LevaData

APRIL 26, 2022

It's difficult to source and buy direct materials at scale. Also, would it be more effective to buy from a distributor rather than the manufacturer; if so, which distributor? Data is available now, more than ever, to considerably widen sourcing's remit, bringing in these under-addressed purchased items and hazards. In […].

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

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. At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. The question is, “Why?”

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Ever since COVID hit, supply chain executives have embraced supply chain risk management. Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. Supply Chain Chaos is the New Norm. Do I need more inventory?

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

During her 24 years at Honda of America, she helped implement many of the supply chain best practices that have now become renowned, including cost modeling, supplier development, supplier quality assurance, lean manufacturing, and many others, which evolved under the original North America leadership of Dave Nelson.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

They have a complex network of suppliers, internal assets, and transportation and manufacturing partners, many of whom are changing on an ongoing basis. In supply chain we talk about the fact that just optimizing one link in a chain – for example, optimizing manufacturing – does not lead to an optimized system.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My last post on the Supply Chain Shaman blog was forty-five days ago. My first focus was on China sourcing. Then it was the redefinition of the supply chain for the global shutdowns Sick with the virus; I spent my energies writing and moderating podcasts. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.)

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 31, 2022

In this posting we provide two recent examples of turnover among senior supply chain leadership that occurred n days of one another. . Last week both Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal reported the departure of yet another senior manufacturing executive at Rivian Automotive as well as an overall reorganization.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 3, 2024

In this special Supply Chain Matters supply network risk advisory, we highlight the initial implications of today’s major earthquake that has impacted the island of Taiwan. Reportedly, United Microelectronics Corp , Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. PSMC) , and flat panel maker Innolux Corp.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

This comprehensive 38-page report includes the full listing of predictions along with a lot of information, perspectives and added insights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At the time, we were both deployed as consultants for Manugistics to help a manufacturing company to implement end-to-end planning. My goal was to implement demand and supply planning. The groups of supply planning, procurement and logistics operate within silos. Ellen currently works as a consultant at Cap Gemini.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 30, 2018

It allows you to accurately test the resilience of a complex, multi-echelon, global supply chain. At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, analyst Marc Halpern clarified three key concepts about supply chain digital twins in his presentation “Busting the Myth of Digital Twins to Deliver Value.”

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 28, 2019

As we’ve explored in our last two blog posts, economists are predicting a decline in global economic growth due to policy and trade issues both in the United States and the European Union , bringing an increased risk to supply chains and procurement organizations.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 6, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights March and Q1-2022 global manufacturing and supply chain indices, with the data indicating added headwinds and challenges in the months to come. The data indicates a discernible shift in business and supply chain sentiment. Global Wide Production Activity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Every day, retailers and manufacturers are challenged to balance ambitious customer service promises with profit margin protection. Supply chain technology investments were once delegated to a specific function such as procurement or logistics. 5] “Connected and Autonomous Supply Chain Ecosystems 2025,” PWC Global.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Concerning the horizon of next year, what remains on the minds of broader supply chain management teams are addressing and anticipating a host of added unknowns and what is likely to be another very challenging upcoming year. Implications of Covid Lockdown Challenges Across China.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Overview In short, B2B Supply Chain Business Networks are Cloud based platforms designed to achieve end-to-end supply chain data visibility and business process decision-making synchronization. The B2B Supply Chain Network is also the manifestation of integrated as well as contextualized digital and physical data flows.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 11, 2021

While organizations construct their cybersecurity fortresses, there are many weaknesses at contact with manufacturers, suppliers, worldwide partners, and other service providers to consider. Supply chain breaches pose a substantial danger to businesses, potentially interrupting operations and harming their reputations.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Founded in 2002 with over 100 consultants and based in Boulder, Colorado , Spinnaker SCA designs and builds agile supply chains for leading brands across Consumer Staples, High Tech, Industrial Manufacturing, Retail & Apparel, Medical Devices, and Distribution Industries. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

It combines decisions across sell, deliver, make and source processes to drive value based outcomes. More advanced supply chain leaders model the role of complexity (product and customer), the impact of risk, and opportunity of innovation as well as product shipping and manufacturing locations, and inventory policies.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 20, 2022

As developments regarding industry supply chain disruptions continue unabated, businesses now increasingly face the sting of higher supply chain and transportation driven costs impacting the bottom line. The exploding costs of diesel and gasoline fuel now have a direct impact to business profitability.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The current set of supply chain disruptions is being set off by a combination of COVID cases and energy disruptions in manufacturing hubs around the world, labor shortages, lack of capital infrastructure investment, misaligned transportation resources ( a lack of containers, ships, and trucks), and surges in consumer demand.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

In that effort, enterprises should seek innovative technologies with the potential to disrupt and transform the current supply chain operating models and bring in a more competitive edge. Manufacturers with a global supply chain network took the brunt of suspended operations during the pandemic. electronics).

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ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

Recently I attended a conference for Strategic Sourcing in the medical device manufacturing sector. About 60 Procurement Managers, Directors, and Executives attended from top medical device manufacturing companies. Avoiding change is a common issue across the manufacturing industry in general.

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DynaSys

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Are you interested in Advanced Analytics for your Supply Chain? Manage costs, improve profit: these are the top priorities for supply chain executives today (cf. PwC Global Supply Chain Survey). Sourcing and supplier performance.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 6, 2015

A recent Gartner study, conducted annually, sheds some light on what matters most to top executives in supply chain technology. Regardless of the trend “ du jour” in supply chain, Klappich says that “strategic gravity” consistently pulls companies back to the fundamentals. Fundamentals matter.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 23, 2021

Yet to holistically tackle ESG performance, procurement teams must evaluate their operations at tier two, three, and beyond, as each level of the supply chain carries different risks. Often, sustainability risks are buried deep within a company’s supply chain. Cotton is a great example. Why Is This Important?

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SupplyShift

JUNE 23, 2021

Yet to holistically tackle ESG performance, procurement teams must evaluate their operations at tier two, three, and beyond, as each level of the supply chain carries different risks. Often, sustainability risks are buried deep within a company’s supply chain. Cotton is a great example. Why Is This Important?

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 29, 2015

Collaboration: The Cornerstone of the 21st Century Supply Chain. Europe’s annual meeting of the leading supply chain executives featuring the biggest names at leading retailers and manufacturers. Here is a selection of supply chain executives that will be sharing their insight in 2015.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

As we see from Deloitte’s CPO Survey in 2018, AI is only fully deployed in 2% of procurement organizations and is far from making any real impact at scale within the digital ecosystems procurement teams are so eagerly trying to build. For example, robots performing key process steps in manufacturing plants” ( arkieva.com 2017 ).

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Oracle SCM

AUGUST 1, 2018

One of the Supply Chain Management trends apparent at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in May was highlighted by several vendor/customer presentations focused on the value of Collaboration and Visibility projects. A high-tech contract manufacturer was growing rapidly through acquisition.

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Stord

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Brands who up to this point hadn’t considered e-commerce as part of their integral strategy, namely those in the B2B, Wholesale, Manufacturing and Retail industries, have the biggest opportunity to make it their competitive advantage. E-commerce is no longer just a nice-to-have, it’s a necessity.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In line with prevailing economic forecasting, readers should anticipate continued uncertainty of global markets and the actual likelihood of various regional economic and manufacturing recession conditions in the coming year. Anticipated Supply Chain Business Process and Technology Enablement. Global Economic Themes.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 15, 2022

According to published reports from both Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal , the company will now source its hardware customer fulfillment needs to third-party logistics providers in an effort to reduce product delivery costs by up to half. Further announced was an assessment of owned retail operations in the U.S.

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2014

Yesterday was the first day of Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Summit. The conference theme is “supply chain will lead in the next decade.” Because of supply chain’s far reaching effects, Gartner is challenging supply chain leaders to drive transformation throughout their organizations.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In our conversation, Radu provides a unique perspective from the lens of working on C-Suite focused recruitment needs derived from global based organizations for senior leadership needs spanning overall supply chain, manufacturing, transportation, logistics and E-commerce leadership needs.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In his current role, he is accountable for several strategic functions, including corporate engineering; capital and infrastructure strategy; corporate real estate; risk management; operations research and global procurement. He is a member of the company’s executive ESG committee, as well as a Board member of the Gilead Foundation.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Each route starts with one of our 32 manufacturing plants where we produce either finished or semi-finished lenses. Like a lot of manufacturers, the standard S&OP process needs to adapt to the pandemic. These difficult events allowed us to extend our S&OP with the materials procurement department, which is now a strength.

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