Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Companies must harness a wide variety of data structures and formats, spanning internal and external sources. Planners need the right information at the right time, presented with the proper context, to make meaningful decisions. While the abundance of data is seen as an asset, the real question is: What do you do with it?

Resource Reduction 291

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Resilinc

JUNE 9, 2025

Both scenarios carry hidden dependencies, but overreliance on single or sole sourcing is increasingly a hidden challenge. private companies are facing increased days in inventory and receivables, adding to liquidity strain. Rising concerns over cash conversion : U.S. Rising concerns over cash conversion : U.S.

Supply Chain Risk Management 138

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Technological Advancements Real-time inventory tracking and predictive analytics give leading firms a competitive edge. Optimize Inventory and Pricing Use AI-driven insights for stock mix optimization and dynamic pricing, reducing excess stock while meeting service level goals.

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ShipBob

JUNE 20, 2025

Table of Contents ** Minutes What is product sourcing? Where can I source products from? This makes it essential that buyers understand where they are sourcing their products from and how that ultimately affects their brand. What is product sourcing? Where can I source products from?

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Logility

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This eliminates the need for lengthy back-and-forth communications and manual data entry by delivering a single source of truth. So, instead of waiting for formal updates, each team sees the immediate impact of changing demand on inventory, production schedules, and budgets. Joe Slater and Jonathan Doller at NASCES 2024.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 27, 2025

weeks of inventory at retailers. The world experienced a 2% annual increase in total energy supply in 2024, with all energy sources—such as oil, gas, coal, nuclear, hydro, and renewables—showing growth, a trend last seen in 2006, the report stated. FedEx Closes 100 Stations Through Network 2.0

Supply Chain Planning Software 153

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 3, 2025

This disconnect between AIs potential and real-world adoption presents a significant opportunity for companies to gain a competitive edge, especially in supply chain management where uncertainty is the norm. A strong statistical foundation is essential to navigate the inherent unpredictability of demand.

Supply Chain Planning Software 156

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Bob Gill, General Manager of ARC Advisory Group (right), presented the award to Dave Ching, Head of Sales for Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand (left). Kole AMR integrated with a robotic picking arm in action Kole Robotics, another new participant, presented its range of AMR solutions for retrieval of totes at elevated height.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2025

These events impacted everything from facility operations and transportation routes to energy costs and inventory management. The logistics, supply chain, freight transportation, warehousing, and inventory management sectors often operate on razor-thin margins. tallying a staggering $182 billion in damages.

Supply Chain Planning Software 153

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 31, 2024

What is the role of make, source, and deliver? In our work with Georgia Tech using data from 1982-2023, we find that the R² of the Regression analysis of Cost-of-Goods Sold/Inventory Turns when compared to correlations of Operating Margin/Inventory turns to Market Capitalization/employee is 40-65% lower.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Over the last six years, we studied the connection between business results (growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)) and the link to company characteristics. In our monthly webinar last Wednesday, I presented these results. Recently, I was presenting to a supply chain team in Europe.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

(NASDAQ: AMSWA), a leading provider of innovative AI-powered supply chain management and advanced retail planning platforms, today announced that Allan Dow, Chief Executive Officer and President, and Vincent Klinges, Chief Financial Officer, will present virtually at the following investor conference: Jefferies Virtual Software Conference.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

Edge computing processing data locally, near the source has emerged as a method to address these challenges by reducing latency and improving resiliency. Data security at the edge also presents risks. Environmental factors present additional challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

In fact, pressures are very similar with warehouse labor cost inflation, labor shortages, and inventory shortages at the top of the “concerns” list. Simply put, supply chain operations are under strain with pressures coming from multiple sources. And they must be capable of adapting to various demands.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The data can be used to identify inefficiencies in the supply chain, improve inventory management, and streamline operations. Supply chain management The international sourcing of automotive components is now a common practice but it can still present challenges.

Automotive 98

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While AI is readily accessible to just about every business today, in my opinion Samara’s presentation was an important reminder that it needs to be applied thoughtfully and strategically. One of those inspiring stories was presented by HEINEKEN.

Gartner 118

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Logility

JANUARY 13, 2022

A live webcast of the presentation will be accessible via American Software’s website and archived for a limited time at www.amsoftware.com/investor-relations. Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022. Time: 10:00 am ET. Demand Management, Inc. Customers of New Generation Computing, Inc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. The audience assumes that the presenting company is outperforming. Watching the presentations, I wonder how we became so laser-focused on such a limited view of risk.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now more than ever, organizations must prepare their supply chain for the present and the unknown challenges and opportunities in the future. Doing so helps organizations detect market shifts and makes supply chain decisions more forward-looking than an analysis of the past, present, and at best, a tactical view of the future.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Let me give you an example: Last week, I gave a presentation at a global supply chain team meeting of 175 professionals. The team was organized around the functional silos of source, make and deliver. As I cleared my throat, and pushed my toes deep into my shoes, I bounded up the stairs to start the presentation. I was wrong.

Manufacturing Procurement 318

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s human nature to want to start a new year with new goals—the ever-present new year’s resolutions. Sourcing and procurement comes in close second at 88 percent, followed by innovation at 87 percent. Logistics and inventory management rounds out the top four focus areas at 82 percent.

Supply Chain Planning Software 325

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you can’t see what’s truly going on at any moment in time across your supply chain, you’ll make yourself vulnerable to lost opportunities, lost income, lost inventory, lost shipments, and eventually, lost customers. Our mission and core values are the foundation of our culture and guiding source in our interactions. So, what next?

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Freight Waves

JUNE 14, 2025

The threat of tariffs prompted companies to preemptively order goods and stockpile inventory to avoid cost-prohibitive levies—tariffs that would have significantly reduced, if not eliminated, demand, particularly for goods from China, their primary target. dropped from near-pandemic-era highs in early April to holiday-period lows by mid-May.

Supply and Demand 95

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2023

IL’s educational mission is to guide businesses to efficiently manage logistics, reduce and speed inventory, and neutralize transportation cost increases by aligning supply to demand and adjusting enterprise functions to support that paradigm shift. Read the press release here.

ToolsGroup 295

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On Friday, I presented an overview of outside-in planning to a consulting group. I love the questions when I present. The implementation of NoSQL for inventory management gives them an inventory signal with little to no process latency. Using network design technologies calculate the form and function of inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

By integrating the solution with customer accounting systems and other billing software, such as timecards, customers can inspect current charges in real time for an accurate snapshot of present expenses leading to improved forecasting. Lastly, this single source of truth for all parties positively impacts customer relationships.

Supply Chain Planning Software 273

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

Driver dwell is a key source of driver dissatisfaction and contributes to the driver shortage. Weisenberger’s presentation particularly interesting was that while Ms. K-C needed one solution … to understand where loads are all across the organization” based on “one source of truth.” This was an online event. What made Ms.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. Spinnaker Management Group asked me to co-present on a demand-driven webinar with SanDisk. Instead, in the SanDisk journey , they adjusted the speed of response to their customer segments, and actively designing inventory postponement strategies. So, why did I ask SanDisk to present?

Inventory Reduction 150

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 20, 2022

Sarah Voorhees, VP of Demand and Inventory Planning at American Tire Distributors , is one such leader who emphasizes the importance of individual check-ins: A 1:1 conversation can be intimidating, though, especially if the person has sensitive concerns. Source: Fortune. #3: Source: Fortune. But it doesn’t have to.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What is Source to Pay (S2P)? Yet in the case of source to pay, it is wholly justified. That said, many organizations, including large enterprises, may not think in terms of source to pay as an end-to-end process, if they think about it at all. Yet there are good reasons to do so.

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ModusLink Corporation

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

While tariffs are intended to protect domestic industries and generate revenue for governments, they also present significant challenges for companies that rely on international supply chains. Find alternate supply sources for the material and goods that are outside the affected tariffs.

Material Savings 78

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

While the performance rankings were based on comparisons of inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for the periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013, the concept is that to be a supply chain leader you must outperform and drive improvement. I then finished a forty-minute presentation, and prepared for questions.

Optimal Sourcing 365

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Logility

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

You can be proactive and use c ausal f orecasting to leverage data you already own, model additional data sources that could help explain demand variability… or do nothing. . As such, c ausal f orecasting is much more than basing inventory positions and replenishment schedules on shipment data. Featured Download.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

The usual themes were still very present as solution providers and retailers alike were more than happy to talk about omni-channel, mobility, and machine learning, to name a few. In a conversation with Blue Yonder executives, they pointed out that retailers are looking at port diversification for improved sourcing and allocation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

import volumes still climbing (see Figure 1), limited processing capacity at key West Coast ports and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) contract expiring next summer, importers will be scrambling to maintain the inventory they need to support the demand increase.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 15, 2023

The top issue we heard was ensuring resiliency in supply chains today, Decision Centric Planning, followed by the drive to accelerate digital transformation across supply chains, and then day 3’s keynote and a number of user-presented sessions focused on the people managing and the teams working in our supply chain. Look no further.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In manufacturing-based companies, 70-80% of costs are in the processes of source, make and deliver. While the practices of finance are over 200 years old, in contrast, supply chain as a cross-functional practice (the combination of make, source and deliver) was recently defined in 1982. Is talent a cost or an asset?

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