Manufacturing Procurement, Supply Chain Segmentation and Supply Chain Strategy

My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

In business conversations, the term supply chain excellence rolls off the tongue frequently in meetings, but what does it mean? Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. We designed the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology to help companies define supply chain excellence.

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7 Supply Chain Challenges That Exist Today

4WL Consulting

JUNE 12, 2015

#1 Globalization of Manufacturing Operations With increasing globalization, manufacturing operations usually take place beyond borders. This heightens the need for having a global procurement network which can support and respond to a company’s supply chain needs in a timely manner.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

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Building Your Supply Chain Strategy: Defining Customer-Centric Supply Chain Design for Manufacturing Companies

BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2015

In Part I of my Supply Chain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains remain a great starting point to build your supply chain strategy. This post will explore the three capabilities essential to supply chain redesign.

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The Manufacturing Industry is Changing Fast — How Prepared are You?

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Technology is disrupting the manufacturing industry, and with any type of change, comes opportunity. ChainLink Research recently released two reports about how digital technology is affecting today’s manufacturers. The first report, Digital Displacement , explores how these digital advancements are impacting manufacturers’ products.

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This thing called research in the supply chain market has many arms and legs. I struggle to find a good supply chain academic journal, and often speak to my academic network about the need for one. Bimodal Supply Chains Are a Viable Strategy. In Search of Truth. My search for truth led me to research.

Inventory Reduction

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Building your Supply Chain Strategy: The Five Tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains

BlueYonder

MARCH 24, 2015

The last 15 years have been a rollercoaster for supply chain professionals as companies embraced supply chain innovation, moving up the five steps of the supply chain maturity curve, supported by new technologies. Figure 1: A fresh look at the Five Tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains.

Inventory Reduction

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Building Your Supply Chain Strategy: The Customer-Centric Journey Towards Supply Chain Excellence

BlueYonder

APRIL 16, 2015

Building a High-Performing and Profitable Supply Chain. In Part I of my Supply Chain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains remain a great starting point to build your supply chain strategy. Stage 2—Supply Chain Focus.

Sourcing Strategies

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3 Areas of Your Business that Benefit from Supply Chain Innovation

RFgen

JUNE 29, 2017

Operations in the manufacturing sector are tightly linked. A change to production demands has implications all the way through to the supply chain, and vice versa. To illustrate this point, the CIO Review report pointed to a hypothetical opportunity to purchase items in bulk to obtain a lower per-unit price. Production.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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3 Areas of Your Business that Benefit from Supply Chain Innovation

RFgen

JUNE 29, 2017

Operations in the manufacturing sector are tightly linked. A change to production demands has implications all the way through to the supply chain, and vice versa. To illustrate this point, the CIO Review report pointed to a hypothetical opportunity to purchase items in bulk to obtain a lower per-unit price. Production.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Supply Chain Management Award for Adva Optical Networking

Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 20, 2013

ADVA Optical Networking, a Meiningen based manufacturer of telecommunication equipment focusing on fiber-optic transmission technology, is the winner of the Supply Chain Management Award 2013. ADVA Optical Networking is being honored for the end-to-end supply chain solution with which it has secured strategic advantages.

Supply Chain Network Software

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Will the supply chain ever catch a break? With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain.

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Secret Confessions of a Supply Chain Junkie

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The beauty of the supply chain is all around us. I guess I’m a supply chain junkie…can’t get enough of it. So rather than write another one, I thought it would be interesting to look at this omni-channel world in a daily life setting, but viewed from a supply chain junkie’s perspective.

Sourcing Strategies

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Becoming demand-driven on command

Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

My hand was enjoying the warmth from the porcelain coffee cup and I was loving the solitude when a supply chain leader approached me with a cup of tea in his hand. Use multiple sources of demand data in the forecast, and build a demand signal repository to harmonize and synchronize demand data from multiple sources.

Supply and Demand

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Order Promising and Demand Shaping in a Segmented, Omni-Channel World

BlueYonder

JULY 2, 2015

Omni-channel profitability for retailers and other value chain participants will increasingly depend on a matrix of available-to-promise possibilities across the various supply chain entities that make, move, and store inventory. The prevailing overarching message associated with supply chains today is customer centricity.

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Supply Chain Management:Adding intelligence in the Forecasting.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. Automotive. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services.

Forecasting

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Use of Predictive Analytics in Supply Chain - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. Automotive. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services.

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Supply Chain Management:Is Agile methodology a good solution for.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. Automotive. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

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Conversation with the CSCO of Schneider Electric- Global Leadership in Action

Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting, Ferrari Consulting and Research Group Managing Director Bob Ferrari pens highlights of Schneider Electric’s Innovation Summit conference and highlights of a conversation with the company’s Chief Supply Chain Officer. .

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Adapting in the Face of Change

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

Supply chain resilience is “the capacity of a supply chain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change” Wikipedia. I am thinking a lot this month about business resilience and the role of supply chain leaders. In the last decade, supply chain performance regressed.

Supply and Demand

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Supply Chain Brief

My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

7 Supply Chain Challenges That Exist Today

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Building Your Supply Chain Strategy: Defining Customer-Centric Supply Chain Design for Manufacturing Companies

The Manufacturing Industry is Changing Fast — How Prepared are You?

Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Building your Supply Chain Strategy: The Five Tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains

Building Your Supply Chain Strategy: The Customer-Centric Journey Towards Supply Chain Excellence

3 Areas of Your Business that Benefit from Supply Chain Innovation

3 Areas of Your Business that Benefit from Supply Chain Innovation

Supply Chain Management Award for Adva Optical Networking

100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

Secret Confessions of a Supply Chain Junkie

Becoming demand-driven on command

Order Promising and Demand Shaping in a Segmented, Omni-Channel World

Supply Chain Management:Adding intelligence in the Forecasting.

Use of Predictive Analytics in Supply Chain - Infosys Blogs

Supply Chain Management:Is Agile methodology a good solution for.

Conversation with the CSCO of Schneider Electric- Global Leadership in Action

Adapting in the Face of Change

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