Arkieva
JANUARY 16, 2024
This blog continues the journey of Kate and Jane as they navigate the concepts of safety stocks at Jane's company. A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 10 was first posted on January 16, 2024 at 7:52 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement.
West Coast and California Logistics
JANUARY 16, 2024
According to The Loadstar , US West Coast ports are anticipating a surge in imports due to a combination of supply chain and geopolitical disruptions. These disruptions include transit difficulties through the Panama and Suez canals, and concerns at East Coast ports related to ongoing labor contract negotiations.
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The Smart Software
JANUARY 16, 2024
True or false: The forecast doesn't matter to spare parts inventory management. At first glance, this statement seems obviously false. After all, forecasts are crucial for planning stock levels, right? It depends on what you mean by a “forecast”. If you mean an old-school single-number forecast (“demand for item CX218b will be 3 units next week and 6 units the week after”), then no.
IT Supply Chain
JANUARY 16, 2024
By Roy Bridgland (pictured) Senior Industry Strategies Director, Blue Yonder The post Red Sea crisis – Impact on retailers & supply chains to be more acutely felt in coming weeks appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
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The Supplier Relationship Management Playbook is your guide to building effective supplier partnerships that drive supply chain excellence. This playbook equips supply chain professionals with strategies for managing compliance, tracking performance, and fostering collaboration to reduce supply chain risks. Inside, you’ll find: Strategies for Compliance: Best practices to help meet regulatory standards.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 16, 2024
Unmonitored supply chains, underlying inventory assets, a host of third parties, and frequent transactions make the manufacturing and retail industries a sweet spot for procurement and inventory fraud schemes.
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Elementum
JANUARY 16, 2024
Business Process Automation Services: Enhancing Efficiency and Growth Business process automation (BPA) is a powerful approach to streamlining processes, eliminating repetitive tasks, and enhancing efficiency within organizations. It involves the application of technology to automate manual responsibilities that consume valuable time and resources. By implementing BPA, businesses can reduce human error, improve agility, and focus on innovative work that drives growth.
IT Supply Chain
JANUARY 16, 2024
By Nicholas Hyett (pictured) Investment Manager, Wealth Club The post Insolvencies in England & Wales: Some signs companies are struggling appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Elementum
JANUARY 16, 2024
Processes Automation: Streamlining Business Operations for Efficiency Process automation has become a vital component in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. By utilizing technology to automate complex business processes—such as production, employee onboarding, and customer service—companies can enhance productivity, efficiency, and promote innovation.
My Office Apps
JANUARY 16, 2024
Start Your Year with Cloud-Based ERP: The Ultimate Guide to Operational Excellence Begin your year on a transformative note by embracing the power of Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. In this ultimate guide, we’ll show you how to elevate your business operations, from procurement and logistics to manufacturing and more, ensuring a path to operational excellence and strategic success.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
BlueYonder
JANUARY 16, 2024
Data can change your business, if it’s used in the right way. It should be used as a way to replace guesswork and give predictability and concrete actions, it should be expertise that’s digital, making it instant and scalable. I want to talk about how a specific subset of retail customer data is insanely important and underutilized to deal with one of the biggest cost pressures in retail: returns.
NC State SCRC
JANUARY 16, 2024
The Department of Defense released four days ago its inaugural National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS), which is intended to guide the Department’s engagement, policy development, and investment in the industrial base over the next three to five years. Taking its lead from the National Defense Strategy (NDS), this strategy sought to catalyze generational change from the existing defense industrial base to a more robust, resilient, and dynamic modernized defense industrial ecosystem.
Synovos
JANUARY 16, 2024
Common MRO Supply Chain Challenges and How to Address Them The MRO supply chain is complex, regardless of the industry. For every purchased spare part there are potential challenges around lead time, parts availability, pricing, invoicing, quantity, quality, and more. Staying ahead of those challenges is difficult enough. Solving them requires significant resources.
Unleashed
JANUARY 16, 2024
Landed cost is a crucial metric for understanding profitability at the product level. It takes into account sales and production costs, along with any additional fees required to ship a product to the end consumer. Without it, you’ll struggle to achieve an accurate measure of how well your business is doing. This guide breaks down how landed cost is calculated, why it matters, and strategic ways to lower your landed costs and increase profitability.
Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski
Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea
Synovos
JANUARY 16, 2024
Common MRO Supply Chain Challenges and How to Address Them The MRO supply chain is complex, regardless of the industry. For every purchased spare part there are potential challenges around lead time, parts availability, pricing, invoicing, quantity, quality, and more. Staying ahead of those challenges is difficult enough. Solving them requires significant resources.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 16, 2024
Explore a range of cutting-edge solutions encompassing AI, machine learning, transportation management systems, advanced planning systems, data analysis, automation solutions and more. These innovations can transform a product's journey, enhancing its overall effectiveness.
Supply Chain Matters
JANUARY 16, 2024
The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an additional update on the incident involving an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft’s decompression. As indicated in our last update related to the incident, the series of ongoing investigative actions continue and the consequences are growing for Boeing , the plane maker’s senior leadership, and for certain suppliers.
Adexa
JANUARY 16, 2024
Advanced Planner-Assisted Systems (APAS) There has been a lot of talk regarding autonomous planning systems and the use of AI/ML to make the planning process more productive and the operations more optimized. Just like autonomous cars, the planning part is not too hard, i.e. the use of GPS as to where to go and when we get there. The uncertainty and how we respond when disruptions occur, are the key issues to be addressed.
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Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.
Synovos
JANUARY 16, 2024
What Are Common MRO Supply Chain Challenges and How to Address Them? The MRO supply chain is complex, regardless of the industry. For every purchased spare part there are potential challenges around lead time, parts availability, pricing, invoicing, quantity, quality, and more. Staying ahead of those challenges is difficult enough. Solving them requires significant resources.
John Galt
JANUARY 16, 2024
Learn about the emerging new way of making supply chain decisions to handle increased complexity.
Freightos
JANUARY 16, 2024
Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Phone This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. More Resources Home January 16, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market.
Operations and Supply Chain Management
JANUARY 16, 2024
Subcontractors are emerging as the weakest link in Boeing’s supply chain. The WSJ’s Sharon Terlep and Andrew Tangel report that a Boeing engineer warned at an internal symposium in 2001 that entrusting other companies with the production of parts was a big risk , but the company plowed ahead regardless. The strategy is being questioned in the wake of a string of quality problems that include complaints of loose rudder bolts and a recent blowout of a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight.
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Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.
Supply Chain Digest
JANUARY 16, 2024
Opening Returned Televisions to Find Stacks of Bricks
Supply Chain 24/7
JANUARY 16, 2024
This SMC3 blog outlines the logistics industries talent problem. A study from Alcott Global identifies the problems outlined. SMC3’s solution to these problems is teaming with the Logistics Training Center to provide coursework geared toward mastery of LTL transportation concepts.
QAD
JANUARY 16, 2024
Sometimes diffusion needs a little push. My mom will be 85 this year, which means she was born before any computers were invented. ENIAC (/ ˈ ɛ n i æ k /; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer made in 1945. My mom was an early adopter of word processing and personal computers because she was my Dad’s office manager, administrative assistant and bookkeeper.
Elementum
JANUARY 16, 2024
Business Process Automation Solutions: Boosting Efficiency and Growth Business process automation (BPA) is a strategy that enables organizations to streamline their operations, reduce manual tasks, and improve efficiency by leveraging technology. It involves the use of tools and solutions to automate repetitive, time-consuming tasks, allowing employees to focus on more value-added activities such as innovation and collaboration.
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Measuring innovation success is critical yet challenging for organizations, often leading to confusion over which KPIs to use. Many rely on inappropriate metrics borrowed from other departments, wasting resources and overlooking valuable opportunities. This guide outlines why innovation metrics are hard to track and offers a framework for creating effective KPIs.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 16, 2024
Stellantis will temporarily lay off 2,250 Italian workers after announcing plans to cut the jobs of 539 supplemental workers in the U.S.
Elementum
JANUARY 16, 2024
What is Business Process Automation? A Concise Guide for Success Business process automation (BPA) is a strategy that uses technology to automate complex, repetitive tasks with the goal of increasing efficiency and reducing the potential for human error. By streamlining these processes, businesses can focus on more critical aspects of their operations, such as innovation and strategic decision-making.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 16, 2024
Michelin suspended shifts at Spanish plants during the weekend of January 13 due to raw material delivery delays that arrive by sea from Asia.
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