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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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Inventory Management: Why Excel Is Holding You Back

ToolsGroup

While Excel has long been a go-to for planners, the landscape has changed. Let’s explore why relying on Excel could be costing you more than you realize. Why Spreadsheets Are Failing Inventory Management Excel feels familiar. If you’re managing inventory with spreadsheets , you’re not alone—but you might be falling behind.

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Patterns Tell the Story of Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

We purchase data from Y charts. (A Studying Performance of the Gartner Top 25 Award Winners Plotting corporate patterns against peer group performance through orbit charts enables a quick understanding of supply chain excellence. As an aside, I do not think that Lenovo is an example of a supply chain excellence. but declining.

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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

So, in my journey to industry challenge to shift from inside-out to outside-in planning processes, I built the model shared in Figure 1. I observe that organizations are unclear on outcomes and the definition of supply chain excellence. Eleven of the thirteen industries studied are forecastable and stable over time. The reason?

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Probabilistic Forecasting: The Future of Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

However, this approach ignores real purchasing behavior, such as customers buying complete sets of four tires. Probabilistic demand forecasting, in contrast, provides a full probability distribution, revealing actual purchasing patterns and enabling inventory planners to align stock levels with demand realities. The result?

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L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

At the Supply Chain Global Summit 2018 , Francois discussed the impact of digitalization, Industry 4.0, The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Putting a stick in the eye of the industry is hard work. Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. They want to talk.