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Supplier Onboarding is Core to a Digital Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

Molexs story is interesting because they excelled at overcoming these cultural issues. The most common form of trading partner collaboration is purchase order collaboration. With PO collaboration, buyers send digital purchase orders over the network to suppliers or other trading partners. The buyers dont report to Mr. Gainsford.

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Top Supply Chain Challenges for CPG companies in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

The classical approach involves functional silos, sequential decisions, and Excel and people to render a plan executable. CPG companies that utilize an autonomous supply chain technology see a reduction in their inventory and cost and an increase in revenue. each with discrete plans generated typically in sequential batch runs.

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Making The Case for Value Network Enablement

Supply Chain Shaman

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) does not meet this definition. With slim margins and ever-increasing inventories, companies invested less in capital assets. Today, this network operates with less capacity and ballooning inventories. Here I offer three starting points: ESG Initiatives Need to Focus on Inventory.

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Do You Need a Graph?

Supply Chain Shaman

Like Linus clinging to his blanket, supply chain teams make most of their decisions on Excel spreadsheets. Demand latency (the time from purchase by the customer to order visibility by the manufacturer) is weeks and months. Relational database structures are a barrier to modeling relationships and flow. The So What And Who Cares?

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Manufacturers Should Focus on This Most Critical Component for Manufacturing Operations Excellence

GlobalTranz

We conclude this two part series about manufacturing operations excellence by consultant Chuck Intrieri, by outlaying why manufacturers should focus on a critical component that will help sustain manufacturing operations excellence for years to come. What is Driving Sustainable Manufacturing Operations Excellence? Work centers?

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. I define digital as the rethinking the atoms and electrons of the supply chain.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

I want to be part of the evolution that helps leaders to redefine strategies based on the changing physics, electronics and capabilities in value networks. However, no company in this chart is on a linear path towards improving both margin and inventory turns. High-Tech and Electronic Supply Networks. What can we learn?