article thumbnail

Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. End-to-End Definition Implementation of enterprise data architectures to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.

article thumbnail

Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

In our research, we find that 72% of planners primarily depend on Excel and desktop analysis despite the rollout of advanced platforms for planning in 92% of manufacturers with greater than 5B$ in revenue. The solution was too black box. Hence the solution couldn’t be much maintained. The question is, “Why?”

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Evolution of Integrated Supply: From Piece Price to Total Cost of Ownership

Synovos

This approach provides organizations, particularly manufacturers, the opportunity to make supply chain decisions that offer shared benefits. Each purchasing transaction, whether a quote request, purchase order, invoice, or something else, has an associated cost. We can manage and optimize your inventory,” says Howse.

article thumbnail

What is “Integrated Supply” And How Can It Help Your Organization?

Synovos

This approach provides organizations, particularly manufacturers, the opportunity to make supply chain decisions that offer shared benefits. Each purchasing transaction, whether a quote request, purchase order, invoice, or something else, has an associated cost. We can manage and optimize your inventory,” says Howse.

article thumbnail

Analog Supply Chains are an Anachronism in a Digital World

Enterra Insights

… Consumer purchases and decisions will increasingly be voice-driven and machine-augmented, with companies’ relationship with customers machine-to-machine, values-based and digital-first.” At Enterra Solutions ®, we call this concurrent planning. Wong and Steinberg report, “Change in consumer demand is accelerating.

article thumbnail

Seeing Supply Chain Visibility through Different Lenses

Bristlecone

In order to quote a lead time, the customer representative had to follow a long, drawn-out process of calling the tile distributor in the state of Washington and leaving a message – only to finally get back to me the next day to tell me that the shipment might be available around next week. I chose predictable availability.

article thumbnail

How Shippers Use Carbon Emissions Shipment Data to Reduce Total Carbon Footprint

Intelligent Audit

Examples include vehicles, which are mobile emissions, and manufacturing, which fall under process emissions. They include energy sources your company purchased for its use, such as electric car refueling, electricity for the building, and similar types. It includes stationary, mobile, fugitive, and process categories of emissions.