Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

The company said that it used 85,916 metric tons of single-use plastic that year, an 11.6 The company is selling Coyote for $775 million less than the purchase price. The company disclosed the total of single-use plastic across global operations for the first time in 2022 after investors sought more details on plans to reduce waste.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 2, 2023

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other governmental entities necessitates continuous reporting on product traceability and adherence to exacting standards. The following are six key challenges faced by medical device manufacturers and how ERP analytics can transform operations—from regulatory compliance to supply chain optimization.

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Jaggaer

MAY 21, 2025

Watch our on-demand webinar to discover how procurement can lead the way in ESG and decarbonization, and learn from experts about driving sustainability transformation across your supply chain. Explore how JAGGAER helps procurement teams stay ahead of regulatory pressure with end-to-end transparency. What is procurements role in CSRD?

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, organizations across industries are realizing the immense value of effective procurement practices. Procurement professionals play a vital role in driving operational efficiency, cost savings, and strategic decision-making. But how do you get started? Do not worry!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 11, 2022

More importantly, are you measuring the right metrics? Measuring wrong metrics might paint a great process in a bad light, leading to wrong conclusions. Communication of this kind will prevent any procurement delays. Metrics such as rework rates or defective products help you understand how well your operations are working.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

Firstly, if you plan to benchmark as a one-off exercise now and again, you might engage a specialist team of consultants to execute a project for you. Alternatively, you can procure access to a digital freight benchmarking platform. The Pros and Cons of Procuring a Benchmarking Tool. What Are Your Freight Benchmarking Options?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 22, 2013

A recent interview I conducted with a former Chief Procurement Officer who has worked for over 25 years in procurement in various industries captures what I believe is the true opportunity that exists for supply management executives. Marketing and IT see this to some extent, but not like procurement.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 2, 2016

This begets the need to set the overall strategy for the divestment by way of an exercise, called “capability scoping.” This assessment identifies the most important capabilities for which the newly divested company needs to account, which may include functions such as Procurement, Purchasing, Accounting and Supply Chain Operations itself.

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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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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 19, 2020

With more consumers turning to e-commerce, it’s important for businesses of all sizes to bolster the supply chain to handle the e-commerce business model. According to research conducted by BigCommerce , the top three factors that influence consumers’ online purchasing decisions are convenience, cost and free shipping.

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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

Users can choose a fixed implementation plan or a more consultative approach, and scale up as needed with everything from reporting and analytics, shop floor data capture, HR, payroll and hosting available. Purchasing and supplier management, International Commerce Codes functionality, and advanced shipping. Orchestrate.

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HICX Solutions

AUGUST 11, 2021

SXM Webinar Series with Art of Procurement. In the first of a three-part Art of Procurement Live Webinar Series ‘Putting the Supplier Experience at the Forefront of Strategic Procurement’ in partnership with HICX, we focus on how to make the business case for Supplier Experience Management (SXM). .

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 27, 2017

In my earlier book with Gerard Chick on “ The Procurement Value Proposition “, we advance the notion that buildoing a business case for investing in people, process, and technology improvement in procurement is key. They may provide specific KPI benchmark levels for a process (in such terms as percentage cost savings).

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 27, 2016

Consider the ways rich data collection can help shape your supply chain towards lower cost and optimal performance. 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.

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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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DiManEx

JUNE 5, 2019

OEMs, for example, are typically required to keep spare and repair parts in their inventory, but having excess stock results in unnecessary costs. Other organizations are struggling to secure repair parts for assets with high lifecycle costs. Not to mention the environmental toll of scrapping.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 22, 2017

Retailers need to ensure that a customer’s purchase journey is completely understood and tracked. The buying process of each category will have varying aspects of product research and social influence; the marketing communication should be calibrated in sync with analysis of the customer purchase path. Start with the customer.

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Pivot88

JULY 13, 2022

Understanding your supply chain after T1 can be a difficult task - it is a significant challenge to gain visibility upstream and trace a specific purchase order or product’s complete chain of custody. This is not a simple exercise. This is done at the purchase order level.

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ThroughPut

AUGUST 24, 2021

Food & Beverage giants like Kellog’s reported on the state of breakdown in supply chain management. However, these models have tremendously faltered, when they have not altogether failed because of superior intelligence. The unavailability of raw materials and changing consumer patterns heavily impacted demand.

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crisp

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The article demystifies the complexities of scope 3 emissions reporting, offering key tips to stay ahead of regulatory changes and satisfy stakeholder demands. Until recently, reporting scope 3 emissions – which include indirect sources that organizations contribute to – has been optional. In 2010, the U.S. What are scope 3 emissions?

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The index will rely on existing data that illustrate factory conditions, producing a simple and objective indicator, allowing consumers to exercise informed ethical buying behavior in the apparel market. The EAI will provide a third-party metric to generate marketing media (e.g.,

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The demand planning process can be extremely complex as it requires the analysis of numerous factors, including historic and current datasets and internal analytics. We cover this in more detail later, but in brief, they should include sales rates, the total cost of goods, and forecast accuracy.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Fortunately, it’s common for product families to share similar velocity metrics. Using Throughput Velocity as a Basis for Slotting The pace at which products move out of the warehouse is the metric that logistics managers typically prioritise in a slotting project. And remember that you don’t have to slot everything.

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Taulia

MARCH 22, 2023

In practice, this could mean predicting which invoices suppliers will choose to accelerate under a range of different conditions. Or it could mean leveraging the power of AI to extend the cash forecasting process all the way down to the purchase order level. The use of AI can help overcome these issues.

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HICX Solutions

MARCH 31, 2022

In this webinar, we join Niko Nurmi , Executive Advisor at Procurement Leaders , as he discusses these challenges and how to overcome them – with Carmen Erhardt , Director of Corporate Purchasing and Head of Global Processes, Operations and Digitalization at Henkel ; and Anthony Payne , CMO at HICX. A supplier experience approach.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

When costs begin to spiral out of control, the result is usually a loss of revenue in proportion to sales. Potential Factors in Declining Margins To get to the root of the problem, understanding the costs of production or purchasing will be a necessary starting point, but typically, more information will be needed.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These responsibilities extend across functions and when properly exercised, comprise supply, demand, distribution, production, purchasing and capacity planning. Inventory planning metrics and KPIs: You should be able to quantify the performance of systems, processes, and people involved in inventory planning.

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RFgen

JANUARY 18, 2024

As much as 70% of enterprise companies are migrating to an ERP system in the cloud , according to a report by Cloud Security Alliance. Real-time insights and analytics enable faster and better-informed decision-making. All processes are standardized and streamlined to deliver maximum efficiency. These will vary depending on your needs.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 22, 2017

Retailers need to ensure that a customer’s purchase journey is completely understood and tracked. The buying process of each category will have varying aspects of product research and social influence; the marketing communication should be calibrated in sync with analysis of the customer purchase path. Start with the customer.

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Requis

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Software engineer and supply chain analytics expert Suuchi Ramesh is the founder and CEO of Suuchi Inc. , My first job with Intel was in the supply chain analytics division. After graduation I worked in the predictive analytics field and have dealt extensively with both sales and supply chain data.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s a constant headache for our purchasing manager. Accurate data is essential for making the right decisions around purchasing and resource planning. The biggest cost-saving opportunities we really have are in controlling our own engineers. Consolidated purchasing can help bring costs down, he adds.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2016

However based on observations made in the course of our consulting work, many organisations perceive it as a purely remedial or punitive exercise. 3) Supplier performance evaluation enables waste and cost drivers to be identified and addressed. Perhaps it may seem obvious that supplier performance evaluation is an ongoing process.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

It’s not unusual for example, for companies to measure their supply chain performance only on the basis of financial metrics like supply chain cost per order. All inbound shipments should be checked against delivery documentation and purchase orders. No suppliers—no supply chain.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

For instance, two manufacturers pool their purchasing to buy more services more cost-efficiently from the same logistics provider. Any company that thinks collaboration can work as a “throw it over the wall” exercise is likely to be disappointed. Metrics may be financial, such as profits, revenues, and costs.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 31, 2016

It’s not unusual for example, for companies to measure their supply chain performance only on the basis of financial metrics like supply chain cost per order. All inbound shipments should be checked against delivery documentation and purchase orders. Inventory Management in the Warehouse. No suppliers—no supply chain.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

For instance, two manufacturers pool their purchasing to buy more services more cost-efficiently from the same logistics provider. Any company that thinks collaboration can work as a “throw it over the wall” exercise is likely to be disappointed. Metrics may be financial, such as profits, revenues, and costs.

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