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A Radical New Way to Think About Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

SCCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. SCCN solutions provide supply chain visibility and analytics across an extended supply chain.

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Unilever Supply Chain: Lessons Learned on Digital Transformation

RFgen

TL;DR Unilever’s Global Reach : Manages a complex supply chain with over 280 factories, 500 warehouses, and sources from 52,000 suppliers in over 150 countries. Sustainability Initiatives : Commits to reducing environmental impact through sustainable sourcing, packaging, and waste reduction.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

As shown in Figure 2, there are many variants of visibility. Examples include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse Management (WMS_ or Advanced Planning (APS). In contrast, visibility does not. These sources while functional are difficult to connect. This is a form of visibility.) Procter and Gamble?

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

ZF transforms those purchased products into over 2,000 products. This is a key technology for improved collaboration across an extended supply chain. MSCN solutions provide supply chain visibility, network-based applications, and network analytics. Lean cuts inventory out of the supply chain.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I strongly believe that leaders must build their supply chains with new building blocks. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. This requires bi-directional communication between trading partners in the value chain. Bio-engineering?

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

The most significant for the supply chain market are assets from Baan, Formation Systems, Fygir, Intentia, Lawson, MAPICS, Mercia, and SSA Global. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. We have a market of niche solutions.

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Building the Network of Networks: Some Insights

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain process and financial flows often run in counter currents. Two years ago, I completed a research study on supply chain visibility. The term “visibility” lacks a common definition within the industry. Supply Chain Visibility Gaps. The reason is simple.