Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 13, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our annual 2023 predictions for industry and global supply chains research advisory. In this posting we highlight our fourth prediction.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars has been on a journey to transform their digital supply chain. In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. The final goal was to develop end-to-end visibility based on leveraging data analytics.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 21, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group announces that our latest Research Advisory, 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains is now available for reading. In a prior five-part series of commentaries hosted on Supply Chain Matters , we have provided snapshots of five of our ten predictions for 2023.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 18, 2021

Katsov identifies five technology trends he believes will play a significant role in supply chain transformation. In 2020,” Katsov explains, “managers of supply chains and inventories had to work through numerous shocks related to lockdowns, reopenings, shifts in consumer behavior and economic downturns.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. But some of my other predictions did hit the mark or came close. Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target. When making predictions, it’s easy to look at recent trends and simply project them forward.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

The Hackett Group provides a useful visual for describing the maturity stages that supply chain is moving through as the industry strives to leverage data and advanced analytics. Supply Chain Analytics Maturity Model (Source: Hackett Group). Descriptive Analytics (What happened?).

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

” If I’m correct about the importance of the enterprise and its supply chain transforming in lockstep, then supply chain professionals need to prepare for the cognitive supply chain. Towards the cognitive supply chain. ”[5].

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

You can’t react quickly if you can’t see around the corner – Enabling end-to-end visibility across the logistics networks, as well as the broader supply chain, no longer can be an aspiration, it must be a necessity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

Supply chain management as a discipline—a set of flows combining the processes of source, make and deliver together to drive value– is relatively new. As supply chain professionals, we have never managed the supply chain through a pandemic. The answer is advanced analytics. The answer?

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Many businesses are coming to the understanding that there is an urgent need for integrated business, supply chain planning and execution strategy to become more of a fabric and consideration in decision making, especially that of the CFO. Stay tuned for additional updates on other topics and speakers. Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 11, 2023

The software was rearchitected to serve cross-functional users part of solution suites or as an adjunct to other planning, materials sourcing, inventory management or analysis of overall supply chain optimization processes. . Added Importance.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

organizations are increasingly looking to redesign their network, reconfigure their global and regional supply chain flows, and source critical components from local suppliers as opposed to just purely relying on an offshoring-based model. Terence: Are these supply chain transformations going full speed from the onset?

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Their decisions are shaped by a blend of market analysis, demand forecasting, material supply and resource availability. Planners are the visionaries who use strategic planning software and analytical tools to map out the future, keeping an eye on market trends and historical data to predict and plan for what’s next.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2023

C-Suite survey data continues to reinforce a desire to invest in needed supply chain transformational investments but in more managed and less disruptive scope. Reader Takeaways The learning has been extensive, and no industry supply chain has been immune from the impacts.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate, Supply Chain Matters blog unveils part two of a summarized overview of our annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains for the year 2023 and beyond. We stated this in our 2022 predictions, and we echo the same in for 2023.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 25, 2020

.” Supply chain expert Dave Food ( @davefood ) insists a failure to transform won’t leave companies in the dust of their competitors, it will leave them in the dustbin of history. ” George Bailey, Managing Director of the Digital Supply Chain Institute, agrees customers are driving supply chain transformation.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 23, 2022

In addition, the company is increasing its sourcing in Mexico and Central America and undergoing what it describes as an “end-to-end supply chain transformation.”. Outlook: More Agility, Data Analytics Will Help Speed Improvements. Diversification Across the Board Can Help in Many Ways.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 26, 2021

Supply Chain Transformation. For years, supply chain experts like Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, have insisted, “The supply chain IS Business, not a department within a business.”[3] ” Trend 3. ” Trend 6.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 15, 2023

Such models can consist of billions of data and information sources, supported by enormous data analysis and compute power, that are developed or learned over time. These areas can often include supply chain planning, sourcing and procurement, customer fulfillment, logistics, transportation and other application areas.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our March 5, 2022 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based blog readership.

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Logility

APRIL 10, 2019

The pace of innovation and change in supply chain is accelerating and it’s fascinating to learn about so many businesses and how each prioritizes and pursues their digital transformation initiatives. At the 2019 Velocity Conference we recognized several companies for their digital supply chain transformations.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ve found our customers are urgently seeking ways to better plan around supply chain demand volatility and improve how they source materials and products from suppliers. Our predictions also include crucial and groundbreaking developments in the supply chain that extend far beyond pandemic response.

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TMC

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Shippers need to ensure that not only does more information lead to improvements in cost, time and reliability, but that data can increasingly help predict problems before they arise. But because shippers need more than just visibility, the technology is also predictive, proactive, and able to flag disruption before it occurs.

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TMC

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Shippers need to ensure that not only does more information lead to improvements in cost, time and reliability, but that data can increasingly help predict problems before they arise. But because shippers need more than just visibility, the technology is also predictive, proactive, and able to flag disruption before it occurs.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 30, 2022

The theme of this latest CTL Crossroads was: The New Competitive Edge: Supply Chain Design for Value Creation , which is a recent focal point for MIT researchers. Noted is that the overall goal is the integration of end-to-end data and analytics supplemented by diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics decision-making tools.

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TMC

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Shippers need to ensure that not only does more information lead to improvements in cost, time and reliability, but that data can increasingly help predict problems before they arise. But because shippers need more than just visibility, the technology is also predictive, proactive, and able to flag disruption before it occurs.

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Bristlecone

JUNE 23, 2021

June 23, 2021 – Bristlecone , the leading provider of AI-powered application transformation services for the connected supply chain, today announced a new partnership with Cognitive Automation company Aera Technology. Major analyst firms rank Bristlecone among the top ten leaders in supply chain services.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 29, 2019

” Most analysts agree digital supply chain transformation is an imperative; but, just because something is required, doesn’t make it easy to achieve. Adrian Gonzalez writes, “There is a lot of discussion today about digital transformation, including why it’s important and what the benefits can be. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Analytical innovation and digital transformation drove step-change capabilities within the office and marketing. The question is, “How can the supply chain leader drive digital transformation to deliver transformational capabilities?”. As a result, many companies are struggling. Barrier #1. The reason?

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Alloy

JANUARY 24, 2019

Without a digital transformation, companies risk being disrupted by new competitors and ultimately becoming irrelevant; however, brands that embrace new forms of data and analytics will find that they can more agilely respond to consumer demand and achieve success.

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DynaSys

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

By 2025, more than 50% of supply chain organizations will have a technology leadership role reporting directly to the chief supply chain officer. Gartner’s survey, February 2021 ) This percentage will rise with the progression of digital supply chain initiatives. What is a Digital Supply Chain?

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 9, 2021

So your firm recently released a report of 2021 predictions and there’s a lot of great information in there. What are one or two challenges in particular that you’re advising companies and their supply chain management teams to focus on in 2021? So our overall theme for 2021 predictions is a year of renewal.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 6, 2020

In this Digital Twinning white paper, I have used the term digital twinning in the context of the inherent characteristics of the supply chain that are captured in a digital model. However, such a digital twin varies with modelling method, data visualization, to analytical to optimization or simulation.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides the first in a multi-part series addressing the increased importance of production planning and scheduling in this new and very uncertain normal of business. Senior business executives keenly focused on overcoming and instilling prior supply more agility in existing business and supply chain processes.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2022

In a previously published Supply Chain Matters posting, we called reader attention to a perhaps different senior supply chain leadership model, which being liquor distiller Brown Forman’s new model that is led by a Chief Global Supply Chain and Technology Officer CSCTO) , with IT and global information security reporting to this senior executive.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2023

Yet, as the last three years has brought forth, the needs for timelier, context aware and predictive decision-making is ever more essential for managing the scope, breadth and complexity of many industry supply chains. Episode 21 can be here listened to by clicking on the below embedded Supply Chain Matters Podcast recording.

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BlueYonder

JULY 20, 2018

How can an organization predict a delayed shipment and incorporate that into their supply planning?” When I was a student almost two decades ago and pursuing my master’s degree in Industrial Engineering at Purdue, supply chain management was not even a separate discipline in the program.

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