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Supply Chain AI: 25 Current Use Cases (and a Handful of Future Ones)

Logistics Viewpoints

Optimization is used in supply planning, factory scheduling, supply chain design , and transportation planning. In a broad sense, optimization refers to creating plans that help companies achieve service levels and other goals at the lowest cost. The forecast can be compared to what actually shipped or sold.

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Safety Stock – Mastering Demand and Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

Safety Stock: Navigating Supply Chain Volatility Through Strategic Inventory Planning Demand volatility represents a critical challenge for supply chain executives today, with safety stock emerging as a key strategic tool to mitigate market uncertainties.

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Decentralizing Supply Chains: How Regional Models Drive Resilience and Flexibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

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Please Don’t AI Stupid

Supply Chain Shaman

We have not designed the planning systems to serve managers, directors, and vice presidents, aiming to improve decision-making and collaboration across the source, make, and deliver processes. This could all change if we discard our current definitions of supply chain planning and start anew. In short, don’t AI stupid.

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Definitions Matter

Supply Chain Shaman

Use of optimization to consume planned orders into manufacturing scheduling and distribution requirements planning (including inventory optimization of safety stock). Matching demand and supply in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). First pass tender percentage in transportation planning.

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Reinventing Supply Chains: Focus on Human Factors

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain was defined in 1982 as interoperability between source, make and deliver. Ask a procurement or transportation professional if they have a good demand signal and expect a laugh. The goal should not be making today’s planning processes faster and hands-free. Why is a reinvention needed?

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Want to Succeed at a Large Firm? Become an Entrepreneur

Logistics Viewpoints

Then Jabil handles the sourcing and manufacturing of those products. Tymon’s contribution to Jabil’s offerings is a service line known as ‘planning-as-a-service.’. They are sourcing from over 27,000 suppliers. Tymon realized this could be the solution to the demand planning problems Jabil and their customer were facing.