Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

SAP is embedding its generative Joule across the SAP Ariba source-to-pay solution portfolio to make it easier for their customers to manage routine inquiries, such as status updates, summarization, and frequently asked questions. SAP’s Business Network is a supply chain collaboration network.

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Logility

APRIL 29, 2022

This requires leveraging both supply chain visibility and data-driven intelligence at lower levels in the supply chain, and then using those capabilities to make rapid changes as necessary in vendors, facilities, and modes and routes of transportation. How do you do this?

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Logility

JUNE 28, 2022

Supply chain visibility offers the means to manage your supply chain efficiently by offering previously unseen opportunities. What they end up with is an unresponsive, inflexible system and no visibility at all into the supplier data they need. What Is End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility?

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ivalua

JUNE 18, 2020

Innovations focus on supporting smarter and faster decisions around supplier relationships and sourcing initiatives, improving the capture and recognition of savings, increasing accounts payable automation and ensuring accessibility for all. Sourcing optimisation tools have traditionally been for the select few due to the complexity involved.

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Bristlecone

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In today’s interconnected world, ethical sourcing has transitioned from a “nice-to-have” to a critical imperative for businesses across all sectors. This heightened awareness places a significant responsibility on procurement professionals to ensure that their supply chains align with ethical and environmental standards.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Your supply chain should benefit from end-to-end supply chain visibility and execution solutions that work together in a coherent supply chain orchestration strategy. This is where visibility to suppliers and new souring options becomes critical. What does that mean?

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Supply chain professionals, like military professionals, often find situational awareness an elusive goal. Over a decade ago, Cecere wrote, “As we enter the world where data is more available from trading partners, we can navigate across the supply chain into customer’s customers and supplier’s suppliers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This venture’s success will be closely watched, not only for its implications for Amul but also as a source of inspiration for other Indian brands aspiring to foray into the international arena. The post Amul’s Optimized Supply Chain: Driving Global Growth in the Dairy Industry appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The recent weaponization of pagers and radios in Lebanon serves as a powerful wake-up call to CEOs and governments worldwide; businesses must improve supply chain visibility now. Then, examine how this new risk affects companies across the globe and underscores the dire need for enhanced supply chain visibility.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 17, 2025

Key Decision Intelligence Insight s include the following: The CFO Financial with Tariffs Decision Intelligence Insights visualizes how tariffs dynamically impact variable cost, providing real-time ROI comparisons across offshore and domestic sourcing options.

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All Things Supply Chain

MARCH 11, 2024

Supply chain visibility is about knowing where things are at all times, from their sources to their final destinations. Various technologies can track goods in real time. Blockchain, AI, data…

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Visibility – An Overcomplicated Challenge! A recent Deloitte survey estimated only 15% of CPO’s have visibility beyond their tier one suppliers. I found this striking that there is so little multi-tier Supply Chain visibility.

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Exiger Perspectives

APRIL 16, 2025

How Global Supply Chains, Strategic Rivals, and Quality Breakdowns Threaten U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain vulnerabilities. A Bitter Pill reveals: Immediate policy recommendations to mitigate these risks andensure a resilient and ethical pharmaceutical supply for the nation Nearly90% of U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

What Is Visibility? In our recent survey on analytics, today 74% of companies are attempting to improve supply chain visibility (as shown in Figure 1). Projects Being Implemented as Part of a Digital Supply Chain Transformation Project. Visibility means many things to different people.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2021

These real-time solutions work by continuously monitoring a wide variety of risks, identified based on monitoring hundreds of thousand online and social media sources, and then elevating risks in heat bubble maps. There are supply chain visibility solutions for Risk, Source, Make, Deliver, and Returns/Recalls.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 7, 2024

Enhancing supply chain resilience as well as supply chain visibility is crucial in today’s interconnected world. Supply Chain Resilience refers to a supply chain’s ability to withstand and recover from unexpected events.

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Turvo

AUGUST 3, 2021

The right technology can help freight managers see what’s going on throughout the chain. Supply chain visibility and collaboration come into play and makes a world of difference. This is where logistics managers and freight controllers can use supply chain visibility and collaboration.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Aligned across the organization, the process focus is on executing the supply chain strategy. The advancements in analytics–open-source, cloud, internet-of-things (IOT), and cognitive computing–are very promising. Successful network design strategies are holistic crossing the boundaries of source, make and deliver.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

FourKites , the global leader in real-time supply chain visibility, has launched a Sustainability Dashboard where companies can see miles traveled to create a baseline for emissions. FourKites Sustainability Dashboard also enables companies to identify the highest source of freight-related emissions across the supply chain.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 5, 2023

Dynamic Multi-Sourcing that allows users to plan simultaneous replenishment from multiple suppliers, while also selecting back-up suppliers and creating order triggers. Aggregate Forecasting & Re-Forecasting Based on Pre-Orders that allows demand planners to forecast at any aggregate level without losing nuanced details.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 20, 2023

Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Choice ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. Today’s article comes from Matt Elenjickal, Founder and CEO at FourKites, and looks at redefining real-time visibility. What’s my ETA? What’s the dwell time?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Elenjickal focused on the three main areas where FourKites is looking to improve connections across supply chains: geos, teams, and ecosystems. Connected Geos Connected geos is all about the continuing evolution of the global supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Five Year Performance on Business Goals (2019 – 2023) Looking at 2024 Priorities When it comes to organizational priorities across supply chain functions for 2024, APQC finds that supply chain planning remains in the top spot for the fifth year (selected by 90 percent of organizations).

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 23, 2021

A SCCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. SCCN solutions provide supply chain visibility and analytics across an extended supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

Of the professionals surveyed, 59% saw the gap between procurement/sourcing and supply chain to be a major disconnect, and the most pressing pain point. MSCN solutions provide supply chain visibility, network-based applications, and network analytics across an extended supply chain.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this instalment of the series of articles written by the LSCMS Shippers Council, we strive to answer this and delve into the critical aspects of ocean transit time reliability and visibility within the supply chain. What is supply chain visibility and why it is important?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

SCCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. SCCN solutions provide supply chain visibility and analytics across an extended supply chain.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 14, 2023

Faced with the challenge of limited data availability, he co-founded Vizion, an API-first solution empowering cargo owners, freight forwarders, and software providers to achieve true supply chain visibility by tracking ocean freight in near real-time. In the podcast interview, Kyle and Joe discuss real time container tracking.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

including digital control towers fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), data science and analytics, strategic product segmentation, inventory management, operations intelligence and analysis, strategic sourcing, and effective pricing and promotions management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2022

Having an effective supply chain practice has always been a difficult balancing act, even in relatively stable times. Many factors need to align for an organization to be able to source materials, produce a product and put it in the hands of customers. Supply chain visibility solutions. Control towers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Autonomous Supply Chains In this competitive environment, a CPG manufacturer needs to fight to get space on retailer shelves in each region, keep those shelves stocked, compete and collaborate simultaneously with e-commerce, and maintain its operating margins. each with discrete plans generated typically in sequential batch runs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 15, 2018

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is becoming the financial system of record, but not the supply chain system of record. Blockchain for track & trace, supply chain finance, lineage, and supply chain visibility are exciting. They made little progress. Digital Manufacturing.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 27, 2018

Use in supply chain planning: Amplify the value of your existing processes and people with machine-assisted planning, which can help you bridge the knowledge gap between experienced and inexperienced planners, and gain real-time recommendations based on historical and current data analysis. Machine learning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

These sources while functional are difficult to connect. This is a form of visibility.) In my experience, usually only 1/3 of data needed for visibility is transactional data. There are no solutions that connect source, make and deliver in many-to-many architectures. The use of disparate data sources enriches insights.

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Logility

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Blockchain Allows Brand Owners and Retailers to Trace Source Materials Ahead of Pending U.S. automating the digital transformation of supply chain optimization and advanced retail planning, and New Generation Computing, Inc. Legislation Related to Forced Labor in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

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Precoro

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To enhance their competitive edge, companies across industries are adopting a key tactic: strategic sourcing. Strategic sourcing is a holistic approach to supply chain management that includes tactics for optimizing the total cost of ownership, improving supplier relationships, and ensuring long-term value creation.

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