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Regional supply chain companies are attempting to define global requirements. They are well versed in requirements for regional supply chain planning, but they are attempting to redefine their processes and be more global. Initially companies believe regional planning systems easily adapt to become global, but they quickly learn otherwise and hit roadblocks. Success in Supply Chain Planning Is a Flip of a Coin. 4) Plan By Design. MORE
In the presentation, I shared data on the evolution of supply chain planning and the results on user satisfaction. The use of best-of-breed planning technologies was small at 15%. Neither technology vendor is an industry leader in delivering a solution that fits the needs of the supply chain planner. The common perception is that SAP and Oracle supply chain planning solutions are superior to best-of-breed Advanced Planning Solutions. MORE
Keeping with my normal Sunday night ritual, I poured myself a cup of tea to pen my weekly post for the Supply Chain Shaman. Here I want to use the analogy of the freeing a caged bird to help you think hard about the “Art of the Possible” in planning. My passion is helping supply chain leaders. To date supply chain processes are enterprise-centric. The second is deepening the level of supply chain understanding. MORE
How would 3D printing impact supply chain planning? Supply chain planners would need to plan and optimize workforce to ensure 3D-printed components are available at every stage of the assembly process. However, this doesn’t mean 3D printing will doom the supply chain as most people predicted. Customized production would also result in shorter lead times, lower transport costs and inventory levels. By: Creative Tools. MORE
My team and I had just gotten back from the India Manufacturing Supply Chain Summit & Awards 2016 at Mumbai. For 2 days some of the best Supply Chain Practitioners and Solution providers from India discussed under one roof the supply chain planning challenges they face, such as the future of Manufacturing supply chains, and how best to work as a team to tackle the expected manufacturing boom in India. MORE
Today’s life sciences supply chain is constantly changing as complex market forces including regulations, advances in technology, continued globalization, and ever-increasing customer demands combine to create new challenges. Life sciences companies are especially susceptible to changing market forces which necessitate constant evaluation of new processes and technology to ensure robust and agile supply chain capabilities. MORE
But growth poses supply chain planning (SCP) challenges. This invariably leads to manual interventions and firefighting, as you struggle to manage demand volatility and improve forecast accuracy while dealing with the limitations of a basic supply chain system. For more on this topic, see When SMBs Hit the Inventory Planning Complexity Wall ). Click below for a list top 10 of symptoms that you outgrowing your supply chain planning software. MORE
After decades of longer and more global supply chains, some are becoming shorter and more localized. This trend has important implications to supply chain planning. Contracting Supply Chains. . A recent special report by The Economist says that while most people assume that shrinking supply chains are caused by political factors such as tariffs, in fact there are deeper long-term trends at play. MORE
Guest Blog Post: Felipe Molino, Director of Solutions Engineering and Chris Pryer, Senior Scientist, NFI Disruptions have become commonplace in the supply chain industry. Distribution Intermodal Supply Chain Transportation MORE
What is supply chain planning? A detailed supply chain planning mechanism can help manufacturers with critical elements for operational success including material management, waste elimination, and working capital optimization. Supply chain planning is the process of accurately planning the journey of a material or a product right from the raw material stage to the final consumer. The process involved in supply chain planning. MORE
At the close of 2019, Jennifer Van Cise via IndustryWeek reported on the steep challenges faced in manufacturing and downstream supply chains. In fact, 84% of chief supply chain officers note the.read More. The post Integrated Supply Chain Planning: Connectivity Enables Responsiveness appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis. Supply Chain Integrated Supply Chain Planning MORE
Many supply chain pundits shake their heads in wonder as companies continue to operate with data locked up in silos. Siloed data and silo thinking are also found within the supply chain. Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, writes, “The broader concepts of connecting from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier are largely forgotten. Decision support and planning. MORE
Supply chains are anything but timeless. At a company, individuals define supply chain excellence based upon their own purview of time. Often when I visit a client, I witness circular discussions of supply chain excellence. Manufacturing cycles drive the cadence of production planning. Supply Chain Planner. The key for supply chain excellence is to successfully align the cycles. Planning Time Horizon Definitions. MORE
We have tackled the question of automation before, but his time I want to focus specifically on what automation will mean to the job of the supply chain planner. And I see several patterns emerging on the changing role of the supply chain planner. Here are my five predictions: Planning will become more efficient. no-touch, computer-controlled planning and replenishment—planners have to intervene in only three out of every 1000 planning decisions. MORE
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in supply chain planning is not a passing fad. AI and ML are fundamentally changing supply chain. This is a topic that supply chain planning people are thinking, talking and writing about. MORE
Supply chain experts and software leaders converge to discuss the current transportation environment and provide valuable tips on what companies should be doing now to get ready for what’s coming next. . What happens when you bring supply chain software leaders, a Berkeley professor, and a top Gartner researcher together in one “virtual” room to talk about the current and future state of the world’s supply chains? Strengthening Supply Chains. MORE
It’s taking a profound humanitarian and economic toll , impacting supply cha ins in many ways. Our team put several resources together to help supply chain organizations navigate through this crisis safely. . The next 2-4 weeks are critical to understand the exposure throughout your value chain, take actions to address anticipated shortages , and ensure resource requirements to restart. Study 4: Create Multiple Plans for Resource Utilization . MORE
” This is especially true in the world of retail supply chain planning. This month, we’ll explore a bad planning habit that is particularly insidious, because it is often treated as best practice in a non-Flowcasting world: Using the forecast as a “joystick” to control product flow. In a reorder point world, there is little means to plan these types of things in advance. It drives labour planning at the stores. The People Speak!/Flickr. MORE
Imagine you can control your production lines with a mouse click or a touchscreen swipe to optimize your supply chain in real-time – along with the ability to enjoy a seamless, customized experience. . bias in every aspect of the supply chain . MORE
As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. The Sam’s Club and Costco shortages of water, toilet paper and laundry products signals one thing for me: the spread of the virus will disrupt every supply chain. As markets shift, supply chains struggle to adjust. The order is a poor proxy for demand and few supply chains have access to consumption data. MORE
This is certainly true when it comes to supply chain planning, where the complexity and frequency of the process have increased while time horizons have shrunk. “We We find companies increasingly saying ‘My planning system is solving the problem that it was put in place to solve, but it’s not really answering the questions and solving the problems that we have today,’” said Allison Fowler, Senior Director of Planning at LLamasoft in a recent episode of Talking Logistics. MORE
At that time, they planned on spreadsheets. Their goals were lofty, but their understanding of supply chain planning was hazy. In 2006, they made a decision to implement a supply chain planning solution. The cost was 60% more in than average; but even more unfortunate, they never got a good understanding of how to use the planning system. Table 1: Characteristics of a Mature Planning Organization. Tactical Supply. MORE
When it comes to supply chains, certain words seem to be bandied about like the ball at a championship tennis match. Back and forth, over and over, these supply chain buzzwords seem to have an endless lifespan. But are they just creative marketing spin (after all, developing them is kind of part of the job), or is what they stand for actually making a difference in your supply chain planning? MORE
The evolution to using artificial intelligence and machines that learn in supply chain planning is inevitable. In fact, there are early examples of the potential of AI to improve both supply chain planner efficiencies and provide better or optimized supply chain decisions. Still typing “Machine Learning AND Supply Chain Planning” into Google delivers more 16,000 results in less than half a second. Are we ready? MORE
Avenues of transport are declining as major cargo airlines, like Cathay Pacific , drastically reduce flights to mainland China and Hong Kong. The virus continues to compromise supply chains and disrupt companies at a troubling rate, but a re businesses prepared from a supply chain planning perspective? . The era of globalization has enabled supply chains to be broader and more connected. Resilient planning in action . MORE
As a supply chain planner of a certain vintage, you remember The Jetsons and likely recall George working for Mr. Spacely at Spacely Space Sprockets. While we can’t be sure what kind of supply chain planning system Mr. Spacely had in place to produce his sprockets, The Jetsons’ well-documented ability to predict the future – from large format flatscreen televisions to video conferencing and robot vacuums – provides a key indicator. MORE
What is supply chain planning? A detailed supply chain planning mechanism can help manufacturers with critical elements for operational success including material management, waste elimination, and working capital optimization. Supply chain planning is the process of accurately planning the journey of a material or a product right from the raw material stage to the final consumer. The process involved in supply chain planning. MORE
Amid the general buzz in the supply chain planning field regarding optimization solutions and algorithmic planning, a diagram of value vs. difficulty lays out four stages of analytics by their difficulty and potential value. In the quest to do more with less, drive costs out of the supply chain, and provide higher levels of customer service, optimization and algorithmic planning are subject to a company’s analytics abilities and level of sophistication. MORE
Few people would argue that lack of planning is a good thing. ” Do things always work out according to plan? Eisenhower once observed about planning. He said, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ” Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, believes too many supply chain professionals have forgotten the fundamentals of planning in the digital age. MORE
So what does this have to do with supply chain management other than many of the readers of this blog are probably wearing contacts and/or eye glasses or have had some form of Lasik surgery? Just as we humans require both far and near vision to be effective in our daily lives our supply chain’s need both near and far vision to ensure an efficient and effective response to planned and unplanned events. MORE
First a confession: I borrowed this blog’s title directly from Gartner Analyst Noha Tohamy and her recent research note Five Things Supply Chain Strategists Need to Know About Machine Learning. Finding the right balance of human-based and machine-based approaches will offer the organization the speed and accuracy of science with the art of supply chain domain expertise.”. Machine learning is only part of the total supply chain planning solution. MORE
So what does this have to do with supply chain management other than many of the readers of this blog are probably wearing contacts and/or eye glasses or have had some form of Lasik surgery? Just as we humans require both far and near vision to be effective in our daily lives our supply chain’s need both near and far vision to ensure an efficient and effective response to planned and unplanned events. MORE
Supply chain planning in emerging markets is different. He adds, “Often, last-mile distribution costs to rural areas are high and reliability is low, compounded by the lack of visibility of in-transit shipments.” ( Invest in Four Key Capabilities While Developing Your Demand-Driven Supply Chain Strategy for Emerging Markets , 18 September 2017) Let’s take Indonesia, for example. Growing domestic demand can also cause supply chain strategies to change. MORE
At Supply Chain Insights , as we combed through over 9000 quantitative responses on supply chain management from business leaders to understand what drives supply chain excellence in preparation for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , in the process, we proved Hau Lee’s theorem in the Famous Harvard Business Review Article, “Triple A Supply Chains.” First, great supply chains are agile. MORE
In 2017, Gartner introduced a Supply Chain Planning Maturity Model with five planning stages. In the lowest stage (Stage 1), supply chain planning is inside-out, fragmented, local, unconstrained, and focused on revenue. In Stage 2, supply chain planning remains inside-out but achieves functional scale, local optimization, and focuses on reducing costs. Stage 3 straddles the line between inside-out and outside-in planning. MORE
After finishing the Supply Chains to Admire report and the Youtube series (to be released this week), this is my feeling. What Is Supply Chain Excellence? The seven years of work on the Supply Chains to Admire is part of my quest to answer Keith’s question. MORE
Cerasis
APRIL 9, 2020
At the close of 2019, Jennifer Van Cise via IndustryWeek reported on the steep challenges faced in manufacturing and downstream supply chains. In fact, 84% of chief supply chain officers note the.read More. The post Integrated Supply Chain Planning: Connectivity Enables Responsiveness appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis. Supply Chain Integrated Supply Chain Planning
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 15, 2015
In the presentation, I shared data on the evolution of supply chain planning and the results on user satisfaction. The use of best-of-breed planning technologies was small at 15%. Neither technology vendor is an industry leader in delivering a solution that fits the needs of the supply chain planner. The common perception is that SAP and Oracle supply chain planning solutions are superior to best-of-breed Advanced Planning Solutions.
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AIMMS
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Avenues of transport are declining as major cargo airlines, like Cathay Pacific , drastically reduce flights to mainland China and Hong Kong. The virus continues to compromise supply chains and disrupt companies at a troubling rate, but a re businesses prepared from a supply chain planning perspective? . The era of globalization has enabled supply chains to be broader and more connected. Resilient planning in action .
Logility
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in supply chain planning is not a passing fad. AI and ML are fundamentally changing supply chain. This is a topic that supply chain planning people are thinking, talking and writing about.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
Regional supply chain companies are attempting to define global requirements. They are well versed in requirements for regional supply chain planning, but they are attempting to redefine their processes and be more global. Initially companies believe regional planning systems easily adapt to become global, but they quickly learn otherwise and hit roadblocks. Success in Supply Chain Planning Is a Flip of a Coin. 4) Plan By Design.
Kinaxis
OCTOBER 27, 2017
When it comes to supply chains, certain words seem to be bandied about like the ball at a championship tennis match. Back and forth, over and over, these supply chain buzzwords seem to have an endless lifespan. But are they just creative marketing spin (after all, developing them is kind of part of the job), or is what they stand for actually making a difference in your supply chain planning?
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ToolsGroup
DECEMBER 20, 2016
But growth poses supply chain planning (SCP) challenges. This invariably leads to manual interventions and firefighting, as you struggle to manage demand volatility and improve forecast accuracy while dealing with the limitations of a basic supply chain system. For more on this topic, see When SMBs Hit the Inventory Planning Complexity Wall ). Click below for a list top 10 of symptoms that you outgrowing your supply chain planning software.
ToolsGroup
MARCH 5, 2019
Supply chain planning in emerging markets is different. He adds, “Often, last-mile distribution costs to rural areas are high and reliability is low, compounded by the lack of visibility of in-transit shipments.” ( Invest in Four Key Capabilities While Developing Your Demand-Driven Supply Chain Strategy for Emerging Markets , 18 September 2017) Let’s take Indonesia, for example. Growing domestic demand can also cause supply chain strategies to change.
The Network Effect
OCTOBER 9, 2015
” This is especially true in the world of retail supply chain planning. This month, we’ll explore a bad planning habit that is particularly insidious, because it is often treated as best practice in a non-Flowcasting world: Using the forecast as a “joystick” to control product flow. In a reorder point world, there is little means to plan these types of things in advance. It drives labour planning at the stores. The People Speak!/Flickr.
ToolsGroup
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
We have tackled the question of automation before, but his time I want to focus specifically on what automation will mean to the job of the supply chain planner. And I see several patterns emerging on the changing role of the supply chain planner. Here are my five predictions: Planning will become more efficient. no-touch, computer-controlled planning and replenishment—planners have to intervene in only three out of every 1000 planning decisions.
ToolsGroup
JULY 24, 2019
After decades of longer and more global supply chains, some are becoming shorter and more localized. This trend has important implications to supply chain planning. Contracting Supply Chains. . A recent special report by The Economist says that while most people assume that shrinking supply chains are caused by political factors such as tariffs, in fact there are deeper long-term trends at play.
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Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
At Supply Chain Insights , as we combed through over 9000 quantitative responses on supply chain management from business leaders to understand what drives supply chain excellence in preparation for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , in the process, we proved Hau Lee’s theorem in the Famous Harvard Business Review Article, “Triple A Supply Chains.” First, great supply chains are agile.
Logility
JULY 25, 2018
So what does this have to do with supply chain management other than many of the readers of this blog are probably wearing contacts and/or eye glasses or have had some form of Lasik surgery? Just as we humans require both far and near vision to be effective in our daily lives our supply chain’s need both near and far vision to ensure an efficient and effective response to planned and unplanned events.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 24, 2018
Keeping with my normal Sunday night ritual, I poured myself a cup of tea to pen my weekly post for the Supply Chain Shaman. Here I want to use the analogy of the freeing a caged bird to help you think hard about the “Art of the Possible” in planning. My passion is helping supply chain leaders. To date supply chain processes are enterprise-centric. The second is deepening the level of supply chain understanding.
Enterra Insights
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
In 2017, Gartner introduced a Supply Chain Planning Maturity Model with five planning stages. In the lowest stage (Stage 1), supply chain planning is inside-out, fragmented, local, unconstrained, and focused on revenue. In Stage 2, supply chain planning remains inside-out but achieves functional scale, local optimization, and focuses on reducing costs. Stage 3 straddles the line between inside-out and outside-in planning.
AIMMS
MARCH 30, 2020
It’s taking a profound humanitarian and economic toll , impacting supply cha ins in many ways. Our team put several resources together to help supply chain organizations navigate through this crisis safely. . The next 2-4 weeks are critical to understand the exposure throughout your value chain, take actions to address anticipated shortages , and ensure resource requirements to restart. Study 4: Create Multiple Plans for Resource Utilization .
Logility
JULY 24, 2018
So what does this have to do with supply chain management other than many of the readers of this blog are probably wearing contacts and/or eye glasses or have had some form of Lasik surgery? Just as we humans require both far and near vision to be effective in our daily lives our supply chain’s need both near and far vision to ensure an efficient and effective response to planned and unplanned events.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 5, 2013
At that time, they planned on spreadsheets. Their goals were lofty, but their understanding of supply chain planning was hazy. In 2006, they made a decision to implement a supply chain planning solution. The cost was 60% more in than average; but even more unfortunate, they never got a good understanding of how to use the planning system. Table 1: Characteristics of a Mature Planning Organization. Tactical Supply.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 9, 2020
As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. The Sam’s Club and Costco shortages of water, toilet paper and laundry products signals one thing for me: the spread of the virus will disrupt every supply chain. As markets shift, supply chains struggle to adjust. The order is a poor proxy for demand and few supply chains have access to consumption data.
DELMIA Quintiq
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
How would 3D printing impact supply chain planning? Supply chain planners would need to plan and optimize workforce to ensure 3D-printed components are available at every stage of the assembly process. However, this doesn’t mean 3D printing will doom the supply chain as most people predicted. Customized production would also result in shorter lead times, lower transport costs and inventory levels. By: Creative Tools.
Enterra Insights
JUNE 12, 2019
Many supply chain pundits shake their heads in wonder as companies continue to operate with data locked up in silos. Siloed data and silo thinking are also found within the supply chain. Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, writes, “The broader concepts of connecting from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier are largely forgotten. Decision support and planning.
Talking Logistics
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
This is certainly true when it comes to supply chain planning, where the complexity and frequency of the process have increased while time horizons have shrunk. “We We find companies increasingly saying ‘My planning system is solving the problem that it was put in place to solve, but it’s not really answering the questions and solving the problems that we have today,’” said Allison Fowler, Senior Director of Planning at LLamasoft in a recent episode of Talking Logistics.
NFI
OCTOBER 4, 2020
Guest Blog Post: Felipe Molino, Director of Solutions Engineering and Chris Pryer, Senior Scientist, NFI Disruptions have become commonplace in the supply chain industry. Distribution Intermodal Supply Chain Transportation
Logility
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
Amid the general buzz in the supply chain planning field regarding optimization solutions and algorithmic planning, a diagram of value vs. difficulty lays out four stages of analytics by their difficulty and potential value. In the quest to do more with less, drive costs out of the supply chain, and provide higher levels of customer service, optimization and algorithmic planning are subject to a company’s analytics abilities and level of sophistication.
Enterra Insights
JANUARY 31, 2019
Few people would argue that lack of planning is a good thing. ” Do things always work out according to plan? Eisenhower once observed about planning. He said, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ” Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, believes too many supply chain professionals have forgotten the fundamentals of planning in the digital age.
Logility
OCTOBER 3, 2016
The evolution to using artificial intelligence and machines that learn in supply chain planning is inevitable. In fact, there are early examples of the potential of AI to improve both supply chain planner efficiencies and provide better or optimized supply chain decisions. Still typing “Machine Learning AND Supply Chain Planning” into Google delivers more 16,000 results in less than half a second. Are we ready?
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 19, 2020
After finishing the Supply Chains to Admire report and the Youtube series (to be released this week), this is my feeling. What Is Supply Chain Excellence? The seven years of work on the Supply Chains to Admire is part of my quest to answer Keith’s question.
Arkieva
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
My team and I had just gotten back from the India Manufacturing Supply Chain Summit & Awards 2016 at Mumbai. For 2 days some of the best Supply Chain Practitioners and Solution providers from India discussed under one roof the supply chain planning challenges they face, such as the future of Manufacturing supply chains, and how best to work as a team to tackle the expected manufacturing boom in India.
PINC
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Supply chain experts and software leaders converge to discuss the current transportation environment and provide valuable tips on what companies should be doing now to get ready for what’s coming next. . What happens when you bring supply chain software leaders, a Berkeley professor, and a top Gartner researcher together in one “virtual” room to talk about the current and future state of the world’s supply chains? Strengthening Supply Chains.
Logility
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Today’s life sciences supply chain is constantly changing as complex market forces including regulations, advances in technology, continued globalization, and ever-increasing customer demands combine to create new challenges. Life sciences companies are especially susceptible to changing market forces which necessitate constant evaluation of new processes and technology to ensure robust and agile supply chain capabilities.
ThroughPut
APRIL 6, 2020
What is supply chain planning? A detailed supply chain planning mechanism can help manufacturers with critical elements for operational success including material management, waste elimination, and working capital optimization. Supply chain planning is the process of accurately planning the journey of a material or a product right from the raw material stage to the final consumer. The process involved in supply chain planning.
ThroughPut
APRIL 6, 2020
What is supply chain planning? A detailed supply chain planning mechanism can help manufacturers with critical elements for operational success including material management, waste elimination, and working capital optimization. Supply chain planning is the process of accurately planning the journey of a material or a product right from the raw material stage to the final consumer. The process involved in supply chain planning.
ToolsGroup
OCTOBER 27, 2015
First a confession: I borrowed this blog’s title directly from Gartner Analyst Noha Tohamy and her recent research note Five Things Supply Chain Strategists Need to Know About Machine Learning. Finding the right balance of human-based and machine-based approaches will offer the organization the speed and accuracy of science with the art of supply chain domain expertise.”. Machine learning is only part of the total supply chain planning solution.
Solvoyo
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Imagine you can control your production lines with a mouse click or a touchscreen swipe to optimize your supply chain in real-time – along with the ability to enjoy a seamless, customized experience. . bias in every aspect of the supply chain .
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 3, 2017
Supply chains are anything but timeless. At a company, individuals define supply chain excellence based upon their own purview of time. Often when I visit a client, I witness circular discussions of supply chain excellence. Manufacturing cycles drive the cadence of production planning. Supply Chain Planner. The key for supply chain excellence is to successfully align the cycles. Planning Time Horizon Definitions.
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