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Build Digitally Lean Consumer Goods and Home & Lifestyle Manufacturing Teams

DELMIA Quintiq

While industrial transformation programs abound in some shape or form, lean programs tend to still employ outdated tools and technologies. Today, most companies recognize that these tools just won’t cut it for such programs and have invested or are investing in replacing those antiquated approaches with new systems. Out with the old.

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Shoptalk 2024 Recap: Trends and Insights

BlueYonder

What a great week at Shoptalk 2024 in Las Vegas! It’s a powerful tool, but its success hinges on the ethical sourcing and use of data. The vibe at Shoptalk was festive with a crowd of 27,000+ people at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino. Overall, the event was a big success. AI is not a panacea.

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Top Takeaways from Coupa Inspire

Logistics Viewpoints

It ran from April 11 th through the 13 th at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas. What seems to be meant by many vendors is that their solution is a platform because they offer development tools that allow their customers or partners can use to build extensions to their solutions. Coupa meets this definition.

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UPS fights for volumes

Cathy Roberson

UPS successfully reduced total hours by 10% and improved misload frequency by 67% through its network planning tools during the fourth quarter. Heading to Las Vegas next week? Catch me at the Reverse Logistics Association’s conference and the week after that at the Aircargo Conference.

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Let the Design Begin…

Supply Chain Shaman

It was far a cry from the neon and glitzy hotels of Las Vegas where I am often speaking. The market for network design tools was growing at a moderate rate, and most of the market had invested in technologies from either i2 Technologies (then termed i2 Strategist) or Logictools. The theatre was packed.

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Enabling S&OP through Advanced Analytics

Logility

At the Informs Business Analytics Conference in Las Vegas last year, I spoke about the potential to enable S&OP / IBP through advanced analytics. Diagnostic – Figure out why it happened through root cause analysis, the application of 6-Sigma type tools, etc.

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Amazon Prime Offers Same-Day Delivery from Retailers

Multichannel Merchant

The last mile has become quite the battleground, with retailers and service providers striving to conquer its tricky, costly logistics through the use of algorithm-driven optimization tools, plugging into a growing army of gig workers as well as hundreds of larger and smaller carriers. with more to follow.

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