Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supply chain–takes longer to recover. The value chain supporting all industries is sick, requiring a leadership step-change. Time For Action. ” [link].

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Exiger Perspectives

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Industries dependent on these metals, including defense , renewable energy , electronics, and manufacturing, may experience supply chain disruptions, including delays, price increases, and supply bottlenecks, due to China’s leading role in their production. China is the top producer of all five recently restricted metals.

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RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2024

Advanced composites, such as carbon fiber-reinforced polymers, and high-strength alloys, like titanium and aluminum, are commonly used due to their lightweight properties and high tensile strength. The integration of advanced technologies not only streamlines operations but enhances the capabilities of supply chain professionals.

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Alloy

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Get full visibility with SAP and Alloy together Problems like stockouts and excess inventory continue to present a major challenge for every brand selling into retail. Today we’re excited to announce that our Alloy Intelligence application is now available on SAP® Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings.

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Alloy

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“This award is particularly meaningful because it’s based on feedback from our customers,” says Joel Beal, Co-Founder and CEO of Alloy, “We’re committed to helping consumer brands use data to quickly adjust to the supply chain problems and the volatile shifts in consumer demand that have become all too common today.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Reverse chain article and permission to publish here provided by Glen Munholland at circularsupplychains.com. Through advances in what became material science – and even more energy use – we accelerated the mining of metals, the development of alloys, and eventually plastics.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 10, 2014

For the true DIYer, open-source projects such as RepRap allow hackers to build their own machines using filament to print in materials such as plastic and metal. Many of these kind souls make their designs open-source and free for public use. The Third Dimension: The Advantages and Disadvantages to Printing in 3D.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 17, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Strategic National Stockpiles and Sourcing for the National Interest! With the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, and the resulting supply chain fallout , many have speculated on how the U.S. Subscribe Here! Email Address. What are Rare Earth Elements? What can we do now?

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Alloy

MARCH 10, 2021

If you’re a supply chain geek, you probably already follow Supply Chain Now , the go-to podcast for all things supply chain. (In In fact, you may have caught Alloy on a previous episode.). Hosts (and supply chain experts in their own right) Greg White and Scott W.

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Alloy

APRIL 4, 2019

Selected by the CGT community of consumer goods executives, Alloy was recognized as a top 10 vendor for both the Artificial Intelligence and Supply Chain Planning business functions. Alloy takes the latter approach, strategically using AI where it makes sense to enhance our solutions, such as demand forecasting.

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Alloy

AUGUST 10, 2021

There are new tools and practices you can use to give your sales, supply chain and marketing teams actionable, real-time insights into consumer behavior on the shelf, so you can quickly align to actual consumer demand. How native partnered with Alloy unlock Target retail data & grow sales (Consumer Goods Technology).

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Track weeks-of-supply across all your retailers and distributors so you can proactively identify unproductive inventory anywhere in your network and take corrective action. Use projected weeks-of-supply simulations to get ahead of future inventory risks. Fight against the silos that separate sales, planning and supply chain teams.

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Alloy

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“This award is particularly meaningful because it’s based on feedback from our customers,” says Joel Beal, Co-Founder and CEO of Alloy, “We’re committed to helping consumer brands use data to quickly adjust to the supply chain problems and the volatile shifts in consumer demand that have become all too common today.

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Alloy

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We welcomed members and guests to our San Francisco office in November to discuss “Implementing a Shared Supply Chain Control Tower.” A shared supply chain control tower aims to break the deadlock of companies optimizing on their own by driving collaboration, which leads to more value for all partners.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Alloy recently had the pleasure of joining the Slalom Digital Innovation in Supply Chain Summit , January 23–24 in Seattle. How do we set up a trusted single data source? identify a good data source, establish learnings, and then begin applying them to other data sources.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Despite this growth, Resilinc’s half-year data for 2023 shows that Aerospace is one of the top five industries impacted by supply chain disruptions. This isn’t surprising, considering factory fires have been the leading supply chain disruptions across all industries tracked by Resilinc for five consecutive years !

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 13, 2013

Mealer and Sung Hwan Park in collaboration with a sponsor company for their MIT Supply Chain Management Program master’s thesis A Simplified and Scalable Should-Cost Tool in the Oilfield Services Industry. RM price information is available from sources such as the London Metal Exchange website. Calculate RM cost.

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o9 Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

There is not a single day without the metals industry making the headlines: from targeted cyberattacks to price volatility to the semiconductor crisis impacting the automotive industry and consequently swinging supply and demand for metal manufacturers. The supply chain planning function is at the heart of these challenges.

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Alloy

JANUARY 29, 2021

Gautam is a Software Engineer at Alloy. Why did you join Alloy? I joined Alloy because it has a good mix of challenging technical problems, a hard-working team, and a great culture. When I first started at Alloy in the beginning of 2018, I joined as an intern. What do you do at Alloy?

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o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The supply chain planning function is at the heart of these challenges. For example, planners and supply chain managers must ensure the continuity of operations while also optimizing profitability and sustainability. Typical business challenges supply chain leaders in the metal industry want to solve with digitization.

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Alloy

APRIL 30, 2021

Chia-Lun Wu is a software engineer in Alloy’s Berlin office. Before joining Alloy, he worked as a software engineer at Forto in Berlin and Vyond in Taipei, Taiwan. Why did you join Alloy? Not only was the message very well customised, but also what Alloy is building looked very interesting and challenging to me. .

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Alloy

APRIL 30, 2021

Chia-Lun Wu is a software engineer in Alloy’s Berlin office. Before joining Alloy, he worked as a software engineer at Forto in Berlin and Vyond in Taipei, Taiwan. Why did you join Alloy? Not only was the message very well customised, but also what Alloy is building looked very interesting and challenging to me. .

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Alloy

MARCH 16, 2022

Henderson joined Melissa & Doug in May of 2020, as the world switched to virtual work and companies saw their supply chains and retail business disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, we don’t have every account up on Alloy right now. We created one dashboard with Alloy. Watch the full webinar replay.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

but it is also a significant opportunity to evaluate newer vendors, like Alloy, who can do a better job of meeting your holistic needs. Here are some of the advantages Alloy has over other retail analytics providers that make it the right partner moving forward. Alloy is more flexible.

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Exiger Perspectives

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Exiger has previously analyzed Chinas regulatory moves to restrict these minerals trade flows, highlighting the need to identify alternative sources of supply. defense contractor, however, is reportedly still reliant on Russian titanium at lower tiers of its supply chain. Following the U.S. Companies The U.S. adversaries.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 9, 2023

After managing a seemingly endless series of crises arising from the pandemic, supply chain managers face a fresh cycle of chaos from a COVID surge in the world’s largest manufacturing economy. While the humanitarian dimensions of this crisis are staggering, supply chains and the companies that rely upon them are also reeling.

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Alloy

MAY 16, 2022

The candy and snacks category is probably the most challenging category in the supply chain, perhaps second only to floral. Alloy Planning , for example, is a connected planning and execution platform that will automatically calculate a shipment recommendation based on these parameters and more.

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Alloy

MARCH 18, 2021

McLane Company is an important customer for many food and beverage brands, who use its supply chain services to get their products to grocery, drug and convenience stores. At Alloy, we’ve worked with several suppliers who rely on McLane to distribute its everyday products to key retailers. Division inventories and movements.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Check out The Digital Supply Chain (SC 4.0) The digital transformation of supply chain management, more specifically procurement and sourcing functions, is becoming a part of the new normal in business. Recently, I read Magnus Carlsson’s book, Strategic Sourcing and Category Management: Lessons learned at IKEA.

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Alloy

JANUARY 24, 2019

IDC Study: Industry Trends and Why a Demand-Driven Organization is Critical Alloy recently commissioned IDC for a Market Spotlight on the future direction of consumer goods companies, which you can read here. Thus, the supply chain becomes a “critical competitive weapon,” according to the report.

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Alloy

JANUARY 21, 2019

Using inventory numbers as well as data collected from POS transactions, “Askuity aims to be the single source of data-driven insights for every store, every product, and every consumer,” per its website ?—?but This data sharing improves collaboration, execution, and decision-making along the retail supply chain.

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Unleashed

MAY 26, 2021

The deposit is then cured by a heat source or ultraviolet light to form a 3D object. Allowing a more streamlined supply chain and economical production batches, minus costly and/or time-consuming setup. Supply chain improvements. The benefits of additive manufacturing on supply chains takes many forms.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

You can rally colleagues across sales, marketing, supply chain planning and finance around them, and more easily break down silos that normally get in the way. . Leveraging a shared source of truth, you can target the most common sources of planning and execution error to ensure that peak consumer demand turns into dollars.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Relying on Excel for retail and supply chain analytics, even with Excel wizards, limits your growth when how quickly you can respond to changes determines winners and losers. Yes, but… appeared first on Alloy. Excel cannot handle large data sets. Insights you can trust don’t come from small sample sizes.

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Alloy

APRIL 17, 2019

Reason #4: Demand sensing drives “digital dexterity” & transformation In the push for digital transformation and “ digital dexterity ” to exploit existing and emerging technologies for better business outcomes, demand sensing aligns with the needs of today’s most competitive supply chain organizations.

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Alloy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Channel Performance in Walmart Luminate is intended to act as your single-source of truth for sales, inventory and forecast data. Consequently, Sales leaders, Supply Chain leaders, and Executives may find themselves making crucial decisions based on outdated data. Data visualization in Alloy Alloy.ai to dispute fines.

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Alloy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Drives 35% YoY Forecast Accuracy Improvement at Ember Alloy.ai’s software also helps Ember drive inventory efficiency, scale its access to retail point-of-sale data, and align internal functions around a single source of truth for sales, inventory and demand planning. The single source of truth that Alloy.ai This year, with Alloy.ai

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