Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 21, 2022

On one hand, consumers expect to increase their online purchases post-pandemic. Retailers and delivery services companies that can break through today’s cycle of mediocre home delivery performance stand an excellent chance of improving customer loyalty and growing market share. Here are three charts that paint the whole picture.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 27, 2022

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Grocery retailers that want to excel in this space — while protecting their bottom line — need to optimize their logistics planning. They can choose where and when they want their purchases delivered; retailers trying to outdo each other are providing shoppers with flexibility through more delivery options, faster speed and even lower prices.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So, rather than get overly prescriptive, I’ll use this blog post to highlight some companies that have achieved success through excellence in inventory management , and outline some of the most effective elements of their strategies. Another takeaway is the importance of warehouse layout as an enabler for inventory management excellence.

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Precoro

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nowadays, procurement departments not only focus on the day-to-day buying operations but also search for the most efficient ways to go about them. Thorough analysis allows procurement professionals to surface, visualize, and present purchasing patterns, which are then evaluated by the stakeholders. From whom are we buying?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 22, 2021

Excellent customer service article and permission to publish here provided by Jocelyn Bell. It has become second nature for increasing numbers of consumers to buy online, whether they are shopping for new shoes or a new car. Using this to create a valuable customer experience makes people buy more and come back more often.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 19, 2024

In addition, a purchase order changes three-to-four times and there is a black hole (data is caught between email systems of trading partners for one-to-two days). Purchase order data, while not as important, has the smallest gap. PE Firm Buy-out and Consolidation. Most is silo’d. Many systems without interoperability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2023

Each executive has a different perspective on the definition of supply chain excellence, but they are never discussed and aligned. His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. What Is The Ring of Fire?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

The shifts over the last decade are profound: Is the answer a Supply Chain Center of Excellence? So, creating a Supply Chain Center of Excellence might sound like a good idea to start. Today, 56% of global multinational companies greater than 5B in revenue have a supply chain center of excellence. Lack of executive buy-in.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

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AIMMS

MAY 4, 2016

Getting buy-in agreement and changing your company culture to embrace analytics is often more difficult. A Supply Chain Analytics Center of Excellence (COE) can help you start off with the right team structure, engage the right stakeholders and put you on the right path to implementation. How do you get buy-in and agreement?

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Procurement Academy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Your business needs a broader vision to address sustainability, deliver on risk management and resilience challenges, nurture buyer and supplier relationships, as well as meet procurement excellence. Distributive negotiations come into play with price negotiations of a one-time purchase, such as a single shipment of goods.

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Procurement Academy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Advance Procurement Excellence with Expert Negotiation Strategies With procurement excellence comes multidimensional skills. By identifying cost-saving opportunities like bulk purchase discounts, they can significantly impact both an organization’s profitability and market competitiveness.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The Company;s senses consumer preferences to change and align their portfolio to deliver personalized products for purchase anytime and anywhere. With a keen focus on the customer, L’Oréal senses and uses customer sentiment. This has pushed the company to hyper-connectivity with the final consumer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” Followed by “How are you organized, and what defines functional excellence? And, how do you tie functional excellence to corporate value?” Companies became less clear on the definition of supply chain excellence and how to implement decision support technologies. This gap grew over the last decade.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

How Do You Define Excellence? In retrospect, I find that technology is an enabler, but only if we are clear on what defines supply chain excellence. Many believe that an ex-supply chain exec knows the definition of supply chain excellence. Supply Chains to Admire Winners 2023 Examine Your Own Paradigm. I admit it. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2024

In follow-up qualitative interviews, one of the largest issues with organizational alignment was metric definition and a clear definition of supply chain excellence. To manage continuous improvement, companies need a clear definition of excellence and organizational alignment to that goal. They do not excel in planning or forecasting.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

After a lot of back and forth discussion, and not really getting through to him, I finally said, “If perfection is your goal, then you’re always going to be disappointed,” especially in baseball, where failing 7 out of 10 times at the plate is considered excellent. Was Apple striving for perfection or excellence with those products?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. The reason? Discontinued in 2011.

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Locus

AUGUST 5, 2024

This was where we looked at the unique capabilities of AI and ML and how we could embellish our solutions with these technologies to enable that unique competitive edge across each stage of the order (purchase, fulfillment, and returns). Over time, we were able to create just these kind solutions across major operations of the value chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 18, 2021

Excellence, or superiority, is often the goal in corporate organizations. Each and every function, within its own right, strives for excellence and achievement in order for a company to collectively grow, evolve, and thrive. Achieving excellence seldom comes easy. As procurement reaches for excellence, evolution is required.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change. What Is Supply Chain Excellence? My second observation is that for 96% of public companies supply chain excellence is slip-sliding away. Reflections on Excellence. Tom Peters. Here, in this blog, I explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2012, when I started Supply Chain Insights , I believed that I could revolutionize the purchase of supply chain planning solutions by initiating a rating and review process across trading partners. Buying supply chain planning software is hard. How are people buying software? Here I share how to challenge the status quo.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

There, he navigated the complexities of the fuel desk, advising drivers nationwide on Comdata issues, optimizing purchase orders, and leveraging tax advantages. Excelling as an inside sales manager, account manager, and mentor, he led a broker team to achieve a monumental revenue goal of $40 million.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2023

To remain competitive, retailers and carriers must excel in the crucial last-mile delivery stage. To Build or To Buy Companies looking to implement new or improve existing delivery technology face a crucial decision: should they build an in-house platform or buy an existing solution from a vendor?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Second, the pandemic kicked online buying and home delivery into “high gear” as many consumers embraced its convenience and dramatically expanded the scope of their online purchasing. Consumers are making purchasing decisions based upon environmental impact. So, how are these two trends mutually beneficial?

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Synovos

AUGUST 9, 2023

RS Integrated Supply’s Costanza Campi to speak at World Procurement Excellence Summit WARRINGTON, UK / RADNOR, PA 8 AUGUST 2023 – Costanza Campi, Senior Vice President of Global Procurement for RS Integrated Supply, has been selected to present at the upcoming World Procurement Excellence Summit in Cologne, Germany.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

“Reach out to other departments about ways to collaborate on sustainability initiatives, and talk to your executive team to gain buy in.” Patrick’s Day is an Excellent Time for Supply Chains to Think Green first appeared on Enterra Solutions. First, they suggest a intra-company conversation take place. The post St.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

MARCH 24, 2022

If ever there was a time to take advantage of forward buying, this is it! Knowing that forward buying is important is only step one. To do so effectively, you need to first understand how much extra to buy. How Much Extra Inventory Should You Buy? How to Forward Buy when Vendors Can’t Keep Up. and 65.4%.

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Precoro

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Supply chain management, purchase requisitions and orders, budget management, and three-way matching – all these processes are integral to procurement as a whole. Purchase requisitions and orders, receipts, invoices, and other documents must each contain specific information, often legally binding. Low-Quality Documentation.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2016

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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Synovos

AUGUST 21, 2023

RS Integrated Supply is committed to making safety the number one priority in everything we do,” said Brandon Coombs, Senior Vice President, Operational Excellence. Contact Us The post RS Integrated Supply Earns Silver Award for Safety Excellence – RoSPA Recognition 2023 appeared first on RS Integrated Supply.

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SCM Research

JANUARY 12, 2015

Like every year ( see my previous post ), Emerald rewards authors of exceptional papers covered in its extensive Emerald Management Reviews database with a Citation of Excellence Award (full list). I went through the latest list of the Citations of Excellence Top 50 papers. Ferrin, D., & Rao, H.

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Logility

JULY 22, 2024

As Raheel Hussain, Director of the Supply Chain Center of Excellence at Reynolds Consumer Products notes during a recent webinar , a level of synchronization is critical to systemically share information and cut down the constant offline back-and-forth (conversations) between different functions.

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QAD

APRIL 7, 2022

Procurement, also sometimes known as purchasing, is the group responsible for acquiring components, services, and other materials to manufacture a company’s products and to keep the operation running. That may still sound simple, but corporate purchasing, regardless of the commodities the buyer is responsible for, is anything but simple.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 16, 2022

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