The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 13, 2021

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used). About Ron Crabtree.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 3, 2025

Individuals at this level are highly skilled at digging into data, understanding business relationships, and engaging well with key stakeholders to solve the many problems of supply chain risk, cost modeling, and predictive scenario development for supply chain design.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2021

Over the year, COVID-19 introduced even greater complexity into the already difficult work of supply chain planning–and changed supply chain from a practitioner-focused topic to everyday dinner table conversation. Digital supply chain transformation will accelerate.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2025

In Part One of the series , Michael observed that standard sourcing solutions struggle in efforts to support direct materials sourcing because of specific challenges in the software design. He further established the case for why supply chain teams need to context integrated sourcing as well as procurement.

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Supply Chain Opz

APRIL 13, 2013

Book Review - Supply Chain Transformation: Building and Executing an Integrated Supply Chain Strategy. How should a company formulates sound supply chain strategy ? The good news is, the new generation of strategy formulation technique dedicated to supply chain management is now available!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

For example, some newer robotic systems can efficiently automate small picking use cases such as in-store fulfillment of grocery orders. Expand the use of machine learning and predictive analytics – The effectiveness of machine learning models is being proven in an expanding set of use cases across the end-to-end supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Cameron Bailey, EVP of Global Supply Chain at VF Corporation, did not disappoint. Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Predictive and digitized, connected, supply chain solution is a must get ahead of changes. For example, inflation is leading many retailers to revisit their category strategies to reflect changes in purchase behavior. The post Supply Chain Transformations Must Prepare for No New Normal appeared first on Supply Chain Nation.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 9, 2024

More than 500 supply chain leaders converged in Berlin between 11 – 13 November to learn how to unlock the full potential of their supply chains, and to ultimately reshape the future of their businesses. All this ensures the most holistic approach to supply chain management on a single platform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2024

Driving a supply chain transformation? Schema-on-write architectures limit the supply chain team’s ability to easily source data. Current network technologies have improved the user interface, but not the movement and sourcing of data. Want to be data-driven? To be demand-driven, own the cycle.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Digital twins are linked to real data sources from the environment, which means that the twin updates in real time to reflect the original version. You probably already have a great example of a data twin in your pocket: Google Maps is a digital twin of the Earths surface. Another type of digital twin is a data twin.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 28, 2020

The year 2020 has thrown us all for a loop, and the resulting drastic shifts in demand are motivating companies to accelerate the digital supply chain transformations that for some may have been languishing in early stages. Uncertainty: Here your focus is to manage variability on the supply side. September 2019.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Digital supply chains enable transition to selling services instead of products: Simon Bailey of Gartner made a very compelling presentation on the opportunities that digital supply chains enable. Future of supply chains: In his concluding speech Kevin O’Marah of Gartner, gave a passionate talk on what the future holds.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

In this article, we will show you tips from worldwide experts that you can use to streamline your global supply chain operations. Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks.

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BlueYonder

MAY 6, 2025

Cognitive Solutions can SEE and anticipate events and their implications in real-time.Blue Yonder has the only unified data model across planning, transportation, and warehouse management in the supply chain industry. With full visibility, the Cognitive Solutions then ANALYZE.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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. Lean cuts inventory out of the supply chain.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2023

The Women in Supply Chain award honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network. Watch TireHub’s supply chain transformation testimonial here.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

We predicted that “ direct materials sourcing strategies will continue to include needs for future growth markets for products and services along with business supply network sustainability needs from either a business resiliency or sustainability commitment lens. supply chain activity.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The leading IT magazine, CIO Review, today published a special issue on supply chain transformation, and included an article I wrote on spend management as a core capability. This is particularly true, for example, in the case of software licenses, where many licenses are auto-renewed or contracted for, but never used.

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Logility

APRIL 20, 2021

Doing so helps them define a best-fit strategy for improving supply chain operations and drive more tangible value without the exposure of unnecessary risk and additional complexity. Expanded Options Create Better Transformation Opportunities. An Imperative for Supply Chain Transformation.

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Logility

OCTOBER 22, 2020

For more than a decade, companies have used the power of machine learning to improve supply chain planning efficiencies and develop optimized supply chains. A year from now, you should look back on 2020 as the year you made great progress implementing machine learning to boost performance across your supply chain.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It wasn’t hard to find numerous examples for any given year in the past decade. Even if for some unknown reason you think climate change is a hoax, it doesn’t matter, these events will continue to be the new way of life for all of us, including supply chain practitioners. (See 2014 side note). 2012 – Hurricane Sandy.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 23, 2025

Our recent shift to a SaaS model is a great example. If you are attending and are particularly interested in Blue Yonders supply chain planning solutions, make sure to check out the session catalog for dedicated Supply Chain Planning sessions. Blue Yonder is a long-time, strategic partner to Amway.

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Logility

JUNE 9, 2020

Considering the importance placed by consumers on food safety, the ability to track and trace ingredients and their sources, is a must have to succeed in the F&B industry. Blockchain capabilities, for example, can provide significant value in the digital transformation of your supply chain.

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The time is ripe to move forward with supply chain transformation. In this article, we will cover examples and key factors that push businesses to build that supply chain resilience they need.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 10, 2018

For example, many of the UK systems communicated through the EDIFACT standard. In another scenario, the market will coalesce around a few large crowdsourcing companies that have the brand recognition similar to what Uber has done with crowd-sourced taxis. Another emerging influence is geolocation-based deliveries,” mentions Doug.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Conagra’s speaker discussed the need to modernize their supply chain with the goal to be fast. For example, the company worked toward executing the integrated business process quicker and more dynamically with additional scenarios and iterations, so as to free up their employees to work on continuous improvement.

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Requis

APRIL 23, 2020

As a supply chain community, we’ve talked about digitization, but for most companies they’ve just made existing systems faster, not more efficient. Supply chain must start with demand, answering the questions “what should our company be?”, “what do we deliver?”, and “what are our delivery channels?”.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Source: Supply Chain Digest. What does it take to create an award-winning supply chain? Last month, Lennox Residential was runner-up in the 2015 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Supply Chain Innovation competition, arguably the top supply chain award in North America.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2017

Meanwhile, 70 percent have also started processes to implement digital supply chain technologies throughout their companies. Unfortunately, many supply chain entities continue to hope for a better tomorrow. For example, an optimized supply chain is good, but it opens more opportunities for errors.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2022

© Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. The post Supply Chain Leadership Model Example in Retail Apparel Industry first appeared on The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group / Supply Chain Management. Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved. .

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 28, 2015

Retrofitted for IMC: These applications were “originally designed on traditional technologies (for example, RDBMSs), but are now replatformed on top of an in-memory data store”. Part 2: Extending Supply Chain Planning Paradigms Beyond Advanced Planning Solutions. Source: Payne, T., In-memory…In-style.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

After, I explained this, I granted Peter permission for the council to use the Index (the use of the Supply Chain Insights content follows the principles of open source), I then said to Peter, “I am glad that you called. I believe this is necessary at the earliest stages of a supply chain transformation.

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Bristlecone

MAY 6, 2020

. – MAY 7, 2020 – Bristlecone , the trusted partner in supply chain transformation, is pleased to announce that its Bristlecone Industry-Specific Tactical Sourcing (BITS) solution is now an SAP-Qualified Partner-Packaged Solution for SAP Ariba. Streamlines Sourcing Processes. Expedites Purchasing Decisions.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 16, 2020

Pundits have been talking about supply chain transformation for years. For example, Jim Vinoski ( @JimVinoski ), a former CPG executive, writes, “There has been a lot of discussion as the novel coronavirus crisis progressed about the need to make drastic changes to the U.S. industrial supply chain.

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

More importantly, it doesn’t mean your health will get transformed for the better. Since there didn’t seem to be a clear definition of digital supply chain transformation available, I developed one from first principles. Using First Principles to Understand Digital Supply Chain Transformation.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

The Hackett Group provides a useful visual for describing the maturity stages that supply chain is moving through as the industry strives to leverage data and advanced analytics. Supply Chain Analytics Maturity Model (Source: Hackett Group). Supply chain leaders are wanting their organizations to be data-driven.

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