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

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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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Supply chain efficiency is the cornerstone of success and involves the effective management of processes, resources, and technologies from procurement to production, transportation to warehousing. As companies across industries have discovered, a well-optimized supply chain can drive significant improvements throughout their operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Procurement and Supply Chain Management are essential functions that can help companies navigate these challenges, but they are often siloed and operate in separate departments. Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Why Your Procurement Strategy is More Critical Now Than Ever Before In an era of global supply chain disruptions, a robust procurement strategy is no longer optionalits essential. The right procurement strategy ensures that organizations: Mitigate risks before they escalate. Want to future-proof your procurement function?

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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

JULY 13, 2023

How wrong and how biased depends on the inputs and the refinement of the model. The problem is helping models sort through inaccuracy and bias. The general AI models like ChatGPT are the buzz, but the greatest lift for the supply chain is happening in the world of narrow AI driven by deep learning. Relationship Management.

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Logility

APRIL 28, 2025

But what seems like a simple case requires multiple agents and AI tools interpreting a disruption, assessing impact, optimizing multiple alternative scenarios, selecting the best, communicating rerouting instructions, updating customers, and so on. The true breakthrough lies in whats next: multi-agent orchestration.

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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.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

Supply chain management typically does not fit very well with procurement, which is a challenge at the best of times, and can be a disaster in difficult times. The success of this globalized model rested on three assumptions, the first of which was that governments would act in a rational manner to ensure frictionless trade.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Conversely, a student who quickly grasps procurement strategies can be challenged with advanced case studies and leadership projects. MTSS platforms facilitate hands-on projects where learners can apply statistical methods to identify trends, forecast demand, and optimize inventory levels.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

Closing the gaps happens when there are aligned metrics, clarity of vision and aligned planning processes. This includes optimization and discrete event simulation. Metrics Alignment. Most companies operate well within functions, but struggle to build strong horizontal processes. They lack cohesion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

Instead using the discipline of the flow modeling as mentioned in #1 above, S&OP should incorporate: Identification and testing of specific points of failure, quantified impacts on the supply chain from these failures, and mitigation of the same. Traditional inventory optimization implementations often assume fixed network and flows.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Supply Chains Supply chains encompass many interconnected activities, from procurement, production, and inventory management, to logistics and distribution. AI models have grown tenfold, representing a step-change in AI capabilities, creating new use cases across the supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Supply chain executives must evolve from cost and service as the key objectives for optimal demand-supply balancing towards the “quadfecta” of cost, service, resiliency, and sustainability. Metrics such as lead-times, forecast accuracy, inventory levels, and service are used to measure operational risks. are most exposed to risk?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. Through the use of a NoSQL unified data model, the company is able to now move data within 15-minute increments improving the data flow for inventory availability to improve allocation and ATP processing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Customer Satisfaction scores side by side with the service level and availability metrics. Modeling the impact of weather events. Modeling impact of promotions and campaigns.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

Since a single warehouse worker represents $50,000 in annual costs — and talent is extremely scarce — it makes sense to optimize the accuracy and efficiency of every task. Delivered in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, warehouse tasking solutions gather real-time, 24/7 operations data, flag issues and generate an autonomous response.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Financial reengineering focuses on the optimization of short-term results that are usually based on a functional analysis of source, make, or deliver. Snow fell last night as I worked on my last Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric. Reflections. Tonight I am in Frankfurt.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As the state of the trucking market evolves and innovations improve , OTR freight management technologies and logistics service providers offer transportation management optimization to help businesses avoid significant supply chain disruption. Download the White Paper: Over the Road Freight Management Trends.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Supply chain network and transportation optimization can help make better sourcing and multi-stop route decisions that ultimately result in route design that balances low costs with higher service. In 2010, Walmart announced its goal to eliminate 20 million metric tons of GHG emissions from its global supply chain by the end of 2015.

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Precoro

MARCH 27, 2025

According to McKinsey & Company, procurement accounts for 50% to 80% of a company’s cost base. That’s why organizations zero in on strategies to achieve procurement cost reduction.    The key thing to remember is that cost reduction in procurement isn’t just about slashing expenses.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

As I wrote earlier this year in Is Your Business Model Safe? , Ralf Kahre and Patrick Gött began their presentation with an overview of BASF’s Business Process Management (BPM) Operating Model, and then discussed how they applied the model to improve the Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

With the digitization of the source-to-pay process being a key initiative for many chief procurement officers, to the inherent automation which promises to accelerate innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), digitization is growing. However, it is fundamental to empowering procurement success in the modern age.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The model in Figure 1 became the foundational model for the Gartner S&OP model. Forty interviews and two quantitative studies helped me build the model in my mind. Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008. Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The data is all anonymous, but retailers can look at metrics such as time to fulfill, pack time, conversions, and ship versus pick-up, to name a few, across hundreds of Active Omni customers. Manhattan also spoke about returns, as they use their routing optimization engine for returns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Eight years ago, we started with a focus on Total Delivered Cost (TDC) and elevating our cost savings program performance, as well as eliminating sub-optimized cost efforts that might have helped in one specific area, but hurt our overall performance.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Supply chains are central to optimal eCommerce results. Needless to say, any issues in these intricate processes and lack of Supply Chain optimization leads to customer dissatisfaction and a poor reputation. In short, if building a robust eCommerce business is your goal, you must optimize your supply chain. Operational Planning.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Enhance Inventory Management A combined CRM-Shopify platform provides past sales data, allowing procurement teams to make informed purchasing decisions. Check out SCMDOJO’s Inventory Optimization Tool , and enhance your inventory management capabilities!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

The metrics reward functional thinking. The focus of APICS is manufacturing, CSCMP’s foundation is in logistics, and ISM serves the procurement organization. In our research, the network design maturity model shown in Table 1 is helpful to many of our clients. Network Design Maturity Model. New Business Models.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

The evolving framework is centered on a unifying data model based on the flow of sense, design, plan, orchestrate, learn, and adapt. The focus needs to move from functional metrics to balanced scorecard outcomes. Functional metrics insulate organizations and throw the supply chain out of balance. Variability.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Art of Supplier Collaboration: Best Practices to Build Lasting Partnerships Dynamic market changes and global events seem to create newer demands and greater pressure on procurement professionals. Find out more about the different models of holistic supplier management.

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Logility

APRIL 13, 2021

It has overcome an early identity crisis and proved itself as a powerful enterprise planning tool , helping companies meld financial, sales, production, procurement and marketing information into a single plan, grounded in reality. Integrated business planning is a new level of visualizing, evaluating and optimizing your supply chain.

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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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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

Being a glass half full kind of person, there is a giant opportunity ahead to improve and optimize. BSW built up a leading supply chain function and established a self-distribution model, all of which helped to improve overall margins. Establish a more advanced self-distribution model. Share on Twitter. Big Opportunity Ahead.

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QAD

APRIL 8, 2025

Optimized Supplier Selection Evaluate alternative suppliers based on performance metrics, transportation costs, and lead times. Make informed procurement decisions to maintain cost-effectiveness. Heres how: Scenario Planning for Cost Variability Simulate multiple tariff scenarios to analyze cost fluctuations.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In the absence of communication, even the best suppliers can only deliver marginal value at best. For optimal effectiveness, supplier selection, contract management , and supplier development must be supported by consistent, streamlined, and transparent collaboration. Collaboration brings visibility and agility for gaining market share.

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