DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In the race to meet shifting consumer preferences, success belongs to manufacturers that can quickly reconfigure their operations to capitalize on opportunities. This can be enabled leveraging a modular production system. Two such capabilities are model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and virtual modeling and simulation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

During the pandemic, companies struggled with planning systems turning off the optimizers, and using the technology as a system of record. Build in-market sourcing. Rationalize global strategies to focus on building markets based on in-market sourcing. S&OP is too slow and cannot achieve the needed alignment.

Supply Chain Planning Software 388

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 31, 2024

How should a global manufacturer make a decision? In short, the research tells me that the manufacturing industries are stuck. Teaching an organization how to use a planning system to drive value takes 3-4X longer than the technology implementation. In contrast, for a global manufacturer, the answer is more complex.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My first focus was on China sourcing. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) This cross-functional group (sales, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution) is an operational team to manage the day-to-day issues and exceptions in the supply chain. This type of planning needs to be deployed by all consumer manufacturers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Access to Unique Process and Asset Capabilities: Some suppliers offer unique skills, technologies, or processes that are not available in-house or through other sources. Or they may have expertise in manufacturing processes and have flexible capacity to allow contract manufacturing for new product introduction.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 17, 2022

A combo of pandemic-related increased demand, and the tragic destruction of a key chlorine manufacturer have led to 2022’s swimming pool chlorine shortage. Image source: Cape Analytics. Image Source: Nola. Image Source: USA Today. Image source: CNBC. The cause of this tragedy? Why is there a chlorine shortage?

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 16, 2023

BOSTON — January 16, 2023 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in retail and supply chain optimization software, today introduced the launch of Inventory Hub®, a Dynamic Data Unification Platform that provides retailers with a “single source of truth” for inventory data across their enterprises. “As

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Medical Device manufacturers face an increasingly dynamic and intricate landscape. Innovative personalized manufacturing approaches have emerged, yet many organizations struggle to fully realize their potential in this rapidly evolving race.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In the supply chain team analysis, note the 21% gap between procurement and manufacturing teams, the 35% gap between sales and operations and the 21% gap between finance and operations. Advanced planning solutions (APS) do not cross over make, source, and deliver with a common data model in the planning horizons. Functional Metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Importers are trying to push 30 percent more thru a system that is running at 70 percent throughput aainst the old level. My thought was to combine my experience working on visibility solutions with Descartes Systems Group and Manugistics with recent research data. Conventional approaches are not sufficient. I thought it would be easy.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 19, 2023

With the advent of true “single source of truth” inventory visibility , a digital twin is a more feasible goal than ever before. Let’s take a look at the challenges associated with digital twins and how real-time data systems are changing the game for companies looking to leverage them. Few of these systems talk to each other.

Real-time Visibility 295

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

It is one of those high-end brands with global recognition, and to my surprise, the manufacturer’s own website did not have any stock and no indication on when it would be available. Planning systems need to address the risk and variability not only on the demand side but also on the supply and logistics side.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. It also takes flexible and redundant suppliers, systems, and talent to create an organization that survives and thrives while others struggle. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. Let me tell them through stories.

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Vishal Patel and Peter Hunt delivered their session ‘Creating Value with Strategic Sourcing’ to discuss how Procurement professionals are recognizing that the fast-paced digital landscape of today demands new approaches to category management and strategic sourcing. The answer is simple – automation. See you soon!

Optimal Sourcing 244

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2024

And their revenues don’t include services – they work through system integration partners. Medline is a medical supply manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider. Their customers include large scale hospital systems, physicians’ offices, surgical centers, and long-term care facilities. Why AutoStore?

Supply Chain Design Software 295

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I have built five such systems for companies. Translation of the demand forecast into planned orders to minimize manufacturing constraints. Use of optimization to consume planned orders into manufacturing scheduling and distribution requirements planning (including inventory optimization of safety stock).

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Commerce is global and regional at the same time, the world is getting smaller and more interconnected, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in this build-anywhere and sell-anywhere market. Theory and practical implications are clear: optimizing each silo does not imply optimizing the end-to-end system.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 26, 2023

Or a unified data model across source, make, and deliver for planning? Similarly, the Dewey Decimal system in the library is a manual semantic reconciliation system. Demand latency (the time from purchase by the customer to order visibility by the manufacturer) is weeks and months. Ontologies help to translate semantics.

Optimal Sourcing 343

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

One Network’s NEO Platform handles supply chain forecasting, sourcing, planning and execution (with routing and logistics optimization) for what may be the largest supply chain control tower deployment in the world. Have a System of Record for Tracking Compliance and Identifying/Reporting Violations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The new law meant that the way medical systems operated had to change. Procurement became a logical place for leading healthcare systems to focus. Adrian Wengert joined Saint Luke’s Health System in 2014. Luke’s system headquartered in Boise. As a result, hospital chains largely lacked competence in sourcing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

General AI is a self-learning form of artificial intelligence based on language processing to learn across systems. Additionally, the tight integration of ERP to APS (Advanced Planning) makes the system nervous and throws supply chain results out of balance, increasing the bullwhip impact. Not a good thing.) Batch interfaces are slow.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, once the permanent CBAM system enters into force on 1 January 2026, importers will need to declare annually the number of goods imported into the EU in the preceding year and their embedded GHG emissions. Reducing the amount of human intervention will reduce operator error which can increase the data’s integrity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 30, 2020

The global economy rebound from COVID-19 hinges on the discovery and manufacture of an effective vaccine. However, supply chain leaders well understand that drug discovery, manufacturing, and distribution are all necessary to deliver the vaccine to a willing arm. Rethink Manufacturing. New Problems Require New Solutions.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Manufacturers can gather valuable granular data such as the time an item spent in storage, at what temperature, how long it took to sell, the length of time between purchase and fulfillment and how long it spent in transport. For example, companies can track products throughout the entire lifecycle with RFID and GPS sensors.

Supply Chain Planning Software 298

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2024

Most companies invested in enterprise transactional systems, but their networks operate primarily through spreadsheets and email. similarly, over 95% of manufacturers invested and implemented supply chain planning, but their primary tool today is Excel. ” Does the Dog Hunt? What is a better answer? So, does this dog hunt?

Supply Chain Planning Software 343

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

For example, a vaccine manufacturer increased their order size by a factor of four in one weekend; a video call company wanted to receive ten times as much product as they initially forecast with just a month’s lead-time. Pure Storage’s manufacturing is done at three contract manufacturing sites, two in Texas and one in the Czech Republic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

While there are many types of visibility (see Figure 1), the most common use case is either sourcing or transportation visibility. What most companies want is a system with prescriptive analytics to tell them when a shipment is expected to be late and what action to take. Supply chains are complex, non-linear systems.

Supply Chain Design Software 294

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

” Corporations serve international markets, and the source of rare minerals (so critical for the evolution of the green supply chain) is primarily Asia. Others argue the demise of global sourcing; might I add caution? Still, the manufacturing plants and distribution centers are closed. My response is “Hogwash.”

Modeling 284

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute a wide range of consumer products, including bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. IT systems can be part of the problem. Ideally, the Causal AI operates autonomously.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2024

However, my worldview is that the larger shifts are far more systemic requiring a call for action that is going largely unheard. I would like for us to move past the conventional view of sourcing strategies and globalization to drive improvements to the supply chain in a variable world. Supply-centric or Manufacturing Thinking.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Source: [link]. With the right solution and strategy, food manufacturers have the potential to create a major impact in reducing the scale of our global food waste crisis. The first step requires food manufacturers to embrace two concepts: supply chain transparency and the circular economy. Enable Sustainability with DELMIA.

Waste Reduction 296

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 15, 2021

The impact was across manufacturing plants, transport networks, warehouses, and retail outlets. Our analysis of digital and non-digital manufacturers over time shows an index of profit performance, with digital manufacturers outpacing their peers (Figure 1). Source: IDC 2021—Digital Analysis: Manufacturing.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A survey conducted earlier this year by IDC Manufacturing Insights across Asia Pacific manufacturers found that organisations are currently focusing ESG efforts related to environmental sustainability on the following (1) : Energy efficiency requirements of products and operations. Reduction in waste and driving cost efficiencies.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 13, 2020

While the automotive industry is proactive in developing strategies to optimize manufacturing processes, many important aspects are siloed, especially one crucial element: The container, which plays an important role in ensuring seamless logistic processes. The final assembly line sets the pace in automotive manufacturing.

Optimal Sourcing 267

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations look for reducing dependencies on concentrated sources of supply, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and South Asian countries will start providing viable alternatives to the current manufacturing powerhouse countries. As demand for last mile logistics intensifies, warehouses become the prime candidates for automation.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 26, 2021

One key enabler already exists—by adopting virtual twin technology such as the Virtual Twin Experience by Dassault Systèmes, which provides companies with real-time virtual representations of products, processes and systems based on data gathered from real-world interactions. Such capabilities are a must to enact systemic changes.

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