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A Better Approach to Supply Chain Segmentation?

ToolsGroup

Gartner research director Jennifer Loveland calls it end-to-end segmentation, where you determine first what your customers want, then create end-to-end models—from sales through sourcing, delivery, and customer service—to serve them. It gives you the ability to solve more problems, and be more targeted in how you meet each outcome.”.

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#1! Are you a Supply Chain Digital Champion?

ivalua

Digital Champions rate Smart Logistics as a top supply chain priority as it accounts for more than half of their overall supply chain cost-savings. Supply Chain Segmentation allows distinctly different transactions to be dynamically allocated to the best supply chain segment.

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What Kind of Reset Does the Supply Chain Need? Part Two

Enterra Insights

They explain, “Transparency assures consumers, regulators and investors that products are on their way and that sourcing is sustainable, as well as helping avoid compliance fines and enhancing brand and corporate reputation. Sourcing decisions will be based more upon resilience, rather than merely minimizing costs.

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Gartner Releases a New S&OP Magic Quadrant

ToolsGroup

Therefore, users' requirements are more oriented toward enterprise-level S&OP, with strong supply chain modeling, financial impact analysis and tight integration back into the operational planning environment.”. Source: Gartner Research, 2017. Source: Gartner for Supply Chain Leaders Toolkit, 2014.

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How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity

ToolsGroup

For example, MEIO enables inventory policy to accurately reflect all the sources of demand and supply variability across the enterprise chain. Build more resilient supply chain plans (e.g.,

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my favorite supply chain leadership stories is Clorox. I love the team’s work on supply chain segmentation and complexity management. They are the only company I know of that trained marketing and sales teams on supply chain constraints and segmentations as it ties to product lifecycle management.

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First Class Ready!

Supply Chain Insights

In this course we explain this journey and help supply chain teams to speak the language of the balance sheet with an understanding of how their actions drive business results. Supply chains are not equipped to sense, think, and respond intelligently through digitized relationships which provide new sources of data and insight.