Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

routes continue to hold steady but there has been a sharp decline in the rates for Asia-Europe routes. Volatility in pricing trends are opportunities to lock in contractual rates, though shippers and logistics providers must also maintain flexibility to leverage spot buys as needed. Adopt performance metrics for carriers.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 4, 2023

But times are changing, the use of reduce inventory offers more quality and useful performance metrics. The usage of useful performance metrics offered by the use of reduce inventory actually reward behavior that tends to enhance your products final quality. Over time, having huge inventories were considered necessary.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

First it was the downturn in Southern Europe, followed by the economic crisis in Greece and now the devaluation of the Yuan. The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. Purchases in the center store of the grocery store are in decline, and apparel tastes are shifting. The hits keep on playing.

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Provenance

OCTOBER 1, 2018

A handful of us work remotely from within the UK, and from other cities in Europe. At Provenance, we envision a future where every great product comes with accessible, verifiable information about the people, places and materials behind its creation, helping us all make positive choices about the things we buy. Our Culture.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

Disheartening and sad… For Europe, it is the impact of surging refugees and the rapid rise of energy costs. Ocean dwell times in Europe increased 55%, and goods initially bound for Russia are side-lined and queuing now– and potentially clogging later–global ports. Now we layer on the impact of war.

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HICX Solutions

AUGUST 11, 2021

We have clear metrics that talk about payments on time to suppliers, or, if they raise an issue, how quickly is that getting resolved. We have clear metrics and a good sense of how in sync we are with our supplier base.”. And we are going the extra mile to make sure that the suppliers know that we are serious about these metrics.”.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Between balancing her job at JDA Labs and organizing her son’s boy choir school’s next tour to Europe, she still finds time to put her UX and architecture skills to use to plan the entire renovation of her house in Montreal. I’m trying to find a piece of land to buy where I can put some beehives. Canada and Europe.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

This issue is that the orders have inherent order latency (The time for customer purchases to translate to manufacturing orders). There is a belief that the efficient response—the tightly integrated lean supply chain—defines supply chain excellence. Orders do not represent market demand. If this is you, don’t accept the status quo.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” Most demand planning happens in Excel Ghettos not in the expensive technologies implemented in 90% of manufacturing companies. I am also open to doing this in Europe.) ” I am in the middle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. Performance on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

So in order to perhaps spawn some ideas for your supply chain excellence efforts, I thought I’d offer a brief overview of how four leading organisations are achieving their successes and cementing their mastery of the 21 st century supply chain. Few consumers are currently attracted to online purchases of household consumables.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Since then Sean has been involved in a large number of complicated, innovative but exciting projects in Australia, America, Africa and Europe for industry sectors such as FMCG, Food and Beverage, Software, Healthcare, Pharma, Defence and Heavy Manufacturing – helping to improve some very diverse Value Chains!

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Match invoices to shipping log You’ll want to double check your purchase orders or invoices against your shipping log to make sure there aren’t any discrepancies. Using technology that keeps inventory counts synced in real-time rather than using something static like Excel helps with the following.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 5, 2020

Last year, Shopify reported 218 million buyers in total made a purchase on a Shopify store. Create your brand name and logo, and buy a domain name. So purchasing a domain name and investing in proper website hosting is ideal if you want to build a powerful website that ranks well in search engines. . Conduct market research.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Between balancing her job at JDA Labs and organizing her son’s boy choir school’s next tour to Europe, she still finds time to put her UX and architecture skills to use to plan the entire renovation of her house in Montreal. I’m trying to find a piece of land to buy where I can put some beehives. Canada and Europe.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy and sell-side markets) bi-directionally with near-real time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. This is a missionary buying market where taxonomies and technologies are not clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. Shell’s current shift to the global supply chain is impacting North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Russia, and China. The planners would then drive all replenishment planning (for make, move or buy) directly in Orchestr8.The

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

by Trevor Miles I have been in the advanced planning and scheduling (APS) space since 1995 when I joined i2 Technologies in Europe. They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. However, excellence in corporate planning matters. Their words.

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BlueYonder

MAY 13, 2021

During Blue Yonder ICON 2021, I had the pleasure to speak with Johnny Ivanyi , the Global Head of Distribution Excellence of Bayer Crop Science, and Kishore Yarlagadda , Global Distribution Deployment Lead of Bayer Crop Science, for the session “Next Wave of Logistics and Distribution Transformation.” What’s next in this journey?

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