Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

One day, a product is flying off the shelves, and the next, it’s gathering dust. That’s why staying on top of the latest supply chain planning trends is so important – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. ” Let’s set the stage. Focus on Cost. A Decline in Innovation. Less Collaborative. His response? “Huh?

Procurement Analytics 221

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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

The power of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) comes in helping companies align financial, sales, production, procurement and marketing information into a single plan, grounded in modern-day reality. What is needed is a single, integrated planning solution that unites short-, medium-, and long-term planning under one system.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a continuous business process that enables firms from hospitals to chemicals to respond to emerging situations intelligently. Our focus today is to discuss the relevance of buzz words such as Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning, for S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Company focused primarily on retail planning and wanted to extend its capabilities into a consumer products manufacturing solutions offering. Let’s start with the basics. A retailer’s forecast is usually in weeks, while a manufacturer’s forecast is typically a time-phased monthly forecast.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ABC analysis creates product segments by grouping products with similar sales volume or purchase frequency to enable category managers to focus on what matters most. Price index and price elasticity are useful metrics on their own, and a combination of these can help determine the right price point to maximize revenue and profit.

Optimal Sourcing 214

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Based on the regional forecasts (even though there was always a consistent under-bias), Lucas delayed the purchase of new equipment.

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QAD

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Corporate purchasing leaders must not only manage transactional data effectively but also use this data from stakeholders across the organization to create a more collaborative environment that creates trust and benefits to both customers and suppliers. What is the solution? Start with the basics.

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Logility

JANUARY 4, 2022

The partnership enables Logility customers to layer in Planalytics’ predictive demand metrics to better understand impacts across their customer base and proactively capitalize on sales opportunities created by favorable weather while mitigating risks when demand is negatively impacted. “We ATLANTA – Jan. 4, 2022 – Logility, Inc.,

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. The news from SAP Insider is a continued drumbeat on the HANA rewrite of SAP’s supply chain applications. Selling licenses does not translate into implemented software.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. Here are nine considerations: #1 S&OP Budget Constraints. Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a horizontal process to drive organizational plan alignment. The Role of the Budget in S&OP.

Supply Chain Design Software 189

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I have read your report on S&OP technologies, and I have some questions.” His company made parts for the mining industry, and he was leading an S&OP process. 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.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 6, 2024

They oversee multiple 3PLs, carriers, and other service providers, offering a comprehensive, end-to-end supply chain solution. 5 S (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) A workplace organization method originating from Japan. Each ‘S’ represents a step in the process. Not that common.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Ensure that, somewhere along the way, data diagnostic tools will be used to check for missing and inconsistent data automatically. . Accurate and timely reconciliation of purchase orders with receipts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While we might go and get the best of the solutions out there to meet today’s challenges and leverage today’s technology, that’s not going to come with a lifetime guarantee that it will meet all our needs in the years ahead. The system can now automatically receive all approved Purchase Orders so receipts can be reconciled against orders.

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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.

Supply Chain Design Software 268

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ToolsGroup

JULY 10, 2018

It often employs statistical metrics like MAPE (mean average percentage error), which has hit a wall in recent years due to increased demand volatility and this approach's mostly backward-facing nature. Demand Planning often supports sales and operations planning (S&OP) initiatives. Demand Planning. Demand Sensing.

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Cathy Roberson

APRIL 6, 2022

Despite the number of visibility tools available on the market today, “lack of visibility” continues to be a common complaint in the supply chain market. Are today’s visibility tools missing something? What's missing, if anything, from visibility tools?” But what exactly is visibility?

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ShipBob

JANUARY 28, 2022

That’s why it’s crucial to track inventory management KPIs consistently. . In this article, we break down what inventory KPIs entail, why they matter, and which metrics are most valuable for you to track. . Not sure what those metrics are? To lower these costs, opt for a fair inventory storage solution.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

While MRP and S&OP were defined as early as the 1980s, these provided rough cut analysis at the aggregate level, nowhere near the level of detail that is possible today. The key point is that I have spent a lot of my working life focused on the value generated by more advanced planning solutions. Their words.

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crisp

JANUARY 24, 2024

Discover how Walmart’s Luminate Charter plan is revolutionizing retail data analytics with these five essential reports for suppliers. Imagine having a panoramic view of your product’s journey across all sales channels, understanding intricate customer purchase patterns, and the precise flow of inventory to every store.

Procurement Analytics 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In Figure 1, I show results from a recent S&OP study. S&OP Challenges. Jackie kept a lookout perched on puff’s gigantic tail. As you read the financial analyst’s views of the industry summon your inner dragon: Clearly, the whole space has moved along very rapidly in recent years.

Analytics Software 246

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“We could not manage our business with that tool,” Mr. Stephens realized. Ipsen purchased the RapidResponse supply chain planning product from Kinaxis. Ipsen purchased the RapidResponse supply chain planning product from Kinaxis. The solution also promotes collaboration. Ipsen also need to reduce their lead times.

Customer Service 208

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Let’s look at the basics: what slotting is, scenarios where it may prove useful, the key benefits of slotting and then some tips from decades of experience in the industry. It’s the same reason you place your umbrella close to your front door at home, so it’s easy to pick it up and run when it’s raining and you’re late for work.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 1, 2018

Employing machine-learning based forecasting tools, retailers can predict potential sales at the front-end of the assortment planning process. Retailers have relied on an “Open-to-Buy” budget as a way to both control spend and determine what inventory to purchase. The analogy is pruning a garden.

Inventory Reduction 189

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 2, 2023

At ThroughPut , we have been working towards creating perceptive supply chain solutions that can help tide through these uncertainties with AI-driven proactive intelligence. Accurate capacity planning optimization and utilization analysis are now undeniably the most essential tools for a transparent end-to-end supply chain.

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ShipBob

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It involves assessing how the overall supply chain performed, analyzing metrics, and how well you managed exceptions. As a result of this improved forecasting precision, you can plan your procurement more accurately. Analysis The analysis phase is where you look back at your supply chain process and evaluate its effectiveness.

Forecasting 52

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, as the founder and managing partner of USM Supply Chain Consultants she has put her expertise in supply chain, procurement, finance and project management to work to help her clients achieve greater profitability. And even at that time he was doing something completely new: he was running simulations using software applications.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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Logility

JUNE 28, 2017

Too many companies still rely on spreadsheets and basic ERP forecasting solutions both of which provide inadequate planning capabilities. Realistic constraint-based schedules and capacity-planning tools can help reduce manufacturing planning time by as much as 75%. Optimal Multi-Plant Scheduling. it is often targeted for reduction.

Chemicals 100

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ToolsGroup

JULY 10, 2018

It often employs statistical metrics like MAPE (mean average percentage error), which has hit a wall in recent years due to increased demand volatility and this approach's mostly backward-facing nature. Demand Planning often supports sales and operations planning (S&OP) initiatives. Demand Planning. Demand Sensing.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 20, 2018

To spur trade and create wealth, explorers have plied the world’s oceans and have traversed the globe’s landmasses. “Most customer journeys are hindered by manual processes and legacy systems, but new tools are arriving to help. ” Building software more quickly. That’s where AI comes in.

Analytics Software 113

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 18, 2021

1] Because IoT solutions affect every stage of supply chain operations, all supply chain professionals need to be better informed, not just manufacturing professionals. 2] Experts have identified a number of potential benefits supply chain organizations can hope to achieve by implementing IoT solutions. Demand Sensing. ”[5].

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Unleashed

JANUARY 10, 2023

In short, supply chain planning is about making sure you’re maximising efficiency through every phase of a product’s lifecycle. That’s why you need to ensure you’ve got systems in place to collect key data relating to purchasing, logistics, inventory, and sales.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. I sometimes wonder if I should create a new class of technologies for the network design tools because they have changed so much.) I would not stop with the physical design.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

As shown in Figure 1, users are more satisfied, the implementations are shorter and there is greater Return on Investment of solutions from Best-of-Breed solution providers—especially if the best-of-breed solution providers used are industry-specific. I struggle to find both in today’s market. Five Lessons to Learn.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The first company, Nestlé, the world’s largest food company and an Enterra Solutions ® client, announced last December it plans to invest $3.6 It also is increasing the number of ‘carbon neutral’ brands it offers as consumers increasingly value this attribute when they purchase a product.”[6].

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