Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer. Then we are pulling out of an animal nutrition production facility and taking those finished products to a pet food manufacturing facility. A 95% on time delivery metric – very high performance – is just not good enough for Simmons.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 2, 2023

As members of one of the most highly regulated industries in the world, medical device manufacturers face numerous challenges. From stringent quality standards to comprehensive documentation requirements, Class 1 and 2 manufacturers must navigate a complex landscape to ensure compliance and product excellence.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

What a Supply Chain Digital Transformation Means Unsurprisingly, a company as large as Mars has a highly complex supply chain involving global sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution. This exercise was previously a cumbersome manual exercise done on a weekly basis for the top 45 stock keeping units (SKUs).

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 14, 2025

Supply Chain Matters highlights indications providing added evidence that manufacturers and retailers are front loading inventory management actions in attempts to initially hedge against added U.S. percentage points in inventory levels which were the fastest rate of expansion for this metric since June 2022. tariff strategies.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For instance, the quality of inventory storage and manufacturing efficiency impact delivery lead times. More importantly, are you measuring the right metrics? Measuring wrong metrics might paint a great process in a bad light, leading to wrong conclusions. The benefits of this exercise are enormous. Contingency Planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 6, 2013

When this happens, there is greater balance between metric trade-offs and resiliency in year-over-year improvements in corporate performance. This includes consistency in manufacturing operations, order-to-cash processes, and customer service. After answering the questions in the white boxes, companies can then define the process.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Simply defined, reverse logistics generally refers to the process of managing the flow of goods, products, or materials from the customer back to the seller or manufacturer. Manufacturers may recall stock because of flaws or to replace older products with newer ones. Reasons why reverse logistics are necessary can be diverse.

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QAD

AUGUST 26, 2021

Because manufacturers are constantly pressured to increase productivity, deliver quality products, delight customers and achieve greater profitability and sustainability, they are turning to new technologies such as artificial intelligence. Manufacturers face four main challenges from achieving the promise of artificial intelligence.

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Silvon Software

JANUARY 25, 2018

For these companies and others with multiple operating units, achieving a single view of the customer across channels can be a massive (and often futile) exercise. For manufacturing businesses that sell through retail channels, such patterns can be analyzed from both customer orders and actual retailer sell-thru data.

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QAD

MAY 22, 2025

This is often the largest procurement cost for manufacturers. The total landed cost includes all expenses until the goods arrive at your manufacturing facility or distribution center. In addition, you need to periodically repeat this exercise. Optimizing this area, even by small percentages, translates to significant savings.

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o9 Solutions

JUNE 11, 2025

Not as a forecasting exercise, but as a foundation for enterprise-wide agility. It connects what customers are willing to wait for and the often longer lead times required for sourcing, manufacturing, and distributing products. No longer a back-office function, it’s becoming the heartbeat of truly integrated decision-making.

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Jaggaer

MAY 8, 2025

Finance became more powerful with the evolution of the global supply chain, but they tend to lack the knowledge needed to exercise this power. Thus, as we transition to a more circular economy, manufacturing procurement will increasingly embrace remanufacturing and demanufacturing. Conclusion: Where should we focus human intelligence?

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RFgen

MARCH 10, 2025

Jason illustrates this with the concept of the “double punishment” He explains how manufacturers can be hit twice: first, when wholesalers reduce their orders due to decreasing retail sales, and second, when wholesalers simultaneously draw down their existing inventory rather than placing replenishment orders.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 16, 2018

Common sense alone tells you automobile manufacturers face different risks than cosmetics manufacturers. ”[1] The report focused on four key metrics: supplier criticality, supplier financial risk, global sourcing risk, and foreign exchange risk. Having a risk management plan in place and exercising it are essential.

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DELMIA Quintiq

AUGUST 26, 2015

For decades, the manufacturing industries have relied on the principles set forth by gurus such as Dr. W. Manufacturers have – for years – demanded a fully connected supply chain running at optimized quality levels in order to maximize their cost savings, so why haven’t airlines? Why does this happen?

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Jaggaer

MAY 21, 2025

These include drawing up policies, actions, targets, anticipated financial effects, metrics and risk assessment. The aims include reversing biodiversity loss through forest degradation within and beyond the EU and reducing CO 2 emissions caused by EU consumption and production by at least 32 million metric tonnes a year.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 6, 2023

” Cognitive technology solutions, like the Enterra Global Insights and Decision Superiority System ( EGIDS ), can help companies perform important “what-if” exercises to help them anticipate and plan for the future. Often, departmental planning functions are disconnected from one another and may have conflicting goals. .

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Supply chain optimisation helps manufacturing businesses drastically reduce operational costs to improve revenue and customer satisfaction. In our latest Supply Chain Roundtable, four experts share their advice and experience around optimising the manufacturing supply chain. And you’d be right – they’re certainly a factor.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 27, 2016

The most common goals of supply chain visibility include the following, but as your company completes this exercise, be sure to include quantifiable metrics: Reduce business and supply chain risk. Consider the ways rich data collection can help shape your supply chain towards lower cost and optimal performance.

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Resilinc

APRIL 13, 2021

Institutionalizing is when the support of your stakeholders and C-level leaders deepens because they see the SCRM program is achieving its metrics. The key to Institutionalizing your SCRM program is achieving ongoing successes as measured by the metrics agreed to in the Plan—and ensuring that leaders and stakeholders validate these successes.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 5, 2020

Within each of these two flows there should be a small number of high impact business processes or metrics that you need to address, holistically, in order to make meaningful and significant improvements in your cash position. If you are looking to improve dozens of processes and metrics you will get stuck in the weeds.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A manufacturing production planning and scheduling solution, Orchestrate is designed for day-to-day scheduling, capacity planning and ‘what if’ analysis – a feature that lets users investigate how best to increase production efficiencies, while still improving delivery. Manufacturing complexity. Orchestrate.

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Precoro

JUNE 3, 2025

Long-term partnerships: Foster close collaboration in areas like IT, consulting, or specialized manufacturing, where mutual value is high. These tactics are particularly effective in sectors where raw material costs significantly impact margins, such as construction, manufacturing, and food production.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

To avoid the financial risks associated with planning errors, supply chain leaders and manufacturers should consider building an “insight-based” demand planning process, which brings together analytical tools and data with key human inputs across various functions. the answer might be “we know we need 1,000 pieces.”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 23, 2020

This fact finding exercise should also include inputs from competitors, from other industries, and from all of your stakeholders. How did people manage through the situation? How did every node of the Supply Chain fare? What was the experience in every channel? What did customers and suppliers go through?

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USC Consulting Group

JUNE 18, 2019

Yes, reinforcing continuous improvement through everyday exercises is essential to success. Both formalized and impromptu ideation and root-cause analysis exercises are key to achieving these outcomes. Kaizen and lean manufacturing occupy the same theoretical orbit. Embracing the Kaizen methodology ranks among the best options.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results. The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use? What metrics do others (in my industry) use? Where do I begin?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 27, 2014

Students will learn core processes around initial exploration and assessment of supply chain relationships, establishing metrics/expectations for the relationship, crafting and managing contracts, and sustaining continuous performance improvement in sourcing, logistics and operations.

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DiManEx

JUNE 5, 2019

Instead it’s “how can new manufacturing technologies help us solve an existing problem?” It also makes it easier to identify the metrics you want to improve and understand the foundation you need to build in order to scale. AM production lacks the standards than most traditional manufacturing technologies have.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 18, 2021

This must include the active management of highly visible metrics and measures associated with nature impacts in most industries. This governance should be exercised by all stakeholders for any organization, including government level representation. Supply Chain leaders must be at the epicentre of this change.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 13, 2022

CPG brands are well known for their ability to gather insight around these kinds of metrics, as well as information pertaining to competitors jockeying for the same wallet share. It can be a costly exercise but is worth the outlay considering these channels will be the persuader of upfront investments and ultimate purchases.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

But the more intellectual exercise is to figure out what happened to create those problems in the first place. Our first full case involves a real life situation in which a mountain of unpaid invoices had suppliers rebelling and compromising the continuity of supply necessary to run a manufacturing operation.

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Proxima

MAY 15, 2020

Out of 502 participants from business owners to Directors, 86% said that they currently use sustainability as a metric to help shape decision making within their business. It’s not a one-off exercise. Pre-crisis we ran some research with Finance Leaders in the US and UK. Doing well out of doing good is the objective. .

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DynaSys

JANUARY 19, 2022

Manufacturers give millions of dollars annually to retailers in the form of slotting fees, sample and trial items, reverse logistics fees, new stores fees, introductory allowances, volume pricing discounts, and promotions to end-consumers. Manufacturers do not have this luxury, and need to think more laterally than a Retailer.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 31, 2016

During this exercise I was hand-picked to develop and lead the Demand Planning Team for the largest of the two operating divisions. I saw how core S&OP concepts could be applied in various types of businesses, outside of the traditional legacy industries where S&OP was initially applied (manufacturing businesses).

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Their analysis focused on business financial performance metrics during the period of 2020 to 2021, the height of the Covid 19 pandemic. Broaden your career aspirations and exercise patience in achieving a valuable resume of skills.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

As noted in this news cast on ABC , this research will proceed in three stages over three years, and will require significant collaboration with apparel manufacturers and brands along the way if it is to be successful. The EAI will provide a third-party metric to generate marketing media (e.g.,

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