Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

Nine years ago, my company FourKites pioneered the market for real-time transportation visibility. We’re currently on the cusp of a big incremental change in the industry’s transformation journey, as the value of real-time supply chain data is increasingly being felt far beyond transportation logistics.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 18, 2017

What makes or breaks a new technology in manufacturing? Mostly, manufacturers demand technologies that can boost their output without causing an additional strain on resources, and the final five technologies changing manufacturing in 2016 did just that. In other words, some manufacturers continue to resist the trend.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

SCCN solutions provide supply chain visibility and analytics across an extended supply chain. It is these changing constraints, transportation capacity, and bottlenecks across an entire ecosystem that matters. The lack of predictability leads to higher costs and worse service. And this has clearly gotten worse in recent years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics. As you implement supply chain analytics and use control theory with well-defined reference data with clear bands for control, process improvement ensues. The team was seeking analytics to monitor process compliance. Advancement in analytics improves outcomes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This global, Tier 1 manufacturer is headquartered in Stockholm and had revenues of over $8 billion last year. in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. Professionals from procurement, compliance, logistics, sustainability, information-security and several other internal stakeholder all use the solution for different reasons.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 21, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group announces that our latest Research Advisory, 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains is now available for reading. In a prior five-part series of commentaries hosted on Supply Chain Matters , we have provided snapshots of five of our ten predictions for 2023.

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2023

From where they shop and how frequently they buy to what price points entice them, consumer behaviors have been challenging to predict over the past year. Batch manufacturing is more controlled and optimized, improving inventory turns and production scheduling efficiency.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As we close the year of 2015, we want to take a look at some manufacturing trends for 2016. We look at 6 core areas that manufacturing companies will take a long look at as they gear up for a successful 2016. E-Commerce for Manufacturing. Manufacturers will seek custom (or specifically tailored) e-commerce solutions.

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Precoro

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In order to run a successful business, you need a dedicated procurement team to obtain these essential goods and services, ensure timely delivery, and nurture good relationships with your vendors. Paying for offices, utilities, technology subscriptions, and cleaning services is also part of the procurement team's responsibility.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Efficient inventory management Demand Forecasting: Use demand analytics to predict demand more accurately, thus reducing overstocking or stockouts. See how a manufacturing giant revamped their demand planning with AIMMS. Localize Suppliers: This can reduce transportation emissions and costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. Molex has more than 80 manufacturing facilities around the world supported by an 18,000 strong supplier eco-system that provide raw materials, electronic components, and services. This involves a lot of long-haul transportation.”

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Supply Chains Supply chains encompass many interconnected activities, from procurement, production, and inventory management, to logistics and distribution. These activities involve numerous stakeholders, such as suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

On this tour, I heard Jeff Ma, a former member of the MIT blackjack team, speak on the use of analytics to make better decisions in “beating the house.” The outcomes are less predictable or clear. Note in Figure 1 the gaps from recent research between supply chain planning and manufacturing, logistics, and sales. Closed Loop.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Check out Procurement Experiences, Trends and the Future! These are the innovative technologies that I predict companies must use to undergo this transformation within their supply chains: Cloud-based technology deployments lower cost of ownership due to not having a large capital expenditure on hardware and upgrades. Subscribe Here!

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Now the use of AI/ML is expanding beyond finding insights in data and providing predictions for the future.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This new behavior means that manufacturers and retailers need to anticipate consumer needs across channels with more accuracy than ever. To compete with Amazon, most retailers and manufacturers have had to dramatically shorten their own delivery windows. Navigating an Increasingly Challenging Logistics Landscape.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

Let’s celebrate that over the last two years, there were four significant acquisitions by traditional supply chain planning providers to deepen analytics capabilities: 07/2018 JDA purchases Blue Yonder (Purchase price confidential.). Procurement and transportation operated as islands. This is no longer true.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 10, 2017

From artificial intelligence to refocusing on procurement, the state of supply chain continued to explode throughout 2016, and you need to understand why. Also, it bridged the divide between manufacturing operations and service (logistics) operations, explains Springer Link. The State of Supply Chain 2016 Trends.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Raw materials are in short supply, many manufacturers have temporarily mothballed production lines, transportation costs are rising, and labor is getting tight on our roadways , railways and ocean vessels. The impact? We will certainly be feeling the repercussions throughout a bumpy holiday shopping season — and beyond.

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Unleashed

MARCH 2, 2022

Here we give you eight real-world examples of how businesses use Kanban, a popular lean tool that’s helped companies in a huge range of sectors improve efficiency – especially those in the manufacturing industry. Kanban came from the same place as the wider principles of lean manufacturing: Toyota. Each card represents one work item.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

2) Supply Chain Analytics | 22k Subscribers. The Supply Chain Analytics Channel is funded by the Ministry of HRD government of India as part of its National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). The Supply Chain Analytics Channel is highly detailed and will always be recommended for years to come. Subscribers.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 10, 2020

From a manufacturing perspective, logistics management software facilitates effective planning of the supply chain itself and implementation of the final delivery to the end consumers. This involved procurement, maintenance, and transportation of military facilities, services, materials, and personnel.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 10, 2020

From a manufacturing perspective, logistics management software facilitates effective planning of the supply chain itself and implementation of the final delivery to the end consumers. This involved procurement, maintenance, and transportation of military facilities, services, materials, and personnel.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 10, 2020

From a manufacturing perspective, logistics management software facilitates effective planning of the supply chain itself and implementation of the final delivery to the end consumers. This involved procurement, maintenance, and transportation of military facilities, services, materials, and personnel.

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Logility

MAY 10, 2022

At Logility, we have seen first-hand what happens when businesses migrate away from planning inventory with error-prone Excel spreadsheets and manual, labor-intensive procurement activities and start using an integrated digital supply chain platform. Almost immediately, organizations benefit from higher visibility and process automation.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 21, 2015

In order to avoid incidents of mismatch between supply and demand, establish more efficient manufacturing and lower costs, it is necessary to establish an environment of consistent supply chain visibility. One of the often missing links, however, in supply chain visibility, is transportation management.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Companies can leverage social media to obtain consumer behavior analytics while also monitoring the industry, news and other sources that can indicate potential supply chain disruptions like the passing of a new regulation. 7] It should be clear that resiliency is built on a foundation of data. .”

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 13, 2022

Just as manufacturers and distributors were starting to climb out of the ‘COVID hole’, they’ve been knocked back in. Unpacking expected disruptions across the supply chain for manufacturers and distributors. The transportation industry will also bear the brunt, as it has the highest energy intensity of all major industries.

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

Improving semiconductor manufacturing yields up to 30%, reducing scrap rates, and optimizing fab operations is achievable with machine learning. Manufacturers care most about finding new ways to grow, excel at product quality while still being able to take on short lead-time production runs from customers.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The stark truth is that planning and optimizations are done in many departments within a business, such as supply, manufacturing, distribution, warehouse, transportation, budget, labor, and so on. For example, manufacturing may be tasked to fill all orders which requires having inventory on-hand in distribution centers.

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TransAudit

JUNE 27, 2023

Machine learning, at its core, is a technology that allows systems to learn from experience, improve predictions, recommendations, and decisions over time. It advances digitization efforts, facilitates data cleaning, and streamlines supply chain planning, procurement, and execution. Europe, China, and Singapore.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate, Supply Chain Matters blog unveils part two of a summarized overview of our annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains for the year 2023 and beyond. Economic and Business Challenges Expected in 2023. Global Economic Themes. percent GDP growth in 2023.

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ThroughPut

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

the Industrial AI Supply Chain pioneer, today announced updates of its Pricing and Promotion software capabilities, which leverage AI to predict demand and accordingly inform pricing and promotion strategies to maximize profitability. PALO ALTO, Calif., September 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — ThroughPut Inc., ThroughPut.ai

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Logility

MARCH 19, 2018

Supply planning enables you to profitably satisfy market demand through dynamically sourcing materials, optimizing production and manufacturing plans, reducing distribution costs and slashing lead times. As food and beverage manufacturers become more demand-driven, often there is a shift toward more frequent changes in production runs.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 21, 2020

By utilizing optimization techniques, we have sought to minimize procurement costs absorbing larger order quantities and longer lead-times; we plan for longer manufacturing runs to drive a higher return on assets and full-container load land and marine freight to reduce transportation unit costs.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 21, 2020

For a manufacturer, that might span from source to make to deliver. If you just have visibility to transportation processes, like what you can get in a transportation management system for example, then ‘control tower’ is not the right term. Descriptive analytics. Diagnostic analytics. ”[3].

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