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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. Supply chain excellence happens when leaders manage complex non-linear flows.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

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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How to Cut Costs by Improving Product Punctuality

MIT Supply Chain

Researchers at MIT CTL have developed a model that uses purchase order (PO) information to help retailers determine when many different types of products need to be shipped to meet sales deadlines. This retailer excels at capturing opportunistic business. Lack of visibility. Performance improvements.

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5 Reasons Why You Need Procurement Planning Software

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

Procurement planning functionality (essentially the planning of future purchase orders) is typically a subset of broader supply planning applications that plan manufacturing work orders, inventory levels, shipments, as well as purchase orders, to meet demand.

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Ramping-Up Inventory for a New Distribution Center

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

At the request of some customers, I wanted to share best practices for ramping-up inventory for a new distribution center (DC) and transitioning distribution lanes from the old DC(s) to a new one. To accommodate growth, the distributor is going to add a new DC and transition 50 stores from existing DCs to the new DC.

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Ramping-Up Inventory for a New Distribution Center

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

At the request of some customers, I wanted to share best practices for ramping-up inventory for a new distribution center (DC) and transitioning distribution lanes from the old DC(s) to a new one. To accommodate growth, the distributor is going to add a new DC and transition 50 stores from existing DCs to the new DC.

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Preparing Your Supply Chain for the Omni-Channel World (Part 3): Capturing and Reacting (in Nearly Real Time) to Moments of Truth

BlueYonder

In the previous blog post , we discussed two MOTs: when a consumer decides to buy a particular brand, product or service, and then the experience (good or bad) that the consumer has after the purchase of a particular brand, product or service.