Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Despite the inherent challenges, a 2018 McKinsey article estimated that the payoff of agility enabled by digitalization can be staggering: “For companies that aim well and execute effectively, the resulting cost reductions could be transformational. And Agility Can Help Improve Profitability Too?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. The press release is silent on total revenues, but 2018 total revenues were 1B$. For Llamasoft it is sourcing rationalization and risk management network design. The supply chain career is new. Evolution is messy. Challenges abound.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In 2018 and 2019 there were two fatal crashes of the 737 Max 8. Instead of developing the aircraft in-house and sourcing parts from suppliers,” Dr. Tang explained, “Boeing decided to outsource 70% of the design, engineering and manufacturing of entire modules to over 50 strategic partners.” There have been other incidents.

Supply Chain Design Software 261

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The process brings together all the plans for the business (sales, marketing, development, manufacturing, sourcing, and financial) into one integrated set of plans.” Gartner: Keys to Solving the Top S&OP Challenges; Refreshed 29 October 2019, Published 12 June 2018. Read the full Melitta case study below. Read Case Study.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Here are some different sources and their very different numbers: The first question is why the Department of Energy has these kinds of statistics. Their last survey was in 2018. Because of e-commerce, it is believed that the number of warehouses in the US is increasing quickly and that there are more but smaller warehouses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 12, 2024

Autonomous supply chains can also help businesses by enabling new business models, such as direct-to-consumer, subscription-based, and circular, and creating new sources of revenue and competitive advantage. Kongsberg purchased Rolls Royce’s autonomous marine division back in 2018 to help advance its position as a leader in this market.

Supply Chain Planning Software 272

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In manufacturing-based companies, 70-80% of costs are in the processes of source, make and deliver. While the practices of finance are over 200 years old, in contrast, supply chain as a cross-functional practice (the combination of make, source and deliver) was recently defined in 1982. Is talent a cost or an asset?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 14, 2022

1 spot on both the 2018 Inc. SwapLeap is a next generation TMS and the #1 company on the 2018 Inc. Under Hollister’s leadership, SwanLeap delivered an unprecedented 75,660.8 percent growth in revenue in the past three years, catapulting the 5-year-old software company to the No. 5000 list and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.

Price Reduction 188

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Source: Gartner 2018. So Gartner polled both users and technology partners to see where machine learning had made the most inroads in supply chain planning (Current Use Cases for Machine Learning in Supply Chain Planning Solutions, 19 May 2018 ID, Tim Payne).

Supply and Demand 214

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 12, 2019

alone, Amazon introduced 208 million new products in 2018 — most of which are slow movers, or ‘long-tail’ items. Despite its extreme complexity and scale, Amazon’s July, 2018 earnings doubled shareholder expectations, turning a quarterly profit of a whopping $2.5bn. In the U.S. Applying A.I.

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SCM Research

AUGUST 26, 2021

In their important 2018 editorial, entitled Survey Research Design in Supply Chain Management: The Need for Evolution in Our Expectations , Flynn and her coauthors (2018) distinguish between four types of survey research designs. not just one company] constructs, which are addressed by appropriate respondents from different sources.”

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 3, 2023

Prior to founding Highway, Jordan served as the CEO of TriumphPay from 2018 to 2021, where he transformed the concept from a reverse factoring business into the first payments network in transportation, growing TriumphPay into the largest payer of freight invoices in the US.

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SCM Research

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Data in the case allows students to develop an understanding of Apple’s source of competitiveness and to gain insights into the management of a large, complex global supply chain network that focused on the intersection of services, hardware and software. See also the 2017 and 2018 SCM-related winners.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2022

He founded Altana in 2018, along with co-founders CTO Peter Swartz and COO Raphael Tehranian, after identifying a need for access to a trusted source of real time supply chain information. Evan Smith is the CEO and Co-founder of Altana , a platform for building trusted networks on a shared source of truth for the global supply chain.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 18, 2021

In a 2018 article published by McKinsey, the consulting firm, noted that despite inherent challenges, the payoff of digitally enabled agility can be staggering. Strategic product segmentation, sourcing and inventory management. Effective pricing and promotions management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award. To decide winners, we analyze post-recession period performance of 2010-2018 by peer group. In his role, Ernest owns strategic sourcing, materials planning, customer care, and logistics operations globally. About the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The digitization of commerce created a path for giants like Amazon and Alibaba to dominate their respective storefront/fulfillment and sourcing roles in the market. US importers are more dependent on Chinese sourcing than ever. From 2000 to 2018 China’s global exports grew tenfold to $2.7 The (Digital) Rise of SMBs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

The introduction of smoke-free products made the use of spreadsheet tools far less efficient in the capacity and sourcing planning as the new product categories had rapid growth. “We We needed to simulate multiple scenarios of significantly increased capacity and sourcing complexity, at speed and over a long planning horizon.

Modeling 206

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 21, 2020

In 2018, the U.S. Allbirds uses recycled cardboards and plastics as well as ethically sourced wool, while Rothy’s uses recycled plastics to create breathable, flexible shoes. Switch to Domestic Sourcing or Manufacturing. Here are a few of them: 1. Perform Energy Audits Regularly. Refining: 18%. Mining: 12%.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 24, 2019

I have been with Tata Steel since the beginning of 2018. Jamshedpur plant (image source: Tata Steel). I belong to this second division and work mostly on mathematical modeling, simulation and supply chain analytics. . When did you join Tata Steel? . The software supports scalability. What made it the right time to change? .

Optimal Sourcing 291

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 24, 2017

A recent article suggests that, by 2018, only 30 percent of manufacturers investing in digital transformation will be able to maximize the outcome. Part of a digital transformation needs to be creating processes and empowering employees to transform the data coming from various sources into actionable insights. Possibly not.

Manufacturing Procurement 209

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Gartner also recently published a report entitled Machine Learning 101 for Supply Chain Leaders (Noha Tohamy, February 2018) that highlights the differences. Machine learning offers a unique insights on understanding many sources of data and inferring outcomes.

Forecasting 219

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

She believes that a central Inventory System that manages all incoming & outgoing transactions and orders will provide a single source visibility, overcome some of her teething problems, and increase productivity in the Order to Fulfilment process. It was founded in 2018. Let me touch a little on predictive inventory demand.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Another study from the Dreary Report from 2018, states that inefficiencies, pain points and lack of automation in the maritime industry result in costs adding up to a staggering $34.4 It is clear that complex, manual payment processes are critical sources of costly mistakes and over billing. Lack of trust.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Should supply chain delays occur, companies can more easily identify the source of bottlenecks and take action to improve processes. Unilever, a consumer goods company, created a pilot digital twin of a factory in Brazil in 2018 and now plans to implement digital twins of 170 global plants by the end of 2020.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. What makes Ethereum different is that it actively encourages software development teams to use its open-source protocol to design tokens that run on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Download white paper.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

In fact, the on-demand industry was estimated to account for $75 billion in 2018. [1] As the supply chain becomes increasingly digital and collaborative , new partnerships may be formed by retailers, distributors and manufacturers to collectively source services and capitalize on economies of scale. and Unnu, Kaan. [2]

Optimal Sourcing 257

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 17, 2018

Prior to founding b2i, he was a leader in PwC Advisory's Operations and Supply Chain Management practice, and he is the 2018 chairman of the board of directors for APICS. These new connections enable data flows that, if properly exploited, create “information asymmetries” that can be source of new value-added features or capabilities.

Supply Chain Design Software 209

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award. To decide winners, we analyze post-recession period performance of 2010-2018 by peer group. In his role, Ernest owns strategic sourcing, materials planning, customer care, and logistics operations globally. About the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

Supply Chain Software 30

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The Solution: Systems Enabling An Omnichannel Retail Strategy Are Easier to Implement Than Ever The solution, for retailers struggling with omnichannel development and deployment, lies in advanced systems that utilize an open-source architecture. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018.

Modeling Software 196

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Our 2018- 2019 Network Design Survey showed that the majority of organizations are still relying on spreadsheets (nearly 60%) and gut feel (15%) to make network design decisions. Another use case we see for scenario modeling in the current context is evaluating new sourcing locations. Read on for common use cases. .

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Gartner's recent research report entitled Don’t Believe the Control Tower Hype — Buyer Beware (August 2018) questions vendor messages that are “loaded with marketing hype”. The central hub “gathers, integrates, normalizes and cleanses data from a variety of sources.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 1, 2018

Additionally, they invest in technologies that combine inputs from various internal sources into the forecast. Deployed technologies are often spreadsheets and/or disparate point solutions ingesting data from unlinked sources which must be reconciled manually because the data streams do not integrate easily or automatically.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This will be the team’s first World Cup game since 2014, as it failed to qualify in 2018. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by supply chain disruptions around the world has sparked a resurgence of companies bringing sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States or closer to U.S.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On February 3, 2022, Amazon announced its first price increase since 2018. Breaking it down, the three sources of the price increase appear to be 1) labor costs, 2) transportation (shipping) fees, and 3) member benefits – aka, content. ” Sourcing and retaining talent has also led to offering its employees increased pay.

Purchasing Skills 296

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 25, 2019

This walk, then run approach begins with establishing an adaptive, probability-based model for demand forecasting using existing historical data, then layering in more sophisticated machine learning using external data sources. Data Variety The more different types of data sources you factor in (e.g. 20 September 2018 ID: G00373110.

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