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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. Source: Supply Chain Insights ASCM defines resilience in the SCM Supply Chain Dictionary as the ability of a supply chain to anticipate, create plans to avoid or mitigate, and to recover from disruptions to supply chain functionality.

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Supply Chain Optimization Explained

ThroughPut

This opens up avenues to save procurement, transportation, inventory, and warehousing costs. Demand Forecasting With an optimized supply chain system in place, organizations can significantly benefit from accurate planning and forecasting of demand. This helps improve the overall operational efficiency of the supply chain.

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My Take: Let’s Admit Seven Demand Management Mistakes of the Last Decade

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies are the most satisfied with warehouse and transportation management and the least satisfied with demand planning. Supply Chain Management (SCM) concepts are now thirty-years old. Here we start with the seven that we see the most often: 1) One-number Forecasting. Teams are also confused on the process. The reason?

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Top 20 Verified Supply Chain Experts You Can Hire

SCMDOJO

Expertise: Agile Project Management, Lean Implementation in Warehouse, Supply Chain Simulation & Modelling, Warehouse Management Systems, Inventory Management, Business Intelligence (Power BI, Tableau, Google Data Studio), Advanced Excel Skills, warehouse management. David Location: Sweden Rating: 0/5.0 Connect with him now!

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

These are the key developments that are visualised on the 2016 version of Supply Chain Movement’s SCM IT Subway Map. SCM IT Subway Map 2016 EU. This young, publicly listed American software vendor recently bought out Terra Technology, a specialist in demand sensing (short-term forecasting based on point-of-sale data).

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Planning from the Edge

BlueYonder

According to the SCM World Future of Supply Chain survey 2016 , the use of social media as a planning input has grown substantially. Help forecast demand for “hot” products (51 percent in 2016, vs. 39 percent in 2012). Inform product enhancements/innovation priorities (58 percent in 2016, vs. 46 percent in 2012).

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Book Review: Logistics Clusters-Delivering Value and Driving Growth

Supply Chain Opz

A couple of months ago, I asked one question on Quora about how 3pl companies select a warehouse or facility location. If you have engineering background, Im certain that you know well about his work in various areas of logistics and scm. Facility location decision is a critical issue in strategic supply chain network design.