Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Allyson Hatfield, demand planner at MARS Petcare presented. In our research, we find that 72% of planners primarily depend on Excel and desktop analysis despite the rollout of advanced platforms for planning in 92% of manufacturers with greater than 5B$ in revenue. Allyson’s presentation was just that. ” “Oops!,”

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At a division of one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, 85% autonomy on manufacturing plans and 95% acceptance of proposed purchase orders has been achieved. But when he presents this to many companies, they don’t believe it. “I You don’t act on a forecast; you act on what you purchase.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Even though things seem to be going well (all of the meeting details are well-executed and the speaker is giving an energized presentation), the room is eerily quiet. Here are the three questions that I would like people to ask: Table 1: Comparison of Results for Best of Breed Solution Providers to ERP Expansionists in Supply Chain Planning.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The right technology solutions allow supply chain operations to make data-driven decisions and provide a competitive advantage, particularly if an organization’s competitors are slow to adopt the latest technology advancements. Still, there are several technologies that are transforming supply chains for the organizations that adopt them.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

He wanted to build depth in the S&OP process; but, he had not been able to convince his management team to purchase an S&OP technology. The IT department was certain that they needed a tightly integrated business solution for S&OP and that they needed a licensed application and full-blown implementation team to get it right.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Effective inventory management is crucial to reducing costs in any manufacturing business. This is particularly true in the food manufacturing industry, which characteristically has a high volume of products stored, and an urgent need to fill existing client orders to match ongoing consumer demand. Working with fresh food.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As we head into the holiday season, supply delays, logistics constraints and inflation are looming over shoppers and retailers—and the manufacturers and distributors who keep them in supply. This demand shift presents a unique opening to rethink your product portfolio and rationalize it to ensure you’re focused on the more critical subsets.

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Silvon Software

APRIL 19, 2022

Procurement is one core process area being focused to better manage today’s fluctuating change, with key performance metrics leading the way to assessing and managing procurement performance. The Basics of Procurement KPIs. Every KPI needs a clearly defined goal. Supplier KPIs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2022

As more consumers flock to e-commerce, purchasing big & bulky goods such as furniture, appliances, and wholesale electronics online is becoming more common. The trend of purchasing big & bulky items online will continue to grow, with Statista predicting 35% of furniture sales worldwide will be made online by 2025.

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ivalua

MARCH 30, 2022

Reviewing pandemic responses and strategies, some CPOs and Procurement teams managed a bit better than their peers as uncertainty and change mounted. These teams were able to quickly communicate and negotiate with their key suppliers to establish a “supplier of choice” solution. . Learning from Supplier Relationships.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Procurement has never played such an important role in the increasingly globalised economy. Has procurement fundamentally changed itself in the past 10 years? Strategic Procurement can mean totally different things in different industries and sectors. The time when Procurement was almost a synonym to Purchasing has long gone.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Recent releases of Advanced Planning Solutions (APS) refined but did not transform initial software concepts. While there is much hype on DDMRP and the use of orders as a proxy for demand, companies need to remember that orders carry latency: they are out-of-step with market purchase behavior. Traditional planning is batch.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Manufacturers today face lots of challenges driven by changing customer expectations. The cost of internet-connected devices has also dropped significantly making IIoT solutions more affordable at scale. The cost of internet-connected devices has also dropped significantly making IIoT solutions more affordable at scale.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. Throughout a genuine and collaborative cooperation with business vendors, they produce innovative approaches to current procurement difficulties.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2014

As with the logistics category where we featured 15 most popular blog posts vs. the 10 we covered in the top manufacturing blog posts and supply chain blog posts , we write so many transportation blog posts in that category, we are going to feature the 16 most viewed transportation blog posts. Read the Full Blog Post. Read the Full Blog Post.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. This software then calculates the statistically correct, time phased safety stock levels across multiple levels of the supply chain, providing the optimum inventory in the optimum location.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

The attendees were sitting on the edge of their seats to hear about the next release of Llamasoft software. The market for network design tools was growing at a moderate rate, and most of the market had invested in technologies from either i2 Technologies (then termed i2 Strategist) or Logictools. The theatre was packed. Reflections.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Building a software company is hard work. Most of the business networks were hollowed out by venture capitalists or purchased by opportunists. Most of the business networks were hollowed out by venture capitalists or purchased by opportunists. The big data architectures are often present in the current “AI offerings.”

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions. People simply want to purchase products from businesses which provide a more transparent and streamlined service, and who deliver on their customer promise, even if it means inflated prices to obtain it. Embedded AI that is purpose-built for supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

With this in mind, in this blog, I make an argument that we, as supply chain leaders, have screwed up direct material procurement. My goal is to have supply chain leaders consider a procurement redesign for 2017. As shown in Figure 1, roughly one in two supply chain organizations have responsibility for procurement.

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Synovos

MARCH 5, 2024

Overhauled MRO Strategy Propels UK Food Manufacturer to Save Millions, Boost Productivity For most companies, the COVID-19 pandemic presented a significant challenge in managing operations. One food manufacturer based in the UK was among those to successfully manoeuvre through the pandemic and beyond.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the dynamic world of manufacturing, the quest for operational excellence is unending. QAD’s Industrial Transformation Platform At the heart of QAD’s solution portfolio is the Industrial Transformation Platform , designed to empower manufacturing and supply chain enterprises to become Adaptive Enterprises.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 30, 2024

MILAN, ATHENS, and BOSTON – 29 July 2024 — ToolsGroup and its Greek partner, THellas, announced that SLF Greece -a distributor of KIKO MILANO products in Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and Romania- has implemented ToolsGroup SO99+ software.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. End-to-End Definition Implementation of enterprise data architectures to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In those services, the retailer needs to understand what will be provided and how to present it to the consumer. The key is to make sure all the costs are transparent up front during the purchasing process. Manufacturing : manufacturers are trying to create or enhance their online presence of direct-to-consumer business.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2019

The most fundamental spend categorization in Procurement is the line between direct and indirect spend, but one effort that transcends this split is supplier management. Industry: Manufacturing. While Procurement might not consider these relationships strategic, they are critical nonetheless. Healthcare.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2020

Healthcare supply chain GPO, Intalere, deploys an end-to-end Source to Contract solution across its purchasing functions. New York, NY March 30, 2020 – Consus , a leading procurement services provider, today announced that Intalere , a healthcare supply chain GPO based in St. About Consus. About Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

As companies struggled to respond to increasing business complexity—a growing number of products, channels, and markets with regional preferences—few software applications were equal to managing channel complexity. Replatforming Current Planning Solutions. At the event, presentation after presentation focused on improving engines.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2013

Last week in the middle of a presentation, a supply chain leader made the statement, “We have solved the issues in supply through better optimization and use of data. ” Or run the statement by any software provider, and they will share that their solutions delivered these “best practices.”

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

We’ve already listed the top 10 manufacturing blog posts and the top 10 supply chain blog posts last week. When a manufacturer’s product normally moves through the supply chain network, it is to reach the distributor or customer. Any process or management after the sale of the product involves reverse logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. In one article , Mr. Sorenson points out that IBP works better for small manufacturers than large ones. To begin the journey, GEON needed a better supply chain planning tool.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 3, 2020

There are a few solutions to this phenomenon. Increased replenishment frequency in smaller quantities can smooth out the flow, as can just-in-time ordering, integrated multi-level supply chain optimization and–in an ideal world–orchestrated demand signal sharing between retailers, distributors and manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

” CFO of a major manufacturer. Procter & Gamble and Kimberly Clark); but for most companies that I have worked with, I see that they have purchased and implemented inventory technologies, but there has not been an impact on future years results in either Days of Inventory or Days of Working Capital. I am a skeptic.

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Precoro

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For some businesses – usually smaller or with a single-source purchasing flow – it may be sustainable to react to the immediate needs. However, growing organizations that face increasing complexity recognize the value of thoughtfully-planned and managed procurement. Office supplies would be an example of indirect procurement.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 26, 2023

Category management is a procurement strategy that involves grouping similar products or services together into categories and managing them as a single unit. This approach can help organizations streamline their procurement processes, negotiate better deals with suppliers, and ultimately save money.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As we close the year of 2015, we want to take a look at some manufacturing trends for 2016. We look at 6 core areas that manufacturing companies will take a long look at as they gear up for a successful 2016. E-Commerce for Manufacturing. Manufacturers will seek custom (or specifically tailored) e-commerce solutions.

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