Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

Modeling 165

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

Despite two decades of advancement in supply chain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. My goal is to understand the impact of technologies and processes. Today, we have a number of burning platforms. It is easier said than done.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Milk Processing : After collection, milk is transported to regional processing plants, where it is pasteurized and packaged. Amul has established a robust network of chilling centers and processing facilities. Amul is one of the first FMCG firms in India to employ internet technologies to implement B2C commerce.

Optimal Sourcing 284

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

How are companies leveraging scenario modeling for network design and optimization ? Current Technologies in Use for Supply Chain Network Design . A leading logistics service provider was among the many companies that saw its operations affected by the pandemic. Read on for common use cases. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

Technology can change or even improve work. We are not designing work with the human factor in mind. The goal of human factor process design is to make it easy for employees to do the right thing (and hard to do the wrong thing). Supply chain was defined in 1982 as interoperability between source, make and deliver.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

1) Streamlined Data Flow and Process Automation Is all about AI At the heart of effective supply chain automation lies the seamless flow of data across various sources and digital platforms, akin to a well-constructed highway for data. Supporting what-if scenarios by estimating transportation rates on lanes (i.e.,

Supply Chain Software 325

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Logility

JULY 29, 2022

How to properly optimize your logistics network with network design. Amazon is not the only company driven to one- and two-day delivery; all industries are headed to shorter service windows. Now, supply chain leaders are caught between a cost versus service crunch. Why Do Traditional Network Design Tools Fail?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Supply chain network design (SCND) is a powerful tool for improving business operations. Supply Chain Network Design Components SCND team’s first goal is to build a baseline model that represents the current state of the business. Optimization and simulation are the two main branches of SCND. But it has gaps.

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AIMMS

MARCH 30, 2020

The examples below show you how to do this in AIMMS SC Navigator Apps, but we encourage you to study these scenarios in the tools you have at your disposal. . Adjusting Demand in Network Design Navigator. Demand Simulation in Network Design Navigator. Study 3: Identify Optimal Sourcing Locations .

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. Embracing technology is part of that solution. There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

We Assumed that Transportation Would Always Be Available And That We Just Needed to Negotiate Price. Over the past decade payments to transportation carriers from shippers increased from net 30 to net 60 moving to net 90 in 2019. Each requires design and fine tuning. ERP Investments in the End-to-End Supply Chain Are Sufficient.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

In particular, Ferguson’s supply chain is built for speed and to provide high service levels. The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. Driving an excellent supply chain depends on how people are recruited and managed, processes, and the technology used. The company uses a network design tool from Coupa.

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Logility

MAY 31, 2023

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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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. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. 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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Many try to start with technology. Network Design Analysis.

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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. How do we best handle surging transportation costs?

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

With almost 30 million customers, BT (British Telecom) is the largest provider of consumer mobile and fixed broadband communications services in the UK. The supply chain division fulfills 40,000 individual customer orders every day, making sure that 32,000 engineers get the tools, parts and equipment they need to deliver support and services.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

Yes, we have achieved greater normalcy in transportation. During the pandemic, companies struggled with planning systems turning off the optimizers, and using the technology as a system of record. I don’t care what you call it, but network design, what-if analysis, simulation and digital twin approaches grow in importance.)

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GlobalTranz

JULY 25, 2018

As advances in technology make it more cost-effective to deploy IIoT, industries will need to acquire a strategic approach to integrating new sensor data with pre-existing data environments.

Internet of things 149

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Don’t expect to plan for every disruption; instead, develop a strategy to overcome supply chain disruption, regardless of the source. Capacity constraints and transportation delays. Trade disputes and tariffs.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It’s the key to transforming your supply chain from a source of frustration into a well-oiled, profit-generating machine. Forget static network designs and gut-feel decisions. Connected technology transforms traditional supply chains into dynamic systems capable of real-time decisions and proactive problem-solving.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In response, the Blue Yonder Platform offers a comprehensive suite of AI-driven solutions that span both the planning as well as the execution domain. All this ensures the most holistic approach to supply chain management on a single platform.

Optimal Sourcing 79

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

For the purpose of this discussion, I define agility as the design of the supply chain to deliver the same cost, quality and customer service given a level of both market volatility and process variability. It requires design. In the supply chain, variability and volatility come from many sources.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Background on Ocean Transport. Pandemic demand for goods, and the shifts from a service economy, increased volume in southern California ports where 40% of ocean carriers unload for entry into the United States. Enterprise control towers operate in islands without a dial-tone to drive interoperability with and within networks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2018

For everyone trying to navigate new technology options, this is an important question. With the evolution of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms and the zealous implementations of many business consultants, the basics of planning were lost. Today, the client-server technology vendors are moving to cloud-based deployments.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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. Design can help test such ideas before implementing changes to the master data. This capability will be game changing.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2025

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology providers. Our previous posting in this series was published on March 28 th.

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20Cube Logistics

APRIL 16, 2022

Supply chain Network Design can be explained as the strategic planning of the supply chain in order to measure the cost and the time required to bring the goods and services from manufacturers and suppliers to the market. Transportation and logistics. Importance of network design in supply chain.

Network Design Software 75

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Logility

MAY 17, 2023

Optimize network design as part of supply chain planning As Lisa Henriott, senior VP of product marketing at Logility, advised in Supply Chain Management Review , the key to effective onshoring, reshoring, and nearshoring strategies is evaluating network design options within a larger supply chain planning platform. “By

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Last week, after booking an additional $1B in unexpected supplier costs in the third quarter, the CFO led the company’s focus on restructuring to “support efficient and reliable sourcing of components and internal development of key technologies and capabilities.” What is the issue?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. Slowly, as shown in the image of the consumer value network, supply chain leaders expand the scope of their supply chain operations from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier with a clear view on the customer.

Supply Chain Design Software 218

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

We Assumed that Transportation Would Always Be Available And That We Just Needed to Negotiate Price. Over the past decade payments to transportation carriers from shippers increased from net 30 to net 60 moving to net 90 in 2019. Each requires design and fine tuning. ERP Investments in the End-to-End Supply Chain Are Sufficient.

Supply Chain Design Software 195

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

We Assumed that Transportation Would Always Be Available And That We Just Needed to Negotiate Price. Over the past decade payments to transportation carriers from shippers increased from net 30 to net 60 moving to net 90 in 2019. Each requires design and fine tuning. ERP Investments in the End-to-End Supply Chain Are Sufficient.

Supply Chain Design Software 195

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The combination of technology along with the advancements in transportation made it possible. While I believe that lean is a useful concept, I think that it is not the only tool within the Supply Chain toolbox, I often seen lean too widely applied as the fix of the day for supply chain maladies. 5) Design.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The value of peer-to-peer learning and networking was evident at last month’s Ryder Innovate conference — “an exclusive gathering of senior leaders in transportation, logistics, and supply chain seeking strategic insight, new ideas, and thought leadership to improve their supply chain and fleet operations.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Warehouse Management and Transportation Management were in their infancy. Much to my chagrin, when I entered into the world of supply chain, the processes of source, make and deliver were usually not designed. It should not be functional, with a narrow focus on a singular function like manufacturing or transportation.

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