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Supply Chain Segmentation: A Smarter Strategy for Satisfying Customers and Increasing Profits

ThroughPut

As you might expect, it would lead to numerous inefficiencies, jeopardize profits, and in a worst-case scenario, could even result in the business shutting down due to a completely collapsed supply chain. The need for supply chain segmentation in Sara’s situation is clear, but what about your business?

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A Better Approach to Supply Chain Segmentation?

ToolsGroup

Gartner research director Jennifer Loveland calls it end-to-end segmentation, where you determine first what your customers want, then create end-to-end models—from sales through sourcing, delivery, and customer service—to serve them. It gives you the ability to solve more problems, and be more targeted in how you meet each outcome.”.

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#1! Are you a Supply Chain Digital Champion?

ivalua

Digital Champions rate Smart Logistics as a top supply chain priority as it accounts for more than half of their overall supply chain cost-savings. Supply Chain Segmentation allows distinctly different transactions to be dynamically allocated to the best supply chain segment.

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Customer Segmentation: A Smarter Supply Chain Strategy to Streamline Operations & Boost Profits

ThroughPut

You’ll learn: What customer segmentation in supply chain is How to develop a customer demand segmentation strategy Examples of successful customer demand segmentation Insights into how ThroughPut AI can help you with customer segmentation What is Customer Segmentation? Here are some examples.

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What Kind of Reset Does the Supply Chain Need? Part Two

Enterra Insights

They explain, “Transparency assures consumers, regulators and investors that products are on their way and that sourcing is sustainable, as well as helping avoid compliance fines and enhancing brand and corporate reputation. Sourcing decisions will be based more upon resilience, rather than merely minimizing costs.

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Gartner Releases a New S&OP Magic Quadrant

ToolsGroup

Therefore, users' requirements are more oriented toward enterprise-level S&OP, with strong supply chain modeling, financial impact analysis and tight integration back into the operational planning environment.”. Source: Gartner Research, 2017. Source: Gartner for Supply Chain Leaders Toolkit, 2014.

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How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity

ToolsGroup

For example, MEIO enables inventory policy to accurately reflect all the sources of demand and supply variability across the enterprise chain. Build more resilient supply chain plans (e.g.,