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2022 Forecast: Supply Chains Become Critical Infrastructure

ToolsGroup

This is not just my personal observation but the consensus of leading financial experts around the world who are regularly briefed by manufacturers, logistics providers and retailers. Advanced countries with manufacturing-heavy economies will start to introduce legislation to regulate supply chain infrastructure. Download your copy ?.

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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

During the 1980s, I was on a management team for a large manufacturer. The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. The So What?

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

The essence of the question is resilience and the ability to forecast in a variable market reliably. This gets us to the question of what is the role of the forecast?` For most, forecasting is a conundrum full of potholes, politics, and bias. I attempted and failed to: Use Point of Sale Data in Supply Chain Forecasting.

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Revisiting Transportation Forecasting

Talking Logistics

Many companies have collaborative planning and forecasting processes with suppliers and manufacturing partners, but very few companies translate demand and production forecasts into transportation capacity requirements. Has the time come to make this a standard leading practice? Next steps to driving adoption.

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Top 5 Logistics Challenges and Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry

GlobalTranz

The manufacturing industry faces many challenges, such as a skilled labor shortage, supply chain instability, and inventory management issues. GlobalTranz works with manufacturing shippers every day to move their goods and streamline their logistics strategies. 5 Challenges Facing Supply Chain Managers in Manufacturing.

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Making The Case for an AI-Driven Transportation Management Software

ThroughPut

Making The Case for an AI-Driven Transportation Management Software . A sound Transportation Management Software can make a lot of difference here for logistics businesses. AI-powered Transportation Management Software – Defining the areas of impact .

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Navigating The River of Demand

Supply Chain Shaman

This large food manufacturer used a popular technology to forecast monthly using orders as an input. The bad news is that no team member wanted to accept that their planning implementation was making the forecast 27% worse. Some streams are forecastable, and some are not. The takeaway?