Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. They began this journey before the term “digital transformation” was even being used. The ZF supply chain is complex.

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Logility

APRIL 9, 2020

Supply chain disruptions, like the one we are currently experiencing due to the COVID-19 Pandemic will continue to happen. Although I am sure I missed a few, the point is our global, complex, fast-paced supply chains can be disrupted in hundreds of ways and I for one don’t see that changing anytime soon.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The old lumberjack came out of the forest and went for supplies. At the store, the salesman showed him the newest tool for cutting trees called a chain saw. But if you consider how many people think about supply chain software it’s like the old lumberjack and the chain saw. He bought one.

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Procurement Academy

JUNE 26, 2024

We equip individuals and organizations with the knowledge and expertise they need as a solution – both to optimize their supply chains and empower their businesses to thrive. The global supply chain management market size is projected to hit around USD 72.1 billion by 2032. That’s where our expertise comes in.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Supply chain processes are not immune to this trend. EY analysts Edmund Wong and Glenn Steinberg ( @GlennSteinberg ), ask, “Are you running an analog supply chain for a digital economy?”[1] They explain, “The global supply chain is a creation from the past, ill-suited to today’s fast-changing world.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this Part 2 blog post, we will continue to explore how automotive manufacturers are carrying out effective supply chain initiatives and their innovative solutions. Salim: Our automotive customers are increasingly looking at how to counter inflation but at the same time how to enable supply chain resiliency.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 5, 2018

If you Google “digital transformation,” you get over 60 million hits—and a few million of those are related to supply chain management. It’s a journey many people and companies are talking about today, but what exactly does “digital supply chain transformation” mean? Technology isn’t a silver bullet.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a volatile world characterized by rapidly changing technology, caution is often justified. Many analysts believe, however, that time for caution has passed when it comes to digital supply chain transformation. Nevertheless, “wait and see” seems to be the position of many supply chain professionals.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

Supply chains were ill-prepared for the pandemic. The design of the global supply chain at the start of the pandemic assumed frictionless borders, availability of transportation resources, and supply with few constraints. As supply chain professionals, we have never managed the supply chain through a pandemic.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 6, 2021

With so much being written and discussed about supply chain transformation, it’s good to remind ourselves what supply chain management is fundamentally about. Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, bluntly states, “The best supply chains are fit for function.”[1]

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Behind the scenes, BT Supply Chain has been the backbone of the company’s operations for 30 years, making sure customers get the best experience. The supply chain division fulfills 40,000 individual customer orders every day, making sure that 32,000 engineers get the tools, parts and equipment they need to deliver support and services.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a continuation of a supply chain technology thought leadership education series developed in collaboration with Replan. Such an environment requires manufacturing and supply chain processes to be able to more proactively sense, pivot and respond to market changes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. Sometimes, even the definition of a supply chain is not clear. 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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Supply chain shortages abound. The supply chain impact is unprecedented. In our recent survey on analytics, today 74% of companies are attempting to improve supply chain visibility (as shown in Figure 1). Projects Being Implemented as Part of a Digital Supply Chain Transformation Project.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 13, 2018

I read a lot of articles about the need for supply chain transformation. Most of the articles discuss the importance of leveraging digital technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT); the cloud; 3D printing; robotics, blockchain, and cognitive computing. Full visibility the length of the supply chain.

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This year’s Customer Excellence Award for Best Supply Chain Transformation goes to Ferrara Candy – for making incredible strides in its digital transformation journey amidst a string of M&A activity that continues to add extreme complexity to Ferrara’s global supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

At their request I wrote on the digital supply chain. Digital supply chain is such a buzzword. The digital supply chain is about SO much more than gadgets.” Yet, within the supply chain, everyone waits for data and insights. Supply chains do not move in the cadence of the market.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Contents Supply Chain Movement 19 – 2015 Q4. Sharing Dutch supply chain knowledge in Turkey. Acquisition of GT Nexus Underlines Infor’s Focus on Supply Chain. Supply chains in Europe are facing a wide variety of changes. Supply chains in Europe are facing a wide variety of changes.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights the transfer of Chief Supply Chain Officer leadership roles at U.S. general merchandise retailer Target Corporation made some significant leadership updates this week, one of which was an announcement of a senior supply chain leadership succession transfer.

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Locus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) nations recover from the series of disruptions over the past couple of years—the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war, inflationary pressure, and the potential for rising food prices—a reinvention of logistics and supply chain operations is needed. Next generation logistics planning.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented global supply chain disruptions, impacting the flow of parts and finished goods around the world. The disruption caused by COVID-19 is unique in that it impacted supply chains across all industries.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Source: Supply Chain Digest. What does it take to create an award-winning supply chain? Last month, Lennox Residential was runner-up in the 2015 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Supply Chain Innovation competition, arguably the top supply chain award in North America.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

by Dr. Madhav Durbha The 2017 Gartner supply chain executive conference took place at the O2-Intercontinental Hotel in London on September 20 th and 21 st. The theme of the conference was ACT (Aspire, Challenge, Transform), same as the Gartner supply chain summit in Phoenix during May of this year. Collaborative.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Peggy was a speaker at the Supply Chain Global Summit. AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. AGCO’s culture of innovation policy deployment enabled employees to pioneer a technology solution for manufacturing. The new tool had to be integrated into AGCO’s work environment. About Agco.

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DELMIA Quintiq

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

This happens not because retailers are lacking the technology to implement a multi-channel retail vision. In most cases, they are trying to tweak parts of their existing supply chains to somehow fit the new all-channel reality. Read also: How to achieve operational excellence with integrated retail planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Financial balance sheet improvements cannot be driven by traditional supply chain processes. In the words of a supply chain leader yesterday, “Lora, please give me stories of success. When I first met Nick, he was driving a supply chain transformation at VTech Communications.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2017

When I engage with supply chain leaders , I ask the question, “Are you making progress?” The supply chain is a complex, non-linear system. As a result, supply chain leaders focus on unrealistic goals of inventory or costs, they will throw the system out of balance. Rethink supply chain practices.

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Exiger Perspectives

MARCH 29, 2023

The annual Pros to Know award recognizes outstanding executives whose accomplishments offer a roadmap for other leaders looking to leverage supply chain for competitive advantage. This year’s list is filled with supply chain professionals whose achievements and success stories have helped move the needle in the supply chain.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 13, 2021

Mr. Crabtree is a Master Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, a Certified Supply Chain Transformation Architect and an expert in effective change management, facilitation, and communications. MetaExperts are talent operational excellence (OpEx) hands-on-deck, training, and get-it-done partners. About MetaOps and MetaExperts.

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Synovos

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The report also shares the benefits of digital tools mentioned by survey respondents: better spend visibility (70%), improved management information (59%), reduced order process costs (47%), shorter time to order (46%) and visibility of off-contract spend (39%). ” Respondents to the RS and CIPS survey share this view. “It

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

That margin improvement is “partially offset by the impact of higher digital fulfillment and supply chain costs.”. According to Mr. Valdez, there were four critical improvement initiatives spanning inventory management, transportation, automation, and operational excellence. A buyer now “purchases for one business.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

The supply chain leader is incredibly busy and made even busier by having to navigate systems that don’t work well. Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. Make digital supply chain transformation a priority.

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DynaSys

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

By 2025, more than 50% of supply chain organizations will have a technology leadership role reporting directly to the chief supply chain officer. Gartner’s survey, February 2021 ) This percentage will rise with the progression of digital supply chain initiatives. What is a Digital Supply Chain?

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Alloy recently had the pleasure of joining the Slalom Digital Innovation in Supply Chain Summit , January 23–24 in Seattle. Individually and then in small groups, we brainstormed the definition, key goals, and key challenges of digital transformation. It’s also one of the hardest parts of a transformation.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 11, 2016

European Supply Chain Directors Forum. European Supply Chain Directors Forum brings together 100 members from the manucoreCONNECT community for two active days of debate, interaction, networking and thought leadership. Our members include: VPs/Directors/Group Heads in: Supply Chain. Purchasing.

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

From managing inventory flow to ensuring that customers receive shipments on time, retail logistics streamlines the different stages of your ecommerce supply chain to keep your business running smoothly. The need to build resilience into your supply chain is more important than ever. . COVID’s impact on retail logistics.

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