Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks.

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RFgen

APRIL 3, 2025

Introduction Today’s supply chain presents significant complexity and operates at an accelerated pace. Businesses increasingly encounter challenges in maintaining visibility and operational efficiency, especially as disruptionsfrom supply shortages to unexpected demand surgesbecome more frequent occurrences.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year, a recurring theme that I saw was about using supply chain data to improve the customer experience across the entire value chain. Here are the ones that stood out to me, especially as it relates to supply chain data. This new dashboard gives retailers a lot of supply chain data to see where they stand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

” Here is an excerpt from the article: “…it isn’t by becoming more efficient that the supply chains of Wal-Mart, Dell, and Amazon have given those companies an edge over their competitors. According to my research, top-performing supply chains possess three very different qualities. The gap was large.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2021

Over the year, COVID-19 introduced even greater complexity into the already difficult work of supply chain planning–and changed supply chain from a practitioner-focused topic to everyday dinner table conversation. Digital supply chain transformation will accelerate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The supply chain space is heavily laden with acronyms, gobbledygook, false narratives, and over-hyped, fast-talking technology sales teams. “At the Digital Supply Chain event at SAP. ” When I asked the question, I got an answer from LinkedIn that the research focused on digital maturity with SAP.

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Logility

APRIL 27, 2021

Running a complex, global enterprise from one large suite of seamlessly integrated applications is a powerful vision, and SAP has done well to implement this vision. It’s important to know the dangers behind SCM-to-SAP integration, and how to avoid them. SAP ERP-to-SAP SCM Standard Integration.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

SAP IBP is a powerful tool that brings together all the elements of large organizations, including supply chain management, sales, finance, and operations, into one integrated platform. However, while SAP IBP is an excellent solution, its demand planning component has been underserved.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Last week was the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. 110 supply chain leaders attended. In preparation for the summit, we readied the final report of the work on translating balance sheet results into a methodology to judge Supply Chain Excellence. Supply Chain Design. ” Yes, I said.

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Taulia

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

­Driving decarbonization with technology In 2023, the SAP CPO Think Tank community has been closely examining how companies can accelerate supply chain decarbonization. The emissions that occur within a company’s supply chain – known as Scope 3 emissions – can represent as much as 90% of the company’s total emissions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

. <Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. Let’s face a hard fact: the supply chain planning market is a mess. Should I migrate to SAP IBP? The genesis for this post stems from frustration.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2024

My takeaway is a serious concern by attendees on the impact of SAP RISE on global supply chains. Definition: “The RISE with SAP offering includes an AI-powered cloud ERP that’s managed and optimized by SAP. SAP is the maestro of charging customers for software upgrades. It was painful.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Source: Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. Procter & Gamble (P&G) is known for best-in-class supply chain planning. Equally it poses huge supply chain planning challenges. P&G’s existing planning system, designed for its main supply chain, couldn’t support GDM’s complexity.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 11, 2019

Nowadays everyone’s writing and speaking about supply chain complexity , but not many are talking about how to turn around all that complexity and variability for business advantage. The company’s tremendous growth resulted in a very complex supply chain network that was no longer running optimally. million SKU-Markets).

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The supply chain is knotted. Yesterday, @DamarqueViews asked me a question on twitter: “What do you think are the greatest barriers in the adoption of social technology in the supply chain?” I find the evolution of social technologies, and the promise of social, exciting for the supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars has been on a journey to transform their digital supply chain. In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. Mars’s Digital Transformation Mr. Beery started by asking, “what does a digital supply chain mean for us?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We have this today in most supply chain planning solutions. My focus in this post is on the graph and GenAI. ” Same for SAP HANA. My Point of View (POV) is that the best use case for SAP HANA is the in-memory capabilities for repetitive work. Many supply chain leaders are action-oriented and want to drive action.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

Supply chain disruption is a fact of life for every company that moves any type of product. There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. A resilient supply chain may be stretched to the max, but it doesn’t break. Trade disputes and tariffs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Companies implementing supply chain planning (SCP) have traditionally been very big companies or companies with complex supply chains. Supply chain planning is not just for the big boys. In September of 2020, the company hired Jeff Baker to be their Vice President of Procurement and Integrated Supply Chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2021

Whereas many of their competitors’ source from wholesalers like McLane or Core-Mark, Casey’s supplies their stores with groceries, food, health and beauty aids, and general merchandise from the distribution centers (DCs). It gives them more control over their supply chain. Williams explained.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Supply chains are the backbone of global trade that ensure the smooth movement of goods and materials across industries. One of the most effective strategies for building resilience is integrating project management into supply chain operations. A well-managed supply chain does not just survive crises it thrives in them.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

If this challenging past year has taught us one thing, it is the value of connections–not only in our lives, but in supply chains. Indeed, when customers contact us for planning support through our COVID-19 Action Center, they are usually grappling with similar supply chain disruptions–or disconnections. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One of the ideas at the heart of the discipline of supply chain management is the importance of collaboration. I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. The profession has not yet managed to integrate product development into core decisions in a meaningful way.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 6, 2017

Source: 2017 Gartner Supply Chain Technology User Wants and Needs Study, Dwight Klappich. The annual Gartner Supply Chain Technology User Wants and Needs Study, now its tenth year, is one of this industry's most comprehensive studies of supply chain users. Where are leading companies focusing?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2023

When the design is a supply chain-centric design, problems arise. Choosing Software for S&OP Selecting supply chain planning software is tough. You see what you understand, and the general understanding of supply chain planning by business leaders is the lowest I have seen in two decades as an analyst.

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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). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Located in the United Kingdom (UK), he has more than twelve years of experience in progressive roles driving demand-drive projects for their global supply chain. At the Supply Chain insights Global Summit , Nick shared his story on driving demand-based improvements. Understanding the Lubricant Supply Chain.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

APRIL 7, 2014

Enchange has been working with many FMCG and Pharmaceuticals multinationals for years on projects to improve their primary supply chains. For the sake of clarity, by “primary supply chain” we mean all processes (e.g. planning, sourcing, manufacturing, etc.) A few months ago we set ourselves a challenge at Enchange.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 9, 2013

I was writing the book, Bricks Matter and I wanted a better definition of Supply Chain Excellence. I believed that there was a strong tie between supply chain excellence and corporate performance. We started with mining the data on supply chain financial ratios within industry groups.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Think of it as the central nervous system of your operation, connecting everything from production planning and inventory control to supply chain management and financial reporting. Supply Chain Integration: Connect your suppliers with your production demands, creating a seamless flow of materials and information.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Over his 30+ year career in the supply chain, Richard has worked with manufacturers around the world in operations, supply chain, and lean strategy roles to develop systems that can manage complex supply chains on a global scale. acquired by SAP). Richard previously founded and led Factory Logic, Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

In its ideal form, supply chain planning should help leaders balance customer service with profits and even cash flow. There is a known problem for manufacturers in synchronizing their supply chain. Mr. Botha does a lot of supply chain planning work implementing SAP supply chain solutions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 13, 2023

No one knows, but in my discussions, business leaders agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here, and the projected impact on supply chain technology looms large sending the industry into very different gyrations. My first digital supply chain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. I strongly feel that if I am going to cover the global supply chain that I need to experience it. A Personal Reflection.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

My first calls were with with Descartes and SAP. I had interesting conversations with Jackson Wood- director of industry strategy for global trade intelligence at Descartes, and Linda McKee – director of solution management for global trade services at SAP. The solution can also improve supply chain decision making.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 12, 2017

While I am advocating rethinking supply chain planning, for some consultants, the only path forward is the adoption of DDRMP. Shaun has the courage to closely examine SAP’s market claims. Shaun debates the launch of DDMRP in SAP. It is not easy to take a contrarian approach against the big marketing machine of SAP.

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Bristlecone

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This shift offers both opportunities and challenges for supply chain leaders , who must navigate complex technology adoption with a strategic focus on workforce development. As supply chains become increasingly automated and tech-driven, the demand for digitally skilled employees continues to rise.

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