Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Being listed on a last-mile-delivery service platform and reaching a much broader customer base beyond the neighbors became a must-have for survival. For businesses of all sizes, the digital transformation of supply chain planning became the most important initiative. . Digital Transformation Journey.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 2, 2023

But then, supply chain disruption became the rule instead of the exception, consumers changed their tastes as often as their socks, and global competition started playing hardball. Suddenly, managing inventory is the name of the game for companies trying to manage working capital and maximize profit while keeping customers happy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

This weekend, I edited the Supply Chains to Admire report. Planning Needs to Change. We have successfully reduced warehouse labor, but planning is more labor intensive today, and less effective. This work completed in 2013 defined the Supply Chains to Admire. The full report publishes this week.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2021

Each year, we compile a list of top-performing Supply Chains, termed the Supply Chains to Admire. This week, while all my friends are on vacation, I am writing the final report for the Supply Chains to Admire. Our goal is to continually redefine the definition of supply chain excellence.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 15, 2021

One of the industry’s biggest concerns is how to digitise and transform quickly, without starting from scratch and having to throw away your enormous investment in traditional systems. The good news is that you don’t have to—even if you have hundreds of legacy systems and ERP instances across your company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. Engineers could sign up for hour-long blocks to use the new systems. Why Jump Now?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

When I started my business in 2012, I frequently wrote about the future using the moniker of Supply Chain 2020. We had just recovered from a recession, and my goal was to help supply chain leaders create a better supply chain by the end of the decade. At that time, Supply Chain 2020 seemed so far away.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

” Here is an excerpt from the article: “…it isn’t by becoming more efficient that the supply chains of Wal-Mart, Dell, and Amazon have given those companies an edge over their competitors. According to my research, top-performing supply chains possess three very different qualities. What did we find?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2021

Promotion Management is defined as optimizing the utilization of tools, strategies, and resources to promote a product that will generate additional demand. Why should we consider Promotion Planning in Inventory Management? Whether it be e-commerce, brick-and-mortar, or both, retail companies care about the inventory they keep.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 1, 2021

As supply chains become more impacted by market disruptions and unpredictable events, they’re also becoming more critical to a company’s customer experience levels and bottom line. Why Monitor Transportation Metrics. Why Monitor Transportation Metrics. Actionable data is one of the most critical business drivers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As an engineer, former solutions architect and now CEO of a leading supply chain technology company, I have a real affinity and respect for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and their teams, without whom successful enterprise technology deployments would be impossible. We’re just not meeting customer expectations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Autonomous Supply Chains In this competitive environment, a CPG manufacturer needs to fight to get space on retailer shelves in each region, keep those shelves stocked, compete and collaborate simultaneously with e-commerce, and maintain its operating margins. each with discrete plans generated typically in sequential batch runs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

That’s why staying on top of the latest supply chain planning trends is so important – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2024

During my current supply chain planning market research, I have received briefings from several SCP companies. Many say that they are using generative AI, a type of AI that can create new content and ideas, as part of their journey toward autonomous planning. Solvoyo has a metric they call the user acceptance rate.

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Logility

AUGUST 4, 2023

Selecting a new enterprise technology or supply chain planning software provider can be wrought with challenge and risk. Specifically: people have lost their jobs over poor technology selections and failed implementation projects. This is especially true in supply chain planning & management platforms.

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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. If there’s a bright spot anywhere it’s the fact that, as logistics challenges have grown, so has the availability of advanced technologies to manage these challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 30, 2024

But shippers looking to avoid disruptions and ensure that tight inventory levels don’t lead to missed sales opportunities pulled their orders forward. As companies look ahead to the next three to six months, they’re weighing costs, risks, and demand as they plan and adapt their inventory strategies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 27, 2023

My goal is to engage the supply chain community in a no smoke and mirrors discussion. My observation is that the supply chain community perpetuates a number of myths about planning. This post is a reflection from twenty years as an analyst in supply chain planning. I need to clear the air.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2024

In my recent Mea Culpa post, I mentioned my prior work on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), and the importance of leadership. If you have walked in the shoes of the supply chain leader, you are probably laughing by now. In assessing the health of the plan, what do you measure? Is your plan feasible?

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 20, 2019

More and more businesses are hopping on the outsourcing bus and letting the experts take the wheel to drive supply chain planning processes. Several years ago ToolsGroup pioneered business process outsourcing (BPO) as an alternative to in-house supply chain planning (SCP). versus $4.84 per $1000 of revenue).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

A large consumer products manufacturer with nine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instances and several divisions wanted to discuss forecasting. The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

He shared that he worked for a freight forwarder providing supply chain planning services for a major retailer. As a result, the project implemented by KPMG was primarily a technology implementation. As a result, the project implemented by KPMG was primarily a technology implementation. He shrugged his shoulders.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 18, 2019

Trends and other market forces that impact commercial opportunities need to appear on the planning radar. Therefore, traditional push-driven supply chains are wholly unfit for this situation. They also cut inventory levels, grew sales and resolved capacity issues. Their S&OP program, however, was only the beginning.

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Logility

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For the last decade supply chain leaders and CIO’s have been evaluating when and how to move their supply chain applications to the cloud. Timely and accurate data – Digital planning platforms are driven by timely and accurate data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

Today, we published The Supply Chains to Admire for 2023. Supply Chains to Admire Winners 2023 Examine Your Own Paradigm. Most supply chain leaders are stuck in their own paradigms. As an old gal, with over forty-years of supply chain experience, writing this report for ten years taught me many lessons.

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Logility

JULY 20, 2023

Good forecasting leads to good demand planning —and good demand planning means better profitability. That’s why it’s essential to be sure you’re equipping your organization with the right demand planning software. Here are our answers to some of the most common questions about demand planning software.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

How 3PLs Can Gain Visibility and a Competitive Advantage Offering Automated Billing and a Self-Service Interactive Customer Portal It’s hard to imagine a third-party logistics (3PL) business today operating without some form of a warehouse management system ( WMS ) connecting the digital dots. But can technology do more?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supply chain results; yet, sadly, only four percent of public companies succeed. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. Now, I view the company as a supply chain laggard.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year, nearly 40,000 attendees comprising 6,200 brands from all over the world headed to the Javits Center to see what new solutions and innovations software and hardware suppliers had in store for 2024 and beyond. Throughout the conference I met with several software and hardware providers to get a glimpse into what they were showcasing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. What is supply chain visibility?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. The Sam’s Club and Costco shortages of water, toilet paper and laundry products signals one thing for me: the spread of the virus will disrupt every supply chain. The problem?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2021

million tons of steel a year, has responded to these issues with a board-level driven transformation journey called “Future Value Chain.” Part of their transformation includes a journey to implement and improve their connected planning capabilities. Tata Steel Europe has a complex supply chain. What does that mean?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Supply chain resiliency and sustainability are top priorities for CEOs today. To achieve these goals, corporate leadership must focus on two key areas: shift from internally focused supply chains to collaborative supply networks and actively design their supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

This is a story for the Eds, Franks, and Toms working together in supply chains across the globe. It is also a story for a young supply chain manager attempting to make a difference, but feeling stymied. My job, as the plant engineering manager, was to drive innovation and implement technology improvement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Definition As I follow the evolution of supply chain technology, I am struck by what I see as a stream of paradox and anomaly, and the tendency of supply chain leaders to cling to convention. technologies. Building the Effective Global Supply Chain. I constantly ask myself, why? Measurement.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 8, 2021

A proof of concept (POC) is an increasingly common method to select the best supply chain software vendor for your company, yet many supply chain practitioners still lean on the traditional RFI (request for information) tool. Software selection is risky. 6 Focus on the wrong metric.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 15, 2024

These scenarios encapsulate the daily struggles of modern businesses navigating through uncertainty, where decision-centric planning emerges not as a luxury but as a necessity. In our previous discussion on decision-centric planning , we explored its fundamental principles and how it can revolutionize supply chain management.

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