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How Can CIOs Accelerate Supply Chain Transformation? Think Less Planning, More Real-Time Decision-Making

Logistics Viewpoints

But to verify the “in full” part, your real-time transportation solution needs to be connected to warehousing, inventory, fulfillment and order management. Supply chains, after all, are very appropriately named — and the old saying about a chain being only as strong as its weakest link holds true here.

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Top 15 Logistics Stories of 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

If you haven’t attended recently, it is an unmatched display of warehouse automation, robotics, and software systems. The Promise and Peril of Generative AI for Supply Chains ; Polly Mitchell-Guthrie ( Kinaxis ) “Our rules of thumb are no longer up to the challenge.” How Can CIOs Accelerate Supply Chain Transformation?

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Supply Chain Transformation: Not Just Digital, But Physical Too

Talking Logistics

Over the past couple of years, we have published many blog posts and produced several video episodes on supply chain digital transformation (see our archives ). The approach, now in pilot mode at a warehouse in Perth Amboy, N.J.,

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Goods move through 25 ports of entry into North America and 10 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Achieving Agility with Regional Supply Chains. A Digital Supply Chain Transformation. There will be one view of inventory across the entire distributed network.”. This will be about a 1.2

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Mars Wrigley’s Highly Successful Supply Chain Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

Mars has been on a journey to transform their digital supply chain. In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. This visibility is key to both the root cause analysis and the inventory rebalancing.

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Bristlecone Flash – October 2020

Bristlecone

There’s more to supply chain transformation than systems integration. In fact, successful digital transformation initiatives focus on people and processes, not technology alone. Recent highlights include: Go-lives across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Process Design. Performance Management.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Therefore, a firm would be well served to develop a supply chain strategy as described in my book: Supply Chain Transformation. It is safe to say that if a warehouse operation is not implementing Lean, it is falling behind its competition. Supply chain cost is always flat around the optimal strategy.