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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

ZF Began their Digital Resilience Transformation 20 Years Ago! I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. ZF transforms those purchased products into over 2,000 products.

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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. When a company undergoes a digital transformation, the transformation should be based on an understanding of what they want to achieve.

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity.

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American Software Reports Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2022 Results

Logility

NASDAQ: AMSWA) today reported preliminary financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022. For the six months ended October 31, 2021, the Company reported operating earnings of approximately $4.5 We believe the future of supply chain sustainability is rooted in transparency, traceability and automation.”.

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What if Your ERP Never Gets Out of the ER?

BlueYonder

But the truth is, using a traditional, monolithic ERP to manage inventory and order management for omni-channel and e-commerce is more difficult than your ERP salesperson may have led you to believe. Microservices allow you to enhance and optimize specific areas of the supply chain without relying solely on ERP systems.

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

Hosting this webinar series is one of the favorite parts of my job as the Founder of Supply Chain Insights. This data will be combined with the financial ratio data and published in an Open Content Research report in April on the Supply Chain Insights Community. Current State: Costs are rising.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices.