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

Logistics Viewpoints

Resolution To address these challenges, companies are seeking comprehensive supply chain planning solutions that can act as a margin multiplier by optimizing resources, managing inventory, and enabling real-time collaboration and visibility across the supply chain network.

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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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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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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

It was taxing to report above the country level with this tool. This drove us to adopt a better strategic decision-support tool. This was not easy to do with an error-prone tool. My vision was to have a tool that would allow me to answer any capacity question within a few clicks. This made it prone to error.

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Key challenges and solutions for the fabricated metals industry

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Facing these challenges only 12% of businesses had systems that provided external collaboration support and 18% had systems that assisted in product design and order configuration. Within your ERP system product configurator tools can be used to maximize customer service and operational efficiency. Solution: Custom capabilities.

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

There are different tools, goals, and market dynamics. An RFP is a data intensive exercise. We did not have a great spot tool.” A procurement tool can help shippers get better rates. But just because you can use a tool like Emerge to drive transportation savings, that does not mean cost should be determinative.

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WorkWave Isn’t Quarantining Our Culture of Continuous Learning

WorkWave

With that shift in mind, we created and shared collaboration guides to all employees to help exercise and improve these new skills. Slack is a language that not everyone is fluent in, so we created a guide filled with do’s and don’ts to ensure the most effective use of our digital communication tool.

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