Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Harvard Business Review recently published an article, “ To Build Resilience, CEOs Need to Become Supply-Chain Experts ”. In this article, we wanted to discuss one aspect of supply chain that is often not given enough attention – building strategic relationships and shared value with direct spend suppliers.

Manufacturing Procurement

Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Based on this, a multiple-month financial, supply chain, and capital expenditure plan is produced. A supply chain planning application is the core technology that enables robust planning. Historically, the supply chain plan that resulted from the IBP process was too static. More than 5.6

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2025

Others had already pressure-tested their supply chain strategies for moments like this. That’s why real-time supply chain orchestration is no longer a nice-to-have. Scenario modeling, running what-if simulations to stress-test sourcing, pricing, and inventory decisions, has become a cornerstone of supply chain strategy.

Modeling

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Trade policies are constantly evolving, forcing companies to assess how these changes impact customer demand, supply networks, fulfillment strategies, and cost to serve. Supply chains need to be more agile than ever, yet much of the advice circulating in the industry remains high-level or less than ideal.

Manufacturing Procurement

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

However, the scope and timeline of the initiative carry clear implications for the food and beverage supply chain. From raw material sourcing to logistics and regulatory compliance, stakeholders across the value chain will need to prepare for structural adjustments. Production scheduling may also be affected.

Manufacturing Procurement

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 16, 2025

For years, supply chain professionals have talked about visibility, resilience, and efficiency. What is needed is a practical, scalable way to unify supply chain data across systems, make it useful in real time, and apply intelligence, whether from algorithms, machine learning models, or a trained human eye, to act on it quickly.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

We are not designing work with the human factor in mind. The goal of human factor process design is to make it easy for employees to do the right thing (and hard to do the wrong thing). Today, in supply chain planning, this could not be further from reality. The signal is clear for commercial teams, but not for supply.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For over a decade, since founding Supply Chain Insights in 2012, I have pounded the keyboard, asking business leaders to think more holistically about the impact of supply chain decisions on the firm’s value, the improvement of a value chain, and the impact on the environment. Thirteen years. Change is Hard.

Supply Chain Design Software

Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For the past few years, the news has been filled with stories about supply chain disruptions, supply chain fragility, and the need for supply chain resilience. A term once prominent in supply discussions optimization isn’t heard quite as often as it used to be.

Optimal Sourcing

SCMDOJO

APRIL 24, 2025

Excess inventory weighs down supply chains. The Hidden Costs of Traditional Inventory Models Traditional inventory models were built for predictability. Parts produced early in the cycle may no longer fit revised designs or meet updated performance standards. But in volatile markets, they often backfire.

Waste Reduction

Kinaxis

AUGUST 1, 2025

If you were still haven’t prepared your supply chain, now is the time to act. Rather than make a Hail Mary move, you need a strategic framework that shifts your supply chain from short-term, reactive firefighting to long-term adaptability. And you need something that delivers return on value along the way.

Negotiating Skills

ivalua

JULY 3, 2025

Direct and indirect procurement are two fundamental approaches in supply chain management, each serving distinct functions within an organization. Together, these procurement strategies are essential for robust, efficient business operations. Discover how Ivalua can transform your direct and indirect procurement.

Manufacturing Procurement

RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Supply chain efficiency is the cornerstone of success and involves the effective management of processes, resources, and technologies from procurement to production, transportation to warehousing. In the automotive sector, manufacturers are simultaneously reducing inventory costs and delivery times.

Sourcing Strategies

SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is an established industry process that aims at finding a balance between demand and supply and streamlining cross-functional collaboration. Procurement People should learn the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Process. Click here to learn more and register today!

S&OP

Logility

AUGUST 12, 2025

As AI advances in the 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle , four innovations are turning supply chain planning volatility into a proving ground for intelligent business operations. The rules of supply chain planning are being rewritten in real time. Technology is allowing companies to leverage resilience into opportunities.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 4, 2025

Normality evaporated for supply chain leaders around the world. Global Supply Chain Pressure Index September 1997 through June 2025 Why We Need to Look Backward to Look Forward On Friday, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics released revised data showing that, over the past three months, the U.S. The difference?

Inventory Reduction

ivalua

AUGUST 6, 2025

Indirect procurement sometimes flies under the radar, but its impact on cost, compliance, and efficiency can be significant. However, when left unchecked, mismanaged indirect procurement can cost a lot of money, pose audit risk, and a lack of transparency into who’s buying what – or why. What Is Indirect Procurement?

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 30, 2025

Subscribe Supply Chain Challenges and Strategies in the Custom Home Building Industry! For builders, constructors, and homeowners alike, the availability, quality, and design of deck materials depend on one powerful factor: the supply chain. The transparency of the supply chain is critical.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 2, 2025

The Connected Supply Chain. Drip Digital Supply Chain. Autonomous Supply Chain Planning. Self-Healing Supply Chains. Touchless Supply Chains. Small companies outperform large companies, and the marquee customers of major supply chain planning technology providers underperform.

Optimal Sourcing

ivalua

JULY 21, 2025

A Procurement System refers to a sophisticated framework or software designed to streamline and automate various stages of the procurement process within an organization. Best-of-breed solutions often specialize in specific aspects of procurement, while full-suite solutions seamlessly automate multiple process steps.

Procurement Solutions

Precoro

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Traditionally, procurement has been a process weighed down by manual tasks, fragmented systems, and endless paperwork. Today, procurement is undergoing a transformation. While procurement teams have long worked to add strategic value, Artificial Intelligence (AI) amplifies their impact.

Price Reduction

RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Ever feel like your supply chain is a tangled mess of spreadsheets, frantic phone calls, and last-minute scrambles? It’s the key to transforming your supply chain from a source of frustration into a well-oiled, profit-generating machine. Forget static network designs and gut-feel decisions.

Optimal Sourcing

Procurement Academy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Global conflicts, macroeconomic shocks, and shifting global trade routes are all combining to provide real challenges to modern supply chains, and are driving the uncertainty that organizations feel. Companies often struggle to plan for such challenges, which is why developing a strong and resilient supply chain team is so important.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

Here are the Top 5 Do’s and Don’ts to help you build a high-performing RTM model and distributor network: ✅Top 5 Do’s Do Align RTM Strategy with Consumer Behaviour : Design your RTM based on where, how, and why your consumers shop. As part of the workshop, we are developing a list of Do’s and Don’ts related to Distributor Management.

Waste Reduction

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 24, 2025

In an age where supply chains stretch across continents and rely on increasingly complex data streams, the ability to present data clearly and effectively is no longer a luxury—it’s a strategic necessity. Here’s how better presentation of supply chain data can directly impact decision-making: 1.

Supply Chain Design Software

RFgen

AUGUST 5, 2025

In recent years, the global automotive industry has been shaken by a persistent microchip shortage, halting production lines, escalating costs, and testing the resilience of even the most sophisticated supply chains. In this context, reactive procurement strategies are no longer viable. Financial constraints (e.g.

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As businesses become increasingly global, professionals in the supply chain field must keep up with new technologies, trends, and best practices. Summary Table edX Supply Chain Courses vs. SCMDOJO Aspect SCMDOJO edX Focus & Specialization A dedicated platform focused entirely on supply chain management.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logility

APRIL 28, 2025

Then came generative AI drafting emails, designing ads, and helping developers code. ” What makes supply chains an ideal proving ground for this evolution? It’s a natural fit for an environment built on orchestration across vendors, partners, inventory, and data. In the beginning, there was AI that learned.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

SCB Feature Report From DPW: What’s Next for AI in Supply Chain? That’s because the promise of artificial intelligence for supply chain operations is huge. It could do more to accelerate the journey of supply chain operations from the backroom to the boardroom than any other change. trillion to U.S.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Procurement Academy

APRIL 24, 2025

When you look behind the scenes of a global business operation, procurement strategy and supply chain management are usually top priorities, though theyre not always working in sync. This blog explores procurement vs supply chain strategy and looks at how aligning the two leads to operational excellence.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The success of your business links inextricably to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers Now for those statistics I mentioned. If you want business success (and who doesn’t?),

Inventory Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

Breaking Down Business Silos Supply chains don’t exist in isolation. To truly build resilience across the entire organization — including supply chain and logistics — businesses need to remove the internal silos that can lead to restricted data flow and collaboration. It all starts with adaptability.

Sourcing Strategies

Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 20, 2025

If you were tasked with procuring the best supply chain IT system, what would you look for? Think of it managing things like purchase orders, invoices, and inventory records. SCM then takes these plans and helps execute them across your entire supply chain network. Are ERP Systems the Answer?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 13, 2025

Bowman, SupplyChainBrain Supply chains consist of imperfect humans struggling to make perfect decisions. That, at least, is the theory behind mathematical optimization, and the way it’s being applied to supply chain management today. In the end, though, it all comes down to a game of numbers.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

If you’ve ever tried to buy a new car during the chip shortage or waited months for furniture delivery, you’ve experienced firsthand what happens when supply chains break down. Supply chain resilience is your business’s ability to bounce back when things go wrongand in today’s world, things will go wrong.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

Inventory buffers shrink. And cross-functional teams — from procurement and sales to finance and customer service — are left scrambling to react. To keep operations and supply chains stable amid the volatility of today’s global trade dynamics, companies need a freight strategy that can flex under pressure. intensified.

Freight

Jaggaer

MAY 8, 2025

I am a big believer in procurement getting involved as early as possible in new product development based on all the market knowledge available. The worst-case scenario is product engineering developing a new product, selecting a supplier and then telling procurement to get on with negotiation. Do you give suppliers accurate forecasts?

Optimal Sourcing