Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2023

This article explores the disruptive nature of supply chain disruptions, the significance of collaboration in managing direct spend, the role of Purchase Order (PO) Collaboration in tracking materials throughout the order cycle, and real-world challenges faced in PO Collaboration.

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SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This blog explains The Key MRP Metrics in Supply Chain whcih every supply chain professional in Manufacturing or Distribution Businesses. Supply chain professionals will be familiar with the term Material Requirements Planning (MRP).

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Logility

JANUARY 4, 2022

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced a partnership with Planalytics, Inc. This provides businesses with demand analytics to plan and optimize operations more effectively, keeping organizations one step ahead of shifting supply and demand trends. ATLANTA – Jan.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Continued economic growth, customer preferences (especially those of the millennial generation), the rise of ecommerce and the Amazon channel, increased product choices and newer product categories in the marketplace are all driving the need for efficient and effective supply chain networks to support customer demand. Here’s how….

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The data is all anonymous, but retailers can look at metrics such as time to fulfill, pack time, conversions, and ship versus pick-up, to name a few, across hundreds of Active Omni customers. Changes in supply or demand are considered when looking at the overall supply chain planning process, and the changes are reflected in real-time.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Industry professionals have put in tireless hours and taken strategic measures to keep the supply chain moving and meet customer demand. Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As the state of the trucking market evolves and innovations improve , OTR freight management technologies and logistics service providers offer transportation management optimization to help businesses avoid significant supply chain disruption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

export regulations led to supply chain disruptions. percent year-on-year decline in cargo ton miles to 1.8bn, although this metric increased by 9.5 Amazon achieved its fastest-ever global shipping times last year but isn’t resting on its laurels. Massachusetts-based Teradyne moved its production out after U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

Companies with the lower score on the Index are driving faster rates of metrics improvement. Energizer and Unilever are driving the fastest rates of improvement and Clorox and P&G improvement rates are the slowest on the Metrics That Matter of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)).

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

In the survey, supply chain risk management is defined as the proactive identification and assessment of potential risks to the supply chain along with the development of strategies to avoid these risks and avoid supply chain disruption. A disruption is a failure in cost, quality or customer service.

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Precoro

MAY 19, 2023

According to McKinsey survey of global supply chain leaders , only 53% of respondents describe the quality of data in their supply chain planning systems as “sufficient” or “high.” less likely to be affected by supply chain disruptions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

A decline in consumer sentiment, increasing market turmoil, and pending supplier shortages means one thing for the supply chain: disruption. Over the course of the last three decades, supply chains grew more complex. The second is to identify/type supply chains based on variability and volume.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

So why are so many still falling short of OTIF targets (and other key metrics)? Planning is practically useless anymore I’ve said it plenty — supply chain volatility is the new normal. That means planning still has its place, but its role is diminishing. That covers “on-time.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Supply chain executives must evolve from cost and service as the key objectives for optimal demand-supply balancing towards the “quadfecta” of cost, service, resiliency, and sustainability. Inflation, pandemics, railway strikes, adverse weather events – the supply chain disruptions keep on coming.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

To support this level of responsiveness Pure Storage has more than 200 depots around the world that carry field service inventory. And when it looked like a lock down might be imminent, they rushed even more inventory in. This gives Pure real-time visibility to core performance metrics. Over time that number undoubtedly went up.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Such a resistant or slow-and-steady attitude toward the cloud is a tinderbox for worldwide supply chain disruption. Retailers are leveraging cloud-based platforms to optimize inventory management and enhance customer engagement. Take, for example, the retail industry.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 18, 2021

Whilst 50% of respondents agreed that their use of data/analytics/AI/ML will be central to adjusting more effectively to dramatic supply chain disruptions. In a hyper-connected scenario of the future, entire networks can proactively sense and respond to potential supply chain disruptions.

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Taulia

DECEMBER 6, 2024

How are companies rethinking their liquidity management strategies in response to the recent degradation across major working capital metrics? In the wake of economic uncertainty, many companies have experienced a degradation in key working capital metrics.

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Unleashed

APRIL 15, 2020

All product-based businesses need to track the value of their inventory – and this goes double in a period of dramatic upheaval. The value of your inventory has likely changed thanks to the Covid-19 crisis, and you should consider revaluing it before you make any major business decisions. What is inventory revaluation?

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

OTR freight represents a long-standing aspect of supply chain operations and transportation management. to avoid significant supply chain disruption. Supply & Demand Chain Executive , in 2020, the ? transportation metrics ?that transportation management optimization ?to As highlighted by?

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Throughput can be calculated as Inventory = Rate multiplied by Time, where “rate” is the throughput. Ali and other followers of the theory of constraints believe that throughput is more like a way of life as opposed to a simple metric. Learn More About Putting Supply Chains on Autopilot. ThroughPut Inc .

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 6, 2017

However, even the best supply chains struggle with a recurring issue – data integrity. The alignment of demand and supply is more difficult because most, if not all, supply chains have data integrity issues. Successful supply chain planning starts with data. Why the data issues?

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Supply chain optimization software tracks items as they move through your supply chain and generate alerts at important points to improves decision-making and enhance visibility across the supply chain by integrating various capabilities like procurement, inventory, and customer relationship management.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience. Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Manufacturers and distributors experienced huge supply chain disruptions due to the pandemic which exposed many vulnerabilities and tested the resilience of supply chain leaders globally. In fact, SYSPRO research revealed that 60% of businesses were impacted by supply chain disruptions during the pandemic.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

There are many ways to measure supply chain performance in terms of resilience, but there is one that’s easily overlooked even though it is gaining in importance: Detection time. In other words, the amount of warning time during which the company can prepare for and mitigate the disruption.

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USC Consulting Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Supply chain disruptions have been a major challenge for manufacturers, and show no signs of abating. Here, David Newman, Supply Chain Practice Leader for USC Consulting Group, shares his insights into this pressing issue and offers tactics manufacturers can use to mitigate disruption risks.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2014

whenever you’re discussing supply chain strategy or decisions. Finding the answers will require a lot of data collection and hard work, but the return on investment will be clearly evident the next time a supply chain disruption occurs and you’re able to recover faster and with less financial impact than your competition.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

For some customers, they manage the inventory using a vendor managed inventory program. In some case they manage inventory at the customer’s site. “We We don’t have one supply chain,” this vice president of supply chain explained to me, “we run very customized supply chains.”

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 17, 2022

Many organizations are still struggling to understand and implement basic Sales and Operations Planning processes to cope with supply chain disruption. Sales & Operations Planning is, as it was originally defined, a process that focuses on the operational aspects of the business: orders, material, capacity, inventory, etc.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 30, 2023

The widespread supply chain disruptions that happened when the global pandemic hit in 2020 highlighted several important lessons regarding manufacturing and supply chain visibility. Its cross-functionality enables it to serve as the central link between plants, warehouse, distribution and customers.

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Synovos

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Result: The RS Integrated Supply team was able to demonstrate consistent savings earned since program inception. After making one-time adjustments to clear inventory that no longer exists from the ERP system, RS Integrated Supply consistently achieved the target 98%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

While demand is high, ongoing product shortages continue to cause supply chain disruptions, create unpredictable shopping behaviors and drive rapid delivery expectations. We wanted to see inventory positions around the world compared to our forecast, compared to our actual demand.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 25, 2022

From the extremely visible and immediately felt increase in crude oil prices, the conflict is disrupting everything from food (wheat, corn, and sunflower oil exports), automotive (various metals including copper and iron) and semiconductors (90% of neon comes from Russia).

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 2, 2022

This means that the past practice of just-in-time inventory management will need to be more flexible and allow a just-in-case approach. Just-in-case involves holding more inventory so that sales are not lost due to inventory being unavailable. Resiliency. Risk management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Container inventory is imbalanced. Disruptions exist at each node and will continue for many years. Fourteen of twenty-eight industries have rising inventories. Supply is greater than demand. In contrast, the balance of the industries lacks supply. Today’s supply chains respond, but they do not sense.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Or even more important, that you may not be getting the service levels and inventory efficiencies that you need. The number of companies is growing that are saying that their forecast accuracy, service levels and inventory efficiency metrics have hit a ceiling that they just can’t get past. And if that’s true, you are not alone.

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