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Körber Elevate 2024: Chart Your Course

Logistics Viewpoints

I am coming to you from the sunny confines of San Diego, CA where I am attending the 2024 Körber Elevate conference. Workforce Planning : this allows for a company to forecast order and task volumes to predict labor requirements and optimize workforce planning.

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Qualcomm’s Answer to the Chip Shortage and Digital Transformation Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

In May, I attended the Kinaxis Kinexions event in San Diego, CA. The larger impacts have been more around shifts in demand from Covid; demand unexpectedly shifted into a different direction and consumed all resources above the forecast. One of the biggest issues was the labor shortage during Covid.

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One Multinational’s Supply Chain Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Changes to the plan are based on changes to the forecast, manufacturing capacity, supplier constraints, and a host of other factors. Most companies use shipment history as the key data for forecasts. The company is moving to include more industry and government data on macroeconomic trends to improve their long term forecasting.

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Kinaxis Kinexions ’22: Ready. Together.

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week I attended Kinaxis Kinexions ’22 in San Diego, CA. creates a true picture of demand by incorporating internal data and outside-in external signals to improve demand and supply plans and deliver insight across all planning horizons using machine-learning based sensing and forecasting.

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Three Reasons Public Sector Must Transform Grants Management NOW

ivalua

Automation can deliver improved forecasting, monitoring and collaboration in addition to a more predictable and sustainable means of managing federal resources. Sean has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Vanderbilt University and a Masters in Business Administration from San Diego State University. Reason No. 3 – It’s Timely.

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Transportation is the Great Enabler of Supply Chain Excellence

Talking Logistics

They need to participate in sales and operations planning to properly forecast and budget transportation needs. Side note: I am serving as the Transportation Track Co-chair at this year’s CSCMP Annual Global Conference (September 27-30 in San Diego). Is it more than ensuring dwell time is minimized at pick-up and delivery?

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Five Signs Your Business Needs a Fulfillment Partner

Ware2Go

Although they owned multiple buildings in different areas including Los Angeles, San Diego, Philadelphia, and Mexico, Lee Seigel of ECR4Kids observed that, “As we move into a more hyperspeed environment, where orders in by 11:00 AM need to ship by 4:00 PM, that model just doesn’t work.”