Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 30, 2020

The approaches and technologies deployed before March 2020 are now legacy. The companies are just not good at managing inventories and orchestrating distribution strategies. The implementation of marketing and sales technologies made sales and marketing processes more efficient, but not market-driven. The difference?

Supply Chain Design Software 360

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

While the shift from products to services will decrease consumer-centric manufacturing, the rapid escalation of defense will put unprecedented pressure on this supply chain. The answer lies in network design, demand sensing, and the simplification of product platforms. This was the biggest escalation since the 31.8%

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

With almost 30 million customers, BT (British Telecom) is the largest provider of consumer mobile and fixed broadband communications services in the UK. The supply chain division fulfills 40,000 individual customer orders every day, making sure that 32,000 engineers get the tools, parts and equipment they need to deliver support and services.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

While most consultants and technologists want to sell technology, and are eager to slap in a new piece of software, my caution is to slow down and better understand root issues before having a technology discussion. When a company contacts me to help them with their supply chain, the pain is usually a gap in customer service.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I have to go to the grocery store again today to replenish our inventory (yeah, I don’t shop for groceries online; as the son of a bodegero, I’m old fashioned that way.). Alexa Heads to the Warehouse (WSJ – sub. Postal Service seeks record price hikes to bolster falling revenues (CNN). Alexa in the Warehouse.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

However, this mature team found the technology insufficient. They gave lip service to the need for IT standardization, but ran their process on a custom built model that enabled reverse bill of material, and profitability analysis. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Mistake #3.

S&OP 195

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

With almost 30 million customers, BT (British Telecom) is the largest provider of consumer mobile and fixed broadband communications services in the UK. The supply chain division fulfills 40,000 individual customer orders every day, making sure that 32,000 engineers get the tools, parts and equipment they need to deliver support and services.

Supply Chain Design Software 156

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 12, 2021

Maybe it’s because the tools are out there to do it now, but I’d like to highlight other approaches that are less time-consuming and resource-hungry. Four Ways to Streamline Your Network Design. I’ve been doing network design for all of 25 years. Now there are great tools, such as Supply Chain Guru and others.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

So when the warehouse team threatened to unionize, I transferred into a distribution, warehouse environment. I knew nothing about the world of logistics, inventory management and order optimization. I knew nothing about the world of logistics, inventory management and order optimization. The year was 1985.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The discussions are with groups of executives—often ex-management consultants. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Background.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2019

Test your warehousing and supply chain colleagues. Ask them if they have considered the difference between triadic and non-triadic warehouses? So, who cares about Triadic warehouses? Firstly, what is a Triadic Warehouse? . It’s a warehouse that is broken up into three sections. Are triadic warehouses good?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Warehouses are full and shelves are empty. Container inventory is imbalanced. Fourteen of twenty-eight industries have rising inventories. The design, and redesign, of supply chains needs to be continuous based on market data. Invest in network design technologies. Volume is up. What to do?

Analytics Software 195

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Warehouses are full and shelves are empty. Container inventory is imbalanced. Fourteen of twenty-eight industries have rising inventories. The design, and redesign, of supply chains needs to be continuous based on market data. Invest in network design technologies. Volume is up. What to do?

Analytics Software 195

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 6, 2020

Tools in the sandbox have been carefully picked and open to enhancements as it need to be built with bridges. These tools should organize in such a way to deliver interim milestone results and data collection itself is progressive and matched to identically required in the respective digital twin.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Pioneered the use of vendor-managed inventory. Implemented cross-docking in its supply network to enable inventory reductions. Established the strategic use of technology to gain supply chain efficiencies. Supply Chain Network Design. Built strategic partnerships with vendors to drive down prices.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. The machine learning algorithms in IBM’s Watson platform were able to determine if a shipping container and.or References.

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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.” VP, LLamasoft.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 8, 2023

If there’s any piece of technology or analytics that can help with the most advanced data-driven decision-making in the supply chain right now, that’s prescriptive analytics. This includes, for instance, tackling stock errors, damaged inventory, and demand miscalculations, leading to improved operational performance and cost savings.

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FLEXE

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Find out how to satisfy the “need it now” mentality of your customers through a better last-mile strategy from our technology partner, Convey’s, VP / Chief Marketing Officer, Kirsten Newbold-Knipp. Inventory was sent in scheduled, bulk shipments and the destination was a shelf, not a doorstep. Are they seasonal?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

The Delta Medallion customer service agent told me that she had never seen anything quite like it. While driving reliability is the first step, bringing excitement through new products and services and approaches to the market ignites the relationship. Reliability is the hallmark of great customer service. A tough time for all.

Cost Reduction Strategies 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

After two decades of process and technology refinement, excellence in demand management still eludes supply chain teams. Companies are the most satisfied with warehouse and transportation management and the least satisfied with demand planning. For most companies, this requires a re-implementation of the demand planning technologies.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been leading a few calls for the International Institute of Analytics, as a faculty lead for the manufacturing group. They are saying “we need to down the analytics platform, and define the roles and responsibilities of that area.”. We are preparing for the Chief Analytics Officer meeting coming up in Chicago in June.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2017

… Well… As you may know, we have an education division in our group called Supply Chain Leaders Academy, and every so often we like to make sure our program is still up-to-date and relevant. Supply Chain Technology: If the human resource is the most critical in supply chain operation, information technology is not far behind.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

In particular, Ferguson’s supply chain is built for speed and to provide high service levels. Ferguson provides plumbing and heating products to 9 specialist customer groups – over a million customers – in the US and Canada. The company also does internal climate scores of employees at corporate, the branches, and the warehouses.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Getting the Service Policy Right. One of the fastest ways I know to burn money in Supply Chain management is not to have clear customer service policies or to have service policies that are poorly implemented and communicated. 3) Don’t have a one size fits all customer service policy. Customers are NOT all one size.

Cost Reduction Strategies 40

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

When it is not in motion, it is classified as inventory. Philosophy: What approach to supply chain fits the industry, culture, time, technology, capabilities and objectives of your organization? . But this took time – we had to “defrag” our supply chain, and eventually I learned we had 59 days of inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

ARC Advisory Group, in partnership with DC Velocity magazine, has just launched an online survey of logistics practitioners to evaluate the future direction of today’s distribution facilities, technologies, and practices. We encourage qualified practitioners to take the survey, and we will […].

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Inventories in the chemical industry are at record lows: a forerunner of bad days ahead. Much of the inventory on the ships at sea will miss the essential seasonal windows. Each requires design and fine tuning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. I am not quite sure. It evolved over time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Inventories in the chemical industry are at record lows: a forerunner of bad days ahead. Much of the inventory on the ships at sea will miss the essential seasonal windows. Each requires design and fine tuning.

Supply Chain Design Software 195

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Inventories in the chemical industry are at record lows: a forerunner of bad days ahead. Much of the inventory on the ships at sea will miss the essential seasonal windows. Each requires design and fine tuning.

Supply Chain Design Software 195

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Supply Chain Network Design. Along with the design of supply chain strategy, the design of the supply chain itself, especially the part which deals with outbound distribution from plants or warehouses, is instrumental in the success or failure of businesses. Supply Chain Service Performance.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Gartner analyst Paul Lord has developed a framework to better understand inventory trade-offs by categorizing those decisions according to the objectives they are meant to achieve: structural, operational and situational. Many companies struggle with decisions such as “How many days of sales or inventory turns per year should we target?

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I attend and speak at many supply chain and logistics conferences throughout the year, but among my favorites are those that bring a relatively small group of executives together to discuss timely and important industry topics. Valerie Bonebrake, SVP at Tompkins International , on network design and optimization.

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Vinculum

MARCH 27, 2020

Today, consumers are much more astute at comparing goods and services online and making informed and cognitive purchase decisions based on their research. Cross border e-commerce or International ecommerce allows the merchants to sell their products and services to consumers located in other countries. Deliveries, returns, and refunds.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Clorox was a Supply Chains to Admire Winner in 2016 and in the top-tier of performance within the peer group for 2017/2018.). He searched for the difference between a responsive supply chain with short cycles and an agile supply chain that could deliver the same cost, quality and customer service given the level of demand supply variability.

Inventory Reduction 170

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 30, 2017

In logistics or the world of “trucks and sheds”, meaning shipping and warehousing, manual labour is a huge part of operations. Even in warehouses today, somebody must drive the forklift trucks, pick the items to packed for shipping, and organise loading. No more warehouse operatives. Let’s start with warehousing.

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