The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

by Stephanie Krishnan – Associate Vice President, IDC Manufacturing & Energy Insights Asia/Pacific, IDC Asia/Pacific. “By By 2025, to improve long-term supply chain profitability, 60% of manufacturers in global supply chains will invest in software tools to support sustainability and circular economy business models.”.

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Unleashed

MARCH 2, 2022

Here we give you eight real-world examples of how businesses use Kanban, a popular lean tool that’s helped companies in a huge range of sectors improve efficiency – especially those in the manufacturing industry. Kanban came from the same place as the wider principles of lean manufacturing: Toyota. Each card represents one work item.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 30, 2020

What is data-driven manufacturing? Important decisions that impact the manufacturing process should always be based on facts, not guesses, wishes, theories or opinions. The accelerated deployment of low-cost sensors and their connection to the internet has created a lot of hype about the future of manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

As I watch the news and work on client documents in my quarantine, I try to manage my emotions. This cross-functional group (sales, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution) is an operational team to manage the day-to-day issues and exceptions in the supply chain. Don’t expect demand to be predictable. It is tough.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2019

It has been a while since I penned a blog post on New Year’s predictions, but today as I sit and drink my hot chocolate, I feel the itch to write. The Battle For Analytics Is Waging. Descriptive analytics is mainstream. Digital Manufacturing Success. Welcome to a new year. Congratulations. You made it through 2018.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

These activities involve numerous stakeholders, such as suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Through machine learning and data analytics, companies can gain valuable insights from extensive datasets, supporting decision making.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. But some of my other predictions did hit the mark or came close. Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target. When making predictions, it’s easy to look at recent trends and simply project them forward.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics. As you implement supply chain analytics and use control theory with well-defined reference data with clear bands for control, process improvement ensues. The team was seeking analytics to monitor process compliance. Advancement in analytics improves outcomes.

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OptiProERP

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Inventory forecasting ensures manufacturers have the proper inventory to meet customers’ needs while minimizing excess inventory costs. With data-driven forecasting tools, manufacturers only need to purchase what they require for a given period.  Reduced cost  Inventory is equivalent to money.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2017

The decision support technologies that we use today–price management, trade promotion management, network design, supply chain planning, transportation planning, supplier risk management–are on the cusp of redefinition through new forms of analytics. Only 7% of manufacturers are experimenting with cognitive computing.

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Precoro

APRIL 18, 2023

For example, a company that produces furniture has to order raw materials and trace the manufactured items sent to the customers (forward tracing) and occasionally the items that are returned (backward tracing). and prescriptive analytics to define “What should we do?” Depending on the product, the scope of the supply chain may vary.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 1, 2019

Equipped with IoT solutions, manufacturing, retail and transportation companies can monitor goods’ whereabouts in real time and ensure they arrive at the right time and place and in appropriate condition. The post The Digital Transformation in Logistics: Technologies, Barriers and Predictions!

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Manufacturers and distributors want to dramatically increase their efficiency, productivity and accuracy through smart technologies, data analytics and connected services. The first step, therefore, is to get all your information – documents and data – into a digital format. This has two separate activities attached to it.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

In the document, Gartner positions AIMMS as a key vendor in Prescriptive Analytics – a form of Advanced Analytics that can improve decision making in several areas of the supply chain, including logistics, planning, and manufacturing. Prescriptive Analytics. Predictive Analytics.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

In the document, Gartner positions AIMMS as a key vendor in Prescriptive Analytics – a form of Advanced Analytics that can improve decision making in several areas of the supply chain, including logistics, planning, and manufacturing. Prescriptive Analytics. Predictive Analytics.

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IQMS

MAY 24, 2018

Investing in a manufacturing company – and/or operating a manufacturing company – in the current economic climate represents both opportunity and risk as U.S. manufacturing demand and profitability are accelerating. Manufacturing Predicted to Regain All Output Lost in the Great Recession by April 2019. “The

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TransAudit

JUNE 27, 2023

Machine learning, at its core, is a technology that allows systems to learn from experience, improve predictions, recommendations, and decisions over time. It simplifies administrative practices, analyzing contracts and documentation to derive the best outcomes from suppliers. Europe, China, and Singapore.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 28, 2020

Capacity planning software is a programmable solution that helps manufacturing organizations understand the actual production capacity needed to address fluctuating demands for its products and services. With regard to the manufacturing industry, the process of Capacity Planning is made up of three resource types: machines, people, and tools.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 28, 2020

Capacity planning software is a programmable solution that helps manufacturing organizations understand the actual production capacity needed to address fluctuating demands for its products and services. With regard to the manufacturing industry, the process of Capacity Planning is made up of three resource types: machines, people, and tools.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 28, 2020

Capacity planning software is a programmable solution that helps manufacturing organizations understand the actual production capacity needed to address fluctuating demands for its products and services. With regard to the manufacturing industry, the process of Capacity Planning is made up of three resource types: machines, people, and tools.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 5, 2019

Leslie Langnau ( @DW_3DPrinting ) views the IoT as a place where design, manufacturing, and supply chains converge. She writes, “One might say the manufacturing world has become obsessed with the global network of connected devices and people. It’s well documented that IoT technologies remain in their infancy.

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TransAudit

JULY 6, 2023

Machine learning, at its core, is a technology that allows systems to learn from experience, improve predictions, recommendations, and decisions over time. It simplifies administrative practices, analyzing contracts and documentation to derive the best outcomes from suppliers. Europe, China, and Singapore.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

Today many companies spend countless hours reviewing contracts to track and review amendments to original documents. This will improve the ability for data analytics to be used to improve operations and provide an efficient and scalable freight management workflow. Contract Review. Challenges in RPA implementation for Supply Chains.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

Manufacturers with a global supply chain network took the brunt of suspended operations during the pandemic. In addition, organizations need to rethink their lean manufacturing strategies. Data analytics provides actionable insights to save time, effort and cost. electronics). Adding strategic insights into the business.

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Precoro

AUGUST 14, 2023

Procurement managers don't just handle direct spending , such as raw materials or goods and services directly associated with manufacturing the company's final product. Ardent Partners predicted that cost savings would be more important in 2023 than at any other time in the last decade.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

The goal is deeper analytics to sense and respond across make, source and deliver. There is seldom one technology used within a manufacturing company to connect B2b value networks.) With the larger ocean carriers and the port congestion, GT Nexus becomes more and more important to retail and manufacturing companies. It is clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Makes us wonder if we should even manufacturer products in traditional ways? The many examples include streaming data, Internet of Things (IOT), new forms of analytics, software robots, wearables and robotics increasingly add value as computing power increases. New Form of Analytics. Learn from others and adopt when comfortable.

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ivalua

MAY 28, 2014

It’s the convergence of these forces that Gartner predicts will drive the business of the future. This is an especially important message for manufacturers’ supply chain organizations. Many still depend on email and spreadsheets as the primary tools for collaboration and analytics.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Logistics data analytics can help reduce the frequency of OS&D claims and prevent the issues that cause them. These three issues are defined as follows: Overage – Occurs when the quantities received are more than the amount listed in the shipping documentation. Filing these claims is an expense and a hassle. Required Actions.

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QAD

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you just read these headlines then you might be missing out on what this means to you, as a manufacturer. No manufacturer that I’ve encountered (which is more than a few) has aspirations of copying Google, so what does this mean to you? Google’s use case is not a manufacturer’s use case. So, what does it mean? Neither did I.

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OptiProERP

MARCH 4, 2019

IDC defines Intelligent ERP as ERP applications or suites that use machine learning and advanced analytics built on a large, curated data set to forecast, track, learn, route, analyze, predict, report, and manage these resources and business processes. In the manufacturing environment, this leads to Smart Factories and smart products.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The partnership enables Logility customers to layer in Planalytics’ predictive demand metrics to better understand impacts across their customer base and proactively capitalize on sales opportunities created by favorable weather while mitigating risks when demand is negatively impacted. 626) 657-0013 or email kliu@amsoftware.com.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 24, 2022

FedEx is doing the obvious thing with that data; they are using predictive analytics to improve the flow of goods through their network and make themselves into a more reliable carrier. This predictive intelligence is particularly important for high value packages that must be delivered quickly. FedEx ships to 220 nations.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 21, 2022

Yet, despite all the technological advancements that have taken place over the past decade on the manufacturing side, S&OP continues to be dominated by ineffective, dated, manual practices in many organizations. They can neither be used for AI-powered analytics, nor can they scale in time with rapid business growth.

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Analytical procedures Doing analytical procedures during inventory audits involves comparing gross margins, inventory turnover ratio , and/or unit costs of inventory with previous years. This documentation accounts for any units that are in transit and also in case anything is lost or damaged in transit.

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Bristlecone

JULY 20, 2020

There’s been a transformation of finance departments’ focus – from pure transactional processing and after-the-fact reporting, to delivering real-time insights and analysis and supporting business strategy through predictive and prescriptive analytics. What is Predictive Accounting for Sales Orders? Typical Business Scenario.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 9, 2021

So your firm recently released a report of 2021 predictions and there’s a lot of great information in there. And because of that, when we- and we do predictions, we’ve done this since our inception in 2008 and we’ve had a traditional format for how we do our predictions. Bob Ferrari: Thank you, Mary.

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