Talking Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2016

The Cloud has become the great equalizer in supply chain software thanks to the speed, simplicity and savings it delivers. Just a few years ago sophisticated logistics software was reserved for only the largest and wealthiest companies. The Cloud has taken the traditional software buying process and turned it on its ear.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2016

And it’s hard to find supply chain managers with the moxie to go to their senior leadership and say, “We want to purchase a global TMS, but it’s going to take a couple of years to roll out and a few more after that to realize a return on investment.”. Myth #2 – TMS providers don’t offer a truly global solution.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2022

Michael Baudendistel ( @FWavesRail ), an analyst and Market Expert at FreightWaves, reports, “There were some interesting, if perhaps intuitive, highlights from the latest University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Taking the Digital Path to Purchase. Purchasing Out of Necessity. ”[3]. Stable Consumer Behaviors.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Supply chain technology industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters Founder Bob Ferrari provides added perspectives and highlights to last week’s announced acquisition of Starboard Solutions by Logility. This was not the first acquisition of a promising supply chain network design technology provider. All rights reserved. .

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Jason Miller, Professor of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University, clarifies the difference: “The bullwhip effect is the idea that the variance in orders becomes amplified as you move upstream in the supply chainfrom retailer to wholesaler, wholesaler to manufacturer, and so on.

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Logility

AUGUST 23, 2018

I can’t wait to receive my Michigan State themed shoes – GO GREEN , GO WHITE.). Delivery of ‘make to stock’ products to a home or business is now available within hours of making a purchase. Accurate demand forecasts lay the foundation for an effective supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 3, 2016

Michigan Puts Forward Bills to Allow for Public Sales of Driverless Cars (WSJ- sub. Enspire Commerce Launches Next Generation Point of Sale (POS) Software. Lodeso is the leading final-mile logistics solution provider, specializing in delivery of overweight, oversized and difficult-to-handle goods, including furniture and mattresses.

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Logility

AUGUST 22, 2018

I can’t wait to receive my Michigan State themed shoes — GO GREEN , GO WHITE.). Delivery of “make to stock” products to a home or business is now available within hours of making a purchase. Accurate demand forecasts lay the foundation for an effective supply chain.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Gene Richter is widely known as one of the world’s true procurement gurus, and I was privileged to have known him when he came to speak several times at Michigan State during the 1992-1999 period when I was there. We have designed our Procurement Leadership program with the goal of unpacking this concept as the target.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 26, 2020

Customers don’t want to think about supply chains; they just want great purchasing experiences. ”[1] Trebilcock goes on to note that a 2018 article co-authored by Michigan State’s Steve Melnyk argued, “The next generation of supply chains will be tasked with delivering an experience as well as a product.”

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 13, 2016

Fortunately, supply chain systems have come a long way since many companies last implemented their solutions. There are no longer stores and e-commerce and m-commerce channels—it is all just commerce, with the consumer deciding which path to purchase they will take at any point in time. It is now “connect and conquer.”

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 8, 2016

As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University in 1992, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative. However, “world class” still emphasized distinctions between the functional areas of purchasing, operations, and logistics, which were still viewed as disparate functions.

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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.

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IQMS

MARCH 27, 2020

However, the extensive reliance on ERP solutions to maintain widespread, fundamental business continuity, as we are seeing today, has never been experienced on such a large scale. Modern ERP solutions have even minimized the need to have IT professionals onsite since many of today’s solutions are hosted or managed in the cloud.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Professor Zondag is a professor from supply chain program at Western Michigan University which is ranked one of the best program in the nation. The S&OP process is an effective tool to match the voice of the customer with the voice of the supply chain in an active fashion.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

It’s likely that in the coming months and years, many supply chain leaders will look to automation solutions that help to minimize physical contact and the number of touches required to move products through the supply chain. “Business leaders should also look at how new tools and technologies can provide greater intelligence.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 9, 2016

An excerpt from our book “The Procurement Value Proposition” got a nice section of CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly edition this week. As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative, led by Professor Robert Monczka.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2024

Billion Michigan based Lineage Logistics LLC , which describes itself as “ the world’s largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT ,” reportedly raised $4.4 Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland , PLT provides software designed to manage complex warehouse operations and optimize supply chain efficiencies.

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ivalua

AUGUST 28, 2019

National survey of state procurement officials finds states are moving toward a more modern approach to buying. 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — States are becoming more data-driven and value-focused in their purchasing. Leading states include Michigan, Georgia, Massachusetts, Ohio and New York. WASHINGTON, Aug. e.Republic.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

In the latter half of the 20 th century, it transformed into a Swiss holding company with interests in sea freight, air freight, contract logistics and overland businesses, with a focus on IT-based logistics solutions. XPO Logistics started as Express-1 Expedited Solutions in 1989. Ryder Solutions Inc. Jacobs in 2011.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2020

The third named storm, Cristobal, soaked areas from southeast Louisiana to north Florida and south Georgia, then became only the fourth tropical storm to track into Wisconsin or its adjacent Lake Michigan waters in more than 100 years of records. With these tools, your company will be able to weather the storm!”

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NC State SCRC

MAY 29, 2017

A report by Jeremy Wilson at Michigan State University, which hosts the country’s only Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection , notes that counterfeiting has grown from a $30B trade problem in the 1980s, to $600B in trade. Because the best solution to counterfeiting is to take away the demand.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The origins of the Extended Enterprise went before this period, however, and began with the early work that Steve did while he was a senior purchasing buyer at the Ford Motor Company. (I Later I was rehired and brought back into purchasing. But they didn’t know what to do about it at Ford.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 24, 2019

Our study, funded by the Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies, explored how this is likely just the tip of the iceberg, as counterfeiting is pervading multiple sectors. Professor Wilson of Michigan State University notes that the explosion of counterfeiting is occurring for several reasons.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper. Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. For example, there are around 200 startups for procurement analytics. What do you see coming in tech innovation for supply chain?

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USC Consulting Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

” Wally Hopp of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business goes further. When news organizations reported that store shelves were increasingly bare with this staple product, many consumers responded by purchasing more rolls than they would normally, fearful that they would run out come the time they needed it.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

The problem of supply chain strategy misalignment has always been there for Kmart, ever since the first of its concept stores opened in Garden City, Michigan. Direct purchases from producers or manufacturers, instead of buying through wholesalers (if your company is engaged in retail commerce).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

While FedEx has worked with many mass retailers on this solution in the past, it now offers hassle-free returns for small to midsize businesses. including money for the construction of new assembly plants and battery-making facilities, according to the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit organization based in Michigan.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The modern warehouse is complex, and management must balance a number of factors including software, automation, training and processes such as receiving, picking and inventory management. Take a second look at your most basic organizational tools. His solution? Leverage a robust slotting tool to maximize efficiency.

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

OCTOBER 11, 2018

I spent 30 years at P&G, straight out of The University of Michigan and Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Business. Our future CEO AG Lafley later refocused P&G on that mantra, we had to win at the First Moment of Truth, when a shopper is in the aisle, or on-line making their purchase decision. More on that in a minute.

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EMERGE App

JANUARY 15, 2024

You might be using pencil-and-paper, spreadsheets, or sophisticated inventory management software to do this. Nowadays it refers to inventory management software because computational power is needed to effortlessly calculate, for example, landed costs for purchases and CBM for your packing lists. Time and day.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

We can train our phones to recognize our voices and our photo management software to recognize faces within our images. In 2002, the University of Michigan gave Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin an estimate of 1,000 years for scanning the library’s seven million volumes. Learning will improve with the abundance of data.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 27, 2015

Obviously, a lot of manufacturing equipment buyers wait for the show before committing to purchase and of course a lot of orders are set up to be taken at the show as well! At the trough of the recessions in 2003 and 2009, only $100 million worth of equipment was being purchased. It was, however, slower in and slower out.

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EMERGE App

AUGUST 5, 2018

You might be using pencil-and-paper, spreadsheets or sophisticated inventory management software to do this. Nowadays it refers to inventory management software because computational power is needed to effortlessly calculate, for example, landed costs for purchases and CBM for your packing lists. Customer, supplier or consignee.

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QAD

JUNE 4, 2019

To accelerate the future of the automotive industry, some players have entered into an intense era of collaboration among carmakers, technology giants, software start-ups, research institutions, telecom providers, insurance companies, and others to develop and commercialize the technology, share risk and prepare the market.

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IQMS

MARCH 2, 2020

and MMI Engineered Solutions Inc. The companies, all users of our DELMIAWORKS (formerly IQMS) manufacturing ERP software, were judged by members of the Plastics News editorial staff. Investments in machines, people, and software technology have contributed to the company’s double-digit growth in revenues.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 18, 2022

The Risk of Outdated Forecasting Software. Outdated forecasting software only increases the risks surrounding a disrupted supply chain. There are Five Symptoms of Outdated Forecasting and Inventory Planning Software: Have you diagnosed your problem– and solution–to improved demand planning? Image source: Sturgis Journal.

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