BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Technology is disrupting the manufacturing industry, and with any type of change, comes opportunity. ChainLink Research recently released two reports about how digital technology is affecting today’s manufacturers. The first report, Digital Displacement , explores how these digital advancements are impacting manufacturers’ products.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. The winners include Apple, AbbVie Inc.,

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BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2015

In Part II I explained how seeking inspiration from retailers can help manufacturing companies move beyond supply chain segmentation to embrace customer-centricity. This post will explore the three capabilities essential to supply chain redesign.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Industry professionals have put in tireless hours and taken strategic measures to keep the supply chain moving and meet customer demand. Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

Use multiple sources of demand data in the forecast, and build a demand signal repository to harmonize and synchronize demand data from multiple sources. Automate Manufacturing to Use Independent Demand. Translate independent demand into a product segmentation strategy. Actively design the supply chain.

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BlueYonder

JULY 2, 2015

Omni-channel profitability for retailers and other value chain participants will increasingly depend on a matrix of available-to-promise possibilities across the various supply chain entities that make, move, and store inventory. Now, let’s fast forward to 2015.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 24, 2015

Today is the right time to take a fresh look at these strategic pillars and to explore their full potential as part of your supply chain strategy. Figure 1: A fresh look at the Five Tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains. These efforts put the emphasis on network design, inventory optimization and scenario-planning.

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