Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Contract Manufacturing Signal Latency. In my last blog post, I shared insights on data synchronization between brand owners and contract manufacturing. In our research, we find that 32% of volume is manufactured by a third party. days to receive a purchase order confirmation. The average purchased order changes 3.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 25, 2024

As my client explains that they are delaying their project to build network interoperability due to complications with their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) upgrade, I tap my foot and sigh. To improve asset utilization more products were outsourced to third-party manufacturing (average of 32%). Another call. Same story.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Medical Device manufacturers face an increasingly dynamic and intricate landscape. Innovative personalized manufacturing approaches have emerged, yet many organizations struggle to fully realize their potential in this rapidly evolving race.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

Integrated Planning: Tight Coupling of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to Supply Chain Planning (SCP). However, what is clear from our recent study of 73 manufacturers using supply chain planning is that companies using best-of-breed solutions implement faster, achieve a quicker Return-on-Investment (ROI), and are more satisfied.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. The example that I give in the first post is the focus of manufacturing strategies to drive strong results to improve Return on Assets (ROA) that have actually caused a deterioration in operating margin. Here is my argument. You got it!

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2023

This includes digital supply chain transformation and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) upgrades. We find that companies with an analytics center of excellence drove progress faster than those with a supply chain center of excellence. When you ask, “What defines supply chain excellence?” The other issue?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

So, I smile, catch my dinner partner’s eye and ask, “In our prior conversations, you mentioned the lack of clarity on the definition of supply chain excellence in your current deployments and how this is a barrier to implementing supply chain planning properly. “ Reflection. Were the plans feasible? Are the plans executed?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. At the time, the popular belief was that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technologies would build multi-tier capabilities. Transora was an extreme.

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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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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

It is also helping to bridge the supply chain management gap that has traditionally existed between healthcare providers and other industries such as manufacturing. Add to this a set of complex and unique processes such as bill only transactions, which are often fairly resource intensive. The Path to Supply Chain Excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

They excel in the four Ps of marketing. In contrast, a market-driven organization connects bidirectionally market-to-market to orchestrate the signals to shape demand and mitigate risk (buy-side to sell-side and back). We have built transactional buying relationships. Yes; someday it will happen, but not any time soon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This manufacturer produces plastic reusable material handling containers and plastic fuel tanks. The Company operates eighteen manufacturing facilities, nine distribution centers located throughout North and Central America. At Dow, Mr. Baker had Purchasing experience in raw materials, and logistics for their plastics supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

A company buys these solutions to optimize their business. Rich Sherman – a Senior Fellow in TCS’s Supply Chain Center of Excellence – points out that many companies are building control towers to better manage their supply chains. That is how enterprise and supply chain software solutions work.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Organizations not only view themselves as being able to ‘afford’ investing resources in ‘greening’ their operations but also see that these changes can truly benefit both the environment and their bottom line.”[3] To achieve their ESG targets, it must be embedded across every part of the business.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) Most of the time, implementing Advanced Planning Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) increases the bullwhip impact. And how do we measure it? (Is

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The biggest benefit of cloud technology and cloud-based commerce networks is that they allow organizations to leverage large pools of IT resources without the need to build and maintain data center infrastructure. Use cases include dynamic pricing, product quality testing, dynamic replenishment and staffing and resource decisions.

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Logility

AUGUST 12, 2021

But there is good news: a convergence of process, data, and technology provides the real-time and predictive visibility needed to optimize supply chain planning, ensuring food manufacturers can build resilience now and for the future. Planning Manufacturing Based on Demand. Preparing for Market-Driven Demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 23, 2023

The primary inputs into an inside-out planning model are shipments or orders for demand and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) inputs for supply. The order latency is the time from purchase by the end consumer to the visibility of the order. I am trying to understand the benefits of networking synchronization in contract manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

A slight change within a function–in sourcing or manufacturing, or along the chain–can greatly impact the outcomes of cost, customer service, or working capital. Today’s supply chain—with greater outsourcing, global manufacturing, and complex bill of materials–requires synchronization of the links.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

. “The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

E-Commerce Shipping Comes With Unique Challenges As explained by SPS Commerce.com, shippers may lack the physical resources, read “warehousing space,” necessary to handle e-commerce shipping. In addition, shippers may lack the resources necessary to push operations beyond availability and reliability of procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Global supply chains are built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of transportation resources, and low variability. In parallel, PE/venture capitalists purchased/consolidated network solutions, slashing R&D and delaying investment, reducing industry capabilities. Compliance, sanctions, and tariffs loom.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 22, 2024

Orders are up, business is booming, and your manufacturing operation is expanding. Invoicing takes too long, slowing cash flow If you are experiencing a few of these signs, it’s time to seriously think about moving to an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Be clear on the costs associated with an ERP purchase.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

These can be shift in the channel, issues in manufacturing, increasing variability in transportation, or a shift in commodity prices. Flexible Manufacturing Scheduling Practices: The design of manufacturing processes to flex with market fluctuations. Ten years ago, the supply chain had two buffers: manufacturing and inventory.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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. And they are still a long way from complete from deploying the ERP modules let alone the supply chain planning modules. She states that.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Direct procurement ties directly to manufacturing conversion processes through a bill of material while indirect procurement is not an input to the manufacturing processes. This is not the case with the purchase of direct materials. The focus is primarily about the reduction of purchase costs. The difference?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

” CFO of a major manufacturer. I have written many articles about Advanced Planning Systems (APS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Advanced Inventory Optimization. Companies cannot achieve supply chain excellence by working discrete projects in isolation. I am a skeptic. I want to believe. I really do.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Running a manufacturing business isn’t easy. That’s where a manufacturing ERP comes in. Manufacturing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software integrates all your core business processes into one powerful platform. It’s a lot to handle. Let’s get started.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

SmartOps was purchased by SAP. The capabilities of the technologies were often more advanced than the processes of the manufacturers and retailer. In the beginning, when manufacturing was insourced, there were two supply chain buffers: manufacturing and inventory. There were three common characteristics for failure: Fit.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

We have let buy- and sell-side transactional relationships erode value. We will never redesign healthcare for better outcomes if we do not redesign the buy/sell relationship and improve the understanding of the service providers on why supply chain matters. It will also impact the factory with a redesign for digital manufacturing.

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QAD

JULY 25, 2019

Smartphone apps, online banking, flight purchase, shopping websites and so many other experiences are designed with intuitive and easy-to-learn user interface to improve user experiences. The post An Adaptive UX is Imperative for Manufacturing ERP Selection appeared first on QAD Blog. How effective and inefficient is your current UX?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The second step is usually a large implementation of a technology project–Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Planning or Analytics. The second generation of solutions were built and marketed by Enterprise Resource Planning technology companies like SAP and Oracle. I am speaking at their global kick-off.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

He is very passionate about developments in the Supply Chain arena and is always seeking excellence in his drive for efficiency & innovation in Supply Chain operations” – a quality that is very relevant to face up to the many Supply Chain challenges in our path! My passion for Logistics and Supply Chain is founded from.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Bottom Line: The top 10 manufacturing trends reflect how manufacturers are planning to achieve their goals of revenue growth, operational improvements, digital transformation, and launching new products and services in 2019. In parallel, there will be more self-service analytics and BI apps specifically designed for manufacturers.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Here we provide an overview of the latest pet food industry trends, and answer the question: how can pet food manufacturers respond to changes in consumer demands to take advantage of these new trends? manufacturing had seen five years of consistent growth. manufactured?pet tended to buy their?pet pet food manufacturers?significantly

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Unleashed

MAY 24, 2021

Sustainable manufacturing is at the forefront of good manufacturers’ plans. This article will take a look at what is sustainable manufacturing, some examples across various industries, and how SMEs can plan for sustainable manufacturing. What is sustainable manufacturing?

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