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Logility
MARCH 16, 2023
What does all of this mean for manufacturers and distributors? Here are three ways to protect your margins by enhancing your supply chain network design. Use a digital twin to rapidly analyze new supply chain network design scenarios A digital twin is simply a simulated version of your real-world supply chain.
Arkieva
JULY 23, 2015
With margins under constant pressure, efficient logistics can be the difference between making and losing money on each sale. Martins runs its own distribution network which serves more than 227 thousand active clients and processes more than 3 million orders per year. A good example of this would be Martins, located in Brazil.
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Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
I worked three layers down in the organization for a well-established leader in manufacturing named Dan. Fred owned logistics and customer service for the organization. Dan had a very manufacturing view and Fred focused on logistics. The warehouse I ran just completed a consolidation of three shipping centers.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
A network design model figures out where factories and warehouses should be located. The key solutions are demand forecasting/inventory optimization, supply planning, and network design. The key solution for this is network design. Supply and network design models are constraint-based models.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. The result was restatement. My conclusion?
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 18, 2023
The global supply chain is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of reasonably priced logistics, and low variability. As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. Growing tensions between China and trading partners. Unrest in Sudan.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 29, 2022
The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. We can no longer assume that government policy is rational, variability is low or logistics are available. These core assumptions are no longer true. This reset is not an evolution.
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