Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Direct Procurement : Milk is collected directly from farmers at the village level. Amul has also implemented a Geographical Information System (GIS) at both ends of the supply chain (milk procurement and marketing). This empowers them to have a stake in the business and share profits. through net-enabled kiosks in the villages.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. This week, Llamasoft, a network design, and optimization technology provider became a Coupa business. Coupa is well funded and performed well in the indirect procurement software market. The supply chain career is new.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Lack of adequate risk data and the non-strategic positioning of supply chain design within the organization has been a key inhibitor to success. AI Assistants can also help make managing the process of supply chain design easier. This is where AI can make all the difference. What is the cost impact of making changes?

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SCMDOJO

MAY 7, 2024

Structural Visibility: Unveiling the Foundation of Supply Chains Structural visibility refers to the ability to gain insights into the foundational elements of the supply chain network. This visibility enables organizations to optimize their supply chain network, manage suppliers effectively, and ensure compliance with regulations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 26, 2023

Primed for transactional efficiency, these legacy architectures based on relational databases drive order-to-cash and procure-to-pay efficiencies. Or a unified data model across source, make, and deliver for planning? The greatest value in the network is making effective trade-offs between source, make, and deliver.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Especially grievous are the gaps between finance and operations, manufacturing and procurement, and the operations and commercial teams. Each requires design and fine tuning. However, only 9% of companies actively design their supply chains. Build Strong Supply Chain Sourcing Development Practices. We are to blame.”

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Maine Pointe

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Strengthen your supply chain with ally-sourcing. Partner with like-minded regions, manage risks, and boost long-term benefits

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 28, 2024

Empowering Women in Supply Chain: Meet SCMDOJO’s Experts Shimon Gowda: Based in the USA, Shimon is an experienced Supply Chain Professional with core expertise as a consultant in Supply Chain Network Design. Maryna has: 5 years of experience in procurement training and consulting. She holds a degree of MBA and MCIPS.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 11, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides an update on Logility’s previously announced acquisition of a start-up supply chain network design provider, and how this form of technology has become increasingly important to supply chain management teams. . Evolution of Supply Chain Network Design Technology. Background.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Especially grievous are the gaps between finance and operations, manufacturing and procurement, and the operations and commercial teams. Each requires design and fine tuning. However, only 9% of companies actively design their supply chains. Build Strong Supply Chain Sourcing Development Practices. We are to blame.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Especially grievous are the gaps between finance and operations, manufacturing and procurement, and the operations and commercial teams. Each requires design and fine tuning. However, only 9% of companies actively design their supply chains. Build Strong Supply Chain Sourcing Development Practices. We are to blame.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

In my work on the Supply Chain Index , I see that companies I recognize as doing network design well are rising faster on the list of the Supply Chain Index work. The network design technologies have changed a lot in the last decade. (I These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Supply Chain Network Design Along with the design of supply chain strategy, the design of the supply chain itself, especially the part dealing with outbound distribution from plants or warehouses, is instrumental in the success or failure of businesses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A company can plan for this variability in a variety of ways – sourcing from multiple vendors for a given part , or network design to create a network with more decoupling points (more paths for a product to flow to market), or purchasing just-in-case capacity. All these things add costs to products. “We

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 2, 2023

In this special edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech , we highlight for readers a workforce reduction underway at procurement technology provider Coupa Software. Business procurement spend management support technology software provider Coupa Software initiated this week a corporate wide headcount reduction.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

While the company’s investments in manufacturing scheduling and demand sensing improved outcomes, the organization under-invested indirect procurement and network design. Supply chain excellence was largely defined as manufacturing excellence. Shown in Figure 2, we track the results for the period from 2006-to 2021.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The advancements in analytics–open-source, cloud, internet-of-things (IOT), and cognitive computing–are very promising. Network Design Analysis. Supply chain excellence starts with design. The design of transportation and supplier networks. Maturity in Analytics. Buffer strategies.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

In our most recent Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech column , we highlighted the announcement from supply chain technology provider Logility , a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software , regarding this provider’s completion of the acquisition of supply chain network design technology provider Starboard Solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Mr. Frasquet is the executive director of corporate procurement, although his responsibilities include a much broader set of supply chain responsibilities than just sourcing. Mr. Rodríguez is the operations strategic planning manager and he leads a team focused on the company’s supply chain design.

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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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

On Wednesday morning, when I finished speaking at the Foundation for Strategic Sourcing in Fort Lauderdale, an executive from J&J pulled me aside and said, “Our strengths, are now our vulnerabilities.” Strategy to Network Design. A strong center of excellence tied to network design is essential.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 21, 2023

These insights guide businesses in forming high-performing procurement teams, thereby fostering a seamless and efficient supply chain network. Moreover, his content delves beyond procurement, unraveling the core competencies and skills essential for triumphant supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

In the traditional supply chain world, the processes of sell, deliver, make, source, and plan are separate and distinct. The focus of APICS is manufacturing, CSCMP’s foundation is in logistics, and ISM serves the procurement organization. Network Design Maturity Model. The metrics reward functional thinking.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) We source this data from Y charts. When companies reward OEE in manufacturing and POV in procurement, companies will systemically make the wrong stuff. The process mistakes include: Mistake #1. Measurement.

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Procurement solutions for contracts and commerce automation. Sourcing, e-auction and supply chain collaboration rollouts. SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK DESIGN. Recent highlights include: Go-lives across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. New client engagements in life sciences, hi-tech and manufacturing. Watch Video.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Supply Chain Design. Ad hoc design planning often focused on a function of the supply chain. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Procurement. Manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 30, 2022

Federal Emergency Management Center (FEMA) focusing on vulnerabilities of health care and pharmaceutical supply networks supporting U.S. Conference Highlights. consumption needs in emergency conditions.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2024

Supply chain network design software provider Optilogic has announced that it has acquired Insight , a software provider with a history of more than 40 years in the supply chain network design space. .” No financial data was disclosed regarding the acquisition. Optilogic Acquisition of Insight Inc.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 14, 2020

Are those designing your launch vehicle (network design, factory planning) communicating directly with flight planners (transportation planning) on projected transportation time and cost impacts of various network layout and materials sourcing options? Planning as a Way of Life.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Supply Chain Network Design. Along with the design of supply chain strategy, the design of the supply chain itself, especially the part dealing with outbound distribution from plants or warehouses, is instrumental in the success or failure of businesses. . SEE ALSO: Supply Chain Strategy Development. .

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 17, 2020

Are those designing your launch vehicle (network design, factory planning) communicating directly with flight planners (transportation planning) on projected transportation time and cost impacts of various network layout and materials sourcing options? Planning as a Way of Life.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

Other forms of decision support include revenue management, trade promotion management, cost-to-serve, and network design. Most of the optimization focus in the traditional software solution focuses within a function of source, make or deliver. Procurement and transportation operated as islands.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 17, 2020

Are those designing your launch vehicle (network design, factory planning) communicating directly with flight planners (transportation planning) on projected transportation time and cost impacts of various network layout and materials sourcing options? Planning as a Way of Life.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

The rising complexity of items sold decreases the organization’s ability to forecast, and the longer lead times across multiple tiers of sourcing and supply, increases the bullwhip impact (distortion of the demand signal across multiple tiers of the value network). This increases risk. Figure 1: Bullwhip Impact.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2018

There are natural processes that require tactical horizon for procurement buying and transportation sourcing, and Sales and Operations Planning. The best companies are great at strategic network design and translate this to a global planning team that sets the network for a longer period of 12 weeks to 18/24 months.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 2, 2019

He was hired as a purchasing agent and was directed to obtain some procurement training at a local certificate mill.[1] “The logistics function has evolved to what it is today,” he writes, “because most current sourcing practices do not result in optimizing supply and demand.” What products are sourced?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 25, 2019

Here at Supply Chain Game Changer our fundamental mission has been to share experiences and expertise in the areas of Supply Chain, Logistics, Distribution, Procurement, Business, Human Resources and more. Hey Procurement! Procurement is a critically important function in virtually every company. Hey Procurement!

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