Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Similarly, UPS uses its ORION system, which integrates real-time and historical data to optimize delivery routes, saving fuel and enhancing delivery reliability. Real-time route optimization allows fleets to adapt to dynamic conditions such as traffic and weather, minimizing fuel consumption and delivery delays.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Green Logistics: Optimizing transportation routes, consolidating shipments, and employing energy-efficient vehicles to reduce emissions. Advanced route optimization tools further support these goals. Internet of Things (IoT): IoT devices monitor vehicle performance and energy usage, enabling real-time optimization.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. Why do companies focus on reducing a specific metric?

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

But between rising costs, complex logistics, and the constant struggle to optimize space and labor, staying ahead can feel like an uphill battle. That’s where warehouse optimization comes in. Here’s what you can expect: A clear definition of warehouse optimization and its core components. Ready to get started?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

Supply chain optimization has also improved in significant ways that can address these trade-offs better than before. Analytical techniques like linear programming can create the mathematically “optimal” plan, but these methods must be implemented well to avoid creating other challenges. Supply chain optimization for today’s realities.

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Logility

JULY 30, 2024

Continuous network optimization recognizes that supply chains are complex organisms. Continuous network optimization creates an environment where supply chain planning operates at the next level. World class organizations can sustain living models of their networks and keep them tuned to small, frequent changes.

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Logility

JULY 30, 2024

Continuous network optimization recognizes that supply chains are complex organisms. Continuous network optimization creates an environment where supply chain planning operates at the next level. World class organizations can sustain living models of their networks and keep them tuned to small, frequent changes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. During the pandemic, companies struggled with planning systems turning off the optimizers, and using the technology as a system of record. Steps to Take Here are three steps to take: Adaptive Modeling. Higher variability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

Instead of relying solely on a single, monolithic AI model (based on a massive large language model), a company can orchestrate a team of specialized agents, each leveraging the best AI or mathematical technique for its specific task. We needed to model the data in a way that we can do simple searching.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As companies across industries have discovered, a well-optimized supply chain can drive significant improvements throughout their operations. We’ll examine the key components of efficient supply chains, explore essential performance metrics, and uncover the fundamental drivers that influence efficiency.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 29, 2017

There are supply chain and demand analytics models that describe the type of analytics being deployed (e.g., Now Gartner has created a different look at the issue by creating a five-stage maturity model for assessing the overall maturity level of your organization in using supply chain analytics. descriptive, prescriptive, etc.).

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 22, 2021

In this final blog on agility and why you should consider becoming an agilist to survive the new completion (of the continuous mention) of the application of enterprise decision management systems (EDMS) from Taylor and Raden cited in the first blog, I turn to the metric of agility and a new ROI metric of decision yield. The Takeaway.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 9, 2018

A new report from Nucleus Research, Value Drivers of Single Model S&OP , concludes that the historical disconnect between planning and execution in S&OP is best bridged by a single unified data model that allows companies to continuously synchronize their strategic, tactical and execution plans.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 21, 2025

Today’s most effective forecasting tools incorporate advanced demand sensing capabilities, collaborative features, probabilistic modeling, and comprehensive tracking mechanisms for increased accuracy and accountability. Agent AI is emerging as a game-changing tool for understanding and responding to customer behavior in real-time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing. Tensions flare in the Middle East without warning. billion to $23.07

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A network design model figures out where factories and warehouses should be located. The key solutions are demand forecasting/inventory optimization, supply planning, and network design. Each time horizon usually has its own model associated with it. Supply and network design models are constraint-based models.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

In traditional advanced planning applications (APS) for a manufacturing company, the forecasting model’s role is to generate a time-series forecast in the tactical horizon (outside of lead time). (An In traditional planning taxonomies, the tactical forecast is modeled, and the operational signal is calculated using consumption logic.

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

This means routinely bringing together the C-suite, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, sales and marketing teams so everyone is seeing, working from and agreeing to an aligned plan that achieves optimal business outcomes. The SCOR model contains more than 150 key indicators that measure the performance of supply chain operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

ARC defines supply chain planning (SCP) products as including supply planning, demand planning/inventory optimization, and network planning. Supply Planning Supply planning systems create models that allow a company to understand capacity and other constraints it has in producing goods or fulfilling orders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The world of NoSQL unified data models is inconceivable to most. Software built on graph technology can model flow, but the transactional paradigms of historic practices hold development team’s hostage. The larger the global corporation, the more that the use of functional goals sub-optimizes growth, margin and inventory levels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 21, 2021

What is the Perfect Delivery Metric? Improving on this metric will always involve a focus on people and processes, but often also includes implementing new, more robust, supply chain applications. The wrong metrics drive suboptimal behaviors and metrics can often be manipulated.

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Taulia

DECEMBER 6, 2024

How are companies rethinking their liquidity management strategies in response to the recent degradation across major working capital metrics? In the wake of economic uncertainty, many companies have experienced a degradation in key working capital metrics.

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RFgen

MARCH 10, 2025

This critical aspect of optimization is often overshadowed by flashier supply chain trends. By ensuring optimal stock levels where demand exists, businesses can minimize holding costs, prevent lost sales due to stockouts, and ultimately, keep customers happy. The problem lies in effectively balancing inventory across the supply chain.

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Bristlecone

MARCH 26, 2025

Today, organizations are increasingly empowering teams to harness the potential of AI, big data, and analytics to optimize daily operations and enable data-driven decision-making. interviews) with quantitative metrics (e.g., interviews) with quantitative metrics (e.g., 2 Mixed-Method Rigor : Combine qualitative insights (e.g.,

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Ultimately, what KPIs, as metrics and indicators derived from the set of plans are taken into account and prepared for each scenario. Here, planning solutions with optimization fit very well with this concept. Technology for Effective Planning. The best decision here takes into account the most viable option among all possible options.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The promise was the delivery of a decision support system that would allow the organization to optimize the relationships between cash, cost and customer service against the strategy. It was also the preference of the consulting partners because the projects were longer, more costly and better aligned with the consulting model.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To keep customers like my dad satisfied, RGD and Quick-commerce companies need to invest in new technologies to optimize the supply chain and logistics operations. Inventory Optimization. Inventory Optimization involves decisions about the inventory level, the location, and the mix of products. Route Optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 17, 2022

Their platform provides greater visibility into and control over how companies spend money, optimize supply chains, and manage liquidity. The Rule of 40 was popularized by venture capitalists in recent years as a key performance metric for SaaS firms. on this metric. They report that Coupa is at 58.2% GAAP versus Non-GAAP.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 14, 2024

Pull Logic uses the Product Availability Ratio (PAR) score to optimize inventory management and ensure customers have access to the products they want when they need them. Explore how accurate demand forecasting and inventory optimization ensure the right products are available for customers. Timestamps (00:00:00) Solving the $1.8T

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 23, 2024

Without sufficient data, AI models can’t uncover meaningful patterns, make accurate predictions, or provide valuable insights for informed decision-making in complex and dynamic environments. At the same time, feeding your AI models too much data can also be a problem. Data is the lifeblood of AI in the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The supply chain is a complex non-linear system with many constraints increasing the need for strategic thinking, better modeling, and organizational alignment. Yet, transportation optimization products focus on managing price, not constraints. Let’s start with the COVID impact. There is a need for an overhaul.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

With its ability to derive insights from vast amounts of data and derive insights, generative AI has emerged as a valuable tool to optimize supply chain operations. AI models have grown tenfold, representing a step-change in AI capabilities, creating new use cases across the supply chain. Generative AI is all about scale.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2024

” As I write, I think about the ironies: We talk about the bullwhip, but we do not measure it or use it in driving optimization. We talk about the move from functional metrics to a balanced scorecard, but we don’t use a balanced scorecard as an objective function. My question is “Will the work make a difference?”

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JULY 3, 2024

Using ourA-B-C of Route to Market model, the Catalyst Phase is when we execute or as we sometime call it ‘How to Win’. Internal Perspective: Performance Monitoring: KPIs and Metrics: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor distributor performance. For distributor selection , it is when we engage our chosen distributor.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Can you describe the outside-in model? Based on the work with Georgia Tech, we are getting clear on which metrics matter by industry. As companies adopt a balanced scorecard, the functional metrics shift to a focus on reliability. Based on market conditions, the meat packer will shift to optimize the demand opportunity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

This analysis needed to be completed monthly and fed to newer forms of inventory optimization technologies. The advanced Llamasoft user has a model on a computer tablet (Sherpa product) that enables the visualization of S&OP trade-offs within the S&OP meeting. Mergers and Acquisitions and the Management of Global Operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

This is because most classical planning solutions lack the modeling capability and computing power to accommodate different data sources, large SKU count, and detailed constraints and contingencies to build an immediately executable plan. each with discrete plans generated typically in sequential batch runs.

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