Models Really Can Learn.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. The company also does internal climate scores of employees at corporate, the branches, and the warehouses. Process is a very big topic, but two sets of processes are worth mentioning in more detail are Ferguson’s sourcing and global trade compliance processes.

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ModusLink Corporation

JANUARY 30, 2025

Effective Demand Planning and Forecasting Accurate demand forecasting is the cornerstone of a resilient supply chain. By leveraging data analytics, businesses can better anticipate customer demand, optimize production schedules, and avoid both stockouts and overstocking.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 11, 2018

Jörg Schlager describing SKF's Integrated Planning (Source: Optilon). Digital transformation ” is tough for any firm, but when you are $9 billion industrial manufacturer, it is a sizable undertaking. This prodded SKF to a new demand chain vision. Figure 1 Source: SKF. Figure 2 Source: SKF.

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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 20, 2025

The 6 Best Industrial Marking Machine Manufacturers By Claire Lloyd (pictured) Content Writer 124 Views Industrial marking machines help companies maintain accuracy, efficiency and compliance. Manufacturers rely on these machines to keep workflows running smoothly and avoid costly errors or rework. Telesis Technologies, Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries.

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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. With companies producing more and more products worldwide, the issue of keeping track of enormous amounts of parts and materials used in the manufacturing process has grown increasingly complex.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

That’s why staying on top of the latest supply chain planning trends is so important – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This is due to the diversification in the production schemes of manufacturers. On the other hand, there is always the demand to deliver on the highest level of quality possible. So, a lot of manufacturers require 3PLs to agree to service levels that are challenging for large operations.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 12, 2017

While I am advocating rethinking supply chain planning, for some consultants, the only path forward is the adoption of DDRMP. No matter what I write on demand planning, the response is to blindly deploy DDMRP. We discussed the use of machine learning with drones for continuous cycle counting in the warehouse. Conclusion.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Oracle SCM Cloud – Best for comprehensive cloud-based supply chain management Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) & Manufacturing helps organizations adapt swiftly to changing demand, supply, and market conditions.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the global world of businesses, companies often seek help from sourcing agencies to figure out how to get the things they need. But what’s a sourcing agency or sourcing agent and how does it make buying things easier? Let’s explore this world of sourcing agencies and understand what they do.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Many virtual attendees were also present, with representatives from across logistics, procurement, manufacturing, IT and sustainability not only learning from the esteemed speakers presenting, but also sharing their expertise and experiences. All this ensures the most holistic approach to supply chain management on a single platform.

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