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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. Add more distribution centers? More micro-fulfillment locations?

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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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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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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. I don’t care what you call it, but network design, what-if analysis, simulation and digital twin approaches grow in importance.) Build in-market sourcing. The ride is uphill, but the visibility is low.

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The Holy Grail of Modern S&OP: Multi-Horizon Integrated Business Planning 

Logility

And next to impossible is creating plans in a timely manner when monitoring unrelated KPIs across multiple disconnected sources of data. Your customer service and operational costs will always be impacted by your need to ship orders across the country.” Supply chain organizations are no strangers to this frustration.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Source: Supply Chain Insights ASCM defines resilience in the SCM Supply Chain Dictionary as the ability of a supply chain to anticipate, create plans to avoid or mitigate, and to recover from disruptions to supply chain functionality. These are different by design and the armed forces lacks modeling technologies to understand the differences.

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

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.