Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Blog » Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium June 26, 2023 | | Thought Leadership by Eloise Barnum As businesses navigate through supply chain disruptions, high inflation, and sustainability initiatives, procurement, and supplier management has taken center stage in driving change.

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

But before you start measuring everything in sight – and a few things not in sight – start with a set of thoughtful intentions and questions that will guide you to the right set of metrics and the right set of expectations. Cash-Cash Cycle Time; Return on SC Fixed Assets; Return on Working Capital ASCM SCOR Metrics, Supply Chain Council.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 14, 2021

According to the UN Environment Program’s Food Waste Index, 923 million metric tons of food is wasted globally every year. Source: [link]. Therefore, the most impactful solution in working towards international sustainability efforts would be to avoid generating food waste and loss. Enable Sustainability with DELMIA.

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ivalua

JULY 15, 2021

With this mounting pressure to commit to Net Zero and CPOs goals and incorporate sustainability metrics into all aspects of procurement decisions and processes, businesses are looking to elevate ESG strategies with a mind for climate change, ethical social practices and stronger governance models.

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Logility

APRIL 13, 2022

The goal isn’t to simply survive from one to the next, but to create a durable, resilient ecosystem that can thrive in the short term and sustain itself in the long term. . Forbes calls sustainability “the challenge of the 2020s,” and warns that “there’s a gap between sustainable mission statements and the ability to carry them out.”

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Logility

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A plan for achieving truly sustainable supply chain management — from the capabilities you’ll need, to the policies you should put in place, to the systems that will help you achieve it. . Here are 10 steps towards sustainability to guide your efforts: 1. Construct the business case for a sustainable supply chain.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2024

And, in recent times, this has made the critical notion of sustainability an equally vast challenge. Carlsberg’s sustainability efforts are marked by significant advancements, including achieving net zero emissions in several of its breweries and aiming to fully transition to renewable energy across all its facilities by 2040.

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QAD

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sustainable manufacturing refers to the ability to manage manufacturing operations “in an environmentally and socially responsible manner,” according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In their 2020 sustainability report, Whirlpool announced record low levels of energy and water intensity in their plants.

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Unleashed

MARCH 9, 2021

In simple terms business procurement is the process of locating and acquiring goods and services from external sources for the business to use. Procurement activities include planning, sourcing, and negotiation, along with risk management, legal and value analysis. What is procurement? Undamaged shipment rate.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Creating more sustainable logistics is even more important for the trucking industry. Sustainable Logistics | Quantifying Sustainability Measures of Your Logistics. There’s an alarming paradox in the world of consumer packaged goods sustainability. communities that receive their goods exclusively by truck. Root cause.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How are global business leaders looking to warranty business continuity, growth and profitability by embedding effective and enduring sustainable practices in supply chain design, operations and performance management? That is what the State of Supply Chain Sustainability report has looked at for the last three years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2024

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. The populist narrative of sourcing globalization is only part of the story. We speak of waste reduction and sustainability through a supply centric lens. Let me explain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Thus, organizations must make sure that data are complete, accurate, timely, and consistent as well as capture the required metrics. Understanding the data, metrics and benchmarks can help the organization collaborate with suppliers to set meaningful, actionable and quantifiable goals.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 20, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights a revealing survey published this week regarding viewpoints relative to business sustainability and ESG actions which reflect both a call to action and a perspective of advanced technology enablement. . Background. Announced Survey Findings. This study, sponsored by Savanta, Inc.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

Let’s look at the three megatrends shaping supply chain innovation in 2022 and beyond – resilience, through technical capability and consistency; optimisation of the omnichannel experience; and sustainability with a focus on Scope 3 emissions. Sustainability and Scope 3 emissions are essential. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The responsibility of sustainability is no longer limited to the individual, but it extends to corporations, industries and even governments. The Group’s sustainability policy is based on three pillars: Acting for People, Acting for Planet and Acting for Responsible Trade. We are committed to preparing the supply chains of the future.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The most interesting thing that Blue Yonder is doing from an OMS standpoint is driving promising and pre-sourcing to retailers. 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.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Supply chain data can be challenging to manage due to its unstructured or semi-structured nature and the need to integrate new data sources. To ensure successful integration, they should create a plan with timelines, resources, and evaluation metrics (refer Figure 2).

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Logility

MARCH 10, 2022

And throughout their discussion it became clear that the drive toward more sustainable operations can play a critical role in their overall transformation as resilient businesses. It’s Time to Think About Sustainability Differently. While the concept of sustainability is not new, its role in the future of retail is.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 25, 2019

Without baseline metrics on what you want to improve on and why, how can you be confident your strategy is working? And because machine learning systems get smarter over time, having a consistent method of measurement is even more important to ensure you can accurately track how outcomes and ROI are improving against established metrics.

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Logility

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When it comes to supply chain sustainability, responsible organizations don’t just talk – they act by creating a governance structure. Governance for the sustainable supply chain takes collaboration, formalization, and additional mechanisms. This approach means far better collaboration on results than when rules are simply imposed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This orientation is fundamental in determining what KPIs the company values, as many of them are far different from metrics managed by manufacturers relying on traditional views of success.”. In fact, their digital champions began by aggressively expanding their sources of wisdom beyond their historic and current resources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Jim Andrew, Chief Sustainability Officer at PepsiCo. On November 4 th , I interviewed Jim Andrew, the Chief Sustainability Officer at PepsiCo, about their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) program. Because of the food giant’s size, their sustainability strategy also is very broad. PepsiCo’s Internal Supply Chain.

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Logility

JULY 9, 2021

This is a big question executives have been faced with over the last year as resilience and sustainability have become increasingly important. Product direction is always a critical metric that businesses use to determine the longevity of their investment in the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 26, 2020

Recent studies have shown that transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Department of Energy calculated that CO2 emissions from transportation surpassed two billion metric tons ; it’s hard to imagine what that number looks like today. In 2007, the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning. billion a year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Supply chain resiliency and sustainability are top priorities for CEOs today. 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. This is where AI can make all the difference.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2013

To understand supply chain excellence, Abby and I have been studying pattern recognition for industry peer groups at the intersection of the metrics in the Supply Chain Effective Frontier of growth, profitability, cycles and complexity. They will be digitally shared through Amazon, iTunes and other sources.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

The company is also stopping production in Ecuador, Venezuela, Belarus and Pakistan by April 2014 (these countries scored low in a World Bank report that assessed countries on accountability, corruption, violence, and other metrics). The group plans to publish the results of the talks in May.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 19, 2024

ESG reports can help investors make informed business decisions by identifying companies with less financial risk and avoiding those that may be impacted by stricter ESG metrics. This suggests a narrative shift is needed, framing ESG not as a financial burden but as an untapped source of value creation and market differentiation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Source: Descartes Datamyne. Theme 4: Sustainability will become an opportunity, not a challenge for supply chains. Nailed it: Sustainability in supply chains has been evolving for quite awhile but, until recently, there has not been that much scrutiny from consumers, especially in terms of delivery. Figure 1: U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services. Optimize sourcing: Focus on optimizing sourcing spend across all categories of products. This approach results in inefficiencies, higher costs, and missed opportunities.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 17, 2024

Sustainability: From Buzzword to Business Imperative Sustainability has evolved beyond being a mere buzzword to become a fundamental business imperative across industries. This includes enhancing supply chain transparency using technologies like AI to track and verify sustainability metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Supply chains must be connected and collaborative so all links can align to business strategy and oriented toward a common set of the most important metrics (and not functional metrics that drive siloed behavior). But to operate at the board level we need to be able to speak the CFO’s language. Spike up to protect against attack.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). However, localized sourcing shortened leadtimes and improve responsiveness.

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Proxima

MAY 15, 2020

Out of 502 participants from business owners to Directors, 86% said that they currently use sustainability as a metric to help shape decision making within their business. The emerging truth was that sustainability was finding its way into corporate purpose. The future is still sustainable. Well, now we have one.

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