AIMMS

MARCH 30, 2020

Supply chain planning t echnology can be used to evaluate these different scenarios, address many of the possible impacts and help businesses recover quickly from losses. The examples below show you how to do this in AIMMS SC Navigator Apps, but we encourage you to study these scenarios in the tools you have at your disposal.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2022

But the topic is also of significance to supply chain practitioners. In fact, supply chains are being impacted directly by the war and by the sanctions being put in place in response. There is potential for oil and gas supply shortages to occur as well. Beyond Fossil Fuels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

As industries evolve and global markets expand, ethical considerations have become central to supply chain compliance. Balancing Cost-Efficiency with Ethical Sourcing and Compliance Cost-efficiency remains a primary driver for supply chain strategies, but it must be balanced with ethical sourcing practices.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 31, 2022

The further disruption caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could cause major disruptions to the global supply chain and impact South Africa. With digital technologies, organisations can use data to maximise visibility into demand, inventory, capacity, supply, and finances. The supply chain of the future.

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Taulia

APRIL 13, 2022

Supply chain disruption is a major concern for companies around the world. As the last couple of years have demonstrated, even the most optimized supply chains are not immune to the risk presented by possible disruption – and this, in turn, can make it difficult for companies to meet orders on time.

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QAD

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Supply chain disruptions have led many discussions the past couple years — and how they have been embraced by experts as the new normal. However, it is important to remember that the supply chain has always been vulnerable. As a result, disruption can be a catalyst for positive change.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 7, 2013

Is Apple Supply Chain Really the No. Everything about Apple Inc is the talk of the town, for example, the new Ipad, Iphone, Apple Map or even the environmental and labor issues at its suppliers facilities. Surprisingly, IT research firm Gartner ranks Apple Supply Chain as the best supply chain in the world for 4 years in a row.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In order to effectively manage risks in the current unstable global marketplaces, many suppliers have a thorough understanding of their own suppliers as well as supply chain bottlenecks that extend past the top tier of suppliers. An example of this is Vendor Management Inventory and Capacity Collaboration for contract manufacturing.

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Adexa

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A simple way to prepare is to build a high-level network of your supply chain and assess the impact of each node and each link on your revenue: High, Medium, or Low. For example, if you have an alternate supplier to a node then the impact of that node is Low. Can you find an alternate within this period?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Reliable and responsive suppliers are key for supply chain performance and success and hence the supply chain leaders require not only a strategic approach but also an agile approach towards outsourcing. Strategic sourcing plays a crucial role in supply chain continuity.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 27, 2018

While there have been numerous examples of how AI can boost profits in supply chain execution—most notably in the form of autonomous vehicles and smart robotics—the benefits related to supply chain planning have largely been ignored. Machine learning.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 7, 2022

Recent supply chain disruptions , including images of cargo ships stuck off the West Coast , have led eCommerce shops to rethink their just-in-time and just-in-case inventory strategies. . However, as we’ve seen during the COVID-19 global pandemic , unexpected disruptions to supply and demand creates major issues.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2024

These solutions use natural language processing, for example, to read online publications and other data sources, make sense of what they read, contextualize the data into information, and report supply chain disruptions caused by weather, geopolitical events and other hazards in near real-time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. They are designed to have minimal impact on the performance of the underlying source systems. Allocation is a good example of this. These crawlers never stop working.

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

Consumer behavior during the pandemic has pushed demand beyond the available supply, resulting in product shortages and inflated prices for shoppers. For example, with the current steel shortage , factories aren’t able to produce as many cans as usual. Enter, a global container shortage. It’s all bad news?

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QAD

APRIL 11, 2024

Predictive analytics, demand planning and business forecasting have always been core functions for supply chain planners. How else would we know which products consumers will want next, where to source inputs from or how much of an item to produce? Take forecasting consumer buying patterns for example.

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Taulia

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Ethical sourcing is one solution for improving a business’ environmental footprint. What is ethical sourcing? Ethical sourcing is a responsible approach to supply chain management that involves sourcing products and raw materials from businesses that comply with certain sustainable practices and legal requirements.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

We learned from the Conference Board C-Suite Outlook that rising inflation, labor shortages, and supply chain disruptions were high impact issues for CEOs in 2022. And recent disruptions, including the war in Ukraine, placed supply chain resilience as a priority on the top of the agenda for CEOs.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

What is Supply Chain Resilience? Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. Each disruption has its own nuances, so it’s challenging to plan a precise response to each one.

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Logility

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In light of both compliance standards and consumer preferences, non-sustainable supply chains create business risks, including higher chances for reputational damage and supply chain disruptions due to ecological collapses or international embargos. Avoid supply chain disruptions.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

CPG companies massively reduced assortments to simplify sourcing, production and distribution. Supply chain performance went for a toss and costs sky rocketed. The key lesson is disruptions are constant in supply chain and through better planning, visibility, and collaboration businesses can be better prepared to deal with them.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 17, 2020

Macro events like the Coronavirus crisis trigger demand volatility that affects every link in your global supply chain—from the raw materials you procure to setting safety stock levels to planning logistics and promotions. A good example here is toilet tissue or sanitizing products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Risk events that happen in one part of the supply chain can cause a disruptive effect that is amplified multi-fold given the complex connectivity of labor, raw materials, and capacity. The bullwhip effect is one example of this disruptive effect, when small changes in demand cause huge demand spikes downstream.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

Take it from DuddetteWithASign ’s Instagram post: Despite all those supply chain headlines, businesses learned to cope, finding ways to manage supply chain shortages. Predicting demand was never easy (with or without an astrologer), and, looking ahead, the challenges of global supply chain disruptions continue in 2022.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

For example, the Gartner Top 25 celebrates the accomplishments of Intel (active with Gartner), but in the analysis in Table 1, Nvidia Corporation and Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) clearly outperform Intel in the Semiconductor Industry. For example, Monster Beverages beats Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, while Celanese outperforms Dow Chemical.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

There have been massive supply chain disruptions since the pandemic began. These disruptions have driven up prices and led to shortages of goods. Congestion at ports has certainly played a role in these disruptions. We have many different data sources,” Mr. Dowse went on to say. “We

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Moving past waste, water, and C02 reduction, they have begun searching for renewable energy sources, different forms of packaging, and increased efficiency overall. More and more enterprises will be focusing on processes like ethical sourcing, reverse logistics, and using green materials in response to public demands.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s good to see these companies recognizing the impact of climate change, and changing their policies, sourcing, and manufacturing practices to reduce emissions. These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. Agriculture, oil and gas operations are major sources of methane emissions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2021

There have been extensive supply chain disruptions caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. These disruptions have elevated the supply chain function to the boardroom level. It is now understood that supply chain agility is imperative. OpenText Touts Business-to-Anything Integration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Shippers’ end-to-end supply chain predictions are based on applying AI to OpenWeb searches, import/export records, data from sourcing platforms like ThomasNet, federal logistics records, and other data. These predictions accelerate a company’s ability to verify how its extended supply chain is constructed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2023

However, before we go congratulating ourselves too much, supply chain shortages are still hitting the consumer where it hurts – in their wallet (and their taste buds). In October of 2019, I wrote about the food supply chain being at risk. Retail ground beef prices, for example, averaged $4.81

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2021

Business intelligence helps merchants adapt to consumer behavior shifts, like it has helped countless others navigate supply chain disruptions and other challenges. These vitals, in aggregate, can also help retailers more effectively negotiate rates across their carrier networks.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 31, 2020

Here are a few examples of how our customers are using ToolsGroup to respond swiftly and efficiently to COVID-19 supply chain challenges in order to be ready for anything. The company has been using different capabilities of ToolsGroup supply chain planning software to minimize supply chain disruption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

including digital control towers fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), data science and analytics, strategic product segmentation, inventory management, operations intelligence and analysis, strategic sourcing, and effective pricing and promotions management. A Positive Example.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 22, 2022

For example, “maximize revenues within a theoretical facility that had two constraints.” This was a technical process, applied in a fairly simple fashion to an extremely high-level set of examples. For me, getting down to the “nitty gritty” was modeling high-level objective functions with constraints using linear programming.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Delays, shortages, quality issues, catastrophic weather events and fluctuating commodity prices are just a few examples of the exhaustive list of worries that will throw plan into disarray. Achieving a realistic forecast and aligning supply plans is an extreme long shot at best. Successful supply chain planning starts with data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

For example, a vaccine manufacturer increased their order size by a factor of four in one weekend; a video call company wanted to receive ten times as much product as they initially forecast with just a month’s lead-time. In many ways, Mr. Fitzgerald said, “it was still a startup supply chain when I joined.”

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