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Supply Chain Network Design: 3 Ways to Prepare for Trends Stirring Up 2023

Logility

Here are three ways to protect your margins by enhancing your supply chain network design. Use a digital twin to rapidly analyze new supply chain network design scenarios A digital twin is simply a simulated version of your real-world supply chain. Should you explore nearshoring or friendshoring?

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My Network Design Is Not Your Network Design

Arkieva

The total volume moved through the network is in excess of 289,000 tons. In general, optimization tools that address network design balance fixed costs of warehouses and distribution points against transport costs, lead times, and customer service levels. With that kind of volume, distribution costs are an issue. Like this blog?

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Supply Chain Network Design – Not Just for Strategic Planning

QAD

This is typically a strategic planning function where an expensive and time-consuming analysis of the entire connected supply chain is done once a year to choose the most cost-effective route for acquiring materials and shipping finished products. This held up trucks from leaving the factories even when they had product to ship.

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Outside-in Process Q&A

Supply Chain Shaman

They implemented a simple planning technology with an outside-in channel-centric model (Ship to model definition). Most supply chain planning deployments cannot use channel data because the model is a “Ship from model” not a “Ship to engine.” Seven elements drive success: The team is clear on the mission.

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Key Questions for a Successful Distribution Network

Speaker: Irina Rosca, Director of Supply Chain Operations, Helix

As we plan for the world of eCommerce and the customer expectation of quick, free shipping, our ability to forecast is turned on its head. Can we use historical data to plan for demand and design our networks, or is there a better way? How many distribution centers do we even need, and is that number feasible?

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Selling Online? What It Means for Your Logistics Network Design

Logistics Bureau

On the other hand, you now need to ship to thousands or millions of customer locations (their home addresses). Let Customer Needs Drive Network Design. Logistics network design for online retail must start from your customer service offer. Shipping destinations. Basic Online Retail Network Design.

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Editor’s Choice: Reducing Lead Times with Real-Time Data

Logistics Viewpoints

There are many strategic initiatives that can be undertaken to reduce lead time, from contract negotiations, supplier rationalization, vendor managed inventory options, strategic network design and numerous others. Many ports do not make this information available to the shipping lines or the shippers.