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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

What Is Visibility? In our recent survey on analytics, today 74% of companies are attempting to improve supply chain visibility (as shown in Figure 1). Projects Being Implemented as Part of a Digital Supply Chain Transformation Project. Visibility means many things to different people. See You There?

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Next Level Apparel® Takes its Demand and Inventory Planning to the Next Level with the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform

Logility

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced the addition of Next Level Apparel® (NLA) to its customer community. We expect efficiency, without question, but also plan to gain greater effectiveness through our new digital approach to supply chain management.”.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

This team was working on quality improvements and found that the flows crossed 117 disconnected documents in access, excel, and google analytics. These sources while functional are difficult to connect. This is a form of visibility.) In my experience, usually only 1/3 of data needed for visibility is transactional data.

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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.

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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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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. .

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2020 Challenges and Solutions for HVAC Distributors

EazyStock

Plus HVAC equipment is also being adopted more and more by consumers due to technological innovations and climate change driving both affordability and demand respectively. While demand is growing, so too is supply – and with it, distributors. Managing a vast number of SKUs across the entire supply chain is no mean feat.