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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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Network Supply Chain Transformation at UScellular

Logistics Viewpoints

A centralized structure could provide standardization benefits that could deliver efficiencies through bulk purchasing, broader understanding of materials requirements, and more effective shipping practices. UScellular utilizes 13 warehouses across the US, positioned so that every network cell site is within 500 miles of a warehouse.

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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. I define supply chain resilience as: Supply chain resilience.

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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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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.

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What is Supply Chain Resiliency?

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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Give Analytics A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

Warehouses are full and shelves are empty. Containers wait at each ship node for the chassis. Manage Make, Source, and Deliver Together. The design, and redesign, of supply chains needs to be continuous based on market data. Invest in network design technologies. Volume is up. What to do? Today’s gap?