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Supply Chain Planning Software Vendor Selection: What they Won’t Tell You

Logility

And, while every supply chain planning vendor worth their mettle will focus on value creation and delivery (some of us actually mean it, and know how to deliver it), you don’t always have to wait for that first vendor conversation for this to happen. They’re also how you will hold one another accountable.

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Playing the Beer Game with JDA

BlueYonder

Within the teams some tried to ply their supply chain expertise to attain these goals. Interestingly, both teams wound up with high excess inventory in the chain. One team had shortages at retail (very bad) and lower supply chain costs. But of course, without product at retail sites, you lose sales!

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The Most Reliable Supply Chain…Without Technology?

GlobalTranz

We hope you enjoy this great story about supply chain without technology. . Is your supply chain running as effectively as it should be? Do you carry too much inventory? I facilitate the “Productivity 101” introductory workshops as well as assist in the facilitation of the Productivity Improvement Network.

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Supply Chain Education: What Skills Do Your Staff Need?

Logistics Bureau

Supply Chain Leaders Academy is an accelerated training and education program for business managers and leaders and anybody who’d like a better understanding of supply chain operations. Inventory management. Warehouse and logistics performance management, measurement, and benchmarking.

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Can we re-shore and create a US semiconductor industry? Maybe…

NC State SCRC

This is an interesting area that might allow companies (even if they are not re-shored), the opportunity to have different components in inventory, and to mix and match them to create customized systems into printed format. The workshop brought to bear a whole different lens on this topic of re-shoring semiconductors.