Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2024

It is well understood disconnected planning and execution processes can lead to costly disruptions, missed opportunities, and inefficiencies. Countless companies grapple with the fundamental flaw of disjointed processes, which leaves planning blind to crucial factors such as transportation, warehouse, and labor constraints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Risk management solutions scrape data from hundreds of thousands of online & social-media sites, but Autoliv also has access to sources of information that they pay for. They wanted these diverse sources of information pulled together in one central, user-friendly location they call their “garage.” And we are making progress.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

This data can be used to identify areas for improvement and make informed decisions about sourcing, production, and distribution. These functions include procurement, production planning, inventory management, logistics, and customer service. Logistics Logistics involves managing the transportation and delivery of goods.

Optimal Sourcing 79

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2023

The company uplifted distributes products to stores based on customer demand forecasts, raising service level improvements to 97% and reducing finished goods inventory by 13%. But Intertape Polymer Group (IPG) managed to avert those risks by implementing Logility’s demand planning and optimization solution.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Beery concluded that the best transformation projects would be, one, improved supply chain planning. The second goal was to work with a fourth party logistics (4PL) partner that had invested in cutting-edge transportation management and visibility solutions. The company chose 4Flow to do transportation planning and execution in Europe.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

(The planning team was defending the status quo without questioning current practices and how to improve them.) The question was, “How can I redefine demand planning processes to use channel data?” Starting to understand the issue with multi-tier demand planning? Granularity also differs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The models are too different to drive a clear signal from sales activity to demand planning in the supply chain. Align Transportation Planning and Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP). Planned Technology Deployments In addition, the supply management taxonomy stack is immature for direct materials.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Botha that I had recently talked to a company that had implemented a supply chain planning solution, and then abandoned it. The problem was that when the planning solution spit out recommendations, and someone in sourcing or someone on the factory floor looked at those recommendations, they just did not believe them.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 24, 2023

The Association for Supply Chain Management’s Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model provides seven primary processes that will ensure order fulfilment is carried out properly and efficiently — Orchestrate, Plan, Order, Source, Transform, Fulfill and Return.

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course. Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Use benchmarking to identify gaps and opportunities in demand forecast capabilities - Gartner says that you can make your business case more compelling by demonstrating the gains others have won through demand planning improvements. 2% reduction in transportation costs (percent of sales).

Forecasting 180

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Businesses can access historical data, market trends, and other external factors and, by plugging in predictive analytics, gain invaluable insights that streamline inventory management, demand forecasting, transportation planning, risk mitigation, and overall decision-making processes. Let’s check out the most common use cases.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Similarly, demand planning based on order history is not equal to the challenge. While many companies attempt to improve the response by being reactive on traditional data sources, this is not the answer. (DDMRP is based on the use of math to determine material buffer strategies based on order patterns. What To Do?

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QAD

JANUARY 19, 2023

Facets of this broad field include demand planning, inventory management, logistics, acquisitions and partner management. E-commerce brands must oversee design, manufacturing, sourcing, warehouse inventory, shipping and delivery. Logistics is a larger focus for transportation companies. Let’s dive in.

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QAD

MAY 7, 2020

The desire is to create flexible sourcing and connected supply chain networks that effectively respond to customers’ issues and expectations. Increase Demand Planning Accuracy. Historically, manufacturing firms have created forecasting processes with information that includes outdated demand patterns.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 115

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ThroughPut

APRIL 15, 2024

It enables businesses to meet customer demand without the excess cost of overstocking or the risk of stockouts. Demand planning, inventory management, production scheduling, and distribution planning are the components of supply chain forecasting. AI’s ability to process and analyze large datasets is unparalleled.

Forecasting 52

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Whether it’s purchasing, procurement, transport, technology, facilities, or other specialized areas, understanding your passion will influence the subsequent steps in this rewarding career path. As an indispensable function significantly influencing a society’s standard of living, logistics skills are complex but essential.

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BlueYonder

JULY 28, 2022

This insight comes from the 2022 State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report , presented by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), sponsored by Avetta, Blue Yonder, C.H. materials reuse, energy efficiency, transportation empty miles savings).

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

Extending understanding and insight into market-driven demand planning, your organization and your extended supply network can influence process improvement, operational sustainability, employee engagement, and digital transformation. Data-driven, collaborative supply network. Improved customer satisfaction.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

It involves outsourcing the entire supply chain function to a third-party provider who manages everything from sourcing raw materials to delivering finished products to customers. According to a paper by Len Prokopets and Ramin Tabibzadeh from Archstone Consulting , initial sourcing transactions can yield a 5% savings.

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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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DynaSys

APRIL 28, 2021

Making your process demand driven? As far as I know, some advanced practices show that it is possible to get rid of those inaccurate forecasts that sales or demand planning teams were used to do. In that case, Demand-driven MRP is the best example. What are the sourcing alternatives? It’s a given!

Forecasting 52

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Adexa

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, demand planning gives some visibility into your future demand, but on the supply side, how much visibility is possible unless one can deploy techniques that determine supply side uncertainty. Supply chain practitioners have always assumed demand side variability, but supply side remains mostly deterministic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

There are five major technologies included in the study: warehouse management systems (WMS), transportation management systems (TMS), distributed order management (DOM), inventory optimization/store replenishment, and demand planning. This includes the entry of the order, sourcing, payments, and fulfillment.

Optimal Sourcing 249

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 30, 2022

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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Recognition of asset strategies in go-to-market plans. Ad hoc design planning often focused on a function of the supply chain. Focus is on make, source and deliver together. Supply Chain Design.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 16, 2022

The staff at GlobalTranz notes, “Last mile logistics is among the most misunderstood parts of transportation networks. As a result, many [companies] are embracing big data and artificial intelligence to gain insights into demand trends, seasonal fluctuations and order sourcing.” As Robert J. Footnotes. [1]

Innovation 130

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 16, 2022

The staff at GlobalTranz notes, “Last mile logistics is among the most misunderstood parts of transportation networks. As a result, many [companies] are embracing big data and artificial intelligence to gain insights into demand trends, seasonal fluctuations and order sourcing.” As Robert J. Footnotes. [1]

Innovation 130

Innovation Supply Chain Planning Software Waste Reduction Supply and Demand 130

Vanguard Software

MARCH 26, 2021

Besides raw material costs, logistics can account for anything between 5% and 50% of the total product cost , depending on where products are sourced, their value, and the shipping methods. Demand Planning & Forecasting for Retail. Supply chain costs account for a significant percentage of the final product cost.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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Elementum

MAY 19, 2022

The 50’s saw the development of “containerization” which enabled intermodal (ship, rail, air, truck) transport. Through the 70’s and 80’s, computers brought the next major advances, with sophistication and speed for tracking, routing, and higher-order functions like analytics and planning.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 4, 2023

This means tracking everything from customer relations to inventory management, financial investments, transportation and delivery processes, and workflow processes. By having a bird’s eye view of the entire process, companies can quickly adapt to sudden changes in demand and find new ways to optimize their operations.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2018

Consensus Demand Planning. However, developing a demand plan that people in different areas and roles can use to build individual operating plans can be very challenging. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). Most companies recognize the importance of a repeatable and accurate forecasting process.

Beverage 100

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

The design of the global supply chain at the start of the pandemic assumed frictionless borders, availability of transportation resources, and supply with few constraints. Supply chain management as a discipline—a set of flows combining the processes of source, make and deliver together to drive value– is relatively new.

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ThroughPut

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

ThroughPut helps companies achieve this quickly by leveraging our Supply Chain AI on their existing disparate data sources”. . Listed below are key improvements for demand planning, inventory management, supply chain operations, and logistics management that the ThroughPut platform focuses on. Key Financial Capabilities.

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2022

What’s under the surface is under-reported, including transportation bottlenecks, labor shortages, and vendors going out of business. You’ll know in real time if you must source materials from a different supplier or reroute a shipment. Building and maintaining a competitive advantage requires embracing innovation and technology.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 21, 2020

For a manufacturer, that might span from source to make to deliver. If you just have visibility to transportation processes, like what you can get in a transportation management system for example, then ‘control tower’ is not the right term. ‘View’ or ‘cockpit’ becomes a better term.”[2]

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