ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2023

Read the blog → Alternative Transportation Mode We’ve also enhanced our replenishment functionality, specifically around transportation modes. Using the built-in machine learning capabilities of SO99+, users now can make better-informed decisions when selecting different transport options. Learn more →

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Early IoT adopters in the transportation, retail, energy, agriculture, healthcare, and city management sectors are proving the IoT’s value every day. ” Transportation optimization. The IoT ecosystem can be used to optimize transportation routes and increase both efficiency and effectiveness. ”[6].

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2023

This includes digital supply chain transformation and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) upgrades. Certain supply chains like maintenance parts, designer/fashion items, new product launches, and food service items must be managed in an agile supply chain. Inventory as Waste. Frustration.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Digital innovation across every node of the supply chain is occurring – and fast. Smart factories, smart warehouses and smart transportation are becoming a reality as manufacturers invest in technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and more.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Digital innovation across every node of the supply chain is occurring – and fast. Smart factories, smart warehouses and smart transportation are becoming a reality as manufacturers invest in technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and more.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

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. Beery concluded that the best transformation projects would be, one, improved supply chain planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

There are lively debates about the meaning and prioritization of scale, globalization, outsourcing, and inventory optimization. Their transportation networks are more diverse, in many cases aided by connections to digital freight marketplaces. Automate, automate, automate – This is not a new idea or trend.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ZF Began their Digital Resilience Transformation 20 Years Ago! I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. The ZF supply chain is complex. There are also avoided costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

5 Supply Chain Predictions for 2023 ; Dr. Madhav Durbha ( Coupa Software ) So much has changed in a year! While the supply chain pressures that have built up over the last two years continue to abate as transportation capacity problems ease and consumption shifts from goods to services, newer challenges and opportunities lie ahead.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But the truth is, using a traditional, monolithic ERP to manage inventory and order management for omni-channel and e-commerce is more difficult than your ERP salesperson may have led you to believe. Microservices allow you to enhance and optimize specific areas of the supply chain without relying solely on ERP systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Finally, inventory accuracy can never be as high in a store as in a warehouse. Arthur Valdez, Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain and Logistics Officer at Target, spoke about the mega-retailer’s supply chain transformation at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ( CSCMP ) online forum in September.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 23, 2022

“Demand was greater than available inventory” was a common theme in many retailers’ earnings announcements in early Q1 of 2022. After a strong start to the quarter in inventory receipts and product sell-through, we experienced unexpected inventory receipt slides in key categories due to extended port and transportation delays.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In recent years, BT Supply Chain underwent a transformation to provide its services to businesses using the company’s existing network. We spoke with David Mackenzie , Transformation & Inventory Director at BT, to learn more about this shift and the role AIMMS has played in enabling it.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Founded in 2002 with over 100 consultants and based in Boulder, Colorado , Spinnaker SCA designs and builds agile supply chains for leading brands across Consumer Staples, High Tech, Industrial Manufacturing, Retail & Apparel, Medical Devices, and Distribution Industries. No financial details were disclosed in the announcement.

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crisp

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The publication, dedicated to the movement of products throughout the cold food and beverage sector, reserves the annual award for individuals “whose achievements, hard work and vision have shaped the global food supply chain.”

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although portions of the supply chain are functioning well, many consultants believe a true transformation is needed in order to make the global supply chain more resilient. Such a transformation will take time, effort, and, of course, money. Automating processes for improved inventory turnovers.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2023

Multiple pre-pandemic vulnerabilities and added risk areas were exposed, including the disruption of global wide transportation and logistics processes impacting broader industry supply chains. Inventory levels in retail channels remain at high levels because of bullwhip excess ordering.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In our recent survey on analytics, today 74% of companies are attempting to improve supply chain visibility (as shown in Figure 1). Projects Being Implemented as Part of a Digital Supply Chain Transformation Project. We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

The increased cost of working capital and supplemental inventory levels to mitigate fulfillment risk is likely to revert back to just-in-time inventory management. Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

One prominent speaker was MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics , who specifically addressed advanced AI’s impacts on supply chain processes and future decision-making. From our lens, that is the most important takeaway for our readers.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 1, 2023

How to better insulate customers from supply chain risks. According to Jack, Lenovo leverages Blue Yonder to fulfill its supply chain transformation vision and requirements, because Blue Yonder has the only supply chain planning suite that can handle its levels of company, product and process complexity and workload.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Arthur Valdez, Target ’s Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer since 2016 , will retire from the company but continue in an advisory role through April 2023. Gretchen McCarthy, current Senior Vice President , global inventory management, will succeed Valdez and join Target ’s leadership team.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Model element include forecasts, capacities, inventory positions, lead-times, resource availability, costs, revenues, and profits. Finally, the model needs constant updates of customer, production, purchase, and distribution order status to ensure analysis and resulting actions reflect what is currently happening in the physical supply chain.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

Salim: Because resilience is not about just carrying boatloads of inventory, we advise these companies to design their network and stage inventory at the right places in the network to minimize working capital and cash flow. Terence: Are these supply chain transformations going full speed from the onset?

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Timely Industry Example- Online Retail and E-Commerce With increased importance of online retail, E-Commerce or services-centric business models, enhanced coordination of customer focused fulfillment and inventory management has taken on special emphasis. and specifically increased demand for many forms of pandemic related consumer goods.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Strategic relationships, improved collaboration with logistics providers, and the possibility of bringing 3PL/4PL in-house to reduce transportation and warehouse costs and gain more control over logistics operations are all strategies to enable supply chain resiliency. This has a substantial impact on their EBITDA margins.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

based retailers would provide the best indicators of retail industry customer fulfillment trends including various changing strategies in inventory management and customer fulfilment efforts, along with restoring higher profitability levels. Overall inventory declines of 4.5 percent decline was offset by a 5.1 percent to $5.7

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

In contrast, the digital supply chain transformation solves problems and defines opportunities based on the confluence of technologies shown in Figure 1. When we study 600 public companies by peer group, at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin, only 5% drive improvement. Question the Basics.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Over 300 people, including SC Digest Editor-in-Chief Dan Gilmore, listened as Willems re-drew the classic graph of trade-off assumptions for pairs of co-dependent supply chain variables such as service level vs. total supply chain cost, stock-out rates vs. inventory levels, on-time deliveries vs. transportation costs.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Stalwart with two decades of experience spearheading multi-billion dollar supply chain transformations at leading global companies joins ThroughPut Advisory Board today announced the addition of Steve Robinson to its Board of Advisors. To learn more about ThroughPut Inc, visit www.throughput.ai

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Specifically for retail and consumer goods focused supply chain management teams, a short-term tactical concern is the ongoing management of excess product inventories, which in many cases, need to be trimmed before the end of the year. Taking Advantage of Transportation and Logistics Market Dynamics.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

Our research advisory report for 2023 begins with a review of the themes of our prior three years of predictions and the derived learning for the supply chain management community. Overall inventory levels among retailers and online channels remains at high levels and continuing to fill warehouses.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 5, 2022

He explains, “In 2022, it’s going to be important that supply chain technology companies can really provide solutions that enhance connectivity and visibility.”[1] ”[1] Improved visibility and connectivity are involved in many of the supply chain trends discussed below. Supply Chain Trends.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 1, 2019

Article written for Supply Chain Game Changer by, and permission to publish here provided by, Andrei Klubnikin at at R-Style Lab. The Internet of Things, which is often referred to as “telematics” in the realm of transportation, could have a direct economic impact of $ 1.9 INTERNET OF THINGS.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2017

The supply chain is a complex, non-linear system. As a result, supply chain leaders focus on unrealistic goals of inventory or costs, they will throw the system out of balance. In the setting of strategy goals, executive teams often set unrealistic goals because they are not aligned with supply chain potential.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

They live in the present, dealing with the immediate operational aspects of the supply chain. Their world revolves around real-time data on inventory levels, logistics, and on-ground or in the moment conditions.

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o9 Solutions

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Our alliance with o9 will further strengthen Deloitte’s commitment to deliver accelerated, long-range economic benefits to our clients,” said Adam Mussomeli, Principal and Supply Chain and Network Operations Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Our strategic partnership with o9 was an organic fit.

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