Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2018

Perhaps the most overworked word in the supply chain management lexicon is “visibility.” Yet it’s difficult to overstate the importance of a view into what’s going on in the supply chain. After all, you can’t source, make, move, store, deliver, measure or improve what you can’t see. Source: GEODIS.

Optimal Sourcing 101

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. Unlock your potential by thinking differently.

Supply Chain Design Software 195

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 23, 2017

Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Customer-Centric Supply Chain Research. Supply chains are not equipped to sense, think, and respond intelligently through digitized relationships which provide new sources of data and insight.

Supply Chain Planning Software 0

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BlueYonder

MARCH 24, 2015

Today is the right time to take a fresh look at these strategic pillars and to explore their full potential as part of your supply chain strategy. Figure 1: A fresh look at the Five Tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains. These efforts put the emphasis on network design, inventory optimization and scenario-planning.

Inventory Reduction 40

Inventory Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies Supply Chain Strategy Sourcing Strategies 40

E2open

MARCH 13, 2018

The first thing to know about a planning system of record is that it’s a unified platform that combines the key functional capabilities required to plan your supply chain operations, including demand, replenishment, inventory, production and order promising. This applies to any industry.

Supply Chain Planning Software 60

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

Use multiple sources of demand data in the forecast, and build a demand signal repository to harmonize and synchronize demand data from multiple sources. Translate independent demand into a product segmentation strategy. Translate independent demand into a product segmentation strategy. Actively design the supply chain.

Supply and Demand 60

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BlueYonder

JULY 2, 2015

Omni-channel profitability for retailers and other value chain participants will increasingly depend on a matrix of available-to-promise possibilities across the various supply chain entities that make, move, and store inventory. Now, let’s fast forward to 2015.

Modeling 40

Modeling Supply and Demand Manufacturing Procurement Inventory Reduction 40

HICX Solutions

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Organizations will need to consider and invest in customer experience metrics and data analytics to understand better what their customers want and enhance the supply chain’s ability to understand this. We’ll now further explore some additional capabilities emerging in the software space.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Relying on inventory as a buffer will no longer be effective from a cost or customer service perspective. As omni-channel continues to grow, the challenges of where, when and how much inventory is staged will require increased visibility and collaboration.

Manufacturing Procurement 40

Manufacturing Procurement Manufacturing Industrial Industry 40

BlueYonder

APRIL 16, 2015

For many manufacturing companies, developing a customer-centric supply chain can be a long and daunting journey. The more advanced and innovative supply chain segmentation and customer-centricity steps of the five tenets we have discussed cannot be successfully adopted without a minimum level of operational efficiency.

Sourcing Strategies 40

Sourcing Strategies Inventory Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies Modeling 40

Operations and Supply Chain Management

MAY 14, 2014

The problem, according to the authors, is that protective measures can be at odds with supply chain managers’ goal of improving cost efficiency. Supply chain efficiency, which is directed at improving a company’s financial performance, is different from supply chain resilience , whose goal is risk reduction.

Sourcing Strategies 40

Sourcing Strategies Cost Reduction Strategies Inventory Reduction Expense Reduction 40

BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2015

In Part I of my Supply Chain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains remain a great starting point to build your supply chain strategy. This post will explore the three capabilities essential to supply chain redesign.

Supply Chain Design Software 40

Supply Chain Design Software Cost Reduction Strategies Inventory Reduction Price Reduction 40

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 4, 2014

There are tons of articles, white papers and blogs about today’s supply chain challenges: globalization, off-shore manufacturing, supply chain segmentation, big data, mobility, social media, price optimization, warehouse throughput, labor scheduling and in-store picking.

Sourcing Strategies 76

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Customer Service.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 24

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