Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

So why are so many still falling short of OTIF targets (and other key metrics)? But to verify the “in full” part, your real-time transportation solution needs to be connected to warehousing, inventory, fulfillment and order management. That covers “on-time.”

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 17, 2024

The correlation between accurate forecasting and successful inventory management was a recurrent theme, emphasizing the need for reliable AI applications. One of the insights from Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ 2024 was a clear consensus on the need for companies to substantiate sustainability claims with concrete data.

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BlueYonder

MAY 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities continue to improve at a rapid rate and will remain a focus in the supply chain with companies looking to drive efficiencies, reduce risk and take advantage of otherwise hidden opportunities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Resiliency, which is the ability to withstand supply chain shocks and bounce back quickly, has become the most important requirement for supply chains. Balancing supply and demand by orchestrating the flow of materials and information is a key requirement for managing operational risks.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 18, 2021

Supply chain execution is required to distinguish between the high runner purchases and the slower-moving products customers are willing to wait for. Strategic product segmentation, sourcing and inventory management. Optimize supply chain execution and minimize both delivery time and costs.

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Supply Chain Network Software Network Optimization Agile and Lean Supply Chain Modeling 243

BlueYonder

MAY 7, 2024

Our customers trust in our ability to help enable their digital initiatives and simultaneously improve their key performance metrics. This is what motivates our product teams to innovate, especially in warehouse execution, yard management, composable solutions, artificial intelligence, and supply chain execution.

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ThroughPut

MAY 26, 2020

A Warehouse Management Software (WMS) is one that helps plan, control, and manage the day-to-day manufacturing operations in a warehouse along with the guidance of inventory movement, optimizing order picking, and shipping of customer orders. The WMS guides the overall order and inventory replenishment on the factory floor.

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Veridian Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

They must oversee inbound and outbound inventory, manage warehouse space , consider order processing, handle employee complaints, report to stakeholders, supervise new system implementation and address the looming skills gap. Their duties are integral to the future of supply chain management, and out of these issues, a key problem arises.

Supply Chain Skills 45

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 25, 2019

In fact, supply chain executives put demand forecasting and supply chain planning at the top of the list of how they initially plan to use AI. Without baseline metrics on what you want to improve on and why, how can you be confident your strategy is working? Increased inventory turns by 25%.

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BlueYonder

MAY 16, 2023

Blue Yonder believes continues to showcase its strength in warehouse and supply chain execution solutions. We are bringing warehouse, transportation, store execution, and order management solutions under one solution portfolio to offer end-to-end capabilities and deliver seamlessly experience.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 1, 2018

The Reward: Top Benefits of Modern Systems Are Key to Business Survival When it comes time to garnering support to investing in a modern warehouse management system, supply chain executives should focus on the key benefits that will be provided by the system. Improving network-wide inventory visibility.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 18, 2022

This Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech commentary provides highlights and added perspectives on this week announcement regarding Kinaxis’ s completed acquisition of supply chain execution B2B SaaS platform provider MPO. Background. Customers span not only Europe but North America.

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ThroughPut

MAY 26, 2020

A Warehouse Management Software (WMS) is one that helps plan, control, and manage the day-to-day manufacturing operations in a warehouse along with the guidance of inventory movement, optimizing order picking, and shipping of customer orders. The WMS guides the overall order and inventory replenishment on the factory floor.

Inventory Management Software 40

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 31, 2018

Poor Warehouse Utilization Increases Expenses Poor warehouse utilization has been a key concern for supply-chain executives over the last decade. Big Data can analyze picking performance and identify best practices to increase performance, effectively reducing the amount of on-hand inventory needed at any given time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2013

As I sat at my kitchen table, I reviewed spreadsheet after spreadsheet of corporate performance data on supply chain financial ratios. The relationship between corporate financial performance and supply chain metrics was complex; and in my first attempts, I was unable to derive a correlation. Definitions.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 24, 2015

At a recent conference, I was asked how to deal with corporate power dynamics when supply chain is not an equal-partner organisation. This made me think: “What superpowers would supply chain executives love to have?”. The Power of Yes is activated when a supply chain executive can say “Yes, but…”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

Closing the gaps happens when there are aligned metrics, clarity of vision and aligned planning processes. There has to be an enlightened leader that understands that the supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity. Metrics Alignment. They lack cohesion.

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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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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Here’s the supply chain conferences we love and will be attending. Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. Kinaxis is pleased to be a Premier Sponsor and participate in panel discussion of the 2014 EMEA Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. Hope to see you in the coming weeks!

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here “near real-time” is defined as a refresh of key metrics every five minutes. And I have heard supply chain executives say that while they used to be “fast followers,” they now believe competitive differentiation depends on being an early adopter. The real-time reporting of work was weaker than expected.”.

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

On September 9–11, 2014, 110 supply chain visionaries will gather in the desert at the Phoenician Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona to think differently and define the future of supply chain. Today, 90% of publicly-traded companies are stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. It is needed.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

based retailers would provide the best indicators of retail industry customer fulfillment trends including various changing strategies in inventory management and customer fulfilment efforts, along with restoring higher profitability levels. Inventory Management The retailer reported inventory declines of 4.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

of revenue on supply chain applications, the promise of an agile, flexible supply chain that can respond as the business changes seems like an illusion. This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

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The Network Effect

AUGUST 7, 2015

These capabilities can be combined with cloud platform-based inventory visibility and order promising services to provide very differentiated fulfillment services that directly link customer expectations to supply chain execution realities. The key here is choosing the right kind of cloud platform.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2014

Natural disasters like the Japan earthquake, product shortages due to quality issues, the impact of currency rates on product costs and demand, and disruptions caused by IT service failures or security breaches are just a few examples of the risks supply chain executives face every day. The same is true for CEOs.

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QAD

AUGUST 28, 2024

These include: 6% growth in EBITDA 20% improvement on forecast accuracy 25% reduction in inventory Benefits of Regular Executive S&OP Meetings The main objective of S&OP is to ensure a company can meet its customer demand efficiently while optimizing inventory levels, resource allocation and profitability.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights for readers the implications of Amazon’s ongoing global and domestic operational and last mile fulfillment network. We believe that these inventory management, customer and last-mile fulfillment strategies will have industry wide implications in terms of competitive stakes and cost-to-serve.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2013

While companies have increased Revenue per Employee across the healthcare value chain, the Days of Inventory have increased for suppliers, and there is a shift in power to the healthcare provider. I also see that we are not decreasing the total inventory levels in the network or accelerating time to value. Progress is stalled.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For a long time, C-level executives viewed supply chain management, especially the logistics function, as a cost center. As a result, cutting and controlling costs became the top priority for supply chain executives. Therefore, how do you differentiate and make a larger impact on the organization?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Finally, inventory accuracy can never be as high in a store as in a warehouse. Arthur Valdez, Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain and Logistics Officer at Target, spoke about the mega-retailer’s supply chain transformation at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ( CSCMP ) online forum in September.

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Procurement Analytics Forecasting Inventory Reduction Eliminating Excel in Purchasing 130

Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Challenge 1: Low supply chain responsiveness – A low level of supply chain responsiveness is often observed when goods and services are purchased from remote countries. How do you design a regional or global sourcing network that strikes the RIGHT balance between supply chain cost and SERVICE reliability?

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Taulia

JULY 11, 2023

A 2022 survey by EY revealed that eight in ten supply chain executives are increasing their efforts toward sustainable supply chain operations. Rethink inventory management strategy Sustainability and optimal inventory levels go hand in hand.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2016

Natural disasters, product shortages due to quality issues, the impact of currency rates on product costs and demand, and disruptions caused by IT service failures or security breaches are just a few examples of the risks supply chain executives face every day. CFOs rarely know anything about supply chain management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

According to executives who have benefited from this combination of advanced technologies, one of the greatest benefits is gaining real-time visibility across the extended logistics network. “We We wanted to see inventory positions around the world compared to our forecast, compared to our actual demand.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2018

Companies across all industries are dealing with rising transportation costs and a key question many CEOs, CFOs, and supply chain executives are asking is, “What can we do to better manage and control our freight spend in today’s market?” Big data drives everything,” Michael says. The Impact of Omnichannel.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

Interestingly, the downshifts we observed in transportation metrics were much more muted in the last week of July, leaving open a possibility for a bit of recovery as we move towards peak season. Warehousing and Inventory metrics continue to buoy the logistics sector. Additional Supply Chain Matters Perspectives.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Here is the list: Supply chain technology implementations have reduced inventory. Companies should implement supply chain best practices. Companies that have focused on collaboration in the supply chain have built competitive advantage. Supply chain excellence matters. The reason?

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