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Supplier Onboarding is Core to a Digital Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

Molexs story is interesting because they excelled at overcoming these cultural issues. The most common form of trading partner collaboration is purchase order collaboration. With PO collaboration, buyers send digital purchase orders over the network to suppliers or other trading partners. The buyers dont report to Mr. Gainsford.

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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, if I improve the cost structure in transportation, procurement, manufacturing and sales independently, what decision support framework decides the right trade-offs? I observe that organizations are unclear on outcomes and the definition of supply chain excellence. You are right. The reason? What should we do?

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L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company. to This is an example of managing a balanced portfolio and of driving a supply chain revolution. This case study is the best example we have seen of a customer-centric supply chain. (Read more to understand the details on the Supply Chain Index ,).

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Probabilistic Forecasting: The Future of Supply Chain Planning

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The Science of Demand Planning: Improving Forecast Accuracy Consider this example: A traditional forecasting system analyzing tire sales might observe 12 units sold annually and determine an average monthly demand of one tire. However, this approach ignores real purchasing behavior, such as customers buying complete sets of four tires.

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Dancing in the Ring of Fire

Supply Chain Shaman

Each executive has a different perspective on the definition of supply chain excellence, but they are never discussed and aligned. His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. What Is The Ring of Fire?

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The Supply Chain Merry-Go-Around

Supply Chain Shaman

Aptean is orchestrating the Blue Yonder/E2open/Infor playbook of buying undervalued assets and milking the maintenance and Software-as-a-Service contracts with existing customers. The Salesforce.com model is primarily a pipeline management tool suitable for discrete markets but not process manufacturers. Will this change the market?

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Let’s take P&G as an example. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. A manufacturing capability is not ubiquitous. The reason?