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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, if I improve the cost structure in transportation, procurement, manufacturing and sales independently, what decision support framework decides the right trade-offs? In today’s architectures and functional metrics, value optimization does not exist. You are right. The answer is not th e Gartner Top 25.

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The Role of Supply Chain Planning in Today’s Complex Business Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

By developing strategies for design, supply, production, distribution, and inventory, planning provides a foundation for product innovation and plays a key role in product simplification and SKU rationalization. Supply chain professionals use various tools, including supply chain modeling, inventory management, and forecasting.

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Thirteen Years a Blogger

Supply Chain Shaman

Despite the evolution of technology, none of the 28 industry segments I follow can drive improvement at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Functional Metrics and the Lack of Alignment to Strategy. I define supply chain excellence as the ability to outperform an industry peer group during a time period.

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How to Optimize Fulfillment with Unified Data

Logistics Viewpoints

Many large organizations have multiple systems for order, warehouse, or transportation management that are barely integrated frequently not at all. These steps include sourcing and receiving inventory, storing inventory, order processing, picking and packing an order, shipping the order, and returns management.

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Order Visibility Is Critical Amid Low Inventories

Logistics Viewpoints

But shippers looking to avoid disruptions and ensure that tight inventory levels don’t lead to missed sales opportunities pulled their orders forward. However, over-the-road transportation costs remain low. In the past month, imports — both ocean and air — surged as disruptions exacerbated congestion at the ports.

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Why Organizational Alignment is Critical to the Supply Chain Response

Supply Chain Shaman

Use of Supply Chain Descriptors Most organizations are locked into functional silos driven by functional metrics. Stuck in a rut, supply chain leaders try to punch their way through a set of conflicting metrics and priorities each day. The metrics defining success in manufacturing and procurement do not align.

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Beyond Cost Optimization: Building Resilient Supply Chains in an Unstable Trade Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

Political instability has disrupted transportation corridors. First, overreliance on a narrow group of suppliersespecially those in politically sensitive regionsexposes companies to risk when trade relationships shift. Metrics must reflect the new priorities. Trade tensions have led to abrupt tariff hikes.