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This year, as with years in the past, there is a broad and deep line-up of supplychain and logistics conferences to attend. Meanwhile, technology providers’ user events are mostly packed into the spring, so plan accordingly. It’s a “who’s who” in warehouse automation, software, and robotics.
And with the new year comes an increasing return to in-person supplychain conferences and trade shows. If you haven’t attended recently, it is an unmatched display of warehouse automation, robotics, and software systems. Welcome 2023! 2021 was the trough with in-person events severely limited. Email creiser@arcweb.com.
A strained request from a marketing director for a software company ensued, “You did not list us in your analytics report, and we want to know why.” Had I been clear in the taxonomy of the recent supplychain analytics report?” We were just starting to think of supplychain planning as decision support.
It is such a very different landscape than the green mountains of my farm in West Virginia or my city streets in Philadelphia. I jeopardized the release date of the book by taking an extra three months to finish the SupplyChain Index work. Since supplychain can be a bit boring, I made it into a narrative.
Today, nine out of ten supplychains are stuck. Despite two decades of advancement in supplychaintechnologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. Like an artifact, I have kicked around in the supplychain space since the 1980s.
This afternoon, I poured myself a cup of tea to pen congratulation emails to the SupplyChains to Admire award winners. Each year, based on feedback from supplychain leaders, we refine the methodology. Due to increased competition, retailers are taking supplychain management more seriously. In Table 1.
Cooper University Health Care Relies Upon Real-time Alerts to Improve Operations Cooper University Health Care, like most companies, struggled with their supplychain during COVID. The company bought a risk solution that provides real-time alerts to potential supply disruptions. We knew exactly what we couldn’t get.”
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Or agreement on the definition of supplychain excellence. Sometimes, even the definition of a supplychain is not clear. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. Confluence of New Technologies. Why does it matter?
“How do I know if I am ready for cool technologies? This week’s topic was cool technologies. In preparation for the call, I had given the group a list of emerging technologies that I am watching and I asked each person to come to the call ready to talk about technologies that they are working with.
of revenue on technology investments. There are fewer projects and the technologies are changing fast. Set aside funds within a supplychain center of excellence for education, and support innovation spending to better understand new technologies without being hamstrung to have a formal project with a well-defined ROI.
Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supplychain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Many of the leading ERP and supplychainsoftware vendors have customer events in various countries around the world.;
Körber SupplyChainSoftware (Körber SCS) hosted its 2023 Elevate User Conference in Orlando this week. The conference theme was finding your rhythm – a fitting metaphor for supplychains across the globe as they return to more predictable patterns after experiencing disruptive fits and starts over the last couple years.
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In my research, I answer questions like: Which technology systems drive the greatest satisfaction? How satisfied are users with supplychain planning technologies? While each technology provider wants the endorsement of their approach, I remain independent. How Happy are Planners with Their Software?
Rahmel is also the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Mega Driver Solutions, a CDL driver staffing company based in the Philadelphia metro area. Truck N’ Hustle provides the news, stories, resources, and tools for transportation and logistics professionals to be successful in the trucking business. About Truck N’ Hustle.
I love photography, and mused as I walked into the shop on that rainy day in Philadelphia. At their request I wrote on the digital supplychain. Digital supplychain is such a buzzword. The digital supplychain is about SO much more than gadgets.” I cringed when I got the assignment. Reflection.
It was a pleasure to attend this month’s SupplyChain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. The conference, organized by SupplyChain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supplychain of 2030.” Technology and priorities.
Labor is an important input with 50-60% of employees of the company reporting through supplychain organizations. Supplychain processes are relatively new. There is a belief that investments in technology, processes and talent improves balance sheet results and organizational agility. Is talent a cost or an asset?
I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supplychain planning. In this tough market being good at supplychain planning is a critical element to be competitive.
Rahmel is also the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Mega Driver Solutions, a CDL driver staffing company based in the Philadelphia metro area. Truck N’ Hustle provides the news, stories, resources, and tools for transportation and logistics professionals to be successful in the trucking business.
I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supplychain planning. In this tough market excellence in supplychain planning is a critical element to be competitive.
In the digital world, traditional broad-brush marketing programs become less effective, but have residual effects on the supplychain of higher demand error and increased complexity. This table is from our SupplyChains to Admire analysis, and the Index represents improvement. What Are the Risk Drivers?
Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supplychain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Many of the leading ERP and supplychainsoftware vendors have customer events in various countries around the world.;
The SupplyChain Matters blog provides perspectives relative to despite having a tentative back-to-work wage negotiation, the outstanding issue of port automation provides added concerns for global industry supplychain teams. ports lag behind other global ports in automation focused on increased throughput.
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The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. This thing called research in the supplychain market has many arms and legs. Bimodal SupplyChains Are a Viable Strategy. The streets below me today are icy and wet.
It’s great to hear about new [disruptive] technologies, do some benchmarking and understand how companies have executed these technologies. Robert Meyers , Planning Manager Americas, BP Lubricants, Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia 2014. How much control do you have over your supplychain? Actionable insights.
Peggy was a speaker at the SupplyChain Global Summit. AGCO’s culture of innovation policy deployment enabled employees to pioneer a technology solution for manufacturing. As shown in Table A, the Company ranked 3 out of 12 companies in their peer group on driving supplychain improvement as measured by the SupplyChain Index.
(I had scheduled the last flight out of Philadelphia on a Sunday night to spend the afternoon with my grandchildren.) Surreal technology abounds. On a visit with Jabil, I had a great discussion on the paradigm shifts required by supplychain leaders to drive improvements through robotics and 3D printing.
ATLANTA (November 18, 2021) American Software, Inc. million for the same period last year and software license revenues were up slightly to $0.8 For the SupplyChain business, professional services revenues for the quarter ended October 31, 2021 increased by 6% to $5.3 million compared to $0.5 million compared to $10.2
It was a pleasure to attend this month’s SupplyChain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. The conference, organized by SupplyChain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supplychain of 2030.” Technology and priorities.
Feeling very green, I stumbled through the airport and found my way to my seat on the plane from Brussels to Philadelphia. <The A researcher of sorts… When I started the work that I do at SupplyChain Insights, I termed myself an analyst; and while everyone wants to put me in the consulting bucket, I resist.
In my work with SupplyChain Insights , I immerse myself in learning. I continually question my long-held beliefs on supplychain excellence. . When readers finish a SupplyChain Shaman blog, I want to drive a set of unique takeaways. Figure 1: SupplyChain Planning Benchmarking Methodology Overview.
The premise of the Christensen’s book is that when companies focus on current customer needs, they fail to adopt new technologies or business models that will meet the customer’s unstated or future needs. I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector.
Does it contain a line item for supplychain talent and leadership development? Supplychain professionals often cite peer-to-peer learning and networking as the most valuable investment of talent development time and money. Take a look at your budget for 2016, which is probably finalized by now.
So, I thought that I would grab a cup of coffee and pen a short blog post before I take off for Phoenix to work with clients and attend the Manhattan Software event. Then it is off to Dallas to speak on SupplyChain Metrics That Matter at the Dallas CSCMP roundtable and complete some more client work.
Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supplychain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Many of the leading ERP and supplychainsoftware vendors have customer events in various countries around the world.;
We are at a software and consulting junction point. Write the contract with phased payments after test and learn and allow the team to work with the technology to prove the business case. Encourage teams around the world to test and learn and refine the technologies. Today’s supplychains run on spreadsheets.
Walmart to add 20,000 supplychain employees. Speaking of the holiday season, Walmart is planning to add 20,000 supplychain employees ahead of the anticipated holiday rush. The average wage for a supplychain associate is $20.37 billion in 2020. And now on to this week’s logistics news.
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