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Tata Steel Europe’s Connected Planning Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

The company sells directly and through channels; they have an extensive distribution network to provide postproduction processing, service, distribution, and sales support. IBP is a multifunctional planning process that includes sales, marketing, demand planners, manufacturing, and finance. So, what is “connected planning?”

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Customer Relationship Management for Ecommerce Brands

Ship Monk

Legacy Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software systems, such as Salesforce, were originally developed to help sales teams funnel and track potential customers through long sales pipelines, from generating leads to closing the sale, then supporting and maintaining the customer relationship.

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Using Data to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Material Handling and Logistics

Cloud-based supply chain management tools, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are expected to figure prominently in future supply chain operations. Mistrust of data and analytics tools is not just a supply chain and logistics issue.

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Pirelli’s Digital Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

In terms of the commercial operation, it seeks to provide greater value to dealer customers by arming their sales representatives with more actionable data on what the dealers will likely need to order. Strengthening the sales process required putting in place a more robust integrated business planning process.

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Importance of Social Proof in Ecommerce

Ship Monk

And when we feel uncertain, humans tend to look for examples of what others in our situation have done. We’ll give you some examples of social proof, and we’ll even rank them in terms of trustworthiness. After all, opinions are subjective; they can be wrong, and they can change on a whim (or a single post from an influencer).

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Resilience by Design: The Power of Simulation in Supply Chain Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain network design (SCND) is a powerful tool for improving business operations. After that the team works in an iterative way, answering stakeholder’s questions regarding how the network will react to various changes (e.g. What if the new product’s sales take off faster than we expect?) But it has gaps.

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Logistics Software: How to Make Handling Peak Times Easy

Logistics Viewpoints

The result is often a peak sales volume for a specific group of items. But what really gets the supply chain and warehouse managers in a sweat are extremely intense sales days or weeks such as the well-known Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Here, it’s extremely difficult to predict which sales volume will be reached for which goods.