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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) while sitting on the floor in the Atlanta airport in 2005 when I was an AMR Research analyst. When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. The model in Figure 1 became the foundational model for the Gartner S&OP model.

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The Dispatch Report | October 2019, Issue No. 12

Shipchain

We’ve been busy fine-tuning our platform, nailing our pitch, bringing on new customers, demoing for clients, and speaking at and attending different freight and logistics conferences. ShipChain airs its first webinar, The State of Technology in Food Supply Chains 2019: Produce. Our sidechain has entered phase 3 of the test network!

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

Speaking at a recent event in Las Vegas, Patton said, “ This business model is hurting to a degree where my company individually has to see change from FedEx Ground,” according to reporting from SupplyChainDive. SupplyChainDive, in their recent analysis of a 2022 study by logistics provider Descartes, reported that, “ U.S.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. She commented that the error seemed to be in the way that the software was implemented, and not in the base capability of the software. A methodology to pick the best fit method.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

by Trevor Miles I have been in the advanced planning and scheduling (APS) space since 1995 when I joined i2 Technologies in Europe. My enhancements were to add the underlying technology and company information at the bottom which gives some context. . Let me start with the confusion between planning and execution. Their words.

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Why Large Companies Increasingly Opt for 4PL Services

Logistics Bureau

SUMMARY: Because 4PL providers handle a company’s entire chain, including challenges that are thrown up by advances in technology, they are increasingly being favoured over third-party logistics (3PL) providers, especially by big companies with complex supply chains. The best example of a 4PL model is Amazon.com.

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So You Want to Make the Perfect Logistics Model

Logility

Why do we build logistics models? But I ask it because modeling often takes a detour into the land of debilitating detail. And by debilitating, I mean an enormous analytical time sink — think months. I am often asking clients whether they wish to: A) Model the precise general ledger costs for logistics?