Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Solvoyo has a metric they call the user acceptance rate. This metric measures the percentage of time the planners accept replenishment, transportation, or inventory plans as they are without any change in the timing of the delivery or the quantity to be delivered. If a user makes changes to the plan, they log that data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Assessing Infrastructure and Technological Capabilities The first step in the readiness assessment is to evaluate the organization’s IT infrastructure and data management systems. Organizations must also evaluate the quality, integrity, and security of their data to ensure it is reliable enough for DPP purposes.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

That’s where data analytics comes in. Modern supply chains thrive on real-time data, execution-focused applications, and dynamic decision-making. In this post, we’ll explore how data analytics can revolutionize your supply chain. Demand Forecasting: Analyze past data to predict future needs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

As regulations across the globe strengthen, the pressure to collect, report, and organize emission-related metrics has never been higher. This added responsibility for companies will have lasting effects on business operations, corporate partnerships, supply chain logistics, compliance requirements, and data integrity.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 21, 2025

Forecasting has evolved into a sophisticated science, combining historical data, real-time market signals, and predictive analytics. Retailers implementing these solutions are seeing improvements in customer engagement metrics and repeat purchase rates.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

These sensors capture precise data on factors like location, speed, fuel usage, and driver behavior, transforming fleet management from reactive to data-driven decision-making. The IoT data allows managers to detect inefficiencies, predict maintenance needs, and even assess driver performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 2, 2025

Drip Big Data. The issue is that when companies optimize functional metrics, they throw the supply chain out of balance and sub-optimize value. To use optimization, the data had to be cleaned and stored in pristine condition in a data jail (rows and columns of traditional database technologies). Industry 4.0.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Shippers, brokers, carriers, news organizations and industry analysts rely on DAT for trends and data insights based on a database of $150 billion in annual market transactions. Real-time Market Insights: DAT provides real-time data on spot market rates, capacity availability, and lane-specific trends, enabling informed decision-making.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year, a recurring theme that I saw was about using supply chain data to improve the customer experience across the entire value chain. Here are the ones that stood out to me, especially as it relates to supply chain data. The single data cloud runs on Snowflake, one of Blue Yonder’s partners.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 23, 2024

Data is the lifeblood of AI in the supply chain. Without sufficient data, AI models can’t uncover meaningful patterns, make accurate predictions, or provide valuable insights for informed decision-making in complex and dynamic environments. At the same time, feeding your AI models too much data can also be a problem.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

That’s the power of manufacturing data collection. Data transforms operations. Manufacturing data collection is your secret weapon for boosting efficiency, cutting waste, and staying ahead of the competition. Let’s dive in and unlock the potential of your manufacturing data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

Leading organizations are building supply chains that are less exposed to single points of failure, more informed by real-time data, and more able to adjust sourcing, inventory, and routing based on current conditions. Metrics must reflect the new priorities. The Shift Toward Resilience The strategic conversation is beginning to shift.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

That tightly integrated advanced planning (APS) coupled to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) using order data is sufficient. Functional Metrics and the Lack of Alignment to Strategy. Few companies are clear on the number of supply chains they operate, design the rhythms and cycles of each, and align metrics to the strategy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

A disruption at any point in the global logistics network including the average of 12 touch points from shipment packaging to final delivery can prove disastrous for profits, service levels, customer loyalty, and other key metrics. With the global e-commerce market predicted to reach $8.1 billion to $23.07

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Client Access & Transparency: Provides client access to their shipping data for increased transparency and decreased administrative overhead. Data-Driven Insights: Provides valuable insights into shipping costs and performance metrics to optimize operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Blockchain also facilitates collaboration by sharing verified data across stakeholders. These devices provide actionable data to improve fuel efficiency and reduce maintenance costs. Set Measurable Goals: Establish clear targets for emissions reduction, energy efficiency, and sustainability metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

IoT: Powering the Future of Digital Product Passports The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to impact how industries track products and manage data. This network of devices enables seamless, automatic data collection from physical objects in near real-time.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 25, 2025

Real-Time Social Listening Integration Traditional supply chain planning relies heavily on historical transactional data, which inherently delays responses to rapidly shifting customer preferences. Today’s advanced demand planning systems treat weather conditions as causal factors alongside pricing, promotions, and store traffic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

My goal is to convince you to ground supply chain processes and technology implementations in data analysis while tying the results to the improvement in corporate performance. Let me make my point by sharing some financial data using client examples from the last decade. So, I asked the questions, “Is your data forecastable?

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Proactive Security Measures:DAT employs a range of proactive measures, including multi-factor authentication, advanced monitoring tools, and regular security testing, to safeguard user accounts and data, and to prevent fraudulent activities like identity theft and double brokering.

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Arkieva

DECEMBER 4, 2024

KPIs: More Than Metrics – They’re Tools for Change was first posted on December 4, 2024 at 11:02 am. Learn how to design effective supply chain KPIs that drive organization change, align teams, and improve performance with actionable insights.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

For example, if an asset issue was detected, solving that issue could involve multiple applications used by multiple people, seeing different information, entering different data, bouncing emails and texts back and forth, and moving information from one place to another. We needed to model the data in a way that we can do simple searching.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 7, 2025

First, a sophisticated analysis and decision-making process, that incorporates real-time data and requirements. This data-driven approach enables precise inventory optimization of placement and quantities. Second, the strategic activation of intelligent stock optimization based on probabilistic modeling outcomes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2021

Using balance sheet data from 2011 to 2019, we chart companies’ progress by peer group on rate of improvement and performance in the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). The charts and data get boring pretty quick.) The reason?

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We’ll examine the key components of efficient supply chains, explore essential performance metrics, and uncover the fundamental drivers that influence efficiency. Distribution: Data-driven distribution networks utilize advanced routing and scheduling to ensure timely deliveries while minimizing transportation expenses.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

To entice you to participate let’s look at the data more closely. Focusing on transactions at the expense of understanding and harvesting insights from market data resulted in implementing the wrong set of controls. Functional Metrics. To respond, follow this link. Organizational Alignment. The results were striking.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 11, 2025

Conduct Comprehensive Financial Analysis Demonstrate tangible ROI by highlighting: Projected revenue improvements Cost savings Return on investment metrics Performance during market volatility Real-world data shows probabilistic forecasting can improve forecast accuracy by 15-25% compared to traditional methods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2024

This infrastructure brings applications closer to users, preserves data residency, and allows companies to manage their data more effectively. Building a new data center involves moving IT hardware into new facilities. The company needed to examine air traffic control data to track air shipment emissions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A shift from functional metrics to a balanced scorecard. I like the use of growth, margin, inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital, customer service and ESG metrics. The focus on functional metrics sub-optimizes balance sheet results. Funny, isn’t it? Bad News and Good News Travel at the Same Velocity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) I never calculated and accounted for the inter-dependencies between metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The systems–based on shipment and order data–were out of step with the market. With fixed models and hard-wired data feeds, teams could not adjust the planning systems to use consumption data or market indicators. Next Steps: Start to model demand based on market data to align the organization on baseline demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2021

How do we design work systems to align organizations and ensure that there is the right balance of reward systems with metrics? Is there a need to redesign metrics to move from a functional and traditional function to drive goal alignment? In the design of the digital program, spend time on metrics and reward systems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. Why have we not improved our use of channel data in supply chain processes?” My question is, “Why?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

One of my stark realizations this year is that smaller companies are beating larger and often more established companies on growth metrics, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). (In The metrics selection resulted from work with Arizona State University in 2013.) The data is available.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. To side-step this issue, build planning processes to use market data. Abandon the processes focused on multiple layers of meetings to improve collaboration of organizations that are not aligned, but focused on transactional data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Companies have data lakes, but do not use their own data. I don’t understand why companies want to move data in and out of data jails that we call relational databases but are so unaware of the techniques to use data from data lakes through schema on read technology approaches. technologies.

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