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Manhattan Associates Joins a Select Group of SCM Software Vendors in the Billion Dollar Club

Logistics Viewpoints

Manufacturers refer to it as the shop floor to top floor disconnect. This reflects the difficulty in synching the plans finalized in an integrated business planning executive meeting with what the shop floor is capable of manufacturing and fulfilling in the short-term time planning horizon.

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Procurement vs. Supply Chain Management: Differences, Challenges & Solutions

ivalua

Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves orchestrating a product’s or service’s entire lifecycle, from sourcing and production to delivery. When decisions for either procurement or SCM are made in isolation, organizations can miss out on cost savings, end up with excess inventory, or experience delayed deliveries. What Is Procurement?

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The Role of Blockchain in SCM, with Examples

SCMDOJO

Here, we’ll discuss how it becomes useful for SCMs and what are some blockchain supply chain examples. What is a supply chain management system (SCM)? When talking about SCM, we can elaborate it as integrating all dependent business activities, including resources and actors, to smoothen the workflow.

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How to Incorporate Local SEO into Supply Chain Management

SCMDOJO

Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of resources, goods, and services involved in creating one specific product or service. The main task in SCM is to find the most effective model for moving goods, transforming them into finished products, wand and then delivering them to the end consumers. What Is Supply Chain Management?

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Supply Chain IT Systems Explained

Logistics Bureau

As if the plethora of point applications such as WMS, TMS, route optimization, or yard management software isnt enough to get your head around, there are the relative merits of ERP (enterprise resource planning), SCM (supply chain management), and APS (advance planning and scheduling) platforms to further complicate your quest.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Interestingly, in Q3 2023, 38% of manufacturers, distributors and retailers missed their target for revenue guidance for the quarter. The result was restatement.

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How AI and Automation are Transforming Manufacturing Supply Chains

Jaggaer

The Manufacturing Supply Chain Journey through AI and Automation Manufacturing Supply Chains Explained The manufacturing supply chain comprises all the processes a business uses to turn raw materials and components into final products that are ready to be sold to customers, whether these are consumers or other businesses.