Kinaxis

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Teresa Chiykowski Warning: This blog post isn’t for the faint of heart. In fact, I should include a PG-13 rating on it. Just kidding, although, for those involved, the scare factor must’ve been pretty high at times. Halloween is big business. In fact, National Retail Federation’s annual survey estimates that enthusiastic celebrators will spend an estimated 8.4 billion on Halloween – an all-time high in the survey’s 11-year history.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The simple answer is – EVERYTHING! Let me briefly describe my recent car service experience and then you’ll understand why I say this and why an alternative approach to the problem is required. I dropped off my car for a routine service and stated to the service manager that the headlights on one side of the car were non-functional. After noting my feedback and confirming the details of this technologically advanced hybrid vehicle, we shook hands and said our goodbyes.

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Logility

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Get out a piece of graph paper and plot your current achieved service level on the x-axis and your current inventory level on the y-axis. Mark that point with a dot. Now, estimate how much more inventory on hand would be required to raise your service level by 5%, 10%, 15%, and so on. Now, go in the opposite direction and plot how much less inventory would be required if you lowered your service level goal by those percentages?

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Introduction. In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Whatever maturity model or consultancy support companies use, S&OP seems to get stuck. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Outdated IT structures create the most challenges for retailers on their way to Omnichannel. This was clearly indicated based on surveying retailers in the Omnichannel Status Report 2016 compiled by Arvato in cooperation with Salesforce and the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. In particular, corporate structures which are still vertically oriented need to be integrated accordingly with the widely spread, separated sales channels.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 31, 2016

E2open announces its 2016 Forecasting Benchmark Study, an in-depth analysis of the state of demand planning for Fortune 500 companies, allowing firms to compare their forecasting performance against best in class. The 2016 study explores item proliferation, planner productivity, forecast accuracy and bias, forecast value-added, extreme error and demand sensing performance.

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Aera Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2016

No one can sympathize with the unique challenges of the pharmaceutical supply chain like Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks. Heralded for his extremely emotional on-screen portrayals, Hanks’ characters are habitually held up or impeded en route to a destination, be it by storm (“Cast Away”), government red tape (“The Terminal”), pirates (“Captain Phillips”) or a flock of geese (“Sully”).

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Pernod Ricard, owner of brands such as Absolut, Campo Viejo, Malibu and Jameson, has made substantial improvements in demand forecast accuracy using Infor Demand Planning. Combined with the expertise within the Pernod Ricard supply chain team, the flexibility of the application has helped Pernod Ricard UK achieve an ongoing improvement in demand forecast accuracy and a more optimal inventory level.

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Logility

OCTOBER 31, 2016

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Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The fact that most of us can maintain a comfortable temperature in our homes and places of work is thanks to the founder of Johnson Controls, Warren Johnson. In 1883 he invented the electrical thermostat and started what today is a $37 billion business. Based in Milwaukee, Wis. USA, with 150,000 employees worldwide, heating and cooling systems, that optimize energy and operational costs in buildings, remain part of its core business.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is a guest blog from Jurica Magoci of fueloyal.com to show us the 7 secrets to chose the best truck stop. Whether you are on a road trip with your family, or you are owner-operator or a company driver, one thing you will need on those long hauls is a truck stop. However, at some point, you will need to stop to put fuel in your fuel tank or take a shower or eat something.

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Supply Chain Digest

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Industry Consolidation Continues, but Excess Capacity Still Likely Continue through 2017

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Halloween has become big business and, in recent years, has also marked the beginning of the holiday shopping season (a … Continued. The post Don’t be Afraid — Halloween 2016 Could be a Record Year appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.

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Supply Chain Digest

OCTOBER 31, 2016

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 31, 2016

So far, drones have mainly manifested themselves as ultramodern couriers, but counting inventory using drones will become increasingly common too. In January 2015, the French Hardis Group patented an ‘inventory drone’ called Eyesee, and logistics service provider Geodis has recently developed a warehouse inventory solution in conjunction with Delta Drone.

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Supply Chain Digest

OCTOBER 31, 2016

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Teresa Chiykowski Welcome to the first blog post in our three-part series discussing three ways to improve supply chain collaboration. Maybe I’m stating the obvious but… a lot has changed in the world of manufacturing since Keith Oliver of Booz, Allen and Hamilton Inc. coined the term “supply chain management” in early 1982. Move over, 1982, it’s 2016.

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Generative AI goes beyond just automating tasks and providing real-time answers. Did you know that implementing generative AI reduces sourcing cycle times and allows for faster decision-making across procurement operations? In this whitepaper — Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes With the Power of Generative AI — experts reveal how the strategic application of generative AI within procurement processes is paving the way for groundbreaking improvements.

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Supply Chain 24/7

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Greater investment in greener, more sustainable transport systems is essential for propelling the economic and social development that is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, according to an expert panel report delivered to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 31, 2016

3 Major Japanese Container Shipping Lines to Consolidate by July 2017.Transportfolio. As we predicted earlier this year, consolidation will and has continued this year. Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” Line), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL), and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), three of Japan’s largest container ship lines, have agreed to establish a new joint venture company by approximately July 2017.

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Supply Chain 24/7

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For most businesses, the “long tail” is growing, and you don’t have to be an internet retailer like Amazon to see it, companies are dealing with more slow moving items with intermittent demand and unpredictable demand patterns.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Most companies are moving backward on the Supply Chain Matrix That Matter (growth, operating marging, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital). Interestingly enough the industries with the greatest challenges – high-tech and electronics – post the greatest progress. That shows The Supply Chains to Admire 2016 analysis of Supply Chain Insights.

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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Supply Chain 24/7

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Today, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA).

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 31, 2016

If you’re a supply chain professional, the tips and guidance in this post will probably not be new to you. On the other hand, if you’re a business leader who must try to juggle supply chain effectiveness with that of marketing, sales, or manufacture, the following sections highlight the supply chain basics that your company must get right in order to maximise revenue and profit.

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