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Industrie 4.0: Its Impact on Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

This puts more pressure on the supply chain to leverage analytics to improve supply chain segmentation and demand translation,” says Gartner Research in a report titled, The Five Things Chief Supply Chain Officers Need to Know about Industrie 4.0.

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How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity

ToolsGroup

Gartner has identified five stages of supply chain planning maturity and they say that 70-80% of companies plan to increase their supply chain planning (SCP) technology spend over the next two years to climb to the next level. Build more resilient supply chain plans (e.g., They want higher-fidelity plans.

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Supply Chain Segmentation: A Smarter Strategy for Satisfying Customers and Increasing Profits

ThroughPut

As you might expect, it would lead to numerous inefficiencies, jeopardize profits, and in a worst-case scenario, could even result in the business shutting down due to a completely collapsed supply chain. The need for supply chain segmentation in Sara’s situation is clear, but what about your business?

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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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Agility Does Not Grow on Trees: Start Building Today

Supply Chain Shaman

The first generation of APS tools was built on deterministic optimization technologies. Products for supply chain segmentation are maturing—especially around factor scheduling. The current demand sensing tools are the iceberg of what is to come in demand sensing and translation technologies. Demand-Driven Signals.

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First Class Ready!

Supply Chain Insights

To drive growth, supply chains must align the customer response into operations to reflect custom and customer segmentation policies, and so that they can align measures such as cost-to-serve with profitability. Build the organizational muscle to take supply chain segmentation into policy and execution.

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4 Characteristics of the Evolution of the Supply Chain

Kinaxis

Examples include reconfigurable supply networks, lightweight SDA, cloud-hosted optimization tools, and a digital products supply model. Examples include predictive maintenance, predictive forecasting, integrated optimization, supply and price analytics, “what-if” scenario analysis , and cognitive computing.

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