Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2023

The story continues. Bloated inventories. Rising inflation. Tightening of organizational belt-cutting to improve cash. Despite investments in planning, today, industries hold 28 more days of inventory than in 2004. Note that in Figure 1, retail home improvements days of inventory increased 68 days, contract manufacturing days increased 48 days, retail apparel by 28 days, and containers and packaging manufacturing companies by 14 days.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

ProMat 2023 is being held this week, March 202 -23 in Chicago. I spent the full day yesterday roaming the floor and meeting with exhibitors. For those of you that were unable to attend, this article will provide a thorough second-hand experience of a day at this expansive exhibit. ProMat 2023 occupied both McCormick Place South and McCormick Place North with over 1,000 exhibitors.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 15, 2023

I met Maria Villablanca, Co-Founder & CEO Future Insights Network, in person for the first time last September at the Transporeon Summit conference in London. We were the bookends of the conference: I gave the opening keynote and Maria wrapped up the conference by sharing her takeaways from the event and moderating an insightful panel. Read more The post Top of Mind Challenges and Opportunities for Supply Chain and Logistics Executives appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 27, 2023

Barry Conlon and Joe Lynch discuss supply chain risk management, which is exactly what Barry and his team at Overhaul provide to Fortune 100 companies across the world. Barry is the CEO and founder of Overhaul, an Austin-based company that provides intelligent, real-time supply chain visibility, risk, compliance, and insurance solutions for global shippers and logistics providers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 27, 2023

I need to clear the air. My goal is to engage the supply chain community in a no smoke and mirrors discussion. Here I am attempting to write a no holds barred post: one absent of hype with a focus on authenticity. My observation is that the supply chain community perpetuates a number of myths about planning. As discussions full of oxymorons, acronyms, and juxtapositions fill the air, I think that it is time to step back, and rethink planning based on the opportunities that new forms of analytics

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 17, 2023

Courtney Muller and Joe Lynch discuss highlights from Manifest 2023 conference, which was held in Las Vegas, January 31 to February 2. Courtney is currently the President of Manifest, a new generation event with logistics technology at the center. She leads the Manifest team and drives all strategic partnerships for the event. About Courtney Muller Courtney Muller lived in 8 states before she was 14 years old.

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AIMMS

MARCH 7, 2023

The post Supply Chain Optimization Technology for ESG Compliance appeared first on AIMMS.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2023

Happy St Patrick’s Day! It’s a day to wear green, and apparently, spend some green as well. Every year, the National Retail Federation conducts a survey on St. Patrick’s Day spending. This year, 61 percent of consumers plan to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, up from 54 percent in 2022 and the highest in the history of the survey. With more celebration comes more spending, and consumers are sparing no expense to go all out for the holiday this year.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 7, 2023

It’s time to think beyond appointments. While improved appointment scheduling for the gate and warehouse is a worthy application of real-time transportation visibility data, estimated time of arrival (ETA) knowledge alone isn’t sufficient to meaningfully improve your operations and their efficiency or reduce operational costs at your facility. Visibility data for appointments and gate-in/gate-out events.

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The Network Effect

MARCH 10, 2023

The post Why We Should Treat the Defense Supply Chain as a Network appeared first on The Network Effect.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 30, 2023

The widespread supply chain disruptions that happened when the global pandemic hit in 2020 highlighted several important lessons regarding manufacturing and supply chain visibility. Companies that lacked a control tower in supply chain, manufacturing and operations found themselves unable to ascertain the full impact of the disruptions they were facing and react in a timely manner, leading to significant losses.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 31, 2023

Peter Tirschwell and Joe Lynch discuss highlights from TPM 2023. Peter is Vice President, Journal of Commerce, the Maritime, Trade & Supply Chain division of S&P Global , a global data, analytics and business intelligence organization serving sectors including maritime, energy, automotive, petrochemical and financial. About Peter Tirschwell Peter Tirschwell is Vice President in the Maritime, Trade & Supply Chain division of S&P Global ;, a global data, analytics and business

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AIMMS

MARCH 20, 2023

The post SC Navigator: Your Ultimate Solution for High-Stakes Supply Chain Decisions appeared first on AIMMS.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. When a company undergoes a digital transformation, the transformation should be based on an understanding of what they want to achieve. A transformation that is based on the idea that by putting in new applications the company will automate a process, or processes, and provide more and better data to make decisions, is a poor foundation for a true

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 27, 2023

Author’s Note: I was asked by Transporeon (a Talking Logistics sponsor) to look at what is happening in the European transportation market and they provided me with access to their Transporeon Market Insights data for additional insights and perspective. I once again shared my commentary for this month in a brief Transporeon Journal Market Update. Read more The post Across the Pond: The European Transportation Market (March 2023) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 16, 2023

DAB Pumps puts customers and the environment first, while increasing planning efficiency, thanks to ToolsGroup’s powerful automation and artificial intelligence BOSTON — March 16, 2023 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, has been selected by DAB Pumps , a leading manufacturer of water management equipment, to enhance its forecasting processes and increase planning efficiency for a better understanding of customer demand, higher service l

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 29, 2023

Disrupted Logistics in Supply Chain Over the last four to five years, we have experienced disrupted logistics—broadly defined here as the interruption or complete breakdown of the supply chain functions at one or multiple levels. Going back 14 years ago, the logistics industry dramatically reduced capital expenditure in 2008 when the great recession hit.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 8, 2023

Sean Bardon and Joe Lynch discuss the empty container marketplace. Sean is the Co-founder and COO at Qualle , The world’s first empty container marketplace that connects exporters, importers, trucking companies, and steamship lines. Using Qualle’s technology, supply chains run more effectively, more efficiently, and less greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere.

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AIMMS

MARCH 15, 2023

The post How to Boost Resilience in Multi-Tier Supply Chains? appeared first on AIMMS.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2023

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , nearly three years after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, supply chains are back to normal. Actually, when looking a bit closer at the numbers, supply pressures actually fell below normal. Zero marks the historical average, and changes in either direction mark standard deviations from that trend. The February reading in the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index was -0.26, reaching negative territory for the first time since August

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 31, 2023

When I was a kid, I used to eat mayonnaise on Wonder Bread sandwiches. That’s it. Just mayonnaise, nothing else between the bread. I loved those sandwiches. I certainly enjoyed them more than ham and cheese sandwiches. Whenever we would go on school field trips, they would serve us a boxed lunch, and inside was. Read more The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 31, 2023) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 15, 2023

ABC inventory classification has been around so long that most planners just assume it’s the only way to segment your inventory. In fact, it’s not. And it’s not even nearly the best way. It’s actually a throwback from technology developed during the 1960s that hasn’t responded to the orders of magnitude increase in computer power that has enabled far better ways of solving the problem.

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John Galt

MARCH 20, 2023

We tapped into a wealth of knowledge from supply chain experts and thought leaders to ask what lesson from experience they would share with future leaders. Read their answers!

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 29, 2023

Matt Silver and Joe Lynch discuss the power of partnerships in the logistics and transportation space. Matt is the VP of Strategic Partnerships with Greenscreens.ai , a technology that provides predictive pricing recommendations for maximum broker margins. About Matt Silver Matt Silver is the VP of Strategic Partnerships with Greenscreens.ai. Greenscreens.ai is a dynamic pricing infrastructure for the logistics industry that optimizes and enriches historical and real-time market data to predict

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Arkieva

MARCH 21, 2023

Are you ready to move beyond S&OP to integrated business planning? This blog covers key considerations for implementing IBP. Sales & Operations Planning vs Integrated Business Planning was first posted on March 21, 2023 at 8:12 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

Chakri Gottemukkala, CEO at Supply Chain Planning Vendor o9 Solutions There are several young supply chain software companies that are unicorns. A unicorn has a valuation of over $1 billion. One of the more interesting is o9 Solutions. In January of 2022, Dallas-based o9 Solutions was valued at $2.7 billion after a funding round. Based on their growth, the company may be worth even more now.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 24, 2023

I attended ProMat in Chicago this week. If you’ve never been to ProMat, it’s like Disney World for supply chain and logistics professionals. Crowds of people, more than 1,000 rides (I mean, exhibitors) spread out across two enormous halls, some vendor booths as big as skyscrapers, and the loud, nonstop sounds of conversations, robots, presentations, Read more The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 24, 2023) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 8, 2023

Kathleen Geraghty, Vice President of Sales North America, ToolsGroup, shares the insights she’s gained on her career journey and tactics for creating a connected and equitable work environment. International Women’s Day began more than a century ago, and while the business playing field has improved, it’s still not balanced. There’s more we can do to level it, not just for the sake of women, but for the sake of everyone.

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