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How to Master Technology in Route to Market Strategy to Save Resources and Fuel Sales

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

When we discuss Technology in terms of Route to Market (RtM) Strategy we are looking at our overall approach to and use of Technology at every stage of our RtM Strategy and Execution. 20 Steps to RtM Excellence RtM Strategy Ross Marie ERP Promotions RTM Retail Information RTM Assessment Tool Distribution Sales Cost Reduction Traditional Trade FMCG Brewing & Beverages SKU

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Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains. This article was originally written and published for DHL in January 2020 and focused on the trade wars and how to leverage opportunities for tariff reductions.

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5 Inventory Reduction Strategies to Drive Cost Savings

EazyStock

So it makes sense to look for ways to reduce inventory and keep levels under control! What are the potential cost savings from inventory reduction? However, simply cutting inventory across your entire product range is not the approach to take. Supplier lead time reduction.

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Featuring Our Top 16 Human Resources Articles!

Supply Chain Game Changer

No matter what your job or career is, no matter what company or industry you work in, and no matter where you live, Human Resources are at the epicentre of everything. In this article we are featuring our Top 16 Human Resources related articles. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

After gathering some of the best go-to-market plays from our own B2B sales and marketing pros, we've package them here for you. Try one of these 16 plays in your next salesflow or as inspiration for your next winning sales engagement strategy.

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Experts Choice Of Top Online Logistics Resources

Freightos

The Experts’ Choice of the Top Online Logistics Resources. World Civil Aviation Resource Net. Global supply chain & business strategy expert; this CEO is also a noted speaker, and authority on logistics, material handling and leadership. The post Experts Choice Of Top Online Logistics Resources appeared first on Freightos. Intro Email Newsletters News Sites Social Media Influencers Blogs Unexpected Places.

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7 Strategies to Improve Your Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Strategies to improve your Supply Chain article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. The supply chain is a significant part of your overall business strategy and inventory management. The council also helps in eliminating barriers within the company.

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5 Retail Strategies for Supermarkets for AI-Driven Demand Forecasting and Replenishment Planning

ThroughPut

This ensures enhanced stock availability and reduction of lost sales. Adopt these 5 Data-driven demand forecasting and replenishment planning Strategies for end-to-end supply chain efficiencies. These replenishment planning strategies can help in the long term-.

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20 Cash Flow Management Strategies For Your Business

Unleashed

In these tricky times, smart cash flow management strategies are essential to bring down costs (or push profits) in controllable areas, offsetting international instability. This is achieved through the implementation and continued improvement of cash flow management strategies.

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5 Strategies For Improving Distribution Operations: An Essential Guide

SCMDOJO

Don’t forget to check out our best practices , tools , and a list of helpful supply chain resources on the website! To get ahead in today’s competitive marketplace, distributors must remain on the cutting edge of innovation and stay up-to-date on new developments.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

As buyer expectations continue to heighten, marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies, and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond.

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Eliminate Supply Chain Risks & Drive Customer Retention With Intelligent Buffer Management

ThroughPut

However, most of the variability generated by these factors can be eliminated by addressing supply, management, and demand at regular intervals, through focused solutions. When demands for goods escalate, insufficient resources for procuring components can lead to unmet consumer demand.

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Enterprise resource planning or best of breed, what is best for IT?

Kinaxis

by Christina Christensen The creative contention over enterprise resource planning (ERP) vs. best of breed (BoB) has become age-old; however, key considerations weighting the equation have changed with the rise of the cloud, better integration tools, and more focus on the impact network solutions have on business transformation and end user satisfaction. Future of supply chain best of breed Enterprise resource planning (ERP) SAP ERP Supply chain planning

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Peloton’s Supply Chain Strategy Turnabout

Supply Chain Matters

This week, the company announced a reversal in manufacturing and supply chain strategy, as well as a major turnabout. Supply chain strategy, process, talent and enabling technologies each play important roles. Change of Leadership and Overall Business Strategy.

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Maximizing Supply Chain Strategy: A 10-Step Guide

RFgen

Strategy is a critical aspect of supply chain management. By managing processes like planning, sourcing, production, and delivery, companies can reduce costs, safeguard against undue risk, and pivot quickly when faced with the unexpected.

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2023 Procurement Planning: How Shippers Can Navigate Disruption With More Agile Strategies

Establishing a resilient supply chain network design requires an agile procurement strategy—one that’s cost-effective, unrestricted, and allows shippers to address freight market issues. Download our guide to the tactics and tech solutions you can use to evolve your current strategy.

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The Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Reduction Strategy

Supply Chain Game Changer

Certainly we should all reduce, reuse and recycle and it applies everywhere! As such we have the direct or indirect ability to take actions which can promote environmental sustainability, reduce carbon footprint impacts, and drive the creation of the Green Supply Chain. All of these elements of the Supply Chain will drive the consumption of energy, natural resources, raw materials and the creation of waste. Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Reduction. Reduce energy usage.

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Can I Build a Winning FMCG Route to Market Strategy on Limited Resources?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Brewing & Beverages FMCG Route to Market Traditional Trade Sales Distribution RTM Assessment Tool Doing Business in Africa Retail 3PL RTM 3PLP 4PL Promotions Ross Marie RtM Strategy 20 Steps to RtM ExcellenceI am in the middle of writing a blog series on Route to Market (RtM) success in emerging markets, with a specific focus on Africa. I have been receiving some excellent feedback throughout (many thanks!). One topic has come up several times and I will now address it in this blog.

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Limitless Cost Reductions: Fallacy or Feasible?

LevaData

For those in discrete manufacturing, one of the most widely accepted truths is that continued cost reductions are vital for both success and survival. Organizations continue to push their supply management teams to find new, innovative ways to reduce costs and protect profits.

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Blue Yonder Pivots to a Partnership Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

Blue Yonder recognized the need to transform into a Partner First organization as part of its core growth strategy. Recently there was a meeting in Dallas where executives from Blue Yonder were sharing their strategies around WMS and TMS with the partners. “We

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Top 5 Barriers to Supply Chain Network Design Adoption and How to Overcome Them

Speaker: Brian Dooley, Director SC Navigator, AIMMS, and Paul van Nierop, Supply Chain Planning Specialist, AIMMS

Want to build your internal capability, reduce costs and make better decisions? It's easier than you think. This on-demand webinar shares research findings from Supply Chain Insights, including the top 5 obstacles that bog you down when trying to improve your network design efforts.

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Natural Resource Scarcity

SCM Research

In their recently published JBL paper, A natural resource scarcity typology: Theoretical foundations and strategic implications for supply chain management , Bell et al. 2012) rightly note: “Scarcity of critical natural resources such as oil, water, food, and precious metals has the potential to greatly impact commercial activity as the twenty-first century progresses” In deed, avoiding waste of resources has become a top priority for many supply chain practitioners.

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Success Strategies for Demand Forecasting in Supply Chain

ToolsGroup

Download our ebook: Demand Forecast Is Why You Need to Adopt a Service-Driven Supply Chain Strategy. Whether you’re in manufacturing, retail, or another industry, here are four strategies that supply chains just like yours have used to win at demand forecasting.

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The Circular Supply Chain Explained + 13 Realistic Strategies

Unleashed

We take a look and offer strategies and case studies, along with tips from supply chain professionals. Where this is not possible, other changes can be made to the product or process to reduce waste and the carbon footprint.

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Waiting for Good Forecasting is a Bad Strategy!

Supply Chain Game Changer

When demand falls short of forecast you are left with too much inventory, excess capacity, under-utilized resources, and profit and cash flow pressures. By that I mean you should design and implement a Supply Chain strategy that does not care what the lead time is for any aspect of the chain.

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Leading Successful Change to Remote Training

Speaker: Dr. Britt Andreatta, PhD, CEO, 7th Mind, Inc.

This month, unprecedented numbers of workers have set up offices in their homes, in an attempt to flatten the curve of COVID-19. Meetings that were previously being held in conference rooms have been moved to conference calls and online meetings. Whether you’re managing the impromptu digital transformation of your company, or training new employees at a distance, make time to join Dr. Britt Andreatta former Chief Learning Officer at Lynda.com and author of several books on the brain science of success, as she covers how YOU can train remotely, and effectively, while supporting the flow of work.

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. This operation was proving too costly and too slow, so the company launched an initiative to achieve a 10% supply chain cost reduction within four years.

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5 Top resources for launching products into new retail stores

Alloy

In this article we share real strategies that work for sharing data-driven insights with retailers and driving them to action. The post 5 Top resources for launching products into new retail stores appeared first on Alloy

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Choose the Right Demand Planning Resources

o9 Solutions

Challenges can range from selecting the appropriate vendors during the RFP process to choosing the right resources during implementation. . Here are four things to keep in mind when selecting resources during implementation. . It’s not just external resourcing that can derail a project.

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50 Online Resources for Aspiring Supply Chain Scholars

Supply Chain Opz

To help you become successful, we have put together 50 online resources that you will definitely find helpful. Resources: Data.gov 2. Resource: Google Public Data 3. Resource: Pew Research Center 4. Utilize GIS data from ArcGis GIS data has been used to analyze supply chain related issues such as vehicle routing and location strategy. Resource: ArcGIS Open Data 5. Resource: Think with Google 6. Resource: Commodity Flow Survey 7.

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Discover 4 Use Cases for Applying AI to Your Recruiting Processes

choose to extend a job offer to Tim as soon as he completes the in-person interview, eliminating downtime he would otherwise spend waiting to hear back from the. status updates and guidance from his friendly AI recruiting assistant, eliminating the. onboarding resources.

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Inventory Control in Manufacturing: 7 Strategies to Maximize Service Levels and Profit Amid Disruption

ToolsGroup

As a plethora of challenges continue to haunt the supply chain, getting a handle on the risks to the business is a step in the right direction—one of the keys to developing a successful inventory control strategy. There are many strategies for developing an efficient supply chain.

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3 Practical Questions to Eliminate Silos

Maine Pointe

Silos develop in industrial manufacturing companies for many reasons, including competition between groups or functions for limited resources, misinterpretations of goals and priorities, management indifference, and an individual’s desire to stand out as an expert.

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3 Practical Questions to Eliminate Silos

Maine Pointe

Silos develop in industrial manufacturing companies for many reasons, including competition between groups or functions for limited resources, misinterpretations of goals and priorities, management indifference, and an individual’s desire to stand out as an expert.

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Human Resource Planning for Procurement, Contract Management, and Supply Chain Management

NC State SCRC

I spoke today on the subject of Strategic Human Capital, and the importance of developing human resource planning for supply chains with Dan Finkenstadt at the NCMA World Congress.

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7 Ways to Reduce Manufacturing Costs Without Sacrificing Quality

OptiProERP

Most manufacturers look to streamline systems, reduce production costs, and increase profitability without sacrificing product quality. Often, the quickest and easiest way to cut costs is by accepting minimum quality levels or reducing employees.

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Can Your Current Manufacturing Strategies Ensure Future-Proof Operations?

DELMIA Quintiq

The way forward implies resiliency in all aspects of the business, and for manufacturing in particular, this means implementing the right strategies as stepping stones to build and drive strategic flexibility. Key manufacturing strategies for competitive, future-proof operations.