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Editor’s Choice: Why Supply Chain Design Is Not a “One-and-Done” Exercise

Logistics Viewpoints

Even if you’ve implemented the most sophisticated process and technology for your S&OP process, there’s a hard truth you need to hear: a supply chain not designed to be in tune with the rapid market shifts will leave your best-laid plans exposed and make them unreliable. Why episodic supply chain design falls short.

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Supply Chain Optimization: Leveraging Integrated Scenario Planning as a Margin Multiplier

Logistics Viewpoints

These challenges necessitate extensive configuration within Advanced Planning Systems (APS) test environments to assess their impacts. APS are complex, live production environments requiring extensive configuration to accurately model a business’s operational reality.

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Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions

GlobalTranz

Below I will outline how a vendor managed inventory model, in conjunction with reverse marketing, value analysis, and collaboration will achieve supply chain cost reductions. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions. Reverse marketing starts first with Value Analysis. What is Value Analysis?

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Cost-To-Serve Analysis Should be Core Planning Tool

Logistics Business Magazine

A new white paper from a supply chain consultancy suggests retailers are too fragmented in their approach to determining their Costs-To-Serve (CTS) and should instead adopt CTS analysis as a core, business-critical initiative for informing future decisions and direction. “In CLICK HERE to download the full white paper.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. It was a strategic/tactical analysis, disconnected from day-to-day operations, and the software tools were difficult to learn and use.

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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

’ Companies like Sears, Dell, and Zappos are often pointed to as models to follow for reverse logistics. A well-implemented reverse logistics system is essential for managing these backward movements efficiently. Sectors like publishing of software, books, music, and so on, also offer another way to reduce returns.

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Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers

Logistics Bureau

Unless your company has already invested in the processes and technology to support the addition of online retail logistics to your channel strategy, attaining a single view of your inventory and customers could prove difficult. You will probably find, from your initial analysis, that your cost-to-serve follows the 80/20 rule.