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As The Wind Blows: Improving Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

As companies consider purchasing new solutions based on better planning engines—machine learning, rules-based ontological frameworks, narrow AI, pattern recognition, large language models, and sentiment analysis— I ask for the use of caution. Note: What-if analysis is not a strength of SAP planning. There are four alternatives.

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Schneider Electric’s Supply Chain Design Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, at one point, they modeled Brazil and factored tariffs and tax considerations into the total landed costs analysis. They only promise at most 50% of the savings shown by the analysis. I would never want someone to trust 100% that what comes out of the model can be put into action.”

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Mastering Center of Gravity Analysis in Supply Chain Network Design – Best Practices

AIMMS

What makes center of gravity analysis a cornerstone of any supply chain network optimization strategy? Find answers from best practices.

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TMS Sculpting: Supply Chain Enhancement and Evolution

Talking Logistics

Organizations can continue to extract value from their TMS investment, meet cost reduction goals, and drive ongoing supply chain improvements through strategic analysis and optimization. However, the journey doesn’t end at implementation. Maximizing Your TMS Investment.

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Supply Chain Network Design: The Ultimate Use Cases eBook

Scenario analysis and optimization defined. Explore the most common use cases for network design and optimization software. This eBook shares how supply chain leaders leverage their supply chain design software to tackle a variety of challenges and questions. What's inside? Modeling your base case.

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ToolsGroup Recognized as The Technology Leader in Retail and Supply Chain 2024 SPARK Matrix™ Categories by QKS Group

ToolsGroup

Year-on-year revenue growth, strong enterprise segmentation, a compelling vision & roadmap, and industry-specific capabilities gained ToolsGroup the top spot in our analysis.” The QKS Group SPARK Matrix™ offers an in-depth analysis of global market dynamics, major trends, vendor landscapes, and competitive positioning.

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Navigating the Supply Chain Wars: Strategies for Wholesale Distribution Success

ToolsGroup

Winning the Supply Chain Wars To thrive amidst these challenges, ToolsGroup recommends five strategic pillars: Conduct What-If Scenario Analysis Simulate potential disruptions to plan and respond proactively. Evolving Customer Expectations Faster delivery, customized solutions, and real-time communication are now essential.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your Database Management Strategy

Download this ebook to learn how to maintain a strategy that includes refreshed information, database cleanses, and an accurate analysis at the same time. Forward-thinking marketing organizations have continuously invested in a database strategy for enabling marketing processes.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations. This frees up valuable time for sellers to focus more on building relationships and closing deals.

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Drive Better Decision-Making with Data Storytelling

A good data story is formed by three components: Data analysis - This is the basis of a strong story and mastering the data is an essential part of the process. Data-driven storytelling could be used to influence user actions, and ensure they understand what data matters the most.

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How to Build Data Experiences for End Users

Data aware: Users can combine past experiences, intuition, judgment, and qualitative inputs and data analysis to make decisions. Data literate: Users have a comfort level of working with, manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data. Download the eBook to learn about How to Build Data Experiences for End Users.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.