Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Container Import Volume Year-over-Year Comparison. Source: Descartes Datamyne. Theme 2: Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies. In 2023, consumers will be less forgiving and poised to buy from retailers whose delivery performance is commensurate with the rest of the shopping experience.

Predictive Analytics Software 228

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Functional excellence drove regional supply chain performance in the 1990s, but a focus on functional metrics in large, global and complex supply chains over the last two decades threw the supply chain out of balance. Trade-offs of commercial programs with source, make, and deliver to maximize value to the customer and improve margin.).

Procurement Analytics 370

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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.

Optimal Sourcing 173

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 9, 2019

Procurement, or Purchasing, is an area of Supply Chain that involves and requires very specific skills and expertise. Regardless of your position or situation it is highly valuable to understand the type of interview questions, and answers, appropriate for Procurement and Purchasing professionals. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Examples include control of maverick spend, qualified vendors, electronic bidding and price comparisons. This is not the case with the purchase of direct materials. Direct material purchases are still controlled by Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and traditional buying processes. Analysis of Factors that Drive Value.

Material Savings 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. Apparel Performance and Improvement Comparison.

Supply Chain Design Software 195

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Table 2: Gartner Top 25 Comparison to Peer Group Results As large manufacturers work the conference circuit in the industry to increase brand awareness for their supply chain efforts, they feed the perception that their stories demonstrate supply chain leadership. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.)

Gartner 364

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Precoro

JUNE 6, 2022

Suppliers can provide raw materials for manufacturing products or act as an intermediary between the manufacturer and the buying company. Acting as the last link selling products or services directly to the end customers – companies or individuals – the vendor receives a fee from the customer for sourcing the product tailored to his needs.

Manufacturing Procurement 75

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Starbucks redesigned their cups for the Grande product, and the flimsy cups were a source of constant spills and burns. Foundational to supply chain excellence is the reliability of delivery, quality, and service. The Sleep Number Story of Supply Chain Excellence. A Comparison Of Company Performance To Industry Average.

Customer Service 298

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Locus

OCTOBER 21, 2022

rise in comparison to September 2021. To provide consumer experiences for your online shoppers after they make their purchases, click here. This is also how you equip them for excellence. The Locus Dispatch Management Platform (DMP) is your constant companion for last-mile excellence. billion, which was an 8.2%

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Spend analysis is a crucial part of the broader business practice of spend management because a clear picture of the company's expenditures is essential for fact-based decisions in strategic sourcing and supplier management. If the answer to any of them points to problems, it might be time to explore other sourcing options.

Analysis 52

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

It involves outsourcing the entire supply chain function to a third-party provider who manages everything from sourcing raw materials to delivering finished products to customers. According to a paper by Len Prokopets and Ramin Tabibzadeh from Archstone Consulting , initial sourcing transactions can yield a 5% savings.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. I strongly feel that a blind focus on functional excellence will cause the supply chain to become out of balance. Metrics comparison of Kellogg Co. One that is going to eat you up! You got it! vs. General Mills, Inc. A Case Study.

Supply Chain Planning Software 260

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. The River of Demand. #3

Supply Chain Design Software 189

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HICX Solutions

MAY 13, 2020

“No one ever got fired for buying IBM,” so the saying goes, meaning it’s generally safer to go with a household name when you’re in the market for new technology. And given the speed of technological development, is buying a procurement suite really the ‘safe’ option today?

Supply Chain Software 52

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Jaggaer

JUNE 18, 2019

It covers how Biogen is rethinking how it approaches supplier discovery and how granularly we understand, clean sheet, and cost model the items we’re buying. Imagine if you could include every single supplier possible in the bidding process to get an apples-to-apples comparison on critical criteria. The Power of Big Data Analytics.

Procurement Analytics 40

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The company branded as GT Nexus in 2001 and purchased Tradecard in 2013. The goal is deeper analytics to sense and respond across make, source and deliver. I am not surprised.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 150

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. I lost track of how many carrots we had and ended up buying more when we really didn’t need any. In a make to stock environment, if I have a 6 month cumulative lead time, my forecast is being used to buy inventory today for something I’m going to sell in 6 months.

Supply Chain Planning Software 257

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

MARCH 29, 2020

The enablers are physical and digital automation at their DCs as well as Solvoyo’s autonomous decision-making platform that manages their forecasting, inventory management, replenishment, and purchase orders. While we know of many other clients and prospects who are trying to perform what-if simulations using Excel spreadsheets.

Modeling 40

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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. It is a comparison of business pain for the past five years and future five years. Buying patterns are changing quickly, and the insights are multi-dimensional.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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ThroughPut

MAY 16, 2024

Note that supply chain optimization goes beyond just maximizing the overall supply chain performance in terms of material delivery excellence. By sourcing materials from eco-friendly suppliers, companies can further reduce their carbon footprint. What Does Supply Chain Optimization Involve?

Optimal Sourcing 52

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

MARCH 29, 2020

The enablers are physical and digital automation at their DCs as well as Solvoyo’s autonomous decision-making platform that manages their forecasting, inventory management, replenishment, and purchase orders. While we know of many other clients and prospects who are trying to perform what-if simulations using Excel spreadsheets.

Modeling 40

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

In the last decade, many companies, especially those with manufacturing operations, have evolved direct materials sourcing from an administrative function to a strategic procurement process. If so it may be impossible to conduct an apples-to-apples comparison. When analyzing freight spend, the devil is in the details.

Negotiating Skills 100

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Kinaxis

JULY 19, 2016

They expect to be able to make purchases and receive service in that same lightening quick timeframe. Supply chains are complex, they involve vast amounts of data from different sources, and there are hundreds or more variables involved in every decision. Easy Scenario Comparisons.

Supply Chain Planning Software 100

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. As was the case last year, the 2012 holiday buying season will be very much about the continued leveraging power of consumers in exercising multi-channel buying preferences and technology-enabled online tools.

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing 24

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Multichannel selling allows customers to shop and purchase through whichever channel they prefer. Each channel offers a separate opportunity to interact with the brand and make purchases. When businesses are looking to buy from other businesses, the B2B model comes into play. What is multichannel selling? What is B2B eCommerce?

Manufacturing Procurement 60

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 18, 2012

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. Customer Service.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

With so many changing variables, excel sheets or human intervention alone can’t gain the level of visibility needed to forecast the future. Leveraging AI for demand forecasting means: You can analyze any amount of historical data and current trends from external sources to predict future demands more accurately. The solution?

Predictive Analytics Software 59

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ThroughPut

APRIL 6, 2020

It goes beyond just maximizing the overall supply chain performance in terms of material delivery excellence. Having a single system in place which gives accurate inputs about what’s going where across the entire factory floor, can help manufacturers reduce dependencies on external purchase orders or forecasts to make supply chain decisions.

Optimal Sourcing 59

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

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. Too few companies have the discipline to measure Forecast Value Add–comparison to the naive forecast–and drive improvement. Simply put, it is expensive.

Supply and Demand 150

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ThroughPut

APRIL 2, 2020

It goes beyond just maximizing the overall supply chain performance in terms of material delivery excellence. Having a single system in place which gives accurate inputs about what’s going where across the entire factory floor, can help manufacturers reduce dependencies on external purchase orders or forecasts to make supply chain decisions.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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Claritum

JULY 31, 2018

This could mean that the supplier has been identified by a user and added to the system in anticipation of making a purchase or it could be that the Procurement team has added a supplier target to the list of suppliers. For example is it a one off purchase, is it for items of very low value or is it an ongoing catalog item. Evaluation.

Supplier Management 42

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Proxima

MAY 31, 2019

The value equation is therefore no longer a simple a cost vs. quality comparison but has become increasingly complex as the number of variables multiplies. In this respect, the Government Commercial Function’s role in sharing best practices and building coordinated strategies and approaches offers an excellent foundation for success.

Negotiating Skills 40

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ThroughPut

APRIL 6, 2020

This keeps them from creating smooth, synchronized and responsive supply chain plans to achieve the desired operational excellence. – How can an appropriate gap analysis be performed which involves performance reporting, identification, cost + benefit analysis and final comparison? Sales Planning. into the final plan?

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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ThroughPut

APRIL 6, 2020

This keeps them from creating smooth, synchronized and responsive supply chain plans to achieve the desired operational excellence. – How can an appropriate gap analysis be performed which involves performance reporting, identification, cost + benefit analysis and final comparison? Sales Planning. into the final plan?

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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RELEX Solutions

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Price comparisons are ever easier to make. However, today’s consumers might choose to buy staples from a LAD (dried pasta, tinned tomatoes, bagged salad for instance) and more specialized items (e.g. Keeping products that no-one wants to buy on the shelves just for the sake of availability always pushes up spoilage.

Negotiating Skills 37

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Velocity is imperative : Supply chain distances and times have increased a great deal (more in some corners of the world than others), and so have the challenges involved in getting fresh produce from source to destination before spoilage renders it unsalable. Sanitary practices must be maintained from source to shelf.

Waste Reduction 40

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