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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. When a company undergoes a digital transformation, the transformation should be based on an understanding of what they want to achieve. It’s just a set of numbers.

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The Role of Centers of Excellence in Supply Chain Transformation

NC State SCRC

A CPO for a transportation manufacturing equipment provider noted: RPA will have a big impact on COEs, especially on the lower end of the system. If managers are tied up checking on purchase orders, supplier invoices, payments, and RFPs, they have little time to work on the more important cost-impactful work.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

In our recent survey on analytics, today 74% of companies are attempting to improve supply chain visibility (as shown in Figure 1). Projects Being Implemented as Part of a Digital Supply Chain Transformation Project. We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility.

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The basics of customer-centric multi-channel retailing (Part 1)

DELMIA Quintiq

In most cases, they are trying to tweak parts of their existing supply chains to somehow fit the new all-channel reality. Instead, a holistic view and a major supply chain transformation is needed in order to serve the end-user at all times, at any location and, above all, to remain profitable.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. Sometimes, even the definition of a supply chain is not clear. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible.

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

ZF Began their Digital Resilience Transformation 20 Years Ago! I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. The ZF supply chain is complex. There are also avoided costs.

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How BT is Building a Connected Supply Chain Amidst Ongoing Transformation

AIMMS

The other part of my role is supporting the inventory management functions within BT Group, driving decision-making around what we buy, when we buy, and where from. Our inventory managers work with demand and supply forecasting across our business. Until recently, BT Supply Chain was an internal cost center.