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Thoughts. Selecting Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2012, when I started Supply Chain Insights , I believed that I could revolutionize the purchase of supply chain planning solutions by initiating a rating and review process across trading partners. Buying supply chain planning software is hard. Many technologies (I count six) are missing, and most of the ratings are just wrong.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Background The Council of Supply Chain Resilience met for the first time this month. Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. Key elements include a focus is the use of the defense production act to improve accessibility of medicines to prevent drug shortages. The reason?

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The Top 15 Retail Trends for 2022

ToolsGroup

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. Data source: eMarketer. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories.

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Net Zero: What Does it Really Mean?

ivalua

Having just listened to a very informative and comprehensive webinar by Dr Natacha Tréhan and Arnaud Malardé [ Moving Towards a Net Zero Supply Chain Webinar | Ivalua ] what struck me were the following key takeaways: 1. To reach net zero emissions from homes, transport, agriculture and industry will need to be cut. Capital goods.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Unloading times are double and costs are triple. At the time, a functionally encased view of visibility was sufficient. We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. Reflection.

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The Intersection of Sustainability and Consumer Behavior

QAD

The last 25 years has probably brought us greater innovation than we have seen in quite some time. It has most definitely impacted how people buy products of all types and in all industries. However, at the same time, the technology of better data management is most definitely helping manufacturers as well.

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A Radical New Way to Think About Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

A company buys these solutions to optimize their business. Rich Sherman – a Senior Fellow in TCS’s Supply Chain Center of Excellence – points out that many companies are building control towers to better manage their supply chains. The network a company gains visibility to with their control tower is just one of many networks.