Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ZF is a Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry. While most of their sales are to automotive OEMs, they also sell components that go into other products – trucks and busses, wind turbines, tractors, construction equipment, etc. ZF transforms those purchased products into over 2,000 products. The Path Forward.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2021

iDev Partners provides growth and turnaround services to owners and executives of small and medium-sized automotive, industrial, and technology businesses. Areas of focus include new market entry, new product development, sales effectiveness, partnerships and alliances, operational excellence, and financial management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

A slight change within a function–in sourcing or manufacturing, or along the chain–can greatly impact the outcomes of cost, customer service, or working capital. Bonuses and incentives align with functions and are often counter productive to driving supply chain excellence. Let’s take a closer look at sourcing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving. (The The team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence. Models Matter. Traditional Models.

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QAD

MARCH 30, 2023

They don’t have an internal power source, so range and data storage is sacrificed to gain cost efficiency and lifespan. The internal power sources in these tags sacrifice cost efficiency and lifespan to gain range, data storage and self-initiated broadcasting. This isn’t a task for an Excel spreadsheet.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

Other rising concerns to be addressed, “suppliers were single-sourced, and there is a general lack of risk assessment that results in companies not being able to switch to alternative routing.”. Vivien Cheong shared the recent shift in freight buyers’ behaviour, “We are seeing freight purchase being commoditized.

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ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

Solution deployed in 10 days to improve direct material sourcing, increasing profitability. The platform was configured in 10 business days to deliver rapid value in the sourcing of direct materials. The platform was configured in 10 business days to deliver rapid value in the sourcing of direct materials.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 5, 2017

From my previous blog post , it’s clear that the road to achieving sales and operations planning (S&OP) excellence is not an easy one. It allows flexible, end-to-end modeling of your supply chain including production, sourcing and transportation. But don’t take our word for it — listen to our customers like Novelis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. How easy is it to buy from your company? Bio-engineering?

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Vinculum

DECEMBER 9, 2020

As fashionable shoppers, we tend to expect food on our native supermarkets’ shelves and our on-line purchases to arrive promptly, typically but twenty-four hours when the order was placed. This info is vital for buying choices, fulfilling sales demand, and managing product quality by looking at pictures of wrong things from suppliers.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 14, 2024

This allows organizations to quickly react to problems as they occur and identify alternative sources of supply. An automotive organization described how its supply risk Center of Excellence has expanded significantly, due to the recent challenges associated with supplying its production line in the last two years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. The Company also has franchised aftermarket services in automotive repair shops, retail outlets, and everything in between. What can often look like compliance in APO could actually be numbers calculated in Excel and posted into the SAP system.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Customer relationship management and service Excellent customer service is a key requirement for renewable energy companies. The organization can work from a single version of the truth with all data residing in a single source. It allows analysis of how expected sales and purchase orders will affect inventory levels.

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QAD

OCTOBER 5, 2021

From integrated multi-currency, multi-GAAP and multi-entity financials to best practice purchasing, from shared services to real-time data and flexible data analytics, Effective Enterprise Management ensures that manufacturers operate from a trusted set of essential enterprise processes that meet today’s and tomorrow’s needs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The company is a B2B Supply Chain Operating Network supporting the automotive and aerospace industries. In our research, discrete industries–aerospace, automotive, hi-tech, and semiconductor– rate themselves as performing better, being more proactive, and having greater alignment. In 2004 Compuware purchased Covisint.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 8, 2016

An automotive executive recalls how difficult this was given the technology limitations that existed in the early 1970’s. To drive centralized buying I had to dive down into the Bill of Materials and do a cross-tab. I started by looking at no more than 10 commodity groups, and looked at the production buy across these commodity groups.

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Vinculum

JULY 7, 2020

As people are making buying choices based on new and ever-changing global and local circumstances, the product categories that are being purchased are also changing. These are: Proactive health-minded buying (purchasing preventative health and wellness products). How You can Scale Your Retail Business.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

As reported in the Wall Street Journal last week: “Automotive value chains are international. An interruption in delivery of parts from a partner in Europe can therefore also have implications in China,” said [Markus Duesmann, BMW board member in charge of purchasing and supplier network].

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Although Lean principles provide an excellent basis for managing energy costs, such costs are often left out of an efficiency drive… Why is that? Energy is also at the centre of significant change in traditional markets like fossil fuels and automotive. Energy costs are not well understood.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

The Escort joined its fellow junk metal comrades in an automotive-parts junkyard a few miles away from my childhood home. But, when my mom was buying a new vehicle, she didn’t decide to scrap the vehicle from 1993 and purchase one from 1995. Responsible Sourcing. My mom didn’t really choose to get a new car.

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ivalua

APRIL 26, 2019

But interestingly, firms are deluding themselves – 65% of those surveyed self-assessed themselves as “advanced purchasing organisations” while the objective analysis suggests that the true figure was more like 16%! Around 80% of the firm’s cost base is purchasing costs, so they really have to get this right!

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Automotive. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. When all the dust had settled, consumers indeed tested these capabilities, using a variety of online and mobile applications to search, shop, and ultimately fulfill their holiday buying needs.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Automotive. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. This commentary is an interim follow-up to this authors previous Infosys Limited guest commentary: Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying Season- Overcoming the Challenges of Fulfillment Complexity.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Automotive. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. From this authors lens, expect the 2012 holiday buying surge to yet another stress test for managing fulfillment complexity among online, retail and B2C goods providers. Contact Us. Infosys Labs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I was an avid student of supply chain excellence; and in this role, I watched as best-of-breed solution after best-of-breed solution replaced with more complicated technology. Today, 32% of companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the same organization, and the gaps in alignment between operations and commercial teams are large.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Automotive. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « Retailer Multi-Channel Operations Capabilities Get an Early Test in the 2011 Holiday Buying Season | Main | Fraud vs Customer Centricity - III » Layaway and Buy Now Pay Later Payment Options!

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. is one of the industry’s most respected logistics sources. Automotive Logistics. Sourcing Innovation. This was the result. wsjlogistics.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). And its technology assets too, like the Kiva robots Amazon purchased [in 2012] and the data centers that power its cloud computing services. With operational excellence a given, IT and talent become greater value propositions for 3PLs. The robots keep coming.

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OptiProERP

OCTOBER 23, 2019

ERP solutions deliver a single source of real-time intelligence that is fully integrated across the enterprise for better decision making and forecasting. Real-time data gives users insights into purchasing, production, inventory movement, and warehouse management. Excellence Opto Inc., Accelerate and simplify financial closes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

As we traced the process that could exist using channel data, the conversation changed… DuPont served two primary markets–automotive and the building industry. The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. Purchases in the center store of the grocery store are in decline, and apparel tastes are shifting.

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Arena Solutions

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

She spent most of those years in the healthcare industry and recently spent time in the automotive industry. And what that often means is finding a second source, finding other options, another alternative. Despite this being sole sourced, they needed to identify a biologically equivalent raw material and they needed to do it quickly.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

Now it is only a matter of test buying products through unauthorized channels to recognize where the supply chain leakage is coming from. So I asked, “How about we make our employee the number #1 and fortify them better to radiate excellence to the customer as transferred effect?” Some strategies for an excellent supply chain are: 1.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. In particular, the company has been criticized for its long-time practice of using local water sources for its products. Media Image. transactionID. 1a56a7e8-24e3-47af-b890-46fa1a7073fd.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2016

When a business, or other organization, purchases equipment, parts, or remanufactured equipment it is an investment. or a defective automotive piece of equipment can be remanufactured giving life to the equipment, allowing it to be reused or resold. Increased velocity. Increased service market share.

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Arena Solutions

MAY 5, 2022

She has used Arena PLM for the past 19 years and has benefited from its evolution into a world-class tool that has allowed her to provide excellent support to her employers. We had to scramble and find additional exact matching sources. Michael talked about the disruptive technology pieces that changed the fundamental buying habits.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Surprising demand in automotive for car replacement. Most demand planning happens in Excel Ghettos not in the expensive technologies implemented in 90% of manufacturing companies. Demand latency is the time from channel purchase to translation into an order. The impact of the multiple hurricanes this season differ by commodity.

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