BlueYonder

MAY 17, 2022

At the same time, tire manufacturers have suffered from extreme volatility, raw material shortages with rapidly rising prices, a shortage of global transport capacity and increased costs caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic and additional disruptive forces. However, this isn’t the end of the industry’s concerns.

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CHAINalytics

MARCH 30, 2020

Supply chain managers who are experiencing supply risks, demand uncertainty, and “wait and see” leadership directives are asking: What should I do now? Contingency plans need to be … The post Immediate Supply Chain Decisions for “Non-Essential” Manufacturers appeared first on Chainalytics.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 5, 2024

You’ll learn: What customer segmentation in supply chain is How to develop a customer demand segmentation strategy Examples of successful customer demand segmentation Insights into how ThroughPut AI can help you with customer segmentation What is Customer Segmentation? Here are some examples.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 16, 2017

The German government kicked off the initiative with a focus on advanced manufacturing, but businesses are also linking Industrie 4.0 to supply chains. The clearest impact on supply chain planning involves demand. as the cyber/physical model of digitized manufacturing is more adept at customizing goods.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

As 2016 draws to a close, it’s clear that the next 12 months are set to be extremely disruptive for the manufacturing industry. Considering that the industry has largely concentrated on becoming cost-effective rather than lean, this means manufacturers must be prepared for change. Supply chain segmentation in Europe.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Technology is disrupting the manufacturing industry, and with any type of change, comes opportunity. ChainLink Research recently released two reports about how digital technology is affecting today’s manufacturers. The first report, Digital Displacement , explores how these digital advancements are impacting manufacturers’ products.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 11, 2024

Burton and Vreeswijk explain, “Tomorrow’s supply chains will be less linear, involving a more complex, connected network of onshore, friendshore, and farshore players, working as partners and linked into common approaches to circular design, sustainable sourcing, manufacturing, packaging and logistics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, ResMed, Ross Stores, Sleep Number, Subaru, Toro, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company. When I ask supply chain leaders to name their list of supply chain leaders, it never matches the list of the Supply Chains to Admire. Congrats to all. Industry Bias.

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4WL Consulting

JUNE 12, 2015

#1 Globalization of Manufacturing Operations With increasing globalization, manufacturing operations usually take place beyond borders. This heightens the need for having a global procurement network which can support and respond to a company’s supply chain needs in a timely manner.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Supply chain strategies include early adoption of a global supply network regionalization framework focusing on four key market demand regions ( Europe, China, North America and Rest of the World ) coupled with a supply chain segmentation approach that is aligned with product and supply network characteristics.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2015

In Part II I explained how seeking inspiration from retailers can help manufacturing companies move beyond supply chain segmentation to embrace customer-centricity. This post will explore the three capabilities essential to supply chain redesign.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 19, 2012

I also had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable session on supply chain segmentation along with Bob Heaney , Aberdeen’s lead analyst for Supply Chain Management. It was the general consensus of the group that there is value to be delivered from supply chain segmentation. What’s missing?

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain. 49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market. Unfilled jobs and a manufacturing skills gap are expected to cost the United States as much as $1 trillion by 2030.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 20, 2013

In global supply chain , obtaining products or services from outside the country to achieve cost effectiveness is one of the most widely used strategy. In the past couple of years, there are the increasing interest to bring manufacturing back to home country. Supply Chain Case Study: Executives Guide.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 26, 2017

The 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo was one such opportunity. About three hundred supply chain professionals from various pockets of the world representing manufacturers, retailers, logistics providers, and technology vendors took part in the summit.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Over the last two years Gartner Group introduced the concept of bimodal supply chains. I strongly believe in supply chain segmentation and the need for each supply chain to have a well-defined, and often different, outcome. The belief is that companies can invest in technology bimodally.

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RFgen

JUNE 29, 2017

Operations in the manufacturing sector are tightly linked. A change to production demands has implications all the way through to the supply chain, and vice versa. A Manufacturing Business Technology report put the issue bluntly. operational climate benefit substantially from full visibility into all operations.

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RFgen

JUNE 29, 2017

Operations in the manufacturing sector are tightly linked. A change to production demands has implications all the way through to the supply chain, and vice versa. A Manufacturing Business Technology report put the issue bluntly. operational climate benefit substantially from full visibility into all operations.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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ThroughPut

MAY 24, 2024

Multi-echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) is an advanced inventory management strategy that optimizes inventory levels across multiple stages or echelons in a supply chain. This ensures that inventory is positioned optimally throughout the supply chain, reducing total inventory costs while maintaining or improving service levels.

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CHAINalytics

APRIL 21, 2020

Food and consumer goods manufacturers along with their retail counterparts are dealing with unprecedented highs across consumer channels, while “non-essential” companies are being plagued with historical lows. Almost every company is currently experiencing demand disruption.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2018

Based on a company’s supply chain segmentation goals and business objectives, a CoE can be designed to support any portion of a company and the fulfillment needs of its product portfolio,” Lewis says. “It The Broader Value Proposition of a Logistics Center of Excellence. The decision about how to proceed is a bit more complex.

Optimal Sourcing 101

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BlueYonder

JULY 2, 2015

I have written in the past about how this multi-dimensional ATP capability supports supply chain segmentation for manufacturers (see Supply Chain Quarterly ). This capability was particularly powerful for high tech manufacturers, whose inventory value decreased on average one half of one percent per week.

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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. This set the scene for the fourth tenet of high-performing supply chains: Supply Chain Segmentation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2018

As shown in Figure 1, the company now has sales of 6.1B$, manufacturers 40+ brands in 24 countries while selling products in 100 countries. In the beginning, the business leaders would state that the supply chain was not flexible enough and the costs were too high. The problem was not contract manufacturing costs/efficiency.

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Logility

JULY 23, 2014

They can exert power and manufacturers know this. How is the segmentation used? The naïve Pareto is missing an opportunity to pull more profit from your supply chain. Segmentation has been a popular supply chain topic recently but there is still a big gap between theory and practice.

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Logility

JULY 23, 2014

They can exert power and manufacturers know this. How is the segmentation used? The naïve Pareto is missing an opportunity to pull more profit from your supply chain. Segmentation has been a popular supply chain topic recently but there is still a big gap between theory and practice.

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BlueYonder

JULY 16, 2012

As such, the latest issue offers stories on a cross section of international companies who are impacting real change in their companies through the use of supply chain solutions. Let us know what you think, contact me directly to suggest future stories, or start a conversation by sharing your commentary below.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

Automate Manufacturing to Use Independent Demand. Translate independent demand into a product segmentation strategy. Understand the length of your product tail, and use this insight to design the supply chain segmentation strategy to manage manufacturing processes (outsourced or insourced).

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 20, 2013

ADVA Optical Networking, a Meiningen based manufacturer of telecommunication equipment focusing on fiber-optic transmission technology, is the winner of the Supply Chain Management Award 2013. ADVA Optical Networking is being honored for the end-to-end supply chain solution with which it has secured strategic advantages.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The chemical supply chain continues to faces significant challenges, with more global and complex supply chains, leaner inventories, and rising customer expectations. These chemical manufacturers must improve their supply chain resilience in order to thrive, be successful, and—ultimately—be safe.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

SanDisk began leveraging JDA’s advanced planning solutions in 2006 to create a more responsive supply chain. As part of the project, SanDisk implemented a series of supply chain initiatives including postponement strategy, product delay, supply chain segmentation, allocation management, inventory optimization, and profit optimization.

Modeling 40

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BlueYonder

APRIL 16, 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. In Part II , we saw how seeking inspiration from retailers can help manufacturing companies to embrace customer-centricity.

Sourcing Strategies 40

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Supply Chain Network

JANUARY 26, 2012

As Gartner predicts “Supplier risk will continue to be a major focus, and companies will look to technology for a scalable risk assessment and management solution” (Predicts 2012: Supply Chain Predictions: Talent, Risk and Analytics Dominate: Published: 18 November 2011). Supply Chain “clock speed”.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 20, 2013

That has played a very important part in what is going on now in terms of bringing manufacturing back to parts of the U.S. Blasgen’s thoughts on supply chain segmentation, the changing roles of forecasting and planning, and what is being done about the talent gap. and Chinese labor rates has diminished.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 22, 2013

In part one of our conversation we covered the evolution of supply chain management, how supply chain practices vary around the world, and what has driven the near-shoring trend. SCN: Supply chain segmentation is a hot topic right now. We still need that information.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 17, 2015

When I was asked to organize the Innovation and Thought Leadership track at FOCUS 2015 , I recognized that I would need to assemble some high-impact speakers who would get attendees thinking about the radical changes they need to make in their supply chains.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Industrial Manufacturing. « Use of Predictive Analytics in Supply Chain | Main | Is Agile methodology a good solution for ERP implementations » Adding intelligence in the Forecasting process to support Supply Chain Segmentation. Automotive. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods.

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