Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

As supply chain leaders face heightened demand uncertainty and extreme supply chain disruption, the answer is not going to come from Silcon Valley. Big Tech innovation did very little to improve supply chains, but the implications of these layoffs loom large adding another layer to the current disruption.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 24, 2025

Self-congratulations notes abounded this week as vendor-after-vendor shared their rankings on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning. I believe that the Gartner Magic Quadrant is a barrier to progress in supply chain planning, and that vendors that rally in support have a false sense of superiority.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 4, 2025

His comments reflected a long-term orientation: technology and strategy are expected to evolve in parallel with shifts in the global supply chain environment. He emphasized that tools must speak the same language to support efficient, intelligent operations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2024

In follow-up qualitative interviews, one of the largest issues with organizational alignment was metric definition and a clear definition of supply chain excellence. In my post Mea Culpa, I reference my work with the Gartner Supply Chain Hierarchy of Metrics. ” Let’s face it all supply chains have error.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 14, 2024

trillion distortion inventory problem. Karl is the CEO and Co-founder of Pull Logic , an AI-enabled tech company focused on reducing lost sales for retailers, brands, and manufacturers due failure points in the supply chain and selling processes. Karl Swensen and Joe Lynch discuss solving the $1.8 Summary: Solving the $1.8

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2025

” At that time, the sales organization used more point-of-sale data than their competitors, they had an impressive and innovative IT team, and their supply chain processes were what I considered best-in-class. The use of the supply chain as a functional organization within the organization to reduce costs.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

states, obvious disruptions to supply chains and supply chain risk management were a given. Many of the states affected contained key ports and supply destinations, as well as transportation and logistics hubs. The human links of the supply chain were stressed. These ports accounted for 18.3%

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2022

Supply chain shortages have caused prices to rise globally on just about every consumer good imaginable. Gatik’s self-driving trucks to haul Georgia-Pacific goods to Sam’s Clubs. Descartes acquires XPS Technologies. Target expects squeezed profits from aggressive plan to get rid of unwanted inventory.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 26, 2014

If you want to stay ahead of your competition, take the step beyond the traditional approach to supply chain. It takes a completely different supply chain architecture that focuses on sensing, shaping and driving an intelligent response. As supply chains extend globally, they become more complex.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2023

To obtain a better understanding of the market prior to my outreach efforts, I contacted Cal Petty of enVista , a global consulting, managed services, and material handling automation firm. Cal has a wealth of experience from his many years in the warehouse technology market. He provided me with some great context for my research.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 13, 2023

Trey Closson is the Co-founder and CEO at Amplio, an Atlanta based tech firm builds supply chain resilience for electronics manufacturers. Trey and his Co-founder Taha Zinifi started Amplio in Summer 2021 to help solve one of the most critical supply challenges facing the industry. Access diverse sources of supply.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2024

MODEX is the leading trade show for supply chain, logistics, and material handling solutions in North America. It showcases the latest products, technologies, and services from over 900 exhibitors across various sectors and industries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Global supply chains are built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of transportation resources, and low variability. Supply chain leaders have little history to use as a guide to prepare. Before the pandemic, supply chain leaders experienced relatively free trade across borders in 2017.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 2, 2023

Carl graduated from Kansas State University with a business degree and a focus on Information Systems, as well as from Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute with a warehouse operations focus. inventory accuracy rate. He’s also a long-time member of the International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA).

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Over the next five weeks, seventy business/technology and consulting leaders will complete the course. Based on the work with Georgia Tech, we are getting clear on which metrics matter by industry. The layers of the outside-in process surround the traditional supply chain planning applications shown in blue.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended the installation of such technologies in all new passenger vehicles. and Israeli startups focused on logistics, the supply chain and customer fulfillment. and Israeli startups focused on logistics, the supply chain and customer fulfillment.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 8, 2017

Each industry has its peculiarities, among the others, in the logistics, manufacturing, and supply. The cloud-based supply chain software can be customized to suit your industry, your transportation , freight-forwarding and warehousing specialty, import-export regulations. A Better Scope Management. Feel no end of time!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Walmart steps up automated store distribution. Cyberattack on Toyota’s supply chain shuts 14 Japanese factories. E2open acquires Logistyx Technologies. Xerox addresses $300m backlog due to supply shortages. Ukraine in the news: War in Ukraine disrupts ships around the globe. US goods trade deficit hits record high.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

In business conversations, the term supply chain excellence rolls off the tongue frequently in meetings, but what does it mean? Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. We designed the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology to help companies define supply chain excellence.

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Stord

MAY 14, 2019

(May 15) -- STORD®, the pioneer of Networked Distribution, next-generation warehousing and distribution for modern shippers, today announced the relocation of its headquarters to Atlanta’s historic Biltmore Hotel, located directly across from Midtown’s Technology Square, a multi-block part of the Georgia Institute of Technology campus.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

The article introduced the concept of self-service planning and challenged companies to rethink the concepts of supply chain planning. Supply Chain Insights Training, 2024 The Opportunity Based on my research, I believe there is an opportunity to reduce the number of planning roles by 80-85%. Guess what?

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The value of peer-to-peer learning and networking was evident at last month’s Ryder Innovate conference — “an exclusive gathering of senior leaders in transportation, logistics, and supply chain seeking strategic insight, new ideas, and thought leadership to improve their supply chain and fleet operations.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I thought I understood all the major supply chain implications of the pandemic until I began reading Yossi Sheffi’s new book The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy beyond Covid-19. The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 14, 2015

by Carol McIntosh Insight #4 – Embracing Supply Chain Technology as a way to change SCM. I came to the realization that you would get the same reaction from a supply chain executive when discussing supply chain technology. Momentum can be constrained in supply chain too.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 23, 2015

History of Supply Chain Management. Over the last 100 plus years of the history of supply chain management has evolved from an initial focus on improving relatively simple, but very labor-intensive processes to the present day engineering and managing of extraordinarily complex global networks.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

drycleaning facility in Atlanta Georgia. These solutions shorten their clients’ order to cash cycle time, provide flexibility they need to proactively manage their inventory, and reduce chargebacks. They currently operate 3 locations in the southeast, and have a bench of 2500 workers.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 6, 2025

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives relative to this weeks announcement from adaptive supply chain planning technology provider ketteQ regarding its new product release which is named Dubai. Improved open architecture and solver-based technology.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 13, 2015

by Alexa Cheater We’re delighted to be bringing you a great live discussion on successful supply chain transformation based on Avaya’s first-hand experience. Join us on Thursday, April 30 at 1pm EST (5pm UTC) for “Supply Chain Transformation: Avaya’s Journey.”. VP and Group Director, Supply Chain and Operations.

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BlueYonder

JULY 1, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving automotive industry that is significantly impacted by macroeconomic challenges, government regulations, geopolitical tensions, software proliferation, and changing customer expectations, optimizing supply chain processes has become crucial for maintaining a competitive edge.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 5, 2022

Seldom, if ever, has the global supply chain received so much attention as it did in 2021. Some critics have called for a complete overhaul of the global supply chain, insisting current operations can’t be fixed. Supply Chain Trends. Digital Supply Chain Transformation.

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Kinaxis

MAY 13, 2015

by Alexa Cheater Did you miss our recent live webcast on Avaya’s supply chain transformation? With an outlined five-phase approach, Green discusses how Avaya was able to shift focus within the company, combining people, process and technology to achieve far-reaching success. VP and Group Director, Supply Chain and Operations.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 19, 2016

The supply chain software industry is in a considerable state of flux. furthermore, because the continuing growth in outsourcing is making global businesses ever-more susceptible to disruptions, supply chain risk management software is also on the rise. South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Over the last 100 plus years of the history of supply chain management has evolved from an initial focus on improving relatively simple, but very labor-intensive processes to the present day engineering and managing of extraordinarily complex global networks. History of Supply Chain Management: Roots.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 2, 2024

They were introduced to the public in July 1986; the first machine, produced by CheckRobot, was installed in a Kroger store near Atlanta, Georgia.” ”[3] All retailers, not just grocers, are suffering from inventory losses. Humble at Deerfield Beach, Florida-based company CheckRobot Inc.,

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Do you know how many boxes of raspberry gourmet coffee Kroger should keep at their store in rural Georgia? Handling inventory of fast movers, items that are sold quickly and in large amounts, is very well understood. However, many open questions still arise when it comes to the other part of inventory: Slow movers.

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QAD

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The global supply chain is facing a perfect storm of challenges, and dealing with it, according to GE CEO Larry Culp , “really is akin to playing Whac-A-Mole.” And the current global supply chain disruptions may be sticking around longer than we might think. As one headache is eased, another pops up.

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Ware2Go

MARCH 12, 2025

Service Excellence Ware2Go’s commitment to innovation is evident in its technology-driven approach and focus on customer success. Their comprehensive services include advanced inventory management, same-day order fulfillment, secure warehousing, and value-added offerings such as kitting, labeling, and custom-branded packaging.

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