Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

” Lora’s Advice If the President’s group called me and asked for my advice, these are the steps to take: Ask all “experts” to leave their egos at the door. Consider actions to take Drive execution My fear is that the group is focused on tactics without this alignment. Define the mission.

Supply Chain Design Software 395

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

The result is often a peak sales volume for a specific group of items. But what really gets the supply chain and warehouse managers in a sweat are extremely intense sales days or weeks such as the well-known Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Imagine a warehouse operating around the clock, 360 days a year.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 293

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

import volumes still climbing (see Figure 1), limited processing capacity at key West Coast ports and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) contract expiring next summer, importers will be scrambling to maintain the inventory they need to support the demand increase. The post Is it too Early For 2022 Predictions?

Predictive Analytics Software 354

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Mr. Welty founded a company that sold warehouse management systems (WMS) called AllPoints Systems in 1987. The company buying his company, EXE Technologies, is now infamous among those who have followed the WMS market. We asked for $2 million to buy more robots and then shortly thereafter another $4m. Fail Until You Win.

Modeling Software 283

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2024

Mr. Tamma is the chief digital officer at Pirelli and oversees the digital department at Pirelli at the group level. Pirelli needed to move from using an army of representatives visiting dealer sites, showing them massive catalogs, and saying to the dealer, “You could buy this or this or this.” Higher warehousing costs?

Modeling 307

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

The classical approach involves functional silos, sequential decisions, and Excel and people to render a plan executable. For instance, the solution should optimize availability, fulfillment, source determination, routing, warehouse handling, and production capacity together and concurrently, focusing on minimizing Total Cost to Serve.

Supply Chain Planning Software 282

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 23, 2023

The order latency is the time from purchase by the end consumer to the visibility of the order. For example, when a product at retail is purchased, the shelf is replenished from backroom stock. For example, when a product at retail is purchased, the shelf is replenished from backroom stock.

Supply Chain Planning Software 369

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

transportation, warehousing) or materials – direct, indirect, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations), goods for resale. Bundled offers (if you buy X, Y, and Z from me, I can offer a 10% discount or in case of transportation, grouping of backhaul lanes at a discount along with inbound lanes).

Optimal Sourcing 283

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Tom, the colorful warehouse manager, constantly heckled Frank for the increasing inventory levels while Ed, the quiet material/logistics manager, constantly questioned if there was a better way. While companies speak for the need to drive agility and resilience, the real focus is operational excellence.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 362

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

It was my first time working with this group. This team is not buying the message. The group laughed. So much so, that three years ago, I founded a research company to focus on understanding supply chain excellence. It was a large multinational company. They really did not know me, and I did not know them.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

We have let buy- and sell-side transactional relationships erode value. And, these are the best of their peer group.) We will never redesign healthcare for better outcomes if we do not redesign the buy/sell relationship and improve the understanding of the service providers on why supply chain matters. It is coming.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Ferguson provides plumbing and heating products to 9 specialist customer groups – over a million customers – in the US and Canada. Driving an excellent supply chain depends on how people are recruited and managed, processes, and the technology used. But it is their investments in warehouse automation that are most noteworthy.

Supply Chain Design Software 300

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

DHL Supply Chain, one of the world’s leading contract logistics agencies, progressed in its sustainability efforts by partnering with Sembcorp to develop a 1.24MWp rooftop solar energy system at their 81 Alps Avenue warehouse facility in Singapore. Your Questions Answered: What is a power purchase agreement?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Changing Landscape of Supply Chain Executives Traditionally, supply chain executives excelled in managing functions like transportation, warehousing, inventory, and production planning but supply chain process extends beyond the firm, involving global relationships with suppliers and customers.

Purchasing Skills 130

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 3, 2022

Then, we use these criteria to rank the books, - Practicality: we look closely at how each book can provide basic concepts and strategies of the "Integrated Logistics Functions", namely, customer service, purchasing, production planning, warehousing, and transportation in a clear and concise manner. The links below are paid links.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 100

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Supply Chain Network Design Along with the design of supply chain strategy, the design of the supply chain itself, especially the part dealing with outbound distribution from plants or warehouses, is instrumental in the success or failure of businesses.

Inventory Reduction 74

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The other part of my role is supporting the inventory management functions within BT Group, driving decision-making around what we buy, when we buy, and where from. For rate cards, we used an Excel-based model before which didn’t give us the kind of granularity we needed. What did you use before introducing AIMMS?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Nine times out of ten, the finance group is portrayed as a dam, a barrier or a ferris wheel in the drawings. Companies tightly coupling the budget to S&OP have significantly higher inventories and lower growth than their peer group. Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

Examples include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse Management (WMS_ or Advanced Planning (APS). This team was working on quality improvements and found that the flows crossed 117 disconnected documents in access, excel, and google analytics. We are currently exploring these issues in our network of networks share group.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 220

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The exceptions were goods purchased from mail-order catalogs. Andrew Chung, CEO of Innovo Property Group, explains, “[The] explosive growth of online purchasing and competition among online retailers has resulted in a race to reach consumers. With the rise of e-commerce, the last mile journey can end almost anywhere.

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing 100

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Parallelly, expectations around the overall purchasing experience have also grown steeper. Sustainable Warehousing. Although often overlooked, warehouses and storage centers use huge amounts of energy in supply chains. Where the warehouse is located is also important. Sales in the e-commerce sector globally, grew to $4.9

Logistics Network Optimization Software 130

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Logility

MAY 22, 2020

Users are accustomed to building everything in Excel and manipulating the data as needed for their own particular use, typically using static reports or spreadsheets that are siloed in specific departmental needs. A key solution to this problem is to implement a centralized data warehouse for a single version of the truth.

Analytics Software 148

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The discussions are with groups of executives—often ex-management consultants. This share group is now in its sixth year.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Flagship Logistics Group, Rising Sun Systems and Corporate Traffic are among the first customers. Last October I commented on a story that had appeared in the Wall Street Journal about an interesting partnership between Amazon and P&G (see Amazon Inside P&G Warehouses: A Case of “What’s In It for We” ).

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IQMS

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Another good example of workforce enablement is using enterprise resource planning (ERP) for warehousing operations. ERP-driven advanced warehouse management provides paperless, scan-based material identification and tracking, plus directed put-away and pick operations that keep warehouse personnel productively engaged.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Optimizing your warehouse means examining every corner of your infrastructure and every facet of your workflows and processes to identify and correct inefficiencies. Not only does warehouse optimization result in a healthier bottom line, but it also improves key warehouse metrics like accurate orders and on-time delivery.

Optimal Sourcing 81

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Ware2Go

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By allowing customers to purchase temporarily out-of-stock items, companies can preserve customer relationships while gaining valuable demand data. Backorders mean customers can still purchase an item, even if it’s temporarily unavailable, with the promise that it’ll ship as soon as it’s back in stock. They reduce overstocking.

Inventory Reduction 52

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Vinculum

DECEMBER 9, 2020

There are few industries where a high-quality warehouse management system (WMS) is as vital as the 3PL (third party logistics) vacillate trade. As fashionable shoppers, we tend to expect food on our native supermarkets’ shelves and our on-line purchases to arrive promptly, typically but twenty-four hours when the order was placed.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 3, 2015

You may opt to organize your business into an independent third-party logistics provider (3PL), or you may want to purchase software for tracking, monitoring, and processing all of your needs. However, you must factor in the cost of purchasing an ERP system and compare it to the cost of purchasing an individual TMS , or SCM system.

Supply Chain Design Software 120

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. As a group, spend time brainstorming how sentiment can be used cross-functionally.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases. Amazon has made a habit of excelling at logistics to retain end customers and third party sellers.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 177

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. As shown in Table A, the Company ranked 3 out of 12 companies in their peer group on driving supply chain improvement as measured by the Supply Chain Index. While many companies implement traditional buy/sell strategies with technology providers, Agco chose to partner.

Supply Chain Design Software 170

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Warehouse inventory management is a sometimes complicated, always-vital process for managing a company’s physical goods. With the right approach, effective warehouse inventory management will help you increase productivity and profitability while keeping customers loyal and happy. What is warehouse inventory management?

Inventory Management Software 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group. A ranking in the top 2/3 of the peer group qualifies a company for further analysis.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 24, 2022

By analyzing historical sales data, demand managers can make informed business decisions about everything from inventory planning and warehousing needs to running flash sales and meeting customer expectations. Proper demand forecasting and inventory control can help ensure a business doesn’t buy insufficient or excessive inventory.

Forecasting 130

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. Companies that tightly tether to enterprise transactional data will never buy the right stuff.

Supply Chain Design Software 130

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

From investing in smart automation solutions like collaborative mobile robots to improve warehouse productivity to route and supplier optimization and outsourcing logistics to a 3PL , there are several strategies that can help companies reduce logistics costs. Now, this does not just come down to the staff in the warehouse.

Cost Reduction Strategies 98

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