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5 Reasons Why Manufacturers Who Focus on Customer Experience Will Win

GlobalTranz

Manufacturers have always struggled to know their customers. But, modern businesses have grown to encompass an omnichannel sales opportunity. Customers can place orders online, by phone, in person and in nearly any other means desirable. Unfortunately, this means manufacturers face an even greater challenge, as more customers translate into greater use of customer service.

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Supply chain leadership lessons from Dallas Cowboys legend Troy Aikman

Kinaxis

by Alexa Cheater Pro Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman, who led the Dallas Cowboys to three Super Bowl victories in four years in the early ‘90s, may not be the first person you think of when it comes to giving great supply chain advice. One thing the legendary pro athlete does know is leadership. You can’t be a great quarterback without it and that was the topic of his keynote presentation at the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference.

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Top 8 FAQ about S&OP (and Our Answers)

Demand Solutions

Got questions about sales and operations planning (S&OP)? We’ve got answers. And at the end of a recent webinar, we picked the brain of the “Father of S&OP,” Dick Ling. Here are some of the questions we got from the audience—and our answers. Who usually wants S&OP software? The people who want their companies to implement S&OP software are usually the ones in the trenches who have become frustrated by poor communication.

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AIMMS Featured in IT Subway Map of European Supply Chain Software Providers

AIMMS

Choosing a supply chain software vendor can be a long and tedious process. You need to make sure the software has the right capabilities, that you have the right people on board to truly leverage it and that it will support and not hinder your processes. Supply Chain Media publishes a yearly IT Subway Map to help business leaders in their decision making process.

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4 Ways To Drive Supply Chain Excellence in the Food Industry

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.

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Gartner says “Add S&OP to your Financial Planning”. Here’s Why.

ToolsGroup

“Based on our research, every organization which aligns top-down financial plans with bottom-up demand plans, as part of their S&OP, sees an improvement in the accuracy and predictability of their financial forecast.” - Matthew Spooner, Research Director at Gartner. In Real Examples of Advanced S&OP and How S&OP Can Be Used to Create Value at Gartner’s recent Supply Chain Executive Conference, Spooner stressed that “no process is more fundamental to predictable financials than sale a

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Tell Me Why

Supply Chain Shaman

As a blogger, you can get feedback real time. Pretty cool. Right? I answer every question I get and sometimes I share my answers. This is the case today. Recently I had a comment on the Supply Chains to Admire post. The comment was, “While I appreciate comparing companies to their peers, I am lost on how Amazon and Walmart can be excluded (nevermind P&G).

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AIMMS Featured in IT Subway Map of European Supply Chain Software Providers

AIMMS

Choosing a supply chain software vendor can be a long and tedious process. You need to make sure the software has the right capabilities, that you have the right people on board to truly leverage it and that it will support and not hinder your processes. Supply Chain Media publishes a yearly IT Subway Map to help business leaders in their decision making process.

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5 Reasons Why the Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Will Reshape the Supply Chain World

Arkieva

What does the Amazon-Whole Foods Merger mean for the Supply Chain world? Amazon, in a revolutionary move, has acquired Whole Foods Market and its 436 stores nationwide for a cool $13.7 billion. The news has rocked the world of retail with several competitors such as Walmart, Target, and Costco losing shares by 4% - 9% in the aftermath 5 Reasons Why the Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Will Reshape the Supply Chain World was first posted on June 27, 2017 at 7:00 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Bl

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Supply chain planning in the digital age

Kinaxis

by Melissa Clow Recently, Madhav Durbha, Vice President of Industry Strategy at Kinaxis was interviewed by SupplyChainBrain on supply chain planning in the digital age. I wanted to share their fascinating conversation with our readers – check out the video interview and transcript below: Supply chain planning in the digital age. SupplyChainBrain: What are you hearing from your customers about the biggest challenges they are facing right now in supply chain planning?

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

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How Do You Measure “Free Time” Across Your Global Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

While we all think that we measure time in the same way, that can change inside a complex global supply chain. Consider the term “Free Time,” which is the amount of time from when a vessel or container arrives at the final destination until the recipient starts paying storage fees. Technically, Free Time is not free; you pay for it in your transportation costs.

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Will Logistics Technology Take My Job?

Freightos

Will Logistics Technology Take My Job? By John Edmonds, Research & Marketing, Freightos. Who hasn’t asked themselves whether technology is threatening their job? Of course, logistics is far from immune. A White House report from 2016 estimated that 80%-100% of long-haul trucking jobs may be threatened by artificial intelligence. It’s not only the manual jobs.

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Point-of-Sale Data Use Cases Fuel Effective Trade Promotion Execution

Supply Chain Insights

Point-of-Sale data has become one of, if not the most important factor determining the success of a trade channel promotion. But has it achieved its full usefulness? I think not. Shortly after the turn of the millennium in the aftermath of Y2K, Consumer products companies across all channels began concentrating on the expansion of knowledge and intelligence about the consumer, and, more importantly, the ability to predict outcomes.

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Digital Supply Chain: The New Arena of the Grocery War

The Network Effect

Glenn Taylor at RetailTouchPoints has an interesting article that provides some insight into what the Amazon-Whole Foods deal means for. The post Digital Supply Chain: The New Arena of the Grocery War appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

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

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This Week in Logistics News (June 26-30, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Last call for riders and sponsors! We’re getting ready to print our Logistics Leaders for T1D Cure Team jerseys for this year’s ride (September 14-17) in Saratoga Springs, NY in support of JDRF International. If you’re a supply chain or logistics company interested in sponsoring the team, or if you’re a supply chain or logistics professional with a direct or indirect connection with T1D, or you’re an avid cyclist or someone looking to take on a challenge for a great

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Top 8 FAQ about S&OP (and Our Answers)

Demand Solutions

Got questions about sales and operations planning (S&OP)? We’ve got answers. And at the end of a recent webinar, we picked the brain of the “Father of S&OP,” Dick Ling. Here are some of the questions we got from the audience—and our answers. Who usually wants S&OP software? The people who want their companies to implement S&OP software are usually the ones in the trenches who have become frustrated by poor communication.

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Seven Strategic Components for a Proactive Process Chemical Supply Chain

Logility

Process chemical manufacturers face complex supply chain challenges including dealing with hazardous and perishable ingredients whose characteristics (potency, color, composition, etc.) can vary from lot to lot. Adjusting formulas based on available ingredients and ensuring finished products meet the exacting tolerances of customers and regulating agencies requires flexibility and superior planning capabilities.

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PINC Named to Supply & Demand Chain Executive's SDCE 100 Top Supply Chain Projects for 2017

PINC

UNION CITY, Calif. , June 28, 2017 -- PINC, the #1 provider of yard management system (YMS), finished vehicle logistics , and inventory robotics solutions to the world's largest brands, is proud to be nominated by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine , the executive's user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, as a recipient of an SDCE 100 Award for 2017.

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

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.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

When it comes to supply chain design, we’re at another inflection point in the industry. The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. As I wrote two years ago in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2015 : Historically, Supply Chain Design was an exercise companies undertook at most once a year, or when a significant change occurred

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Top 8 FAQ about S&OP (and Our Answers)

Demand Solutions

Got questions about sales and operations planning (S&OP)? We’ve got answers. And at the end of a recent webinar, we picked the brain of the “Father of S&OP,” Dick Ling. Here are some of the questions we got from the audience—and our answers. Who usually wants S&OP software? The people who want their companies to implement S&OP software are usually the ones in the trenches who have become frustrated by poor communication.

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China and the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

In the United States, you read a lot about the Amazon Effect and how it is driving the consumer digital … Continued. The post China and the Digital Path to Purchase appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Supply Chain Planning Fireworks

Logility

Holidays are complex. Take for example the upcoming Fourth of July holiday in the US. As a child, this holiday always represented the best of the summer break and often included fun activities like camping, fishing, spending time in a park, parades, and wonderful firework displays. Of course there was always the abundance of kid friendly foods like hot dogs, hamburgers, bratwurst, watermelon (and the ensuing watermelon seed spitting distance contest), chips of all kinds, and lots of sugary drink

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

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.

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Only the Shadow Knows – Identifying the Unobvious with Supply Chain Modeling

Arkieva

While reading a wonderful article titled “Linear Thinking in a Non-Linear World – the obvious choice is often wrong” in the May-June 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review, I was immediately transferred back to the early 1980’s and theme of the IBM Advanced Industrial Engineering department – “only the model knows.” Only the Shadow Knows – Identifying the Unobvious with Supply Chain Modeling was first posted on June 30, 2017 at 1:41 pm. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use

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How DJI created and took over the drone world

TradeGecko

Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science and Technology Co, best known as DJI, took the global drone landscape and airscape by storm in only a handful of years. We explore how DJI achieved success through its tight supply chain management and extensive R&D.

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Why do Companies need the Internet of Things? Let Me Count the Ways

Enterra Insights

“When most people think about the Internet of Things (IoT),” writes Michael Wilson, AFFLINK’S Vice President of Marketing and Communications, … Continued. The post Why do Companies need the Internet of Things? Let Me Count the Ways appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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The state of S&OP according to 7 thought leaders

Supply Chain Movement

S&OP continuous to be a popular topic that remains high on the agenda of executives. To assess the current state of S&OP, I interviewed 7 S&OP thought leaders at the end of 2016 for my blog supply chain trend. These leaders all have 20+ years S&OP experience and published books, whitepapers and articles in renowned magazines. A group, eligible to comment on the current state of S&OP.

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What Makes a Warehouse Worker Happy?

The 2024 Newcastle Systems Worker Satisfaction Survey provides insights into the life of a warehouse worker and what matters to them.

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How Augmented Reality and Apple Will Transform Retail & Logistics Supply Chains

Supply Chain 24/7

From B2C to B2B, augmented reality has the potential to change the world in many ways, in this article we describe the top five ways this new revolutionary technology could potentially change retail, logistics, and the supply chain.

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SCL Summit 2017 – A Look at this Year’s Supply Chain Trends

All Things Supply Chain

For the fourth year, All Things Supply Chain was invited to attend the annual Supply Chain & Logistics Summit & Expo. Personally, it was my first time in attendance.

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How to optimize your business for high demand products

TradeGecko

Many wholesalers will agree that timing is critical in their line of work – if you’re able to ride on the wave of certain high demand products and capitalize on the trendiness or virality of these items, you’ll be laughing your way to the bank. In this article, we take a closer look at products that are currently in high demand right now, as well as explore how you can optimize your supply chain and operations to maximize profits from these high demand products.