The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Supply chain managers require visibility to track the necessary components from a purchase order for production or to fulfill a customer order. Advanced platforms utilize artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms, and predictive analytics to enhance data quality by triangulating information.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Crisis management for crisis avoidance – capacity planning in food industry. Industries like food, beverage, and other related processing face some unique production issues. Paving a smart path for food – from warehouses to houses.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 13, 2021

Why do businesses need Capacity Planning in food supply chain management? Crisis management for crisis avoidance – capacity planning in food industry. Industries like food, beverage, and other related processing face some unique production issues. Paving a smart path for food – from warehouses to houses.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. These aren’t so much “predictions”, as opportunities that procurement professionals should become aware of, and educate themselves on.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 28, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides the second in a multi-part series addressing the renewed importance of production planning and operational excellence in this very uncertain and constantly changing business environment. Refocusing on Operational Excellence In the previous section, we identified a number of drivers for operational efficiency.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Kroger collaborates with thousands of food and beverage, health, beauty, and personal care companies to service roughly 2,800 stores. If you’re one of these food & beverage companies or play in the general merchandise health and beauty care (GM/HBC) space, Kroger is likely one of your best clients.

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Logility

MARCH 30, 2020

For the first time in history, shelves of stores across the globe that sell food, beverage and other fast-moving consumer goods (including toilet paper, hand sanitizer and cleaning products) are nearly empty. Looking back a few months, no one could have predicted the current state of the global supply chain.

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Logility

JANUARY 28, 2022

Granted, consumer sentiment is notoriously volatile, but research consistently shows consumers will use their purchasing power to advocate for sustainability. One key finding: 85% of respondents indicated that they have shifted their purchase behavior toward sustainable products over the past five years. Play Offense.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If there’s anything we’ve learned in the last year, it’s that prediction is not only much more complicated than it looks, and that the volatility and uncertainty that exists in the global supply chain operating environment is making life a whole lot LESS unpredictable.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As shown in Figure 1, the biggest obstacles to power improvement/performance are traditional supply chain thinking, the lack of organizational alignment and a focus on functional excellence. Seven Predictions for Supply Chain 2030. Here are my seven predictions. These are tough to overcome. 1) Outside-In Processes. Action Item.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Global supply chain disruption, rapid technological evolution, changing buying and selling habits – wholesale distributors have had to deal with some rapid and radical changes over the past couple of years. Experts predict the market value will increase from its current US$49,371.76 The question is: Where to from here?

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Alloy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

An Introduction to Walmart Luminate Listen to the full episode of the Shelf Life Podcast on Walmart Luminate Walmart Luminate is the retailer’s new data, analytics and reporting tool for suppliers — and it represents a massive step forward in retailer-supplier collaboration. What you will learn in this article What is Walmart Luminate?

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BlueYonder

MAY 18, 2023

Blue Yonder laid out a vision of how supply chains can take advantage of recent breakthroughs in technology to shift the work of supply chain management from “reactive” to predictive. Two things I heard at ICON really stuck with me: The first was, “Nobody wants to buy new software, what they want is a solution to a problem.”

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Precoro

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Continuing in the line of food establishment examples, let's consider a local family pizzeria that you visit after a long day at work. What different products or services does the staff need to purchase in order to produce pizza? Typically, direct purchases are made in large quantities to get a bulk discount.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This can help to spot red flags and money pits on the go, as well as predict future demand by comparing historical sales data to predicted future trends, such as upcoming seasonal events. They’ll also often offer an array of analytical features to do with sales and inventory.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 16, 2018

There is no doubt, that the retail landscape is increasingly looking like an online one as traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, such as Toys R Us, Foot Locker, and Best Buy mobile shutter hundreds of stores unable to keep up with the changing customer that wants fast, free delivery all with just a click of a button. trillion, a 3.8

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Vanguard Software

APRIL 2, 2021

Positive momentum indicates pent-up demand since the October and November 2020 Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) was higher than any time since 2018. MircoVention, a medical device manufacturer, saw a 28% increase in forecast accuracy by adopting digital technologies and implementing Vanguard Predictive Planning. Webinar: Register Now.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

With the surge, supply chains—accustomed to using the patterns of customer order and shipment data to predict future demand—were caught on the back foot. Food instability in Africa could be an outcome because Russia and Ukraine supply 29% of worldwide wheat exports and 17% of corn with significant exports to the middle east and Africa.

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AIMMS

JULY 9, 2015

On the other hand, there is a rising need for smarter and more flexible tools as well as more staff with analytical capabilities. Volatility impacts every aspect of a business, from purchasing to production to logistics. The food and beverage industry for instance, has seen a lot of innovation in recent years.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. As I wrote last June, investments are rising in Supply Chain Operating Networks and Descartes is a prime example of this trend in action — a trend that I predict will continue to gain momentum in the months and years ahead. Will this include drone deliveries?

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ThroughPut

JUNE 24, 2022

At the same time, global spending on IIoT Platforms is predicted to grow from $1.67B in 2018 to $12.44B in 2024, attaining a 40% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in seven years. These AI systems with intelligent algorithms can also predict and discover new consumer habits and forecast seasonal demand.

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Manufacturers can gather valuable granular data such as the time an item spent in storage, at what temperature, how long it took to sell, the length of time between purchase and fulfillment and how long it spent in transport. Advanced and predictive analytics Advanced and predictive analytics are deployed in real- or near-real time.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. I hate throwing food out but there was nothing to be done for it…all I can say is that I’m glad the carrots were in a bag….and I lost track of how many carrots we had and ended up buying more when we really didn’t need any. and it didn’t leak. still hard.

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Vanguard Software

JUNE 8, 2021

Consumers have come to expect companies to provide a wider variety of products, readily available for purchase and at the best price. Breaking up with Excel: Digital Sales Planning Success with Concord Foods. Ideally, manufacturers should be able to accurately predict consumer demand instead of scrabbling to respond to it.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

In particular, the landscape is being challenged with a number of fundamental drivers: The changing consumer preferences with the move towards fresh, natural/organic/healthy, convenience foods and locally sourced products but at the same time looking for value. Stijn-Pieter van Houten, both Vice President, Industry Strategy, o9 Solutions.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

In particular, the landscape is being challenged with a number of fundamental drivers: The changing consumer preferences with the move towards fresh, natural/organic/healthy, convenience foods and locally sourced products but at the same time looking for value. Stijn-Pieter van Houten, both Vice President, Industry Strategy, o9 Solutions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I was running a factory, and I made a bet with the production team that I could schedule the lines through a heavy summer period and predict production needs adequately to predict when they could get weekends off to spend with their families. I used history to predict the future. If I won, they would cook me dinner.

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Elementum

JUNE 9, 2015

billion tons of food is wasted each year, costing the world $750 billion annually. Farmers and agricultural leaders can purchase the system for $500 per year to receive insights into planting practices. Agritech is a relatively new idea, but it is fast growing and could make a real difference to the world’s food and waste conundrum.

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Claritum

JUNE 13, 2019

I rapidly came to the conclusion that these articles were excellent at the helicopter view of the challenges, however seemed unable to apply categorisation to the challenges. So, let’s start this article by breaking down the domains by nature of purchases. Purchasing resource time of people. Effective procurement data analytics.

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QAD

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Lara has many years of experience in not just the wine industry, but global supply chains, including the food and beverage supply chain and logistics. Lara and I discussed a number of issues that are impacting the Food & Beverage industry and in particular, the winemaking industry and supply chain issues.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 18, 2021

Reverse logistics is the process of goods returning to their point of origin – back from the purchaser to the manufacturer or supplier. It is becoming more common for food & beverage companies, for instance, to collect, clean and reuse boxes, bottles and barrels.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Analytical innovation and digital transformation drove step-change capabilities within the office and marketing. There is the need for an analytics strategy that can power outside-in, real-time processes using structured AND unstructured data. As a result, many companies are struggling. Intuitively leaders feel there is a better way.

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Unleashed

MAY 19, 2020

Don’t purchase any supply chain solution that is not Cloud or SaaS based. That means you can buy it as a remote online service (SaaS) paying typically by user per month, or buy and install the software on the cloud. Don’t buy any solution from a supplier that has no brewing sector experience. Costed Purchase Orders.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

From monitoring equipment failure to real-time assessments of the safety and quality of food and pharma products, to AI predictive analytics on theft and accident vulnerability, IoT solutions will undoubtedly garner greater peace of mind and cost savings for stakeholders throughout the global supply chain. Internet of Things.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

Consumer demand across many product categories experienced a sudden shift, as well, with demand for essential products like food, cough medicine, disposable gloves and toiletries increasing sharply, while demand for non-essentials like clothing and jewelry declined sharply. Sourcemap; Twitter: @sourcemap 14.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. In fact, BMW has adopted any number of digital production technologies, such as data analytics, smart logistics and 3D printing. Printer-friendly version. Media Type. Media Credit. Media Type.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

In fact, in the last 6 weeks alone, I have personally been to the front lines of Yokohama, Milan, New York, and San Francisco , working alongside some of the world’s most professionally-committed food manufacturing & distribution, plastics manufacturing, and industrial operations personnel.

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