Remove Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Remove Security Remove Shipping Remove Sourcing
article thumbnail

Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

In addition, the Council will conduct a supply chain review by December 31, 2024, to evaluate the impact of the supply chain on National Security Lora’s Take I think that we need to be skeptical without getting political. Maximize the value of the purchase order flow data already in the existing networks. (A

article thumbnail

What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

Consider social security management in the United States without a social security number. A social security number is an authoritative identifier. Most supply chain models are “ship from” models based on orders. A Point of Sale forecasting system requires a “ship to” model based on the channel.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, more than 1% of the world’s container ships are stuck off major ports. Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together.

article thumbnail

Supply Chain Planning Solutions are Not Just for the Big Boys

Logistics Viewpoints

They source plastic pellets and then use injection, blow molding, rotational molding, and thermoforming to produce their finished products. At Dow, Mr. Baker had Purchasing experience in raw materials, and logistics for their plastics supply chain. They generated revenues of over $750 million in their last fiscal year.

article thumbnail

Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why?

article thumbnail

Excel, ERP and Legacy Apps, Oh My! What Technology is Supporting Your S&OP Process?

Kinaxis

It never ceases to surprise me when I hear how many enterprises entrust a mission-critical task to the desktop spreadsheet software Excel®. So what’s wrong with Excel? For example, with Excel you can’t easily: Integrate information from many sources. Support reliable data quality and secure data exchange.

S&OP 100
article thumbnail

Time to Rethink Sourcing Rare Earth Elements

Supply Chain Game Changer

Strategic National Stockpiles and Sourcing for the National Interest! These Rare Earth Elements have long ago been abandoned for mining and processing here in the United States and are part of our reliance on Chinese sources of supply. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What are Rare Earth Elements?