Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics. What did we find?

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Elementum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Internet of Things (IoT): Extending the Reach of BPA Internet of Things (IoT) enhances BPA by providing a continuous stream of real-time data for ML analysis, crucial for automating and refining operations. Common performance metrics include process completion rate and the number of automated tasks.

Sourcing Strategies 78

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Decision support includes all forms of planning: demand, supply, revenue, manufacturing and transportation planning. This transfer of ownership reduced the effectiveness of procurement. Robust Market Emerging for Digital Manufacturing Technologies. There is a lot of noise in this market. It is happening. Driving Value in B2B.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. A Look at History. Resiliency.

Pharmaceutical 195

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2024

Jeff Erwin, VP of manufacturing at G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers , has been helping to accelerate the digital transformation while aligning with the company’s goals and mission to improve its operational efficiency and meet customer requirements and regulatory compliance challenges by tracking and measuring performance.

Procurement Analytics 238

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IQMS

MAY 24, 2018

Investing in a manufacturing company – and/or operating a manufacturing company – in the current economic climate represents both opportunity and risk as U.S. manufacturing demand and profitability are accelerating. Manufacturing Predicted to Regain All Output Lost in the Great Recession by April 2019. “The

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Before I started doing this research, I believed procurement and manufacturing were aligned. While this is the case in 50% of the organizations, there are many organizations with large alignment gaps between finance/operations and procurement/manufacturing. Digital manufacturing is also a disruption. I was wrong.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Amazon’s purchase of Kiva Robots changed the landscape of robotics in the supply chain. Per IDC Manufacturing Insights , the use of robotics will become more platform based through robot-as-a-service, reducing costs of deployment and maintenance. Technology Will Reshape Procurement Practices. Robotics Will Grow More Versatile.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. They are step change requiring either the redeployment of existing technologies or the purchase of new platforms. Some supply chains also have inputs from the evolving world of the Internet of Things where machine sensors transmit frequent streams of data. The acronyms keep coming….

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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.

Optimal Sourcing 286

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Arena Solutions

MAY 2, 2023

Circularity can deliver significant material cost savings through value chains and manufacturing processes, and create additional, value and new business opportunities. Manufacturers adopting a circular economy are realizing they need to think differently. When it comes to circular transition there are no one-size-fits-all solutions.

Material Savings 98

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Oracle SCM

AUGUST 1, 2018

Often this data is rolled up organizationally, geographically or in distribution through performance metrics or key performance indicators (targets change with these roll ups). A high-tech contract manufacturer was growing rapidly through acquisition. See Oracle’s Internet of Things Cloud Application for more examples.

Supply Chain Planning Software 104

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Manufacturers increasingly turning to data and analytics, from an ERP system, to support business initiatives. Many manufacturers are data-rich but when it comes to using it they are insight-poor. How data can be used to link business goals and metrics. Data is after all the fuel that runs the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Analytics Software 111

Analytics Software Manufacturing Procurement Inventory Management Software Predictive Analytics Software 111

OptiProERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Some standard digital technologies are cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and Big Data. Look at what other companies are doing successfully and listen to customer feedback and other sources to determine how to best implement positive change. Lower Costs.

Sourcing Strategies 52

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Arena Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Circularity can deliver significant material cost savings through value chains and manufacturing processes, and create additional, value and new business opportunities. Manufacturers adopting a circular economy are realizing they need to think differently. When it comes to circular transition there are no one-size-fits-all solutions.

Material Savings 52

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 7, 2016

The digital business landscape for a shipper, such as the use of an ERP, TMS, and other digital aspects, such as The Internet of Things , provides unparalleled insight into how an organization in the supply chain can improve efficiency, visibility, and productivity.

Procurement Analytics 120

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 20, 2019

Patrick Murphy ( @PMurphy_Work ), partner and practice leader in cognitive manufacturing, at IBM, asserts, “The average factory produces more than a terabyte’s worth of information every day.”[2] That warehouse is a good analogy for how Murphy sees data collection in manufacturing. Big data and manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The majority of manufacturing and retail companies want better performing supply chains. However, visibility of channel relationships–customer orders and consumption/purchase–in the demand network, or the use and consumption of materials in the extended supplier network, is an ongoing issue. An Old Gal on a Mission.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Historically, supply chain processes were functional focused on make, source and deliver. This includes 3D printing, robotics, the Internet of Things (IOT), Sentiment Analysis, Cognitive Learning, and Supply Chain Operating Networks using canonical many-to-many data models. Digital sourcing? Digital path to purchase?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

In discrete industries, the early supply chain organizations reported to procurement. In contrast, in the process industries, the supply chain organization reported to manufacturing. Over the course of the last decade, companies have moved at different rates to align source, make and deliver processes to report to common leader.

Sourcing Strategies 150

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Whatever your Industry you should be able to make comparisons to competitors, do benchmarking, and even compare yourself on key metrics across industries. Lean for instance is equally applicable in Supply Chain as it is in Manufacturing or anywhere else. End to End Supply Chain Visibility and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. In the traditional supply chain world, the processes of sell, deliver, make, source, and plan are separate and distinct. The metrics reward functional thinking. They lack alignment. This lack of alignment is an impediment to improving balance sheet results.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 12, 2017

As bulk of the action in enterprises shifted from within the four walls of the company to outside the company due to increased use of contract manufacturing and third party logistics (3PL), traditional technologies built on ERP foundation came up short.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

While many technologists wave their hands advocating that Internet of Things (IOT) is the answer, I say not so fast. Won’t we have the same issue for Internet of Things data? ” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 20, 2016

Cloud and open source analytics are fueling new markets giving rise of new software providers in analytics with names like Board, Cloudera, EveryAngle, Enterra Solutions, FusionOps, Halo, Qlik, Spotfire, Transvoyant, Trifecta, and Trufa. There is a great need for improved supply chain analytics. New solutions offer great promise.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 150

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ThroughPut

JUNE 4, 2024

Effectively Managing inventory is a common challenge for many supply chain and manufacturing professionals. It involves managing the flow of goods from manufacturers to warehouses and from these facilities to point of sale. Work-in-progress (WIP) includes items that are being manufactured but are not yet complete.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The Internet of Things. For most companies, the traditional focus is on the management of order to cash, procure to pay and forecast to deliver processes. For example, was the product on the shelf in the digital path to purchase process when the consumer was in the store? Digital Manufacturing. 3D printing.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 150

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

Lockdown of cities and manufacturing plants have significantly impacted many industries’ supply chains. Internet of Things (IoT) brings more connectivity in the supply chain network to advance visibility and agility to the logistics and supply operations. fashion, automotive, spare parts, airlines).

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Enterra Insights

JULY 28, 2020

Analysts at Sprint Logistics note, “Technological advancements like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are transforming the way we live and work, and traditional supply chains are not exempt from the digital revolution.”[2] Supply chain operations are no exception. ” Start small.

Supply Chain Planning Software 100

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 28, 2017

Thanks to advancements in technology including cloud computing, internet of things (IoT), drones, and mobile, yard visibility and management are now reaching new heights as the picture of the “Digital Yard” comes into very clear focus. This, in turn, degrades the quality and potential insight that the data will be able to provide.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. High-velocity or streaming data requires different architectures built on non-relational, cloud-based architectures using open source tools like Apache Spark. Let’s start by addressing the barriers.

Supply and Demand 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2013

Which supply chain metrics correlate to market capitalization by Morningstar sector? Embrace new technologies: Internet of Things, new forms of analytics, mobility, etc. Define and drive new processes like digital manufacturing and digital path to purchase so that our supply chains can operate at the new cadence of data flows.

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Supply Chain Network

MAY 27, 2017

Whether it was Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP), Just In Time (JIT), Just In Time II (JITII), Quick Response (QR), Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), Distribution Resource Planning (DRP) or more recently the very popular Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) I’ve pretty much seen them all.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Big business are jumping on the bandwagon too – utilizing collaborative distribution, reverse logistics and cooperative sourcing to lower costs, improve efficiency and better optimize their supply chain. Internet of and for Things. 3D Printing and Manufacturing. But it’s not just individuals taking part.

Supply Chain Software 100

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Veridian Solutions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Brick-and-Mortar Retail Is Often Left Behind in the Digital Inventory Management Conversation As explained by William Terdoslavich of DMN News , customers expect instant gratification when purchasing products in-store, and the same feeling exists when making an online purchase. Download WhitePaper.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 22, 2019

Manufacturing has been the lifeblood of the global economy for hundreds of years. Because manufacturers have historically moved factories to regions featuring cheap labor and few regulatory restrictions (sometimes referred to as outsourcing or offshoring), a misconception has arisen about the importance manufacturing to national economies.

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