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The Best Supply Chain Company You Have Never Heard Of

Logistics Viewpoints

Michael Jacobs, Senior Vice President Supply Chain, Ferguson. Mr. Jacobs is the senior vice president for supply chain at Ferguson. While nominally a distributor, “supply chain management is our core competency. In particular, Ferguson’s supply chain is built for speed and to provide high service levels.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

Before that I was in management consulting doing what would be called supply chain design or reengineering today. Needless to say they have a continued multi-year deployment of the supply chain planning system provided by the ERP vendor. Now they want to deploy an S&OP process. She states that.

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. Here are ten things to keep in mind in terms of the role that forecasting can have on supply chains: While not a cure all, forecasting does matter.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. Tight coupling of the supply chain forecast to the financial forecast will improve value. Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. If you want to know future sales ask sales. Measure it.

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Understanding Today’s Supply Chain Complexity: There’s No Substitute for Hard Work!

Arkieva

I was lucky to attend the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix last May. To understand today’s supply chain complexity … there is no substitute for hard work! Supply Chain Complexity 1 – Plan/Source/Make/Deliver/…. How to ensure their buy-in? Supply chain is complex.

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All Eyes Remain Focused on the Last Mile

Enterra Insights

The exceptions were goods purchased from mail-order catalogs. Andrew Chung, CEO of Innovo Property Group, explains, “[The] explosive growth of online purchasing and competition among online retailers has resulted in a race to reach consumers. miles in Phoenix.”[4]. The answer is getting the last mile right.”[2].

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Challenging Your Comfort Zone

BlueYonder

During that experience, I met a friend from Phoenix who convinced me to come visit her. I came out of the meeting feeling defeated until I realized two things: 1) Not having experience does not mean I wouldn’t have been capable of excelling at the role and 2) Being prepared for meetings is the best way to avoid feeling “less-than.”.