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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The following five mini case studies explore a few high-profile companies that have managed to sustain their supply chain cost-reduction efforts and keep expenses under control. The Path to Cost Reduction: Intel decided to try what was considered an unlikely supply chain strategy for the semiconductor industry: make to order.

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3 Ways to Benchmark to Boost Supply Chain Performance

Logistics Bureau

If you’ve never done a benchmarking exercise before, read on. If, for example, you are concerned about the pick rates in your warehouse, or your transport costs, or your inventory accuracy, benchmarking can help you because it can show you exactly where your performance is compared to others in your industry. Informal Benchmarking.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

Tereos , the second biggest sugar producer worldwide, is an important stakeholder in this market, with 49 industry units in 4 continents. While prescriptive analytics is not entirely new in the industry, advances in computing power have made it a lot more accessible in recent years.

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Condition Monitoring- A Case Study-Part I

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Being currently involved in a research project on Asset Management practice in Construction industries, I have been interacting with folks within the industry to understand the peculiarities involved in their Asset Management practices. What do we need for a successful condition monitoring, heaps of operational data?

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Case Study: Cloud-based WMS Works for Media Provider

Logistics Business Magazine

It also needed to integrate with Myriad, the specialist subscription management software for the publishing industry, to exchange order information. But newly released functionality in ProSKU now means that multiple items can be bulk-picked in one exercise and then sorted into individual orders.

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

Talking Logistics

When it comes to supply chain design, we’re at another inflection point in the industry. 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.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

Tereos , the second biggest sugar producer worldwide, is an important stakeholder in this market, with 49 industry units in 4 continents. While prescriptive analytics is not entirely new in the industry, advances in computing power have made it a lot more accessible in recent years. But technology is only part of the process.