Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

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. The analysis is biased toward large process-based manufacturers in the Gartner network. Is this success? I don’t think so. Learning Stalled.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Solvoyo’s Solution Bugaboo: something that causes fear or distress out of proportion to its importance. Demand forecasting is the process of making future estimations of how much of a given product will sell by location and time period. Would better forecasting accuracy be a good thing? Absolutely!

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

On Monday, November 27th, Logility announced the purchase of privately-held Halo Business Intelligence. This announcement continues the trend of supply chain software market consolidation. Logility is a well-established player in the supply chain software market. The company was spun out of the parent company American Software.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 6, 2022

Solutions enable real-time inventory availability and fulfillment optimization for retailers. BOSTON—June 7, 2022 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, today announced its acquisition of Onera, a provider of real-time inventory availability and fulfillment software solutions to retailers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. The initial software product release name was Real-Time Forecasting. The product naming convention changed to Demand Sensing (DS) in 2005. History of Terra Technology.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

CAGR , the global supply chain management software market is expected to touch USD 50 billion by 2032. This one figure speaks volumes about how organizations worldwide want access to the best supply chain management tools to boost efficiency and value in their distribution and logistics network. The real challenge?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies. At that time, the demand processes were largely regional. I also worked in manufacturing during the period of 1978-1992 trying to plan demand. Everyone has a bias.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2021

In DSD, instead of shipping truckload quantities of goods directly to a retailer’s regional distribution center every few weeks, a manufacturer has their own account representatives that sell to and service individual stores. Peet’s runs their DSD supply chain using an application from Körber (formerly known as HighJump Software).

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 20, 2015

In recent blogs I explained why beverage manufactures wanting to succeed in Asia have to acknowledge the region’s rich diversity. I highlighted the unique problems posed by the region and explained how manufacturers can improve their market penetration and get better returns on their investments. Well, the answer is very simple.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Whereas retailers once purchased merchandise largely based on the gut instinct of trend-savvy buyers and the push of whatever manufacturers tried to sell them, nowadays, they need to take a much more customer-focused and data-centered approach. You sell a full pallet of the item every week in most of your stores.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. SCaaS will guide companies to achieve strategic value by improving Manufacturing as a Service, Fulfillment as a Service, and Warehousing as a Service. Let’s delve into this emerging concept.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 17, 2021

NBG Home Uses a Software Solution from CommerceIQ. NBG Home has implemented a solution from CommerceIQ to increase sales in their indirect channels. The CommerceIQ solution also helps there. NBG Home is one of the largest home decor manufacturing companies and importers in the world.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Navigating the complexities of manufacturing operations often involves the crucial decision between MRP vs ERP systems. While both aim to streamline operations and enhance efficiency, they cater to distinct needs within manufacturing organizations. What is an MRP System? The first generation of these systems was known simply as MRP.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Manufacturing systems and regulatory compliance are considered to be very complex, coupled with the limited number suppliers due to the high barriers to entry. Moreover, the aircraft manufacturers have to do whatever it takes to win the order long before the commencement of production.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 15, 2018

While exploring a new approach to planning, a good place to start is with a tool familiar to many people, the Gartner five stage SCP maturity model. I t starts with horizontal alignment , connecting Demand and Inventory Planning with downstream demand sensing and upstream factory and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

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Vanguard Software

JUNE 22, 2021

In the new normal of supply chain disruptions, it has never been more important for planners to strategically manage disruptive events, which create dramatic spikes or dips in demand, shortages in parts or supplies, and unexpected changes in shipping schedules. Modern Solutions Enable Shock-Resistant Supply Chains.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 13, 2023

The good news, however, is they have plenty of options in their product assortments, store footprints, customer behavior and even virtual worlds as they face these economic headwinds, using tools including basket analysis, which shows what customers are buying, and assortment planning, which helps retailers decide what to sell.”

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For example, take a company that manufactures product in the US based on components supplied from Indonesia. One Network will interoperate with most ERP and logistics management software systems, providing the ETL environment to load the required data sets. The Industry Operating Backbone can provide additional benefits as well.

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Logility

JANUARY 16, 2018

Gartner defines demand sensing as "the translation of demand information with minimal latency to detect who is buying the product, what attributes are selling and what impact demand-shaping programs are having.“ This sounds a lot like the definition for demand planning to me. And now back to that crux.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

Learn to navigate the river of demand. Realize that, within the organization, the concept of demand as a flow is not well understood. There are many misconceptions that must be challenged: 1) Demand Management Is Forecasting. The modeling of demand today is supply focused. 2) One-Number Forecasting.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It touches many departments, from production, procurement, shipping, accounting, and finance to marketing, warehousing, research and development, and sales. Supply chain management is increasingly making an impact on the overall functioning of the business and influencing C-suite decisions. Do you want to be managing people?

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Arkieva

JUNE 23, 2016

These planning and scheduling decisions occur across a complex playing field organized by decision tier (strategic, tactical, operational, and relevant time response) and organization (corporate planning, factory, marketing, purchasing, etc.). Demand Management. The three primary activities include: 1.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 24, 2022

When faced with a pandemic like COVID-19, establishing a good understanding of the impact on supply chains and contingency plans can help manufacturing companies deal with uncertainties in the right way. Also, accurate inventory management can help in preventing overstocking, inadequate stock and unexpected stock-outs. ENHANCED SAFETY.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

The credit card company wants to identify purchase transactions that are fraudulent well before the customer receives their monthly bill. It pulls data sets with transaction histories with and without fraudulent purchases and applies machine learning to identify patterns associated with fraud. The coffee purchase was rejected.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

When I began my career there was no such thing as “Supply Chain Management” Supply Chain was not a title to be found anywhere on any organization chart. So what exactly is the definition of “Supply Chain Management”? Interestingly there are many views on how to define Supply Chain. Source: [link] ).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 9, 2021

Suppliers for all materials and services have to be found, vetted, negotiated with, qualified, ramped up, tracked, managed, kept competitive and governed. That is the purview of Procurement. Cash is king and cash flow management is the source of life, or the cause of death, of any company.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2017

A few years ago I purchased a sofa from a well-known furniture store. Supply Chain Software is Not the Solution. Many companies try to overcome this problem using ERP systems, demand management tools and other advanced software. I was shocked and asked why it took so long. “We

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Demand Solutions

AUGUST 7, 2013

For our purposes, predictive lead time is the ability to know exactly when to purchase a product or supply so that it will be available for a specific date, no matter what time of year you’re ordering. We at Demand Management approach the challenge of predicting the future by looking to the past.

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ThroughPut

MAY 5, 2021

How AI-Powered Capacity Planning is Changing The Manufacturing Landscape – a ThroughPut Perspective. The consumer demand scene is constantly changing and when you suddenly land in a situation where your product is in great demand, it can turn into a missed opportunity if you’re not prepared.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We enable them by providing high-quality supply chain on-demand courses, guides, best practices, tools, and mentoring from industry experts. We have Courses like S&OP deployment, Supply Chain Digitalization , , and Negotiation in Procurement. Eight core competencies stand out, encompassing crucial aspects of SCM.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

These include manufacturers of wind turbines, equipment used for solar power and hydropower, and components used in geothermal plants. An ERP solution can integrate with other systems and would enable companies to connect and manage the complex network of information and equipment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. Designed to make the traditional supply chain more efficient, today’s IT investments struggle to balance demand and supply, and drive profitability. Orders do not represent market demand.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Demand forecasting helps the business make better-informed supply decisions that estimate the total sales and revenue for a future period of time. Demand forecasting allows businesses to optimize inventory by predicting future sales. Importance of demand forecasting for ecommerce. Types of demand forecasting techniques.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Working with different companies as part of our S&OP research, we found that there is often considerable separation between the demand-generating sales & marketing functions and the demand-satisfying supply chain management and manufacturing functions, which are the main functional areas involved in the planning process.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 1, 2025

C Items Products which, according to an ABC classification, belongs to the 60-65% of inventory that represents only around 10-15% of the annual demand, usage or production value. Least attention is paid to this category for the purpose of stock control and planning and procurement decisions for such items may be automated.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 2, 2023

At ThroughPut , we have been working towards creating perceptive supply chain solutions that can help tide through these uncertainties with AI-driven proactive intelligence. In our last release, the ThroughPut Demand Sensing Module addressed the gaps unveiled by the pandemic and the sudden shift in existing market dynamics.

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