Logility

JUNE 23, 2023

As they approach an integrated business planning (IBP) level of maturity in their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process, they are quickly realizing that their traditional tools and techniques are falling short. In Your customer service and operational costs will always be impacted by your need to ship orders across the country.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

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.

Supply Chain Planning Software 193

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

What follows are some key things a newcomer to the supply chain profession, or an interested reader of news headlines, needs to know about SCP technologies, processes, and roles. A network design model figures out where factories and warehouses should be located. The key solution for this is network design.

Supply Chain Planning Software 257

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 19, 2023

Warehouse and supply chain planners rely on a surprising number of technologies to achieve this. In dynamic slotting, goods for which there is high demand are located nearer to the shipping docks to minimize travel. Network design is used for this. This article showed the role eight different technologies play.

Supply Chain Design Software 237

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AIMMS

JULY 19, 2017

AIMMS featured in IT Subway Map of European Supply Chain Software Providers : We’re proud to report that we’ve been featured in 5 different subway lines, or software categories, in this year’s IT Subway Map of European SC Software Providers. Browse the map and you’ll find yourself in our stop!

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Turvo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Managers of freight carrier networks and supply chains have a lot to keep tabs on with day-to-day operations in the supply chain ecosystem. Many moving parts get utilized in delivering services that the consumer wants, needs, and expects. The Problems Poor Freight Carrier Network Design and Implementation Can Cause.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The ability of an organization to deliver reliable and consistent results for revenue, margin, customer service, and quality in the face of demand and supply variability. No technology in the market measures inventory health. These are different by design and the armed forces lacks modeling technologies to understand the differences.

Supply Chain Design Software 303

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Logility

JULY 27, 2022

And that is answer (d) — put the warehouse at Customer A’s location and then ship 300 miles to customer B. This answer minimizes the net unit miles shipped. We all wish logistics problems were so simple, but when we complicate the network, we can often lose the picture of what we are trying to accomplish. Simplicity!

Study 173

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

While the shift from products to services will decrease consumer-centric manufacturing, the rapid escalation of defense will put unprecedented pressure on this supply chain. The answer lies in network design, demand sensing, and the simplification of product platforms. This was the biggest escalation since the 31.8%

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

While the shift from products to services will decrease consumer-centric manufacturing, the rapid escalation of defense will put unprecedented pressure on this supply chain. The answer lies in network design, demand sensing, and the simplification of product platforms. The conference is designed for extreme networking.

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AIMMS

JULY 19, 2017

AIMMS featured in IT Subway Map of European Supply Chain Software Providers : We’re proud to report that we’ve been featured in 5 different subway lines, or software categories, in this year’s IT Subway Map of European SC Software Providers. Browse the map and you’ll find yourself in our stop!

Prescriptive Analytics Software 156

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Stord

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

ATLANTA, June 12, 2020 -- Today, we are incredibly excited to announce that Stord has acquired Cove Logistics—a leading transportation provider—to further expand our distribution platform to include freight, strengthen our network of logistics capabilities, and better serve our customers. Read more in the press release.

Network Design Software 60

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Fred owned logistics and customer service for the organization. The warehouse I ran just completed a consolidation of three shipping centers. The analysis, based on network optimization assumed average loading, and did not account for the swings. Use network design and planning tools to show flow.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. During the pandemic, companies struggled with planning systems turning off the optimizers, and using the technology as a system of record. Show the technology vendors touting digital and AI transformation the door.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

However, even if the process of designing a network stays the same, no assumptions can be made about current logistics practices being optimised for online retail. For example: In physical retailing, your sales and service points, perhaps tens or hundreds of them, are probably collocated with geographical concentrations of customers.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

In 1966, HEINEKEN became one of the first Dutch companies to adopt container shipping. Decades later, they would debut a climate-efficient shipping route between their brewery and the port of Rotterdam. To learn more about these efforts, we spoke with Wilko Sierksma , HEINEKEN’s manager for Network Design and Global S&OP. .

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide a capsule synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership. FedEx and FourKites.

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Tompkins Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

It covers the steps to take before embarking on a network design and how it’s really a process instead of a project. Ensuring flexibility is so important to meet the expectations of today’s omnichannel customers – as is the right technology and modeling. Second, should you purchase the software as a long-term planning tool?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Embracing technology is part of that solution. Global trade regulations and conflicts, as well as tariff threats as a political tool, could cut off sources and markets and push your business plan into the red. A supply chain built for resiliency allows a company to adapt to unpredictable forces while maintaining customer service.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Belcorp’s Maturity in Supply Chain Design. When companies implement enterprise software solutions, they often label that implementation as being part of their company’s digital transformation. Using this software effectively is about more than the functionality. That is changing. They started with IBM’s LogicNet solution.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If you’ve followed our blog over the years, you’ll know that we’ve shared lots of information about distribution network design, why it’s vital to get it right, how long it should take, the importance of reviewing the network every so often, and various elements of design such as determining the number of warehouses and where to locate them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

On the supply side, material shortages, staffing challenges, and shipping capacity constraints are all happening at the same time. The product flow paths and modes of transportation altered radically as well even without accounting for any network node changes, owing to port closures or shortages in various transportation lanes.

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Covering everything from the latest technological advances to current environmental issues, Warehouse Management provides an indispensable companion to the modern warehouse. Using strategic supply chain network design, companies can achieve dramatic savings from their supply chains. – Michael Watson 6.

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Locus

AUGUST 2, 2022

Gartner® Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Execution Technologies, 2022 provides insight into the maturity, readiness, and business impact of logistics technologies. This is another such milestone following being listed as Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling and Last-Mile Technologies, 2021.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

In 1966, HEINEKEN became one of the first Dutch companies to adopt container shipping. Decades later, they would debut a climate-efficient shipping route between their brewery and the port of Rotterdam. To learn more about these efforts, we spoke with Wilko Sierksma , HEINEKEN’s manager for Network Design and Global S&OP. .

Modeling 156

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AIMMS

JUNE 1, 2017

These tend to be: Network design and planning : the process of evaluating complex trade-offs to deliver a network plan that maximizes profits and minimizes costs. These are valid reasons to feel apprehension about adopting a new technology. Woodside E nergy in Australia is using AIMMS technology for marine scheduling.

Modeling 180

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 8, 2018

Cycle stocks can leverage economies of scale by using economically optimum supply quantities that minimize buying, making and shipping unit costs. Rather than long production runs to drive down costs, the key is to optimize customer service. In this segment, customer service comes not from the forecast, but from inventory.

Modeling 197

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

While most consultants and technologists want to sell technology, and are eager to slap in a new piece of software, my caution is to slow down and better understand root issues before having a technology discussion. When a company contacts me to help them with their supply chain, the pain is usually a gap in customer service.

Supply Chain Design Software 250

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

While I think this through, here are the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS (WSJ – sub. P&G Remaking Supply Chain Network (WSJ – sub. Dubai and HERE Technologies to develop data infrastructure for driverless transportation.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 103

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Postal Service seeks record price hikes to bolster falling revenues (CNN). Waitrose trials “in-home delivery” service (Reuters). DeliveryCircle Launches New SaaS Platform for Same-day, Last Mile Delivery. And this week ShippingEasy announced its integration “with Amazon Alexa to ship with your voice!”

Logistics Network Optimization Software 101

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 25, 2016

(HP) about using supply chain network design and visualization tools to respond to supply chain risks. They had built a supply chain visualization tool in response to getting a better handle on how to position supply chain initiatives, such as direct ship activities. At the time, […].

Supply Chain Design Software 110

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

In 1966, HEINEKEN became one of the first Dutch companies to adopt container shipping. Decades later, they would debut a climate-efficient shipping route between their brewery and the port of Rotterdam. To learn more about these efforts, we spoke with Wilko Sierksma , HEINEKEN’s manager for Network Design and Global S&OP. .

Modeling 120

Modeling Modeling Software Optimization Modeling Optimal Sourcing 120

Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I have always considered cellular and traditional communication companies to be service organizations. I overlooked the sophistication required to support widespread and ongoing projects in support of constantly advancing cellular communication networks. The company services customers with about 5 million retail connections in total.

Supply Chain Transformation 242

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Supply chain design looks very different by company. Today, three out of four companies greater than 10B$ have a network design group that averages seven people. So, how do companies get good at supply chain design? The work can use multiple technologies and combine cognitive learning, simulation and optimization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

This week, I will speak at Llamasoft’s conference on improving supply chain network design. The gaps in our technologies are a barrier, but should not stop us from redesigning to improve performance. In prestige beauty and nutritional supplements, the cost to ship the product is minuscule. Our activities are broad.

Case Study 282

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Stord

MAY 3, 2018

When business growth forces rapid supply chain growth, there are almost always opportunities to decrease your overall spend and improve service levels and your bottom line. Every day, businesses use their supply chain network as the differentiator for success. Have unnecessary redundancies been created in the distribution system?

Network Optimization 78

Network Optimization Supply Chain Optimization Modeling Inventory Reduction 78

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2018

Stuart Whiting, who today serves as Schneider Electric’s senior vice president for logistics and network design, arrived at the company five years ago. While consolidating that mishmash of software was an obvious goal, paring down the diverse architecture to what Whiting terms “a federation of core ERPs” wasn’t the top priority.

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

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