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Supply Chain Network Design: Optimization Advantages

Logility

According to the Gartner Guide to Use Cases for Network Optimization Capabilities , your company should dig deeper into four areas of your supply chain network design – distribution network optimization, omnichannel fulfillment, manufacturing capacity optimization, and global footprint strategy.

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5 Success Factors in Effective Omnichannel Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

The pandemic brought the omnichannel initiatives to the top of the list of priorities for many companies. Before COVID-19, many companies had separate business units running e-commerce and brick and mortar stores, corresponding warehouses and fulfillment centers. They managed online product availability separate from store inventory.

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Until AI Can Solve this One Simple Task, I Wouldn’t Worry About It

Logistics Viewpoints

However, AI’s inability to solve the very limited problem of ensuring that inventory is located in the right place in a warehouse suggests that planners don’t have to worry too much about job security. For fulfillment to be efficient, a warehouse needs the right inventory located in the right slots in a warehouse.

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

The increasing need for constantly analyzing these trade-offs across the supply chain networks has highlighted the need for digital twins and what-if capabilities in network design solutions. This means continuously assessing the trade-off between the total cost to serve and meeting customer demand and minimizing lost sales.

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The Best Supply Chain Company You Have Never Heard Of

Logistics Viewpoints

In particular, Ferguson’s supply chain is built for speed and to provide high service levels. Driving an excellent supply chain depends on how people are recruited and managed, processes, and the technology used. The company also does internal climate scores of employees at corporate, the branches, and the warehouses.

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Global Fulfillment Innovation Centers on ESG in 2023

ModusLink Corporation

ESG supply chain management is critical to maximizing the benefits of omnichannel ecommerce and warehousing and distribution services. Clearly, shippers that need to gain control over their full emissions in the value chain can do so with a better overall network design.

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Network Design: the 5 good questions to ask

KEPLER Consulting

A lot of our clients reflect upon the relevance of their network design and wish to challenge their flow organization in order to address the stakes of reactivity and efficiency imposed by the market. How many warehouses and where to place them? These cost gaps are partly due to specific services offered by the different brands.