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Supply Chain Planning Transformation

Arkieva

I was asked recently about what it takes to transform the supply chain planning process of a company. Having gone through this process a few times in my past, I thought it best to share my experiences and suggestions in the form of a discussion with Tapan Mallik during a webinar. This blog is a precursor to that webinar. Supply Chain Planning Transformation was first posted on January 20, 2021 at 7:40 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal no

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Assess your Inventory Optimization Process with This Quiz

AIMMS

Inventory management has always been challenging. How much should we hold? How much is too much? How much is too little? The supply chain shocks of 2020 brought this challenge into focus. Too often, inventory is viewed from an aggregate position, likely driven by finance, who are concerned about working capital implications. This aggregate view, however, can hide a multitude of sins when it comes to the health of our inventory mix – do I have the right quantities of each item at each stock holdi

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12 Steps to a Resilient Enterprise: Part 2 of 4

Logility

In part 1 of this series, we talked about the consensus among supply chain practitioners, pundits, and technology providers that minor supply and demand disruptions flare up constantly, the result of actions and reactions across complex, highly tuned, and interdependent global value chains. This has become cliché…the sneeze in Shenzhen that becomes a bad cough in Cupertino.

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Assess your Inventory Optimization Process with This Quiz

AIMMS

Inventory management has always been challenging. How much should we hold? How much is too much? How much is too little? The supply chain shocks of 2020 brought this challenge into focus. Too often, inventory is viewed from an aggregate position, likely driven by finance, who are concerned about working capital implications. This aggregate view, however, can hide a multitude of sins when it comes to the health of our inventory mix – do I have the right quantities of each item at each stock holdi

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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report

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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A Year of Poor Planning Led to Carmakers’ Massive Chip Shortage

Supply Chain Brain

Near-sighted planning, supply-chain complexities and a tradition of keeping inventories low caused the semiconductor shortage that is now forcing carmakers to idle production lines and straining their relationship with chip manufacturers.

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Intelligence as a Service: Driving Efficiencies in Supply Networks

Supply Chain Brain

COVID-19 was a wakeup call for procurement teams who failed to invest in the tools and resources necessary to protect their supply chains.

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Digital Transformation – What Is It Really?

Bristlecone

Parthasarathy Narayanan, AVP, Product Engineering, Bristlecone. I am sure you have seen this image many times. Seeing this image again prompted me to write this article. I wonder why somebody did this. If this rock holds some architectural or archaeological significance, then perhaps this is the perfect design protecting it. But this does not appear to be the case.

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Maximize Your Specification Management Investment With Chainalytics and Specright

CHAINalytics

Recent trends like the rise of e-commerce demand and the shift in sources of supply can leave your supply chain vulnerable if left unchecked. New and existing channels, suppliers, and customers need to be accounted for – and communicated about clearly – as part of your specification management process. In any improvement journey, quickly delivering … The post Maximize Your Specification Management Investment With Chainalytics and Specright appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Product Suites are the Future for Supply Chain Tech Stacks!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Get Our EBOOK HERE. Product suites article and permission to publish here provided by Irina Kapetanakis. If you are in the business of manufacturing and/or distributing physical products, your company has invested in systems for digital commerce, CRM, and HR.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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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The 6 Greatest Challenges to your Supply Chain

DynaSys

A Three Part Article Series from QAD DynaSys – Greatest challenges to your supply chain. Part Two of our three part article series. Read Part One 10 COVID-19 Lessons for the Resilient Supply Chain if you missed it. . In this series, discover how the COVID-19 pandemic gave us the keys to build a resilient supply chain and and overcome challenges of your Supply Chain.

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Procurement Roles in CAPEX Management

All Things Supply Chain

When we speak about Capital Expenditures or commonly called CAPEX in an organization, generally speaking they are managed either by a Project Manager or their future users (the concerned department…

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Four Ways Electronic Bills of Lading Benefit the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

While physical paperwork has long been the go-to form of communication within the supply-chain industry, electronic bills of lading are expected to become the standard moving forward.

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Iptor and HARMAN expand strategic partnership

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Iptor, provider of enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, planning and logistics software and services, has expanded its strategic partnership with HARMAN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. focused on connected technologies for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024

Your Roadmap to Smarter Spend Management in 2024 Geopolitical, economic and supply chain challenges will stick around in 2024, but don’t despair. There are strategic opportunities to leverage AI-powered technology and digital toolsets to overcome these hurdles more effectively. GEP experts in nearly two dozen critical categories guide you in the right direction in our annual comprehensive resource — GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024.

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What Vaccine Supply Chains Must Do to Protect Against Cyberattack

Supply Chain Brain

The international coronavirus supply chain has become the latest target of cyber-espionage. The threat extends beyond pharmaceutical manufacturers to all of their suppliers and vendors, which provide potential points of entry for cyber thieves. In this conversation with SupplyChainBrain Editor-in-Chief Bob Bowman, Mike Hamilton, Chief Information Security Officer with CI Security, discusses what needs to be done to protect the entire vaccine supply chain from hackers.

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Transportation Management 2021 Outlook

NFI

Transportation Management 2021 Outlook Featuring Jeff Kanterman, RVP of Transportation Management at NFI What do you think will be in store for transportation management in 2021? Much of the supply chain disruptions that occurred over the past years were mainly due to consumer behavior, and a lot of it had to do with e-commerce. Read More.

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How to Successfully Enable Omnichannel Fulfillment

EnVista

As online shopping and in-store fulfillment become the new normal for many shoppers across the globe, retailers need to be taking a closer look at their omnichannel fulfillment strategy. The pandemic initiated unprecedented disruption to the nation’s supply chains throughout nearly every industry, and the businesses that were able to remain nimble and successfully navigate the challenges presented were prepared with an advanced omnichannel fulfillment strategy.

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Beyond Location — Condition of In-transit Shipments Is Critical

Tive

The supply chain visibility movement is gaining massive traction, and you likely have a handle on monitoring where your shipments are in transit. But do you know how your shipment is?

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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AmerisourceBergen leverages two solutions from Axway

Axway

AmerisourceBergen is a pharmaceutical supply chain distributor with over 100+ years of experience. Their roots run deep in innovation and niche delivery.

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Reimagined supply chains emerge from global crisis as enterprises focus on data insights to mitigate risk

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

New research from Orange Business Services found that the supply chains in 40% of multinational corporations were unable to cope with the crisis created by the pandemic. The survey of 320 enterprises, focusing on the manufacturing, transport and logistics sectors, revealed that the global crisis has dramatically changed attitudes to risk.

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Plantensive Partners with Vanguard Software to Enable Supply Chain Marketplace Vision and Growth

Vanguard Software

Vanguard Predictive Planning Solution Suite to be Offered to Value-Conscious Mid-Market Customers.

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Looking at Transportation in a Different Way

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of a research report published yesterday, “Trust the Network: The Way Forward in Achieving Transportation Desired Outcomes.” The research, based on a survey of over 300 transportation professionals conducted by Adelante SCM and commissioned by Transporeon, explores several questions: How much room for improvement do you believe still.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Jan. 21, 2021

Supply Chain Digest

Amazon FC in Alabama Might Vote to Unionize, US Truckload Rates Headed back Up, US Manufacturing Continues Slow Recovery, Rolled Ocean Containers Hit Record High

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Order Fulfillment Upheaval: Understanding the Rapidly Changing Fulfillment Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

Merchandise fulfillment variability has been on the rise for a number of years, due in large part to the growth of e-commerce. But all bets were off in 2020 as variability went off the charts. As you can see from the two included images charting the quarterly change in US e-commerce sales (year over year) and quarterly change in US GDP (quarter to quarter), variability in the recent quarters has been well outside the range of one standard deviation in each direction (light blue range) of the mea

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on The Top Procurement Issues for 2021

Supply Chain Digest

Hackett Group Releases Its Annual Report, and to No Surprise Reducing Corporate Spend Tops the List

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Ivalua NOW 2021 – Procurement Rising – Americas – Virtual Edition

ivalua

The post Ivalua NOW 2021 – Procurement Rising – Americas – Virtual Edition appeared first on Ivalua.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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Watch: How Much Warehouse Space Will We Need in the Coming Years?

Supply Chain Brain

Melinda McLaughlin, vice president and general head of research with Prologis, paints a picture of warehouse demand in the U.S., now and over the next five years.

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Differences of tendering freight loads with and without a TMS

Freight Plus

Justin Murch, operations planner, outlines the three critical differences between tendering freight loads with or without a transportation management system. Check out all our whiteboard videos on Freight and Transportation.

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What is RFI?

ProcurePort

Request for information (RFI) is a prevalent business practice in the procurement industry. It provides a succinct way to gather information from various suppliers which can then be used to craft requests for proposals (RFPs) in the future. RFI helps SMEs create vendor profiles, reduce the sourcing to contract life cycle, and enlightens procurement managers […].