Logility

AUGUST 22, 2018

I can’t wait to receive my Michigan State themed shoes — GO GREEN , GO WHITE.). Delivery of “make to stock” products to a home or business is now available within hours of making a purchase. Eliminating excess and obsolete inventory is a priority for many manufacturers. Products beamed right into your house.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2016

And it’s hard to find supply chain managers with the moxie to go to their senior leadership and say, “We want to purchase a global TMS, but it’s going to take a couple of years to roll out and a few more after that to realize a return on investment.”. Myth #2 – TMS providers don’t offer a truly global solution.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2022

Michael Baudendistel ( @FWavesRail ), an analyst and Market Expert at FreightWaves, reports, “There were some interesting, if perhaps intuitive, highlights from the latest University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Taking the Digital Path to Purchase. Purchasing Out of Necessity. ”[3]. Stable Consumer Behaviors.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 3, 2016

Now, on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Wal-Mart says it is 6-9 months from using drones to check warehouse inventory (Reuters). Michigan Puts Forward Bills to Allow for Public Sales of Driverless Cars (WSJ- sub. Enspire Commerce Launches Next Generation Point of Sale (POS) Software. Uber raises $3.5

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Supply chain technology industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters Founder Bob Ferrari provides added perspectives and highlights to last week’s announced acquisition of Starboard Solutions by Logility. The Logility team apparently shared in that perception and initiated conversations with Starboard. All rights reserved. .

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Enterra Insights

MAY 26, 2020

Customers don’t want to think about supply chains; they just want great purchasing experiences. ”[1] Trebilcock goes on to note that a 2018 article co-authored by Michigan State’s Steve Melnyk argued, “The next generation of supply chains will be tasked with delivering an experience as well as a product.”

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 13, 2016

Fortunately, supply chain systems have come a long way since many companies last implemented their solutions. There are no longer stores and e-commerce and m-commerce channels—it is all just commerce, with the consumer deciding which path to purchase they will take at any point in time. It is now “connect and conquer.”

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

It’s likely that in the coming months and years, many supply chain leaders will look to automation solutions that help to minimize physical contact and the number of touches required to move products through the supply chain. “Business leaders should also look at how new tools and technologies can provide greater intelligence.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 8, 2016

As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University in 1992, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative. All the while, they claim to be driving “world class procurement” or “world class logistics” practices, implying that these practices are the best of the best.

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EMERGE App

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inventory management definition Inventory management, in a nutshell, describes your efforts to manage, assess, and report on the flow of your stock of goods. You might be using pencil-and-paper, spreadsheets, or sophisticated inventory management software to do this. Why Should You Care About Inventory Management At All?

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Professor Zondag is a professor from supply chain program at Western Michigan University which is ranked one of the best program in the nation. The S&OP process is an effective tool to match the voice of the customer with the voice of the supply chain in an active fashion.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, as the founder and managing partner of USM Supply Chain Consultants she has put her expertise in supply chain, procurement, finance and project management to work to help her clients achieve greater profitability. And even at that time he was doing something completely new: he was running simulations using software applications.

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IQMS

MARCH 27, 2020

However, the extensive reliance on ERP solutions to maintain widespread, fundamental business continuity, as we are seeing today, has never been experienced on such a large scale. Modern ERP solutions have even minimized the need to have IT professionals onsite since many of today’s solutions are hosted or managed in the cloud.

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EMERGE App

AUGUST 5, 2018

What is Inventory Management? Inventory management, in a nutshell, describes your efforts to manage, assess and report on the flow of your stock of goods. You might be using pencil-and-paper, spreadsheets or sophisticated inventory management software to do this. Two Essential Features of Inventory Management Today.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 9, 2016

An excerpt from our book “The Procurement Value Proposition” got a nice section of CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly edition this week. As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative, led by Professor Robert Monczka.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

In the latter half of the 20 th century, it transformed into a Swiss holding company with interests in sea freight, air freight, contract logistics and overland businesses, with a focus on IT-based logistics solutions. XPO Logistics started as Express-1 Expedited Solutions in 1989. Ryder Solutions Inc. Jacobs in 2011.

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USC Consulting Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

One of the most successful and widely utilized in the manufacturing sector is just-in-time inventory. Steve Cahillane, CEO for the breakfast cereal giant Kellogg’s, told The Wall Street Journal the company is considering amending its just-in-time inventory approach. “That is something that everybody is talking about.”

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The origins of the Extended Enterprise went before this period, however, and began with the early work that Steve did while he was a senior purchasing buyer at the Ford Motor Company. (I Later I was rehired and brought back into purchasing. Steve described his experience this afternoon over pizza and sodas in Detroit.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

The problem of supply chain strategy misalignment has always been there for Kmart, ever since the first of its concept stores opened in Garden City, Michigan. While Wal-Mart invested in fleet assets to drive distribution costs down, Kmart persevered with the use of external carriers and did nothing to try and reduce inventory touch-points.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper. Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. On every screen there were moving graphical visualizations of material inventory. It’s not about nationalizing everything. I disagree.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The modern warehouse is complex, and management must balance a number of factors including software, automation, training and processes such as receiving, picking and inventory management. If half of the orders you get come from 10% of the products you have in the inventory, put these items nearest the entrance of the picking area.

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

OCTOBER 11, 2018

I spent 30 years at P&G, straight out of The University of Michigan and Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Business. Our future CEO AG Lafley later refocused P&G on that mantra, we had to win at the First Moment of Truth, when a shopper is in the aisle, or on-line making their purchase decision. More on that in a minute.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 18, 2022

The Risk of Outdated Forecasting Software. Outdated forecasting software only increases the risks surrounding a disrupted supply chain. There are Five Symptoms of Outdated Forecasting and Inventory Planning Software: Have you diagnosed your problem– and solution–to improved demand planning? Data source: Datasembly.

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Logility

JULY 8, 2022

The closure of the Abbott Nutrition facility in Michigan last February may have ignited the nationwide infant formula shortage, but this was (and still is) a fragile supply chain that could have broken for any number of reasons. retailers implement purchase limits on infant formula. Inventory Control Challenges. June 16, 2022.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2017

Boston startup raises $10M for retail software that predicts inventory needs (Boston Business Journal). million, aims to work with freight companies by year-end to test trucks without human occupants on highways in states such as Michigan, Nevada or Florida. Self-Driving-Truck Startups Race to Take On Uber (WSJ – sub.

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