Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 11, 2015
When I was a small child growing up in the mountains of West Virginia in the United States, on snowy days, my family would gather around the kitchen table and play board games. One of my favorites was the board game Risk. It was a turn-based board game introduced in the 1950(s). Today, children would roll their eyes at the thought of playing a turn-based board game.
Freightos
AUGUST 26, 2015
The Experts’ Choice of the Top Online Logistics Resources. Intro Email Newsletters News Sites Social Media Influencers Blogs Unexpected Places. If you’re like me, staying up to date on supply chain news is critical. But for every online “aha” I wade through dozens of yawns. So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were.
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ToolsGroup
AUGUST 4, 2015
Manoranjith Pathekkara is managing director at LogicaMatrix ( www.logicamatrix.com ). What’s changed? Most of today’s supply chains are far more complex than when planning systems like SAP APO were created in the 1990s. Through the years business complexity has grown, fueled by multi-channel marketing, demand shaping, and the impact of the Internet on buying.
GlobalTranz
AUGUST 20, 2015
Approximately 60 percent of today's unfilled manufacturing jobs are due to a shortage of applicants with sufficient proficiency in science, technology, engineering, and math ( STEM ) skills. This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP.
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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.
DELMIA Quintiq
AUGUST 19, 2015
With massive ships and consolidated carrier alliances, container terminal operators are under tremendous pressure to increase their capacity. With so much to accomplish in a short span of time, is your terminal operating system (TOS) enough to sustain profitability and future growth? Unfortunately, the answer is no. But why? A TOS is designed to store historical data and help you make decisions for today, rather than plan for tomorrow.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 21, 2015
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is in a renaissance. The reason? With growth slowing and complexity rising, S&OP is more important than ever. It is not sexy, and it requires hard work; but the greatest value of S&OP is profitable growth. The technology market is rife with unsubstantiated claims and myths. Like a hammer looking for a nail, it seems like every vendor I meet now has an S&OP solution.
AIMMS
AUGUST 12, 2015
‘‘I want highly automated systems, a value chain network that optimizes my service and costs, the best talent available and the necessary predictability so that I can smartly invest in physical infrastructure.’’. It’s becoming clear that supply chain executives aren’t going to get all that they want. Traditionally it takes at the very least 2 years to realize investments in technology and physical infrastructure.
ToolsGroup
AUGUST 18, 2015
Note: There will be no blog post next week due to summer holidays. If it’s hot in August, you can duck in and out of air-conditioning. But that’s not the case with goods in the supply chain that always need to be kept cold. The “cold chain” poses a major execution problem—maintaining product integrity across dimensions like temperature and humidity.
GlobalTranz
AUGUST 31, 2015
The emergence of the Cloud has created an interconnected world that goes beyond the communications of the early ages of the Internet and Web 2.0, influencing the way our real world behaves as much as advances like the engine, the printing press, or the computer itself. New technology can seem appealing until the process of incorporating it into existing methods becomes overwhelming and stressful.
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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?
Kinaxis
AUGUST 12, 2015
by Kirsten Watson When considering what attributes supply chain leaders are most likely to possess, it’s easy to think first of hard skills—analytical prowess, technology expertise, and operations and economics knowledge quickly come to mind. But while hard skills may land you a job, many times it’s your soft skills that will keep you there—and accelerate your climb up the corporate ladder.
DELMIA Quintiq
AUGUST 26, 2015
“What’s your experience in aviation?”. That’s the #1 question I get asked when talking to people in all departments of airlines, airports, and industry regulators. While I love talking about the implementations across the globe where I’ve been involved, I’ve been able to provide more value by answering a different question: “What have you seen in other industries that we’re not doing yet?”.
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 16, 2015
As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. In these sessions, the technology providers share their rational for the investment and invite questions. Thursday morning, it was the acquisition of GT Nexus by Infor. The transaction closes in 45 days. Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8 billion in sales and about $800 million in earnings before interest and taxes in th
Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 25, 2015
It doesn’t matter if the cost of supply is at an all-time high or fluctuating wildly, the impact of excess inventory and inefficient operations can be crippling to cash flow. While it is obvious that inventory costs money, most companies are not aggressively seeking to exert control and carry fewer overall gallons. The same holds […].
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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
ToolsGroup
AUGUST 11, 2015
Supply chains are getting more complex, while. Customers are insisting on ever faster response times. In her recent report, Making the Case for Increased Adoption of Advanced Supply Chain Analytics , Gartner analyst Noha Tohamy says that it’s no longer realistic to expect planners alone to analyze trends and underlying drivers, predict future scenarios and devise action plans.
GlobalTranz
AUGUST 17, 2015
The business landscape is ever changing, numerous innovations have allowed companies to transcend borders and become global entities. While the opportunities are numerous so are the challenges; in this fiercely competitive global marketplace success requires companies to pay closer attention to supplier relations. Global leaders should retain suppliers with vested interest in the long-term success of the company.
Kinaxis
AUGUST 31, 2015
by Lori Smith In a previous post , I talked about the ineffectiveness of Excel, ERP, and legacy planning for S&OP. If those aren’t the right tools for the job, what is? I heard a colleague once give the following analogy: Imagine a pilot flying from New York to Los Angeles at night without any navigation systems or instruments to measure his location, wind speed, or altitude.
DELMIA Quintiq
AUGUST 7, 2015
“Enjoy a couple of drinks with a stranger, and the whole world opens up”. This key lesson stems from Jack Maxwell, the Booze Traveler. Working in South Boston bars, inspired him to start the show in which he adventurously travels around the globe exploring what people drink and why. Just like Booze Traveler , we’ve taken you on a trip exploring the richness of beer and its complex planning puzzles.
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Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 5, 2015
Definition. Bookends: To be positioned at the end or on either side of (something). Colgate. Procter & Gamble. Kimberly-Clark. Unilever. These consumer products global leaders paved the road for supply chain excellence by defining new supply chain practices. Over the last decade, each company took a different path to power global growth. With different cultures and competitive natures, tension exists between these leaders.
Talking Logistics
AUGUST 24, 2015
Although many retailers and other companies are charging ahead with their same-day delivery offerings (see Amazon and Macy’s , for example), others are taking a step back or shutting down their efforts. For example, according to an article in Re/code last week, Google is shutting down its two Google Express delivery hubs in San Francisco and Mountain View, California.
Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 10, 2015
I talked to Brent Wilson, SVP of Global Supply Chain Operations at ON Semiconductor, about their supply chain risk management program. ON Semiconductor is a premier supplier of energy efficient innovations in the semiconductor industry. The public company, headquartered in Phoenix, has a truly global supply chain with over 90 locations globally. Brent believes their […].
GlobalTranz
AUGUST 7, 2015
Big data utilization is the wave of the future for all aspects of business including supply chain management. There is simply too much information available in today’s world to ignore all but what can be comprehended by a single person? The problem is that not every company has the resources to begin the process of big data management and have yet to see the extent of benefits it can provide to analyze and use such data management.
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Kinaxis
AUGUST 26, 2015
by Bob Ferrari The following guest blog commentary is contributed by Bob Ferrari, Founder and Executive Editor of the Supply Chain Matters blog and Managing Director of the Ferrari Consulting and Research Group LLC. In March of 2011, I had the opportunity to join fellow supply chain management bloggers Trevor Miles and Lora Cecere in a Kinaxis sponsored thought-leadership webcast focusing on the potential of the social supply chain.
AIMMS
AUGUST 12, 2015
‘‘I want highly automated systems, a value chain network that optimizes my service and costs, the best talent available and the necessary predictability so that I can smartly invest in physical infrastructure.’’. It’s becoming clear that supply chain executives aren’t going to get all that they want. Traditionally it takes at the very least 2 years to realize investments in technology and physical infrastructure.
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 26, 2015
Volatility. Demand redefined. Economic markets plummeting… D aily we see the financial charts roll across the news. “It’s partly about growth, partly about trade, and partly about psychology.” CNN Money Watch, August 12, 2015. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Chinese restated and devalued of the Yuan. The new valuation and the impact on markets is swinging the global stock market.
Talking Logistics
AUGUST 17, 2015
One of my predictions for 2015 was that more companies will start treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. This trend was clearly evident at the recent LLamasoft SummerCon 2015 Conference in Park City, Utah, where more than 400 attendees — including executives from Land O’Lakes, Kellogg’s, Nike, Ryder, Hewlett Packard, SABMiller, DSW, Cardinal Health, and Wayfair — shared great case studies on their journ
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The Network Effect
AUGUST 7, 2015
David Steel/Flickr. As customers demand shorter lead times and more precise delivery windows, LSP’s are can be offered to provide JIT and/or tightly scheduled deliveries leveraging advanced routing and dispatch systems as well as telematics enabled vehicles to provide real time location and ETA information. These capabilities can be combined with cloud platform-based inventory visibility and order promising services to provide very differentiated fulfillment services that directly link customer
GlobalTranz
AUGUST 24, 2015
Business owners face endless decisions throughout all aspects of the supply chain. Businesses must decide which routes to use, where to manufacture products, and whether to employ the use of a third party logistics provider. However, one of the most important aspects of supply chain strategies is often overlooked: the reverse supply chain (also referred to as reverse logistics ).
Kinaxis
AUGUST 4, 2015
by Agnes Rubaj. I received a somewhat confusing email a few weeks ago – an invitation, from a colleague, for me to join Yammer. The invitation didn’t provide much information about why I should be joining, so naturally a few questions ran through my head. Why have I been invited? Is this related to a project? Am I supposed to know? Did I miss something at the last team meeting?
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