ShipBob

APRIL 9, 2025

In this guide, we’ll unpack the essential functions every ecommerce warehouse must master, along with best practices, real-world examples, and technology tips to help. For example, adding additional warehouse associates during the holidays can have a positive impact on fulfillment speeds. What are warehouse functions?

Warehousing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

s introduction of a universal 10% baseline tariff, for example, may appear a manageable challenge at face value. For example, a business that can accurately model the impact of new tariffs may decide to maintain customer prices temporarily, absorbing short-term cost increases to preserve relationships while competitors scramble to adjust.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

These are just a few examples of the constraints under which shippers work to bring much-needed goods from the mainland into Hawaii. Cold-chain shipping, for example, is extremely complicated in Hawaii, subject to climate concerns as well as intense regulation. This control is particularly useful if you’re shipping specialized freight.

Hawaii

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

Another example of AI’s effectiveness occurred within a leading transportation and logistics company with nearly 450,000 trucks and 150 locations. In this case, gen AI gathers insights from this data, while agentic AI autonomously adjusts sourcing strategies for supply chain risk mitigation.

Sourcing Strategies

BlueYonder

JANUARY 9, 2025

Transformation Journeys of Industry Leaders: Leaders from the high-tech and food and beverage industries, specifically Western Digital and CONA Services, shared their transformation journeys. Planning Processes and Metrics : Attendees delved into optimizing core planning processes and metrics to support strategic business performance.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 19, 2025

In sectors where product assortments shift throughout the year, for example, AS/RS may require different bin sizes to accommodate new inventory, while P2G operates independently of bin structures, allowing for seamless transitions. 3PLs, for example, rely on contracts with customers that can change over time.

Warehousing

RFgen

JULY 25, 2025

In some operations, batch or cluster methods can dramatically reduce walking time and boost lines‑per‑hour metrics. Real‑world examples and decision criteria guide you through selecting, piloting, and scaling the optimal method mix for your unique operation.

Supply Chain Design Software

John Galt

JULY 22, 2025

Because companies often fail to let go of old habits and siloed metrics, and they fail to align decisions across functions. A great example comes from a CPG company that restructured its raw material planning by grouping SKUs and locations then aligning these classifications to hit procurement minimums. Shared metrics are critical.

Inventory Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

For example, they can support managers by processing large amounts of data, then analyzing proposed decisions to address complex operational and tactical challenges. For example, a dispatcher is responsible for purchasing components for pre-production and stocking of two new products.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Measurable successes result that include metrics such as margins, profits, production targets, quality scores, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores, and customer satisfaction. For manufacturers, business decisions that involve digital transformation in procurement are often difficult.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

The beverage industry offers a valuable example. Establishing baselines, tracking reductions, or meeting compliance requirements without having accurate, standardized data becomes nearly impossible. It’s resource-intensive by nature, with emissions stemming from agriculture, water use, packaging and outsourced production.

Rail Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Koganti gave the example of the Greeks’ response to the news that the Persians were on their way to invade in the fifth century BCE: Athenian politician and general Themistocles’ response was to urge the building of a navy (which turned out to be devastatingly effective ).

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

JULY 2, 2025

Real-World Examples Amazon Amazon operates the world’s most advanced supply chain system. This intuitive tool provides clear, real-time visibility into performance metrics, helping teams confidently transition to new systems while staying aligned with business goals.

Supply Chain Design Software

Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

Then they became regional: for example, a North American supply chain and a European one. For example, the sales team could be pushing products into the market despite customers lack of interest, or conversely there may be unfulfilled demand. As late as the 1990s, supply chains were very local. Procurement must adjust accordingly.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 1, 2025

So argues Greg Petro, CEO of First Insight , a retail platform that uses AI analysis of consumer feedback to predict demand, determine pricing thresholds and model scenarios around, for example, differing tariff levels or supply chain bottlenecks.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 27, 2025

The science has proved useful in achieving traceability across numerous types of products, including food, pharmaceuticals and cotton. Leather, for example, is heavily manipulated with chemicals during processing, and separating all of them out accurately can be a challenge. Each location yields a unique chemical origin “fingerprint.”

Manufacturing Procurement

crisp

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Meanwhile, at a snack foods company, everyone is working together to bring a healthy kid’s line to market. Like PopSockets who integrates Crisp with Snowflake to track regional product trends and analyze performance at Walmart stores with secured glass displays, for example.

Optimal Sourcing

Locus

JULY 24, 2025

Example: A consumer electronics brand delivering to metro and suburban areas assigns peak-hour deliveries to high-capacity vans using major roads, while smaller vehicles are routed through narrow lanes during off-peak hours. Traffic and Weather Layering Overlaying live traffic and weather data enables proactive decisions.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

Apples Siri and Amazons Alexa are personal-use examples of these, but from a business context, their uses are just starting to be implemented. Traditional AI dates back to at least the 1960s and encompasses techniques such as machine learning, which utilizes historical data to optimize problems and predict future outcomes.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 15, 2025

Heating systems are a great example of precision and reliability safeguarding efficiency. Electric heating elements for industrial applications provide accurate temperature control, crucial for maintaining product quality in sectors like food processing, plastics, and chemical manufacturing.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Action Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Detection and diagnosis of systemic challenges will be a bit more gradual and should be based on the performance metrics that matter to your business, such as customer service, days of supply, etc., Figure 3, below, shows examples of both incidental/operational and systemic/strategic challenges for all three dimensions of the 3-D Cycle. .

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 23, 2025

A key example is guided selling — a dynamic form of product search that asks users a series of questions to help winnow down the catalog to a manageable set of products that meet their exact specifications. With the rise of ChatGPT, the popular conception of AI has been that of a program that a user prompts, then receives a response.

Supply Chain Planning Software

IT Supply Chain

JULY 8, 2025

One example came from a small software company that provided IT tools to hospitals. One example was discovered in 2018. Why Attack the Supply Chain? Hackers don’t like doing extra work. Breaking into a Fortune 500 company can take months. But breaking into one of their vendors? Sometimes it only takes days.

Supply Chain Design Software

RFgen

JANUARY 16, 2025

Process Manufacturing: Caters to industries like food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals, where managing batches and tracking material transformations is crucial for compliance. The software also adapts to different scales of operation. Tailor the program to specific roles and departments to further enhance training effectiveness.

Inventory Management Software

crisp

MAY 21, 2025

Multinational food ingredient manufacturer Kerry , for example, demonstrates this power through its Trendspotter AI platform, which analyzes millions of data points from global media content to identify emerging food and beverage trends and develop products in as little as 2 months compared to traditional timelines of 6-9 months.

Inventory Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

For example, RFID-enabled medications can be scanned quickly and accurately at multiple points in the medication lifecycle. When interoperable with electronic health records, billing systems and regulatory frameworks, they reduce friction and streamline compliance workflows. But software alone isn’t enough.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

They can abandon outdated forecasting models, for example, by ensuring that strategic external data points that impact consumer demand are integrated into their operating models. And for large enterprises, even small efficiency improvements can quickly translate to millions in savings or additional revenue.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 2, 2025

For example, setting internal benchmarks for racial representation in leadership or offering programming limited to particular identity groups are likely to be challenged as contrary to EO 14173 and unlawful under Title VII.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

The soybean case highlights how tariffs disrupt not only imports but also export-driven supply chains, affecting rural economies and global food security. Maersk, for example, uses blockchain to track shipments, reducing documentation errors by 20%. Following are five key approaches reshaping supply chains in 2025.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

For example, if the price of steel or wood has gone up, adjust the prices of products made with those materials. And figure out the right pricing based on cost increases and market conditions. However, pricing adjustments shouldn’t take the form of across-the-board increases. Focus on the specific products most impacted by the tariffs.

Optimal Sourcing

Cathy Roberson

JUNE 1, 2025

Reported May 29 While China remains the number one source for products we sell, we currently estimate the percentage of product COGS it represents is approximately 30% to 35% compared to the 55% metric we shared in March. A notable example in the quarter was our Kirkland Signature Ultra Clean Laundry products.

Purchasing Skills

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Business has notably slowed in last four to six weeks. Good luck!!

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

For example, at Brown-Forman Corp., RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Global Trade & Economics Regulation & Compliance Supply Chains in Crisis Food & Beverage Related Articles China Investigates U.S. Supply Chain Visibility Climate Crisis Has Caused Food Price Spikes Global Supply Chain Management U.S.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. Teams struggle to drive improvement in both metrics at the same time. A Look at History. Resiliency.

Pharmaceutical

AIMMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Interview with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights and Author of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter ( published December 2014 ). Metrics that Matter became a three year research project. I realized that many organizations are very confused about metrics. So I started this book as a summary of this research.

Metrics

DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The holiday season has started and for most cultures, this means enjoying food with family and friends. Food traditions differ a lot across different holidays (e.g. but the meals have one thing in common—there is always excess food and leftovers. Food waste has become a major global problem with real consequences to the planet.

Waste Reduction

GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM. 5 Key Metrics to Use for Scoring Supplier Quality Management (From LNS Research ). The definition of this metric is similar to the way it sounds. Cost of quality.

Procurement Analytics