Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. ” Let’s set the stage. Manufacturing equipment lead times were 19 months. Focus on Cost. His response?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

One day, a product is flying off the shelves, and the next, it’s gathering dust. That’s why staying on top of the latest supply chain planning trends is so important – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs.

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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

The power of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) comes in helping companies align financial, sales, production, procurement and marketing information into a single plan, grounded in modern-day reality. What is needed is a single, integrated planning solution that unites short-, medium-, and long-term planning under one system.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Manufacturing equipment lead times were 19 months. Focus on Cost. A Decline in Innovation. Less Collaborative.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ABC analysis creates product segments by grouping products with similar sales volume or purchase frequency to enable category managers to focus on what matters most. Price index and price elasticity are useful metrics on their own, and a combination of these can help determine the right price point to maximize revenue and profit.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

I believe that it is an analogy for what is happening in today’s supply chain market. Historically, most supply chain investments were for engines–bright guys built fabulous optimization code and plonked the software onto a relational database. Only 30% of the world’s population is vaccinated. Let me explain.

Supply Chain Planning Software 195

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Logility

JANUARY 4, 2022

The partnership enables Logility customers to layer in Planalytics’ predictive demand metrics to better understand impacts across their customer base and proactively capitalize on sales opportunities created by favorable weather while mitigating risks when demand is negatively impacted. “We ATLANTA – Jan. 4, 2022 – Logility, Inc.,

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Here are nine considerations: #1 S&OP Budget Constraints. The Role of the Budget in S&OP.

Supply Chain Design Software 183

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a continuous business process that enables firms from hospitals to chemicals to respond to emerging situations intelligently. Our focus today is to discuss the relevance of buzz words such as Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning, for S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I have read your report on S&OP technologies, and I have some questions.” His company made parts for the mining industry, and he was leading an S&OP process. He wanted to build depth in the S&OP process; but, he had not been able to convince his management team to purchase an S&OP technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Ronan Stephens, the Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management and External Manufacturing, explained how the company set out on a journey to improve customer service while also reducing costs. Manufacturing would not have been able to respond to that kind of event for two months. “We The solution also promotes collaboration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As a result, a wide range of businesses, from restaurants, and retail chains, to manufacturers, have been redesigning their business services and operations and re-engineering their supply chains. The system can now automatically receive all approved Purchase Orders so receipts can be reconciled against orders. and Europe.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

The attendees were sitting on the edge of their seats to hear about the next release of Llamasoft software. 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. Reflections.

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ShipBob

JANUARY 28, 2022

That’s why it’s crucial to track inventory management KPIs consistently. . In this article, we break down what inventory KPIs entail, why they matter, and which metrics are most valuable for you to track. . Not sure what those metrics are? How long it takes to receive orders from your manufacturer.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 18, 2021

He observes, “The good news is that, given our research suggests a lack of understanding rather than a complete lack of interest, the industry redoubling its efforts to educate and inform manufacturers should be able to turn this situation around. It’s now up to IoT providers to ensure that manufacturers don’t get left behind.”[1]

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ShipBob

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It involves assessing how the overall supply chain performed, analyzing metrics, and how well you managed exceptions. Developing an agreement – For CPFR to work, manufacturers, retailers, and suppliers should agree on how communication will be carried out. This allows you to restock the right amount of inventory at the right time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In Figure 1, I show results from a recent S&OP study. S&OP Challenges. Jackie kept a lookout perched on puff’s gigantic tail. As you read the financial analyst’s views of the industry summon your inner dragon: Clearly, the whole space has moved along very rapidly in recent years.

Analytics Software 238

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 2, 2023

At ThroughPut , we have been working towards creating perceptive supply chain solutions that can help tide through these uncertainties with AI-driven proactive intelligence. Accurate capacity planning optimization and utilization analysis are now undeniably the most essential tools for a transparent end-to-end supply chain.

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Logility

JUNE 28, 2017

Process chemical manufacturers face complex supply chain challenges including dealing with hazardous and perishable ingredients whose characteristics (potency, color, composition, etc.) I believe there are several key ingredients to formulating a winning process manufacturing supply chain. can vary from lot to lot.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

While MRP and S&OP were defined as early as the 1980s, these provided rough cut analysis at the aggregate level, nowhere near the level of detail that is possible today. The key point is that I have spent a lot of my working life focused on the value generated by more advanced planning solutions. Their words.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 1, 2018

Employing machine-learning based forecasting tools, retailers can predict potential sales at the front-end of the assortment planning process. Retailers have relied on an “Open-to-Buy” budget as a way to both control spend and determine what inventory to purchase. The analogy is pruning a garden.

Inventory Reduction 189

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Here’s some research on this topic. So, my answer would be the single biggest supply chain problem is forecasting accuracy as part of S&OP. Also, Gartner says that sales and operations planning (S&OP) is the single, most-important and critical cross-functional process.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. I sometimes wonder if I should create a new class of technologies for the network design tools because they have changed so much.) And, in our Digital Manufacturing Study.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 5, 2021

What’s Normal Anyways? Companies have leveraged digital tools, and evolving skills, to collect vast data about product or raw materials sourcing, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. They use advanced ERP software and S&OP strategy to match supply with demand, and turn over inventory faster and faster.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, as the founder and managing partner of USM Supply Chain Consultants she has put her expertise in supply chain, procurement, finance and project management to work to help her clients achieve greater profitability. And even at that time he was doing something completely new: he was running simulations using software applications.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 20, 2018

To spur trade and create wealth, explorers have plied the world’s oceans and have traversed the globe’s landmasses. “Most customer journeys are hindered by manual processes and legacy systems, but new tools are arriving to help. ” Building software more quickly. That’s where AI comes in.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Supply chain planning is the process of optimising the delivery of goods and services from manufacturer to consumer. In short, supply chain planning is about making sure you’re maximising efficiency through every phase of a product’s lifecycle. For product-based businesses, Unleashed is the ultimate supply chain solution.

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ThroughPut

MAY 20, 2021

Covid-19 has distressed the global supply chain and manufacturing networks in every country. The pandemic sent shock waves across the manufacturing world in an unexpected and unprecedented way. For the first time in digital manufacturing history, demand, supply, and workforce availability have been affected globally at the same time.

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

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ThroughPut

MAY 20, 2021

Covid-19 has distressed the global supply chain and manufacturing networks in every country. The pandemic sent shock waves across the manufacturing world in an unexpected and unprecedented way. For the first time in digital manufacturing history, demand, supply, and workforce availability have been affected globally at the same time.

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

Building supply chain resilience isn’t a new goal, but it’s become a primary focus for supply chain leaders in the wake of the pandemic crisis, particularly in the hardest-hit industries, such as food and beverage. China trade war has already put regionalization of manufacturing back on the table.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

As shown in Figure 1, users are more satisfied, the implementations are shorter and there is greater Return on Investment of solutions from Best-of-Breed solution providers—especially if the best-of-breed solution providers used are industry-specific. The research is a study of large manufacturers. Five Lessons to Learn.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Today hurricane Nate’s north winds are pushing against the bayous of Louisiana. Today’s demand processes are inside-out. In today’s architectures, there is no place to put outside-in data like VMI, Point of Sale (POS) or rating/review data. Today’s demand management processes have many issues.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. Seven Misconceptions. However, let’s face facts.

Inventory Reduction 150

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

Lockdown of cities and manufacturing plants have significantly impacted many industries’ supply chains. But the COVID-19 crisis, has required rapid operational solutions to unforeseen roadblocks. Quick solutions to employee shortages, remote working, and to ensure health and safety across the company need to be deployed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. Christensen’s concept is that businesses will reject innovation based on the fact that the customer cannot currently use the innovation delaying the adoption of great ideas.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Manufacturing systems and regulatory compliance are considered to be very complex, coupled with the limited number suppliers due to the high barriers to entry. Moreover, the aircraft manufacturers have to do whatever it takes to win the order long before the commencement of production.

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