Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2024

In follow-up qualitative interviews, one of the largest issues with organizational alignment was metric definition and a clear definition of supply chain excellence. In my post Mea Culpa, I reference my work with the Gartner Supply Chain Hierarchy of Metrics. Error is error, but is it the most important metric? My answer is no.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 8, 2025

According to Gartner , early stages of S&OP maturity often lack formal processes, metrics, and cross-functional participation. However, many overlook the need to leverage supply planning capabilities effectivelymissing a vital opportunity to align operational plans and optimize business outcomes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Yawn and walk on if the answer is i mproving demand error or reducing inventory levels. Agents: Robotic agents, agent-based optimization, and chatbots formulate suggested actions from query, market shifts, or exceptions. How do I train and maintain the logic?” How do you know you have a better outcome or decision?”

Supply Chain Planning Software 396

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

By harnessing the power of data science and analytics, you can gain end-to-end visibility across your entire network, breaking down information silos and optimizing every stage of your operations. Data analytics also offers actionable insights for: Inventory Management: See stock levels across multiple locations in real-time.

Optimal Sourcing 98

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

But between rising costs, complex logistics, and the constant struggle to optimize space and labor, staying ahead can feel like an uphill battle. That’s where warehouse optimization comes in. Here’s what you can expect: A clear definition of warehouse optimization and its core components. Ready to get started?

Optimal Sourcing 97

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GlobalTranz

JULY 1, 2021

Creating a data-driven supply chain tracking important transportation metrics helps shippers respond and adapt as quickly as possible to known and unknown events. Why Monitor Transportation Metrics. Transportation metrics provide visibility that helps drive operative and competitive advantages.

Metrics 334

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

Now for the Do’s & Don’ts In the dynamic world of FMCG, your Route to Market (RTM) strategy and distributor partnerships can make or break your brand’s success. Do Invest in Distributor Capability Building : Provide training, digital tools, and performance incentives. Digital visibility enhances agility and decision-making.

Waste Reduction 165

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This targeted approach optimizes resource allocation and minimizes bottlenecks by allowing you to scale only where necessary. Optimizing existing layouts and exploring alternative locations may be necessary. Consider these essential metrics: Asset Utilization: How efficiently are your machines being used?

Material Savings 92

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Picture this: You’re a warehouse manager, and with a few taps on your smartphone, you instantly know the exact location and quantity of every item in your inventory. That’s not science fiction—it’s the power of mobile inventory management. Ready to turn your inventory from a headache into a strategic asset?

Inventory Management Software 96

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

A disruption at any point in the global logistics network including the average of 12 touch points from shipment packaging to final delivery can prove disastrous for profits, service levels, customer loyalty, and other key metrics. With the global e-commerce market predicted to reach $8.1 billion to $23.07

Supply Chain Planning Software 330

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 30, 2024

But shippers looking to avoid disruptions and ensure that tight inventory levels don’t lead to missed sales opportunities pulled their orders forward. As companies look ahead to the next three to six months, they’re weighing costs, risks, and demand as they plan and adapt their inventory strategies.

Inventory Reduction 300

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 11, 2025

Demand forecasting is a critical strategy for supply chain management that can dramatically improve business decision-making and financial performance. Executive priorities typically include: Increasing operational efficiency Improving service levels Justifying budget allocations Mitigating market volatility risks 3.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2025

Neils here is some feedback to consider: VMI: Vendor-managed inventory logic enables the downstream trading partner to manage inventories and the sell-through the channel. They dance in the bright light of these shiny objects at conferences with cell phones in hand depositing smiling selfies all over LinkedIn.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 21, 2025

This year’s conference brought together industry leaders, tech pioneers, and retail professionals to address challenges and opportunities, to explore technologies and strategies that promise to revolutionize the industry. Here are the key insights we gathered firsthand at this year’s event.

Supply Chain Planning Software 156

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 14, 2025

Delays, excess inventory, missed handoffs, and reactive decision-making are all signs of a supply chain that lacks coordination. The factory uses this information to make scheduling and inventory decisions more efficiently. This doesnt eliminate those systems, it organizes the data they produce.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Joshua is dedicated to helping eCommerce brands optimize their supply chains by offering premium fulfillment services. Offering comprehensive solutions, including warehousing, order fulfillment, and inventory management, Launch Fulfillment helps eCommerce brands streamline their supply chains.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 245

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As companies across industries have discovered, a well-optimized supply chain can drive significant improvements throughout their operations. In the automotive sector, manufacturers are simultaneously reducing inventory costs and delivery times. This post delves into the core drivers of supply chain efficiency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 17, 2025

This is amplified across the supply chain into an exponential impact on inventory and planned orders for manufacturing. Inventory Health. I find only 8% of companies actively measure inventory health. Few organizations have the ability to manage the form & function of inventory. Measure inventory health.

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Silvon Software

APRIL 16, 2025

Inventory is the lifeblood of any manufacturing business. By leveraging analytics and key performance indicators (KPIs), manufacturers can optimize inventory, reduce waste, and boost profitability. Tracking inventory flow and performance across your supply chain is a must. But what exactly should you measure?

Optimal Sourcing 65

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Despite the evolution of technology, none of the 28 industry segments I follow can drive improvement at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Functional Metrics and the Lack of Alignment to Strategy. Change is Hard. Unlearning is Tougher. The industry is full of experts. Guess what? Clarity on Value.

Supply Chain Design Software 221

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Think about it: How much time is wasted hunting down misplaced inventory? These include: Barcode Scanning Devices: These handheld devices, equipped with integrated inventory management apps, enable real-time tracking and data entry. Think real-time inventory visibility across all your locations.

Inventory Reduction 98

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2021

Promotion Management is defined as optimizing the utilization of tools, strategies, and resources to promote a product that will generate additional demand. So optimizing the promotion process leaves everyone involved better off. Why should we consider Promotion Planning in Inventory Management?

Inventory Management Software 279

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is that when companies optimize functional metrics, they throw the supply chain out of balance and sub-optimize value. Traditional approaches built optimization on top of relational databases. Automation of traditional planning taxonomies focused on cost reduction sub-optimizes market capitalization/employee.

Optimal Sourcing 195

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 24, 2025

The research methodology for the Supply Chains to Admire compares the performance of a company against its industry peer group for the metrics of Year-over-Year Revenue Growth, Inventory Turns, Operating Margin, and Return on Capital Employed (ROCE). Today, companies measure too many metrics without a clear definition of value.

Gartner 195

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Is supply chain inventory the problem?

Inventory Reduction 329

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2025

These virtual replicas of physical assets, processes, or systems allow leaders to simulate, analyze, and optimize real-world performancewithout incurring real-world risks. Static workflows based on outdated assumptions are no match for todays rapidly shifting inventory demands.

Sourcing Strategies 218

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 2, 2023

Suddenly, managing inventory is the name of the game for companies trying to manage working capital and maximize profit while keeping customers happy. And that’s where real-time perpetual inventory signals come in. Plus, accurate inventory information is the key to optimal decision-making.

Real-time Visibility 294

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ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

But within an enterprise, being aware of the differences between the two functions will shape strategy and operations, and ultimately impact performance. When decisions for either procurement or SCM are made in isolation, organizations can miss out on cost savings, end up with excess inventory, or experience delayed deliveries.

Procurement Solutions 130

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 14, 2024

trillion distortion inventory problem. Trillion Inventory Distortion Problem In this podcast, Karl Swensen, CEO and Co-founder of Pull Logic, discusses how their AI-enabled technology helps retailers, brands, and manufacturers reduce lost sales by addressing supply chain and selling process failure points. Summary: Solving the $1.8

Inventory Reduction 264

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 25, 2025

Even more impressive, lost sales due to stockouts can decrease by up to 65%, while inventory reductions of 20% to 50% are possible. Enhanced Promotions and Events Analysis Promotions, advertising campaigns, and trade events are vital components of marketing strategy, but accurately measuring their impact on demand remains challenging.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JULY 3, 2024

Catalyst Phase Overview The Catalyst Phase is the execution stage where the selected distributor(s) are integrated into your distribution network and the strategies developed during the blueprint phase are put into action. Track metrics such as sales volume, market share, inventory levels, and customer satisfaction.

Inventory Reduction 263

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Precoro

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Read on to explore key AI use cases in procurement, the challenges businesses face, strategies to overcome them, and the exciting opportunities AI brings for the future. This gives them advance warning so they can adjust their purchasing strategies. Here are the topics we’ll cover at a glance : What is AI in procurement?

Price Reduction 105

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

The trade with Asia we take for granted today was only possible by mitigating a significant supply chain trade-off – reducing costs without appreciable impacts to quality and service. Supply chain optimization has also improved in significant ways that can address these trade-offs better than before.

Optimal Sourcing 300

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Second, they adapt over time as market structures and strategies evolve. Third, they align the interests of all the firms in the supply network so that companies optimize the chain’s performance when they maximize their interests. The delivery against goals starts with leadership and a clear strategy. Buffer strategies.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) platforms have emerged as innovative solutions in education and training, offering customized support that can profoundly enhance the development of future supply chain experts. Preparing the next generation to excel in this dynamic field requires more than traditional education methods.

Supply Chain Planning Software 97

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Procurement Academy

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Proper execution of cross-functional training can turn siloed departments into unified and efficient teams; equipping employees with the right skills to collaborate seamlessly across organizations. Of course, the right training is key to the success of such initiatives, and can have a measurable impact on supply chain performance.

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Taulia

DECEMBER 6, 2024

How are companies rethinking their liquidity management strategies in response to the recent degradation across major working capital metrics? In the wake of economic uncertainty, many companies have experienced a degradation in key working capital metrics.

Inventory Reduction 52

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