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S&OP Summer Reading Series by Accenture Strategy Guest Blogger

Kinaxis

by Steven J. Puricelli. Kinaxis recently asked me to author a blog series on the topic of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). Naturally, I was flattered to be asked to contribute to their popular 21 st Century Supply Chain blog. But I was also very excited, because as a strategy consultant at Accenture, I’m able to share a wide range of client experiences on ‘what good looks like’ and what business issues clients are facing across a wide range of industries.

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The Future of Procurement Is Upon Us. Are You Ready?

ivalua

Niul Burton wrote a great article in Industry Week titled “Procurement 2025: 10 Challenges that Will Transform Global Sourcing”. For those of you who are executives in Supply Chain, Procurement or New Product Introduction/Development, this is a must read. The article drives home what we at Directworks talk to Supply Chain and Procurement executives about every day—it is time to get your house in order because building a supply chain for the future takes time, resources and money to implement pr

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The Digital Path to Purchase is Rapidly Becoming a Superhighway

Enterra Insights

Nearly every week we read about more brick-and-mortar stores closing their doors. The reason for these closings is almost always … Continued. The post The Digital Path to Purchase is Rapidly Becoming a Superhighway appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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How to Capture Full Divestiture Value with a 3PL

Talking Logistics

A divestiture is a major transition that impacts all areas of a business, including supply chain reliability and efficiency. Today, shippers face increased regulations, unstable market conditions and capacity concerns that make it near impossible for a newly divested company to achieve all of its goals without the expertise and support of a third-party logistics (3PL) provider.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Move over old man. It’s time to meet supply chain planning 4.0

Kinaxis

by Trevor Miles What I took away from the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference …. Supply Chain Management is a relatively young practice, though many of the core principles go back many decades and are based on Operations Research concepts. These have focused on optimization and efficiency. Undoubtedly the world is a better place because of this focus on manufacturing and distribution efficiency over the past 50 years, resulting in large gains in productivity and therefore standards of livi

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Supply Chain Influencer Bob Ferrari Gives Perspective on River Logic's Newly Launched Platform

River Logic

Last week, River Logic , a technology firm with a mission to establish prescriptive analytics and optimization capabilities in business planning and decision support needs announced a new Cloud based platform, Prescriptive Planning and Performance Management.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 30 – June 3, 2016)

Talking Logistics

What was your first concert? Mine was UB40 my freshman year at Cornell, followed by Tracy Chapman a few months later. I can’t say I was a big fan of either prior to going to the shows, but after getting swept up by their live music and singing, I bought their albums the next day. This coming Tuesday, my wife and I are bringing our oldest daughter to her first concert: Florence + The Machine , with opening act Of Monsters and Men.

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And I thought last year’s Top 25 Supply Chain was a surprise

Kinaxis

by CJ Wehlage On the bus ride back to the McDowell Marriott after the 2016 Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain event, I plugged my ear phones into my cell and listened to some Pearl Jam. Their classic hit, Last Kiss, the song summed up my thoughts about the 2016 rankings. So, the supply chain version of Last Kiss would go something like this…. “Oh where, oh where, can my supply chain be?

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Category Management in the Cognitive Era

Enterra Insights

Category Management is a widespread practice in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) sector, yet Winston Weber & Associates (WWA) analysts … Continued. The post Category Management in the Cognitive Era appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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3 Key Decision Making Technology Enablers at Organizations

River Logic

Organizations Deploy to Improve Decisions and Business Outcomes. Forward-looking decision making in a business environment has always been about making rapid trade-offs in a highly constrained environment based on the available data in an organization. In this blog we explore how it will evolve in the future as well as 3 key technology enablers that needs to be adopted.

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Distractions and Disruptions in Logistics: How to Thrive in the Ever-Changing World of Supply Chains

Talking Logistics

Live Episode: Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 12:00 pm ET. A number of factors are converging upon the logistics industry — everything from “Uber for trucking” startups to new technologies and regulations to ongoing mergers and acquisitions. Which factors are truly disrupting and transforming the industry and which ones are mere distractions? How are the rules for success changing for logistics service providers?

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B2B Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore e-Commerce Sales Strategy

Logistyx

Investing in an e-Commerce Supply Chain Strategy Pays Off for More B2B Companies For B2B companies that have hesitated to add an online store as a sales channel, it may be time to reconsider. Sure, the time and financial investment can seem daunting, but the boost in sales revenue that can be attained can be tremendous. According to […].

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Targeted Marketing in the Age of Cognitive Computing

Enterra Insights

“The future of marketing,” writes Derek Newton (@DerekTNG), “is intensely personal — marketing targeted not just to you, but to … Continued. The post Targeted Marketing in the Age of Cognitive Computing appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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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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How Megacity Distribution Models are Changing Urban Logistics

TMC

How Megacity Distribution Models Are Changing Urban Logistics.Connect. Megacities with 10 million or more inhabitants represent a huge market for goods and services. But they also present some difficult logistics challenges, such as inadequate, traffic-clogged road systems. In order to overcome these obstacles, companies need to develop more efficient last-mile supply chains in these densely populated urban centers.

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What is “push” and “pull” distribution?” – Part 15

APICS

In the previous blog we examined closely the mechanics of the reorder point (ROP) pull system. Although reorder points do provide an effective technique for multiechelon inventory replenishment, they have several important drawbacks.

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Using Logistics to Cut Food Waste in Colombia

MIT Supply Chain

There is widespread poverty in Colombia yet the country discards 10 million tons of food a year according to estimates released by the government this March. ABACO, a national network of food banks that serves the needy, and the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI), a member of the MIT Global SCALE Network, have teamed […].

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Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) – Part Two

Arkieva

Last time I talked about the Segmentation and Product Management steps of the cross-functional process of SiOP. This time we’ll discuss the Demand step. Demand. A product launch and end-of-life happens in close collaboration with marketing or product management. Once the product is mainstream, the best information is to be found with the sales force and the channel partners.

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More Than 40 New Manufacturers Join Configura’s Platform in 2023

More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.

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Bridging the Technology Gap on your Dock Activities

C3 Solutions

Supply Chain technology has improved immensely in the last decade, yet there are still some huge gaps. As a provider of SaaS supply chain solutions we are continually meeting prospective customers that are trying to bridge a technology gap in their supply chain logistics process.

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5 Things the Top Innovators Are Doing Right

Oracle SCM

The past few years have witnessed massive, rapid change in almost every industry—the rise of digital, tech breakthroughs, shifts in operating models, new competitors—almost every service is being re-invented by startups. Executives agree that innovation is an organization’s most important source of revenue: Customers expect more and their demands change constantly.

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Inside the Clunky World of Wearable Tech

Elementum

The global fashion industry is worth about US $1.2 trillion. The $2 billion sales of wearable technology in 2015 is expected to grow 17-fold by 2020. A sustained alliance between the two could make for a revenue behemoth, but the fashion-tech union has so far struggled to achieve mainstream success. Flashy pieces of wearable tech have graced runways in the last few years, from a skirt made of Lumia phones to LED-laden dresses controlled by the wearer’s brain signals.

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Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) – Part One

Arkieva

I pride myself on being an expert in designing and implementing Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning. Companies that have a good SiOP process can’t imagine how to live without it. It is the key instrument for the CEO to navigate the business along the budget towards its strategic targets. In Part One of the SiOP series of blogs we’ve distilled from the many projects we have done over the last 10 years.

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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Made in India: an Impossible Dream or A Reachable Star?

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Rafael Lozano, Vinay Kondapi, Christopher Tang, and Tommy Tseng. In February, 2016, India unveiled the world’s cheapest smartphone “Freedom 251” that sells for US$ 4! The Freedom 215 phone comes with a 4-inch display and a 3.2 megapixel front camera. It runs on Android 5.1 operating system with preloaded apps such as Women Safety, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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How It Works: Oracle Innovation Management Cloud Demo

Oracle SCM

Just published! Watch this on-demand demo of Oracle Innovation Management Cloud to see the best practice approach to increase your returns on product and service innovation. Get a quick "how it works" overview, check out the ideation analytics, watch how to create proposals, view the "what if" scenario KPIs, and much more! A great way to quickly beef up on your Innovation Management essentials.

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3-D Printing Hits on All Fronts

APICS

3-D printing already has started shaking up the engineering, design, and manufacturing fields, and now it could reshape the distribution industry as well. Two major developments last month are changing the way products are produced and shipped to customers— potentially condensing the entire supply chain, according to Trucks.com.

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Think Tank Report: Integrated Business Planning

All Things Supply Chain

On May 24, 2016 a group of nine supply chain and operations managers gathered together in Düsseldorf to discuss the pressing issues surrounding the topic of Integrated Business Planning and how the approach can be used to drive business growth.

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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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Cost Reduction in Supply Chains by Opportunity and by Design

Logistics Bureau

When customers step up pressure on prices and when economic growth flattens or dips, a supply manager’s mind turns to cost reduction. Or rather, it turns even more to cost reduction, as squeezing out savings that then show up directly on the bottom line is a goal that never goes away. Some of the dollars to be recovered may come from immediate actions, such as reducing inventory.

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Chemical Manufacturing Waste Poisoned Students At A School in Changzhou, China: What If This Happened In Your Supply Chain

EcoVadis

Background. The case of poisoned students at the Changzhou Foreign Languages Schools in the Jiangsu Province of China has been a heated topic since revealed by the press. On 17 April 2016, the official China Central Television (CCTV) reported that out of the 641 teenagers that underwent medical examinations, nearly 500 suffered serious health problems such as abnormalities in their blood and thyroid gland, bronchitis, lymphoma and even leukemia, after their school was relocated last September on

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Mapping Product Genomes: The Life Blood of Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

One major technological development is being able to map genomes for products. A genome is all of a living thing’s genetic material. It is the entire set of hereditary instructions for building, running, and maintaining an organism, and passing life on to the next generation. [1] In most living things, the genome is made of a chemical called DNA.