SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

While it does an excellent job in streamlining the front-end customer experience from discovery to checkout its true potential is unleashed when combined with CRM tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, or Pipedrive. Data Analytics: Does it offer real-time dashboards, forecasting features, and performance metrics?

Supply Chain Planning Software 84

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 18, 2018

I hate prediction articles. Here are my predictions for 2018: Supply Chain Excellence as We Know It Is Redefined. Supply chain excellence definitions evolve as companies explore the Art of the Possible. This includes SCOR, APICs, Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains, Gartner Hierachy of Metrics, etc. Analytics Approaches.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Data-Driven Decision Making : Using analytics to continuously refine operations. IoT sensors track temperature, asset movement, and inventory levels in real time, giving you actionable feedback, reducing human error, and enabling predictive maintenance. Data-driven forecasting improves purchasing and cuts storage expenses.

Optimal Sourcing 97

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Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

Gen AI & Predictive AI: Enhancing Decision-Making with Smarter Automation Why Its Critical: Gen AI and Predictive AI are transforming procurement by automating not just tasks, but the decision-making process. How JAGGAER Helps JAGGAERs ESG solutions help procurement teams integrate sustainability into their sourcing strategies.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 2, 2025

The Need for Customization in Logistics The IMARC Group predicts the global logistics market will achieve $15.5 Companies like FedEx and DHL spend significant resources developing proprietary systems to stay ahead in operational excellence. trillion in value by 2027.

Supply Chain Design Software 84

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Our focus today is to discuss the relevance of buzz words such as Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning, for S&OP. What is analytics? We might use “availability in Excel directly or with Add-ons” as an “age metric’.). The coffee purchase was rejected.

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Logility

DECEMBER 29, 2020

By using advanced analytics for manufacturing, to understand the valuable information concealed within the data they already have! Advanced analytics for manufacturing is a good place to start. Here are some common advanced analytics use cases for manufacturers. How can manufacturers manage disruption and improve productivity?

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ThroughPut

JUNE 17, 2025

Artificial Intelligence empowers retailers to pivot from reactive to predictive, manual to autonomous, fragmented to connected. By infusing intelligence into every supply chain touchpoint—from sourcing to shelf—AI is driving operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and exponential growth.

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Logility

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By using advanced analytics for manufacturing, to understand the valuable information concealed within the data they already have! Advanced analytics for manufacturing is a good place to start. Here are some common advanced analytics use cases for manufacturers. How can manufacturers manage disruption and improve productivity?

Manufacturing Procurement 130

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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. The focus shifts from predicting the future to actively shaping it through informed, real-time decision-making.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 16, 2018

There is no doubt, that the retail landscape is increasingly looking like an online one as traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, such as Toys R Us, Foot Locker, and Best Buy mobile shutter hundreds of stores unable to keep up with the changing customer that wants fast, free delivery all with just a click of a button. trillion, a 3.8

Prescriptive Analytics Software 199

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Demand forecasting is the process of using predictive analysis of historical data to estimate and predict customers’ future demand for a product or service. Demand forecasting allows businesses to optimize inventory by predicting future sales. Our B2C and B2B order volume changes month to month. Ryan Casas, COO of iloveplum.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. These aren’t so much “predictions”, as opportunities that procurement professionals should become aware of, and educate themselves on.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Manufacturers who excel at orchestrating analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), quality management and real-time monitoring to improve manufacturing strategies are growing 10% faster than their peers. In parallel, there will be more self-service analytics and BI apps specifically designed for manufacturers.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 15, 2023

Manufactures are continuously faced with the challenge of forecasting how much (raw material) to purchase and how much (finished goods) to produce. To manage this delicate balance of demand and supply, manufacturers often use statistical forecasting techniques to predict future demand by looking at historical sales data.

Forecasting 105

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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. Building New Structures Using New Building Blocks. Bio-engineering? Customization?

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Silvon Software

APRIL 18, 2024

Insights gleaned from robust data analytics enable core business areas to identify opportunities for risk reduction, enhance operational efficiencies, and foster strategic initiatives that drive business growth. For example, using forecasting models to predict quarterly sales and adjust marketing spend accordingly.

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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.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This involves understanding customer buying behaviour trends, seasonal variations, production schedules, and more. Optimizing inventory can also be achieved by leveraging technology and data analytics. Logistics KPI Dashboard Excel Template 4.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. As I wrote last June, investments are rising in Supply Chain Operating Networks and Descartes is a prime example of this trend in action — a trend that I predict will continue to gain momentum in the months and years ahead. Will this include drone deliveries?

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Jaggaer

JUNE 25, 2025

Other (Functional) Types of AI Predictive AI forecasts future outcomes based on historical data. Predictive AI is also used in stock market predictions, predictive maintenance and weather forecasts. Its accuracy depends on the quality of the training data and biases in the data can lead to flawed predictions.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 30, 2018

One of our newest SCRC partners, Siemens Building Technologies, recently shared their insights on creating an analytics strategy. Carl noted that “Analytics strategy is like giving the whole organization a full body scan. Carl noted that “People initially have many different interpretations of what is meant by analytics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I was running a factory, and I made a bet with the production team that I could schedule the lines through a heavy summer period and predict production needs adequately to predict when they could get weekends off to spend with their families. I used history to predict the future. If I won, they would cook me dinner.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

The visibility will include not just the short-term purchase order or ASN-level visibility, but also the tactical kind of forecast collaboration with the suppliers. If the organization is used to doing certain things in Excel, just automating the same process will not be sufficient.

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crisp

MAY 21, 2025

Forecast with precision: AI-powered trend detection AI-driven product attribution transforms how supply chains understand and predict consumer behavior by customizing, organizing, and enriching master data management (MDM). Win the race to AI-driven supply chain excellence AI is already reshaping CPG supply chain strategies.

Inventory Reduction 40

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BlueYonder

MAY 18, 2023

Blue Yonder laid out a vision of how supply chains can take advantage of recent breakthroughs in technology to shift the work of supply chain management from “reactive” to predictive. Two things I heard at ICON really stuck with me: The first was, “Nobody wants to buy new software, what they want is a solution to a problem.”

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SCMDOJO

MAY 14, 2025

How to Turn Your Data into a Strategic Asset for Business Transformation Every business generates vast amounts of data daily, from customer interactions and sales transactions to supply chain movements and employee productivity metrics.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

With rapid fluctuations and uncertainty, predicting customer demand is like shooting in the dark. With so many changing variables, excel sheets or human intervention alone can’t gain the level of visibility needed to forecast the future. We call this AI-powered ability to predict near-term demand as demand sensing.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Supply chain analytics combines powerful algorithms, data, and the latest technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to address the most elusive challenges in the supply chain right now – visibility and control. And that’s precisely what’s on the horizon for supply chain analytics.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

When customers have transparency into product availability, delivery timelines, and order status, they are more likely to complete purchases and continue shopping with a business. At the same time, it makes excellent sense to have a good SEO software solution to keep track of how your marketing strategies perform.

Supply Chain Visibility 98

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If there’s anything we’ve learned in the last year, it’s that prediction is not only much more complicated than it looks, and that the volatility and uncertainty that exists in the global supply chain operating environment is making life a whole lot LESS unpredictable.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

analytics) to improve supply chain processes. ” Those are excellent questions to consider before making investments in any technology. ”[4] Oliver Freeman, Senior Editor at Supply Chain Digital , asks, “Where would the modern world be without analytics and the detailed analysis of them?”[5] ”[1].

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Supply Chain Opz

AUGUST 2, 2018

While on the surface it is true to say that in most organizations inventory is a highly visible dimension of Supply Chain performance impacting company accounts and a key reportable metric of business performance. Foundational excellence in People, Process and Systems capability needs to underpin the deployment of the model.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 14, 2015

Such systems are also instrumental in establishing aligned tactical and strategic performance metrics systems that drive improved economic outcomes (Bendoly et al., They have been touted as the key to manufacturing excellence and supply chain integration… But what is the real ROI on ERP system implementation?

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Locus

JUNE 10, 2025

Businesses looking to offer more personalized or on-brand post-purchase communication may find the system somewhat restrictive compared to more configurable alternatives. Analytics: Routific provides essential analytics such as route duration, number of stops, and driver performance at a high level.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 19, 2024

How much should you produce or purchase at a time? Inaccurate predictions, especially for seasonal and short-lifecycle products, can severely impact operations. To mitigate these risks, the F&B sector must harness advanced analytics and machine learning.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 28, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides the second in a multi-part series addressing the renewed importance of production planning and operational excellence in this very uncertain and constantly changing business environment. Refocusing on Operational Excellence In the previous section, we identified a number of drivers for operational efficiency.

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