ToolsGroup

MARCH 31, 2025

However, this approach ignores real purchasing behavior, such as customers buying complete sets of four tires. Probabilistic demand forecasting, in contrast, provides a full probability distribution, revealing actual purchasing patterns and enabling inventory planners to align stock levels with demand realities. The result?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Our approach simply breaks accountabilities and goals across the areas of Manufacturing, Logistics/Network Optimization and Ingredients/Packaging. We would not have succeeded without a team effort across R&D, the business leaders, and SC disciplines of engineering, procurement, and manufacturing. What have you learned?

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Kinaxis

JULY 17, 2014

In addition to analyzing the impact of changes through what-if analysis, scenario building, dashboards and alerts, Integrated Project Management has allowed First Solar to implement a closed-loop MRP with their ERP system effectively driving activities, such as creating and rescheduling POs, from one ‘source’ schedule.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

How MES is Shaping the Future of Manufacturing and Boosting Production Efficiency What is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)? A manufacturing execution system (MES) is a comprehensive, dynamic software system that monitors, tracks, documents, and controls the process of manufacturing goodsfrom raw materials to finished products.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 16, 2021

In our pandemic research, we interviewed thirty manufacturers. To help readers sort through the hype, we are writing articles on digital twin use cases to help companies gain a competitive advantage. Here we share the case study of Philip Morris using a digital twin deployment. In the past, sourcing was a manual activity.

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Steve Jobs met Tim Cook In 1998, Steve Jobs invited Tim Cook for the interview while Cook was working as a procurement and supply chain leader at another company. He also reduced the manufacturing cycle time, from 4 months down to 2 months. Cook shared the same vision with Jobs and later decided to join Apple.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Rockwell this includes all processes end-to-end except for manufacturing. In his role, Ernest owns strategic sourcing, materials planning, customer care, and logistics operations globally. As a B2B company, procurement management is essential. From a manufacturing perspective, products vary significantly in complexity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

A Case Study. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. A case is not a case. Discontinued in 2011.

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QAD

MARCH 31, 2020

It’s a niche industry, but also one of the cornerstones of discrete parts manufacturing. They’re complex machines assembled from thousands of parts, many purchased from highly specialized manufacturers. In some cases, only one or two companies in the world can produce the components ANCA needs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 21, 2014

Many supply chain consultants will quickly rattle off case studies and proof points, but the smart supply chain leader will ground the discussion with clear definitions. Let’s start with these: Demand Sensing: The reduction of time to sense purchase and channel takeaway. The concepts of demand driven are now vogue.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 12, 2021

Food manufacturers will find new opportunities in the alternative protein market as consumer demand surges for non-meat proteins: insect, plant and algae-based products, and ‘lab meat’ cultivated from animal cells. The demand for alternative proteins has surged in recent years, creating an opportunity for food manufacturers.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Optimizing spare parts inventory offers significant advantages for organizations, particularly in the manufacturing, maintenance, and repair sectors. Streamlined Lead Times: Improved procurement efficiency potentially resulting in cost savings from optimized shipping arrangements and favorable supplier terms.

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My Office Apps

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Meals on Wheels San Francisco Transforms Supply Chain Management to Serve Up to 30,000 Meals Each Day with OpenEdge-Powered ERP by MyOffice Apps 2020 | Case Study Challenge Meals on Wheels America has 5,000 independent programs across the United States, with the program in San Francisco being one of the largest in the nation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The outsourced R&D, in turn, supported outsourced manufacturing with over 50 key suppliers. Boeing is now a case study in how not to outsource a supply chain. But if Boeing can’t even manage processes in their factories, how good can they be at managing their partner’s manufacturing processes?

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Effective inventory management is crucial to reducing costs in any manufacturing business. This is particularly true in the food manufacturing industry, which characteristically has a high volume of products stored, and an urgent need to fill existing client orders to match ongoing consumer demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. One of my insights from doing the industry analysis for the Supply Chains to Admire each year is that smaller and less well-known companies outperform larger and better-known manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I am currently working on a couple of case studies for this blog on how business leaders used digital twin modeling during the pandemic. Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies.

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QAD

JANUARY 23, 2025

This is the year that AI stops being just a buzzword and begins to evolve into an operational imperative for manufacturers, retail and supply chain companies. Like any engine, it cant run without fuel, and not just any type of energy source is going to cut it. Think of AI as a high-performance engine.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 21, 2025

According to the announcement , this added investment is aimed at strengthening manufacturing capabilities while increasing the use of innovative new parts and materials needed for the future of flight. workers this year, including manufacturing and engineering roles. factories and supporting supply chain ecosystem.

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Bristlecone

JANUARY 8, 2025

Use cases Following are global case studies illustrating the benefits of no-touch planning: Global FMCG company automated 80% of its order-to-ship process and reduced the end-to-end processing time by 45%. Companies must focus on developing these skills internally with the help of strategic service providers.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 28, 2018

Editor’s Note: Microsoft’s Colin Masson, Global Industry Director of Manufacturing Solutions (that's him on the left), sat down with me to discuss how manufacturers optimize their inventories. But that’s not the only shift in manufacturing. It then uses this model to understand the impact of demand forecasting on inventory.

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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.” Read the full Melitta case study below. Read Case Study. Michael Youssef.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I know that your primary focus is procurement. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) Go to the source. In one of the case studies, a manufacturer reported that they had 1700 employees with the term “data” in their title, but they lacked insights. ” Anna, this blog post is for you.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

When QR strategy has become saturated, companies have to find the ways to differentiate themselves, some adopt ERP system, others adopt Just-in-Time manufacturing concept. 5) Keep production in-house : Zara tries to stay away from low-cost country sourcing and make an investment in the in-house manufacturing as much as possible.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

The older tools from CAPS Logistics, SNO from Oracle, and Manugistics Network Planning are giving way to new technologies like the Logictools product (purchased from IBM), the Solvoyo product for concurrent planning, the Quintiq technology for concurrent optimization, and the Llamasoft technology platform for optimization and simulation.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

Case Studies. Many surveys indicate that, even though a company has the reason codes within a manufacturing environment such as type of work-in-process or defects, they dont keep track of the reasons for the returns properly. Supply Chain Case Study: Executives Guide. A Case Study.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Travin Singh (creator behind Crust Brewing) realised that if he could find bakery partners, he basically had access to a cheap local source of beer making raw materials. Where usually all beer manufactured in Singapore is made using imported raw materials, this model of brewing would completely eliminate that need for beer making imports.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 23, 2020

Most of the current repetitive processes like (forecasting, reports, purchase orders & Invoicing) will be automated using various technologies. Case Study Agility: ZARA. As the fabric suppliers require the longest lead times, ZARA approves designs & initiates manufacturing after it gets feedback from its stores.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 23, 2013

Case Studies. Only 9 of out 20 articles cite Porter as the source of the concept (only 3 of them explain the concept appropriately, the rest of them do value system analysis using unknown methodology). One paper cites many lean manufacturing articles instead of Porters so conclusion can be drawn that its Value Stream Mapping.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 28, 2018

Editor’s Note: Microsoft’s Colin Masson, Global Industry Director of Manufacturing Solutions (that's him on the left), sat down with me to discuss how manufacturers optimize their inventories. But that’s not the only shift in manufacturing. It then uses this model to understand the impact of demand forecasting on inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Manufacturers today face lots of challenges driven by changing customer expectations. This is driving manufacturing sector to create more agile supply chains. These in tunr lead to additional strain on manufacturers to track and manage thousands of different product types. Background. Quickly identify issue and remediation.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

In extreme cases, firms simply state that a product comes from one country when, in actual fact, it was manufactured in a country that is impacted by the higher tariff being imposed. Alternatively, you may want to relocate – totally or in part – where your product is manufactured. This practice is illegal. Postponement.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We conclude our ongoing series in talking about effective KPI management by giving you a real live Logistics KPIs management case study from Whirlpool's engagement with a logistics service level provider. We hope the following case study shows you the proverbial proof in the pudding of effective Logistics KPIs management. .

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Conversely, a student who quickly grasps procurement strategies can be challenged with advanced case studies and leadership projects. For example, a student might work on a project that involves analyzing sales data to predict future product demand, thereby learning how to adjust procurement strategies accordingly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As a result, companies are writing new case studies through their actions or inaction. In this volatile world, efficient procurement led by a CFO is not the answer. Make, source, and deliver need to be managed together based on analytics that sense and respond at the speed of business. What is the issue?

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

Case Studies. Would you like to understand supply chain management concept but dont have time to study from a supply chain textbook ? For example, if you were a contract manufacturer in China, you might already have different logistics networks for different customers. Supply Chain Case Study: Executives Guide.

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