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Redesign to Improve Value: A Case Study of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

While innovation has slowed in Enterprise Resource Plannning (ERP) and Supply Chain Planning, I am bullish about some of the innovation coming from the supply chain network design technology providers like JDA, Llamasoft and Solvoyo. For example, we discovered that transportation and duties are 5x the expense of labor and overhead.

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The difference between supply chain and logistics explained

Unleashed

The life of coffee begins with growers in the likes of Brazil or Vietnam. A lean business looking to build efficiencies would do well to try and improve this metric. A metric to determine how many days it would take to run out of supply if you did not replenish your stock. Transportation costs. E.g. 35 DOI + 31 DOR = 66.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire’s granular AIS data about transport vessels is now seamlessly incorporated into the cloud-based software system used by Gravity’s clients. This corporate management innovation eventually became standard operating procedure throughout the West. billion metric tons as of 2017.

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Omni-Channel Supply Chains Are Changing Everything You Ever Learned in School…

Supply Chain View from the Field

To give you an idea of what this is doing, the classic retail metrics, “same store sales” and “sales per square foot”, are no longer being reported by Macy’s department stores. For example, one may say machine washable, the other hand wash, one says made in USA, the other Made in Vietnam – for the same product!

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SCRC Meeting Insights Part II: Management Principles for Executing Visibility Strategies

NC State SCRC

Will digitization change the way we measure things and monitor metrics? How will real-time intelligence help me any more than what I’m doing today? What impact does digitization (the internet of things, or IoT) have on my organization and my employees?