Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 20, 2023

By exposing transaction data from end to end, organizations make quicker decisions, lower costs, and achieve better customer service.

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Supply Chain Visibility Supply Chain Customer Service Supply and Demand 96

Unleashed

AUGUST 20, 2023

Long lead times can hurt sales and customer retention. If a customer has to wait an extra day for their order, they might decide to cancel it. If a manufacturer has to wait an extra day for raw materials to arrive, they might lose a customer. Here we break down what lead time is, the types of lead times in supply chain management , the factors that affect lead time, and how to shorten lead times to provide a better customer experience.

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Manufacturing Procurement Inventory Reduction Sourcing Strategies Procurement Analytics 52

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 20, 2023

A perspective from Infor Nexus about why supply chain inefficiencies persist, and what can be done about them.

Supply Chain 95

Supply Chain Supply and Demand 95

Talking Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2023

Finding available trucking capacity is often a challenge, especially when demand is high. The sad truth, however, is that a lot of capacity gets wasted too. We see this, for example, in the number of empty backhauls that happen every day. There is another form of wasted capacity, however, that many shippers overlook — that. Read more The post [Video] Riviana Foods: Using Optimized Load Building to Reduce Transportation Costs and Improve Sustainability appeared first on Talking Logistics wi

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Cost Reduction Strategies Waste Reduction Video Food 181

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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

Predictive Analytics

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 20, 2023

See who was up and who was down

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Report Supply Chain Logistics Supply and Demand 32

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 20, 2023

Dear Technologists: As I worked in my garden and took afternoon naps to recover from surgery for the past month, the content of this open letter circulated in my brain. In this open letter, I beg you not to layer general AI over conventional supply chain planning. The issue? You might ask, why can what seems to sound so right be so wrong? Why am I so passionate about this?

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Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Supply Chain Design Software 322

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 20, 2023

These policy reforms will lead to efficiency and productivity gains and enable “stable prices for consumers, assured supplies and remunerative proceeds for farmers,” said the Reserve Bank of India.

India 97

India Food Policies Supply and Demand 97

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 20, 2023

The truckload volume index (TVI) for vans fell by 7.0% while refrigerated TVI decreased by 3.4% and flatbed TVI shrank by 12.8%.

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Freight 98