SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, having an efficient supply chain department is more important than ever. By optimizing the supply chain, businesses can minimize costs, reduce lead times, and improve customer service. But how exactly can businesses achieve this level of efficiency?

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a continuous business process that enables firms from hospitals to chemicals to respond to emerging situations intelligently. Our focus today is to discuss the relevance of buzz words such as Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning, for S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The two most significant factors were a rise in time between the booking to gate in at the port, up 43%, and the ocean transit time, up 36%. Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% Less Collaborative.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“May you live in interesting times,” widely attributed as a Chinese curse, some claim this as a blessing; whichever side you take, this is exactly what’s happening in the supply chain world since 2020, and it looks like we will be living with this blessing/curse for a while longer. Composability as an Enabler of Agility & Resilience.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

I remember the first time that I met the founders, Don and Toby. ” And from time to time, when we were behind deadline, and teasing each other about the looming weekly post, we would throw our llamas from cubicle to cubicle. It could no longer be just about inventory levels. The conference was low-key. Reflections.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 29, 2015

Each year, we do a study–we term it the Voice of Supply Chain User – on user satisfaction with today’s systems. We would love your input on this year’s study. ) Steelwedge, a Software as a Service solution of S&OP, just announced a new round of financing by Camden partners. The reason?

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Supply Chain Opz

AUGUST 2, 2018

Multi Echelon Inventory Management requires analysis across the full end-to-end (e2e) supply chain to determine what inventory is needed, where it should be held and in what format; balancing at all times commercial requirements with supply. The start-point for any Inventory Optimization initiative is Visibility.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 5, 2021

What’s Normal Anyways? They use advanced ERP software and S&OP strategy to match supply with demand, and turn over inventory faster and faster. Just-in-time” production has become a hallmark of today’s Supply Chains. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer.

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DynaSys

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You’ve just been chewed out by the Head of Accounts because she was forced to ship an order to a major customer two weeks late…and it’s your fault. This is not a unique conversation in your organization because your on time delivery is only about 75%… even among your A customers it’s barely 80%. So you’ve finally had enough!

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Kinaxis

MAY 18, 2016

I’ll address one at a time. Just look at the PC world in the last ten years. by Melissa Clow This guest post comes to us from Argentus Supply Chain Recruiting , a boutique recruitment firm specializing in Supply Chain Management. In this follow-up, we talk about the role of automation in the Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving. (The The team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence. Let’s start with the basics.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This is part 2 of a 2-part series on how to succeed in planning and decisions amid times of disruption. In part 1 of my blog on Planning the Value Chain and Decision Making in Times of Disruption, the focus was on the ability to react and execute amidst the unpredictability of demand. Technology for Effective Planning.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Despite the apparent complexities involved in supply chain management, achieving excellence really doesn’t have to be too difficult. Just review and build on our three fundamental pillars of great supply chain management. It’s because that’s what drives confidence and satisfaction among all your business stakeholders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

As I spent the time reflecting over the last three weeks, the number of articles streaming into my feed on supply chain implications was high, but most of them were wrong. Let’s start with the COVID impact. Semiconductor manufacturing consumes 10% of the island’s water supply. We need to embrace variability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

The changeover times for the CM Bartlelts was 5X more prolonged than the more agile IM machines. Equipment washouts represented 11% of the change over time and were a significant barrier to agility. I reached out to the corporate R&D team for help, but they did not have the time to work on the change. Sharing My Experience.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. Just focus on geography and forget about anything else. One example that I’ve seen several times is around inventory targets. Don’t care. Social studies?

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While there was always passionate discussions on companies and metrics, the end goal was to raise awareness of supply chain as a practice. She is analyzing growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and return on invested capital, performance and improvement over time. . “ Their S&OP is great across these business units.

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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

But research suggests the most widespread and stinging criticism of IBP was that it was just mature Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) by any other name. These critics sensed a sinister “rebranding” ploy designed to get companies to purchase technology and services they already own but perhaps have not fully implemented.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Analysts at Gartner predict circular economies will replace today’s wasteful linear economies over the next decade or so. There are a number of excellent reasons circular economies are desirable, including less waste and better use of limited resources. The world’s waste problem. ”[2]. ”[5].

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

My schedule had me on a plane to Chicago at the time of the presentation. Q: Is it only inventory disrupting the agility resulting from inaccurate forecasts by S&OP? Is it S&OP? The APICS event was not there. There were 250 attendees signed up and I needed to adapt. They are also very confused.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. Christensen’s concept is that businesses will reject innovation based on the fact that the customer cannot currently use the innovation delaying the adoption of great ideas.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 13, 2018

What is much easier to measure is cost — so that’s what drives the metrics and incentives.”[1] Gilmore cites a passage from a book entitled The Supply Chain Revolution written by Suman Sarkar, CEO of Three S Consulting. Supply chain processes driven by real-time consumer demand, not forecasts. They are: 1.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

At the same time, supply chain disruptions resulted in shortages of vital parts and components, and retailers such as grocery stores faced challenges keeping items like toilet paper, hand soap and sanitizer and disinfecting wipes on their shelves. Maintain a culture of compliance, even in times of crisis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. It is just not enough to do a software upgrade or slowly push continuous improvement projects. Nick is a master of influence skills and building cross-functional, horizontal processes. In this post we share our take on his journey.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In addition, those articles inevitably stimulate readers to post questions, which, over time, we try to answer in detail by creating new blog posts to address them. As we are often asked about KPIs for inventory management , that’s what we’re going to focus on in this particular post. 1: Inventory Turns. 1: Inventory Turns.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 29, 2017

Oh heck, why not just tackle the big one right away? It matters not what your metric is, you get the same results: too much of our trade spend goes down the drain, doesn’t it? In fact, being able to see what the promotion is doing in near real-time is the only way to avoid the ultimate pain of a failed promotion. 3 Deductions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

After three years of research, I have just refined the methodology to start to pull the trends. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. ” —Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. I am an old gal.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Here’s some research on this topic. So, my answer would be the single biggest supply chain problem is forecasting accuracy as part of S&OP. So, my answer would be the single biggest supply chain problem is forecasting accuracy as part of S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. 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.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2024

However, this year promises a significant paradigm shift where traditional performance metrics are replaced by technology-driven frameworks, as recent breakthroughs with Generative AI in supply chains have demonstrated. Enter our list of supply chain trends for 2024. Yet, despite the buzz, common usage of AI and digital twins remains limited.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

To help you determine what tactics, processes, technologies and practices are a must-have in a winning supply chain strategy, we reached out to a panel of supply chain professionals and asked them to answer this question: “What’s the single most effective way to create a winning supply chain strategy?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

I believe that it is an analogy for what is happening in today’s supply chain market. I believe that it is an analogy for what is happening in today’s supply chain market. Leadtimes, conversion rates, and cycle times are fixed parameters. In 2017, when I moved, I bought an old car. Why do I tell you this story?

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