Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But in North America, distribution is predominately through their company-owned fleet. There are continuing efforts to reduce the weight of their tractor and trailers in North America. PepsiCo Foods North America introduced tractors with liftable tandem axles which can lift the second axle if the load is not too heavy.

Supply Chain Design Software 188

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When the groundhog sees his shadow, the belief is that North America will experience an additional six weeks of winter. As a result, there is no system of record to synchronize changes, and the data takes one-to-three days to move from node to node. The 1993 movie Groundhog Day made this tradition famous. Technology Evolution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. Its best-known brands are Vans , Timberland , The North Face , and Dickies. BOMs are critical for sourcing and manufacturing.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 211

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Demand sensing involves the use of the external data sources – particularly the latest sales and market data – to improve short-term forecasting and then be able to use that improved understanding of consumer behavior to improve their supply planning. Mars Wrigley is achieving success in North America with this solution.

Supply Chain Planning Software 207

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

The paradigm is shifting from foundational visibility to real-time decision-making, with positive implications for supply chain teams spanning sourcing & procurement, to production, to yard & DC operations and beyond. Moving data between systems was complex and laborious. Why is this shift such a big deal?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2023

If interested in receiving a full table of contents, please contact Conrad Hanf ( chanf@arcweb.com ) if you are located in North America, Latin America, or Asia; or Ann-Kathrin Blech ( ABlech@ARCweb.com ) if in Europe. Desire for Greater System Adaptability and Flexibility. Growth Inhibitors. Plans for the 2.8

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

We define the market as those warehouse automation providers responsible for delivery of the system to the end-user (to eliminate double-counting). Also, warehouse automation excludes similar systems such as airport baggage handling, manufacturing-line automation, and manually driven forklifts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

A previous supply planning implementation, of an SCP system from a different supplier, had not gone well. The Cardinal Health Supply Chain Cardinal Health’s medical segment manufactures, sources and distributes Cardinal Health branded medical, surgical and laboratory products. The system either works or it doesn’t.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2021

When you’re ingesting and synthesizing data from dozens or hundreds or millions of sources (as most sophisticated platforms do nowadays), you will see duplicated records, incomplete fields, formatting inconsistencies, different languages, different units of measurement. And better data science leads to better business outcomes for customers.

Quality 243

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index). We started the conversation with sourcing. Lucas had a team that dictated sourcing based on excel spreadsheet analysis to reduce cost and improve tax efficiency.

Procurement Analytics 217

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index). We started the conversation with sourcing. Lucas had a team that dictated sourcing based on excel spreadsheet analysis to reduce cost and improve tax efficiency.

Procurement Analytics 195

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

Blue Yonder recently was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) report 1 for the 13 th year 2 in a row. Sources: 1 Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems,” Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, Carly West, Manav Jain, 27 March 2024.

Gartner 85

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. The impact? Until we have this kind of pervasive visibility, inventory management will continue to be largely an exercise in futility.

Rail Software 188

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In addition, 26% of respondents agree their organizations lack adequate systems for defining and triggering a response to supply chain disruption, while a quarter (25%) have an inability to effectively assess the risk of individual suppliers. The study also found that suppliers will be vital for successfully ensuring supply continuity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

While conditions have eased in North America, port congestion has gotten much worse in China. Ships have an automatic identification system, or AIS, that transmits a ship’s position so that other ships are aware of its position. We have many different data sources,” Mr. Dowse went on to say. “We

Rail Software 215

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Diversity of sources (carriers + vendors + customers). And it must integrate with a myriad of internal and external systems such as transportation management, warehouse management, order management, ERP, weather and traffic systems and many more. trillion terabytes of new data every day.). Data integrity.

Supply Chain Network Software 194

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Kevin is the owner of Brush Pass Research , a sales and marketing research firm that helps companies sell to freight brokerages across North America. He is the owner of Brush Pass Research, a sales and marketing research firm that helps companies sell to freight brokerages across North America.

Freight 217

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AIMMS

MARCH 2, 2021

This is a guest entry by Sander van Lokven, General Manager at Districon Solutions North America, an AIMMS implementation partner. S&OE] deals with all the issues stemming from actual demand and supply (source: Gartner ).”. How many data sources are typically connected to S&OP and S&OE apps?

Modeling 207

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ToolsGroup

MAY 16, 2023

Featuring over fifty Gartner experts and more than 140 research-driven sessions, this year’s conference gathered over 3,700 supply chain professionals from across North America and beyond. Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2023 has wrapped up its 3-day event in Orlando, Florida. Looking for a snapshot of the key highlights?

Gartner 283

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QAD

AUGUST 23, 2022

Taking these classes reinforced my interest in supply chain and pushed me to add on Information Systems Management as a second major. Technology is constantly evolving, and utilizing modern systems helps supply chains keep up with the changing environment. Gaining the Knowledge at Wayne State.

Gartner 95

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

In-memory relies on system memory as opposed to disk space. Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America. There is no one source that can provide good sustainability data. This is much faster.

Supply Chain Planning Software 209

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

We are chasing around North America trying to find other suppliers—at much higher rates,” the CEO of an Edmonton food manufacturer told the CBC. The vulnerability of these three regions highlights the complexity of factoring climate change into sourcing decisions. If so, when?

Supply Chain Design Software 62

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ivalua

APRIL 9, 2021

For organisations, top-line growth is being limited by procurement systems that are too rigid to support new ideas (75%); processes and systems that don’t enable effective, scalable supplier collaboration (71%); and a lack of integration among source-to-pay systems (71%).

Inventory Reduction 130

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The work done by Terra Technology, in my opinion, is one of two accurate sources of benchmark data on forecasting in the industry. The average MAPE for North America was 36% while the European average MAPE was 45%. The average bias of European forecasts versus North America had 2% more bias. Tougher in Europe.

Supply and Demand 228

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

While many companies assemble great sourcing and procurement teams when it comes time to renegotiate freight contracts, they often fail to provide good documentation that allows them to negotiate from a position of strength. Once that’s in place, CFOs will notice: Improved margin by lowering your cost of goods sold.

Waste Reduction 197

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said it was essential to prevent Tokyo, where the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant was spreading, from becoming the source of another wave of infections. As a result, the Olympics will take place without spectators. As early as 2025, at least 50 percent of new Porsches sold will include an electric drive.

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IQMS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

A Warehouse Management System is the tool that can make that happen. Like manufacturing, warehouses, and the systems that manage them, are going through an inflection point. How A Warehouse Management System (WMS) Helps Manufacturers Grow. How Real-Time Monitoring Is Revolutionizing Warehouse Management Systems.

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ivalua

MARCH 31, 2020

Lack of system integrations and actionable insights are stopping organisations from accurately measuring performance . New Ivalua study shows technology challenges are hindering procurement teams from achieving business objectives. on time payments) and spend visibility.

Optimal Sourcing 130

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 22, 2021

And for 21 years, Adam has been the Executive Director of the nonprofit he founded to export charitable goods from North America. Value to finding the clean and accurate source of truth. International and global shipping is complex since it considers vast distances, time zones, parties, language, systems, and different vehicles.

Supply Chain Planning Software 130

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Stord

OCTOBER 4, 2023

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Optimal Sourcing 60

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries. The sourcing centers shipped over 130,000,000 pounds of product last year. The company needs a very complete product line.

Optimal Sourcing 157

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Synovos

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From balancing costs to reliability, sourcing the right PPE to developing maintenance strategies, data on total cost of ownership to evidence of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), their concerns represent both longstanding issues and newer ones. I have learned a lot about the challenges they face.” The solution?

Sourcing Strategies 52

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

This is a key reason for the shift towards a core platform for spend/supplier management – collaboration needs to be embedded in Source-to-Pay processes and it does not stop and end with any one process. Lastly, don’t waste a S2P digitization initiative opportunity to address existing issues such as duplicates in your back-end systems.

Optimal Sourcing 130

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ivalua

APRIL 8, 2021

For organizations, top-line growth is being limited by procurement systems that are too rigid to support new ideas (75%); processes and systems that don’t enable effective, scalable supplier collaboration (71%); and a lack of integration among source-to-pay systems (71%). About Ivalua.

Inventory Reduction 130

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 20, 2019

Now Gartner reports that SCP BPO is gaining traction ( Market Guide for Supply Chain Planning BPO or BPaaS, 29 July 2019 ), particularly in North America and Europe. The current process needed more transparency, traceability and evaluation, such as identifying sources of forecast adjustments, forecast bias and forecast value add.

Supply Chain Planning Software 214

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Likewise, labor can’t do its thing when there are severe equipment shortages, and rectifying those shortages requires difficult-to-source raw materials. Push your tech partners to ensure that your solutions are underpinned by the highest-quality data that can be securely shared across other systems and with your network.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

This system uses giant warehouses, lots of trucks, and even cool robots to move things quickly. With a wide array of products stored in its fulfillment centers, Amazon can consolidate orders and optimize its inventory management systems. Sales by Region/Country: North America is likely the biggest contributor (395.64

Logistics Network Optimization Software 79

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