Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Optimizing fulfillment requires a series of steps to get a shipment from its source to the end customer. These steps include sourcing and receiving inventory, storing inventory, order processing, picking and packing an order, shipping the order, and returns management. The ability to meet fulfillment goals is impeded by several issues.

Optimal Sourcing 225

Optimal Sourcing Optimization Software Price Mitigation Strategies Sourcing Strategies 225

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

A disruption at any point in the global logistics network including the average of 12 touch points from shipment packaging to final delivery can prove disastrous for profits, service levels, customer loyalty, and other key metrics. With the global e-commerce market predicted to reach $8.1 billion to $23.07

Supply Chain Planning Software 330

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Network Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Predictive Analytics Software 330

RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

That’s where data analytics comes in. It’s the key to transforming your supply chain from a source of frustration into a well-oiled, profit-generating machine. In this post, we’ll explore how data analytics can revolutionize your supply chain. Demand Forecasting: Analyze past data to predict future needs.

Optimal Sourcing 98

Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Optimization Modeling Inventory Reduction 98

ToolsGroup

MARCH 25, 2025

This advanced analysis allows businesses to predict promotional lift with unprecedented accuracy, ensuring optimized production schedules and inventory positioning through sophisticated supply planning. However, todays business environment often involves complex, overlapping seasonal patterns affected by multiple variables.

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Supply and Demand Forecasting Forecasting Software Modeling 156

ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

Digital procurement streamlines workflows and unifies data, enabling faster sourcing, better collaboration, and improved accuracy. Digital procurement is the use of digital technologies to enhance, automate, and optimize procurement processes across the entire source-to-pay (S2P) lifecycle.

Optimal Sourcing 130

Optimal Sourcing Procurement Solutions Procurement Analytics Analytics Software 130

ToolsGroup

AUGUST 29, 2017

Gartner measures supply chain analytics maturity across seven different dimensions. There are supply chain and demand analytics models that describe the type of analytics being deployed (e.g., Gartner reports a strong correlation between supply chain organizations that use analytics and improved business performance.

Modeling 189

Modeling Prescriptive Analytics Software Analytics Software Modeling Software 189

Logility

MARCH 14, 2023

The Science and practice of predictive analytics is well established and rapidly gaining ground in the public and private sectors. How would your supply chain decision-making be enhanced if you had the power to harness the data of the past into decisions for the future using predictive analytics modeling?

Predictive Analytics 130

Predictive Analytics Predictive Analytics Software Analytics Software Big Data 130

SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Developing Analytical Skills Data analysis is at the heart of effective supply chain management. MTSS platforms support the development of these analytical skills by integrating advanced tools and resources that allow learners to engage with real-world data sets.

Supply Chain Planning Software 97

Supply Chain Planning Software Analytics Software Forecasting Software Predictive Analytics Software 97

SCMDOJO

MAY 23, 2025

By embedding analytics across logistics, sourcing, and fulfillment, businesses gain the visibility and foresight needed to stay competitive.Analytics-driven leadership is no longer a luxury; it’s the foundation of operational survival in todays volatile business environment. Prescriptive analytics tells them what to do about it.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 59

Prescriptive Analytics Software Procurement Analytics Analytics Software Supply Chain Planning Software 59

ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies.

Optimal Sourcing 130

Optimal Sourcing Procurement Solutions Procurement Analytics Negotiating Skills 130

ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies.

Optimal Sourcing 130

Optimal Sourcing Procurement Solutions Procurement Analytics Negotiating Skills 130

GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

When you track transportation metrics and KPIs like transit time, on-time pickups, and percent of truckload capacity utilized across your carrier partners, you can identify trends and opportunities for streamlined OTR transportation management. Analytics provides visibility into your transportation network and operations.

Optimal Sourcing 296

Optimal Sourcing Transportation Rail Software Sourcing Strategies 296

ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

This guide breaks down the key procurement technologies in use today and the trends reshaping the future, such as AI-driven sourcing, predictive risk management, and deeper integration across the supply chain. What Is Procurement Technology?

Procurement Solutions 130

Procurement Solutions Sourcing Strategies Optimal Sourcing Analytics Software 130

RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We’ll examine the key components of efficient supply chains, explore essential performance metrics, and uncover the fundamental drivers that influence efficiency. This includes using artificial intelligence to predict demand and optimize stock levels across different locations.

Sourcing Strategies 96

Sourcing Strategies Waste Reduction Inventory Reduction Expense Reduction 96

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2025

Senior leaders are recognizing the need for a predictive, dynamic model that can simulate the impact of decisions before theyre made. By integrating AI-powered analytics and sensor data, their digital twin platform enhances visibility and resiliency across plant networks, logistics hubs, and supply assets.

Sourcing Strategies 218

Sourcing Strategies Modeling Supply Chain Design Software Warehousing 218

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation To put it briefly, source-to-pay refers to the entire process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the suppliers of materials, goods and services, and culminates in the final payment for those items. Who Should Prioritize an S2P Digital Transformation?

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Sourcing Strategies Optimal Sourcing Manufacturing Procurement Negotiating Skills 52

RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Data-Driven Decision Making : Using analytics to continuously refine operations. IoT sensors track temperature, asset movement, and inventory levels in real time, giving you actionable feedback, reducing human error, and enabling predictive maintenance. Consider solar panels and other renewable energy sources.

Optimal Sourcing 97

Optimal Sourcing Optimization Software Waste Reduction Modeling 97

Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The advent of transportation management systems (TMS) in the 1990s introduced near-infinite metrics and data points into the supply chain yet brought with it more questions than answers: How do we centralize the data? The Fundamentals of Managed Analytics. The Benefits of Managed Analytics. How do we analyze it efficiently?

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Prescriptive Analytics Software Analytics Software Supply Chain Design Software Predictive Analytics 154

Silvon Software

MAY 6, 2025

Analytics and business intelligence (BI) are no longer optionaltheyre essential. They need visibility across multiple internal systemslike ERP, CRM, and financial platformsand even external sources shared with suppliers, partners, and customers. Think of it as the central nervous system of your analytics ecosystem.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 89

Prescriptive Analytics Software Analytics Software Supply Chain Design Software Predictive Analytics Software 89

Logility

JUNE 27, 2018

Analytics are literally everywhere. Open any supply chain periodical, blog, or report and chances there is a discussion around the importance of analytics. An important goal of a supply chain analytics initiative is to enable better business decisions that improve operating results and allow you to be more responsive to customer needs.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 113

Prescriptive Analytics Software Analytics Software Predictive Analytics Analytics 113

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Supply chain planning involves interaction with different types of information based on internal and external data sources. These data sources are often spread across multiple platforms and come in various formats.

Supply Chain Planning Software 284

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Scenario Planning Modeling 284

Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Supply chains must be connected and collaborative so all links can align to business strategy and oriented toward a common set of the most important metrics (and not functional metrics that drive siloed behavior). But to operate at the board level we need to be able to speak the CFO’s language. Spike up to protect against attack.

Supply Chain Design Software 306

Supply Chain Design Software Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Planning Software Pharmaceutical 306

Logility

JUNE 28, 2018

Analytics are literally everywhere. Open any supply chain periodical, blog, or report and chances there is a discussion around the importance of analytics. An important goal of a supply chain analytics initiative is to enable better business decisions that improve operating results and allow you to be more responsive to customer needs.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 101

Prescriptive Analytics Software Analytics Software Predictive Analytics Analytics 101

Silvon Software

APRIL 11, 2024

Without analytical tools and methodologies, navigating through vast amounts of data can be overwhelming. Nonetheless, when harnessed through analytics, data transforms into a powerhouse of valuable insights. Data stands as the cornerstone of the global economy, offering significant leverage to businesses poised for expansion.

Predictive Analytics 104

Predictive Analytics Analytics Software Analytics Sourcing Strategies 104

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

From rule-based systems to predictive analytics and the generative AI boom, businesses have leveraged these technologies to optimize operations, forecast trends, and create data-driven strategies. Keelvar Keelvar specializes in autonomous procurement and supplier negotiations, making sourcing more efficient and cost-effective.

Optimal Sourcing 72

Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software Sourcing Strategies 72

Logility

JULY 9, 2021

When it comes to our vision for digital supply chain twins, advanced analytics, and alignment of planning decisions, Logility is given high praise. Product direction is always a critical metric that businesses use to determine the longevity of their investment in the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply and Demand Supply Chain Software Optimal Sourcing 208

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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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Supply Chain Software 272

Precoro

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Unlike traditional tools that often operate in isolation or rely on rigid workflows, AI connects the dots between disparate data sources, providing a more comprehensive view of procurement activities. It examines historical trends, seasonal patterns, and consumption behaviors, offering predictions that far surpass traditional methods.

Price Reduction 105

Price Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies Sourcing Strategies Expense Reduction 105

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

This is because most classical planning solutions lack the modeling capability and computing power to accommodate different data sources, large SKU count, and detailed constraints and contingencies to build an immediately executable plan. each with discrete plans generated typically in sequential batch runs.

Supply Chain Planning Software 282

Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Forecasting Software Optimization Software 282

Supply Chain Network

APRIL 5, 2018

Shippers, carriers, freight forwarders and third party logistic firms are currently spending millions of dollars in resources on ‘estimating’ important metrics such as container Estimated Time of Arrival (ETAs). And relative to emerging data sources of relevant Big Data on global supply chains, one very interesting new player is Spire Global.

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Predictive Analytics Predictive Analytics Software Analytics Software Big Data 79

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

2022 Realities vs 2023 Predictions. This methodology and the technology behind it – predictive and prescriptive analytics – are being leveraged in other areas of the supply chain where the value of this level of visibility is recognised. 2022 Realities vs 2023 Predictions. Weathering the Trade Policy Storm.

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Predictive Analytics Software Predictive Analytics Supply Chain Planning Software Prescriptive Analytics Software 130

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 26, 2025

AI algorithms can review data from various sources such as IoT devices, production lines, and supply chain management systems , and provide valuable insights instantly. For instance, AI can predict machinery failures, allowing for timely maintenance and preventing costly downtime. Helping to build smarter, more agile businesses.

Manufacturing Procurement 68

Manufacturing Procurement Optimal Sourcing Inventory Management Software Predictive Analytics Software 68

Enterra Insights

MARCH 8, 2018

“By the end of 2020,” asserts the editorial staff at Material Handling & Logistics (MH&L), “one-third of all manufacturing supply chains will be using analytics-driven cognitive capabilities, thus increasing cost efficiency by 10% and service performance by 5%.”[1] ” Advanced Supply Chain Analytics.

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Prescriptive Analytics Software Analytics Software Predictive Analytics Gartner 100

ToolsGroup

JULY 10, 2018

More and better data has turned demand analytics into mainstream reality. Demand forecasting describes the decades-old science of predicting demand. Data sources for the forecast can include planned sales orders, customer contracts and intercompany standing orders. Let’s take a few minutes to decode it. Demand Planning.

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crisp

OCTOBER 21, 2024

AI-powered analytics can accelerate suppliers’ time-to-insight and help them make smarter, faster decisions around demand forecasting, inventory management, and business planning, ensuring the adaptability of their operations. Recognizing this need, Crisp has created the first semantic layer specifically for the retail industry.

Procurement Analytics 40

Procurement Analytics Analytics Software Predictive Analytics Analytics 40

Arena Solutions

JUNE 3, 2025

Well-established organizations typically have dedicated risk management teams; however, they often work in a reactive mode, relying on outdated or infrequently updated data sources. Our clients also leverage Arena Analytics to monitor quality, lifecycle status, and other metrics related to supplier performance.

Supply Chain Design Software 52

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software Optimal Sourcing 52

Logility

DECEMBER 29, 2020

By using advanced analytics for manufacturing, to understand the valuable information concealed within the data they already have! Advanced analytics for manufacturing is a good place to start. Here are some common advanced analytics use cases for manufacturers. How can manufacturers manage disruption and improve productivity?

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