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Shorter Supply Chains are Upending Globalization Patterns

Enterra Insights

Supply chain disruptions during the pandemic highlighted global dependence on Chinese manufacturing — and those dependencies raised serious concerns among China’s trading partners. As supply chain challenges eased and cooler heads prevailed, calls for decoupling decreased but admonitions to de-risk supply chains increased.

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Taming Supply Chain Bullwhips with Artificial Intelligence

Logility

Taming Supply Chain Bullwhips with DemandAI+ Bullwhip effect is a common term used in supply chain to describe how a small change in consumer purchasing pattern or a change in any demand pattern that can cause significantly large impacts to supply.

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North American Building Materials Leader Cornerstone Building Brands Chooses ToolsGroup and River Logic’s Technology

ToolsGroup

Unique Partnership Delivers an End-to-End Network Optimization Solution to Seamlessly Integrate Supply Chain Design, Manufacturing Footprint and Probabilistic Planning and Execution for Leading Building Materials Manufacturer. Two of Cornerstone Building Brands’ business units — Aperture Solutions – U.S.,

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Supply Chain Success Prompts ToolsGroup-Lãberit Partnership to Expand into LATAM

ToolsGroup

After fruitful collaboration in Europe, the partners in supply chain software implementation celebrate a significant regional expansion. The partnership began in 2021, as ToolsGroup explored more avenues for leveraging its powerful AI-driven supply chain planning solutions. Find out more here.

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Outside-in Process Q&A

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, in manufacturing, the shift in focus is away from OEE to focus on first pass yield and schedule adherence.) The layers of the outside-in process surround the traditional supply chain planning applications shown in blue. Their goal is clear–stabilize the blood supply in the United States.

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Inventory and Inflation

Enterra Insights

The irony of excess inventory. ”[3] He continues, “The past two years have been blighted by supply shortages — with just-in-time retailers struggling to ship their goods, electronics manufacturers staring down a shortage of computer chips, and supermarkets struggling to fill their shelves.

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Supply Chain Planning Solutions are Not Just for the Big Boys

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies implementing supply chain planning (SCP) have traditionally been very big companies or companies with complex supply chains. Supply chain planning is not just for the big boys. Myers Industries (NYSE: MYE) is headquartered in Akron, Ohio in the United States.