Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The MVP (Minimum Viable Product) version, set up to go live in multiple countries within three months, involves Demand Planners, Supply Planners, and Inventory Controllers with different access rights to monitor system-generated results. They can adjust quantities and generate supplier replenishment orders in PDF or Excel as needed.

Supply Chain Planning Software 286

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Silvon Software

MAY 6, 2025

They need visibility across multiple internal systemslike ERP, CRM, and financial platformsand even external sources shared with suppliers, partners, and customers. They served a purpose but lacked flexibility and real-time relevance. But to do that effectively, they need more than just spreadsheets and static dashboards.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 89

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. In our work with pharmaceutical companies, most executives wince when we mention inventories. However, most do not realize that the Days of Inventory for the industry has grown 33%. Improve Visibility.

Pharmaceutical 170

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Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

Together, they enable procurement teams to move from reactive to proactive, optimizing sourcing strategies, improving supplier negotiations, and ensuring more accurate, real-time decision-making. Impact on Procurement: Spend analytics give CPOs visibility into spending patterns, supplier performance, and inefficiencies.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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ThroughPut

JUNE 17, 2025

By infusing intelligence into every supply chain touchpoint—from sourcing to shelf—AI is driving operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and exponential growth. Within supply chains, AI acts as the control tower—intercepting real-time data, predicting outcomes, and prescribing optimal actions.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

A Demand-Driven Value Network as defined by AMR Research in 2007: A network that senses demand with minimal latency to drive a near real-time response to shape and translate demand. The use of unstructured text mining, and sentiment analysis, to understand and listen to customer responses to products and services in near real-time.

Material Savings 246

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Silvon Software

APRIL 16, 2025

Weve even included some examples of these KPIs using pre-built views for inventory reporting from our Stratum business intelligence solution. Available to Promise (ATP) Available to Promise (ATP) is a real-time inventory management metric that tells you how much of a product you can promise to customers without overcommitting.

Optimal Sourcing 65

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. Performance on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions. People simply want to purchase products from businesses which provide a more transparent and streamlined service, and who deliver on their customer promise, even if it means inflated prices to obtain it.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). The total cost of ownership analyzes the total costs of the buying decision.

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Silvon Software

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For Greater Product Performance Visibility and Improved Sales & Demand Planning Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in an increasingly competitive environment, where the ability to access and analyze timely, accurate data can make or break a company’s success.

Inventory Reduction 59

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy and sell-side markets) bi-directionally with near-real time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Today’s supply chain processes are inside-out with a focus on orders and shipments.

Supply Chain Network Software 186

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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.

Inventory Reduction 52

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Inventory control ‘Inventory control’ covers quite a lot of the points we’ll be making in this article, so we’ll break the idea down into its components as we go. Features like batch tracking and barcode scanning allow wholesalers to trace goods easily and maintain more accurate real-time inventory data Supply chain 5.

Inventory Management Software 98

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 29, 2017

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? Demand signals include shopping trends, digital footprints of shopping online or looking at recipes, talking to their neighbors and friends on social media, buying habits, and consumption data. 3 Deductions.

Supply Chain Planning Software 95

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Kinaxis

JUNE 30, 2017

There is omni-channel you can buy products anywhere, you can order stuff from your mobile phone and then get delivered to your home, and so on. In today’s world, with buy anywhere, pick up anywhere kind of paradigm, supply chains are a lot more complex. How are supply chains becoming more complex? Think of yourself as a consumer.

Supply Chain Planning Software 151

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crisp

MAY 21, 2025

Build a POS-powered data foundation Effectively utilized, point-of-sale (POS) data from in-store retail accounts and e-commerce platforms offers a comprehensive view for supply chain teams to inform and optimize forecasting, inventory allocation, seasonal planning, and more.

Inventory Reduction 40

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ShipBob

APRIL 9, 2025

Custom packaging, branded inserts, and personalized gift notes can go a long way in delighting customers and encouraging repeat purchases. Implementing rate-shopping technology to automatically select the most cost-effective and timely shipping options for each order.

Warehousing 52

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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. 81% of manufacturers say real-time monitoring is improving their businesses today, according to our latest IQMS survey.

Manufacturing Procurement 102

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 2, 2023

From stringent quality standards to comprehensive documentation requirements, Class 1 and 2 manufacturers must navigate a complex landscape to ensure compliance and product excellence. To contend with these pressures, medical device manufacturers crave actionable, real-time, accurate, and reliable data throughout the entire supply chain.

Manufacturing Procurement 98

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. A 30% Initial Reduction in Processing Time. Automated real-time information sharing cut the processing time and reduced a multi-layer inspection process to one tool. The move led to an additional 30% – 35% reduction in process time.

Supply Chain Design Software 170

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BlueYonder

MAY 13, 2021

During Blue Yonder ICON 2021, I had the pleasure to speak with Johnny Ivanyi , the Global Head of Distribution Excellence of Bayer Crop Science, and Kishore Yarlagadda , Global Distribution Deployment Lead of Bayer Crop Science, for the session “Next Wave of Logistics and Distribution Transformation.”

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Whether it’s optimizing routes, improving warehouse efficiency, or leveraging technology to enhance tracking and visibility, Distribution Operations play a critical role in the success of any business that relies on the timely and efficient delivery of goods or services.

Inventory Reduction 119

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Proper demand forecasting and inventory control can help ensure a business doesn’t buy insufficient or excessive inventory. Storing inventory. Demand forecasting can help you spend less money on both inventory purchase orders and warehousing , as the more inventory you carry, the more expensive it is to store.

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o9 Solutions

APRIL 16, 2025

A Platform to Solve Complexity at Scale WestRock’s supply chain is complex by any measure: Over 30 mills and 300 converting facilities Multi-week lead times between production and conversion A global footprint and highly dynamic customer demand The company faced a common but critical challenge. These aren’t part-time jobs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

News anchors broadcast real-time data on the stock market, and while there are many commentaries on the positives and the negatives, what is clear is we are in a period of change and uncertainty. The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. The water cooler is buzzing. Markets drive supply chains.

Supply and Demand 150

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Precoro

JULY 29, 2024

An online procurement system, also known as e-procurement software, is a digital platform designed to streamline and automate the buying process within an organization. At its core, an online procurement system centralizes purchasing activities. At its core, an online procurement system centralizes purchasing activities.

Procurement Solutions 105

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

What Kelly meant by that is we can’t just have visibility from the OEMs to the Tier 1 suppliers, but we have to go beyond to Tier 2 suppliers and the semiconductor chip suppliers like NXP and Infineon, and all the way down to the IAC plants and PDC dealers. Terence: What about in the medium-term?

Automotive 114

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 24, 2022

” • Real-time data : “Each time an employee scans a barcode, it immediately updates inventory and sales numbers in the company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) or business management system. This cuts down on both inventory carrying costs and obsolete inventory, which boosts long-term profitability.”

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 15, 2024

Email hosting has emerged as a pivotal tool in modernizing these communication channels, enabling real-time collaboration and data sharing. Email hosting facilitates this by allowing multiple stakeholders to connect effortlessly, share documents, and update project statuses in real-time.

Supply Chain Design Software 98

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. Will this include drone deliveries?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Valdez, there were four critical improvement initiatives spanning inventory management, transportation, automation, and operational excellence. The anchor and catalyst for our transformation” was moving to using one pool of inventory to fulfill all digital and in-store purchases. A buyer now “purchases for one business.”

Procurement Analytics 100

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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] Full visibility the length of the supply chain. Supply chain processes driven by real-time consumer demand, not forecasts. Horizontal (versus Vertical) Process Excellence. ” Those characteristics are: 1.

Supply Chain Planning Software 100

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IQMS

JUNE 4, 2019

Investing in upgrading existing machinery, replacing fully depreciated machines with next-generation smart, connected production equipment, and adopting real-time monitoring including Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are manufacturers’ top three priorities based on interviews with them. Demystifying Industry 4.0 For Industry 4.0

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Unleashed

JANUARY 24, 2022

Hybrid MRO inventory management is simply a combination of internal and vendor managed inventory whereby certain aspects of the company’s MRO inventory is managed in-house and others by a third party. Why is MRO inventory management important? Take a comprehensive approach to MRO inventory procurement.

Inventory Reduction 98

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Supply Chain Opz

AUGUST 2, 2018

In this article we will examine inventory optimization processes as part of a structured sequential journey and examine seven of the key factors in delivering the optimal mix of stock. The start-point for any Inventory Optimization initiative is Visibility. Getting this information is not always as easy as you might expect.

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