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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

The simplified assumptions allow companies “to manage margins, supply chain costs, and inventories”, but “it does not enable them to manage enterprise costs, profit, and working capital.” Overhead refers to the ongoing business expenses not directly attributed to creating a product or service.

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Digital Supply Chain Transformation Still in Early Stages

Enterra Insights

”[2] Steve Banker ( @steve_scm ), Vice President of Supply Chain Services at Arc Advisory Group, agrees it’s a fair question. He writes, “Companies mean different things by the term ‘digital supply chain transformation.’

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Digital Transformation in Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

Design and engineering, production operations, maintenance, logistics, supply chain, business systems, customers, products, and organizational structure are subject to innovative change as companies examine and update processes and deploy new tools and technologies.”

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Mars Wrigley’s Highly Successful Supply Chain Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Beery concluded that the best transformation projects would be, one, improved supply chain planning.

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The basics of customer-centric multi-channel retailing (Part 1)

DELMIA Quintiq

In most cases, they are trying to tweak parts of their existing supply chains to somehow fit the new all-channel reality. Instead, a holistic view and a major supply chain transformation is needed in order to serve the end-user at all times, at any location and, above all, to remain profitable.

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Target’s Margins Improve Even As Digital Sales Explode: How Is That Even Possible?

Logistics Viewpoints

Arthur Valdez, Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain and Logistics Officer at Target, spoke about the mega-retailer’s supply chain transformation at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ( CSCMP ) online forum in September. But Target was focused on the customer experience.

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Logility Indicates Added Uptake to its Starboard Solutions Acquisition

Supply Chain Matters

Built-in support for real-time access to needed data related to facility, transportation, logistics, lead-time or other data that can reduce the overall effort required in building interactive supply chain models.