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Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supplychain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Most of the conferences on our list are in the U.S., Many of the leading ERP and supplychain software vendors have customer events in various countries around the world.;
When it comes to supplychaindesign, 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 supplychaindesign as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise.
According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supplychain performance requirements. What should supplychain leaders be looking for to close the talent gap? AGCO Logistics Team Accepts Prestigious SupplyChain Award. We need people that are adaptable.
Many large enterprises use one form or another of a supplychain application to help manage their supplychains. Supplychain vendors have been touting their investments in artificial intelligence (AI) for the last several years. AI can refer to several different types of math.
IBP is a collaborative process involving diverse business functions that is designed to balance demand against supply in a manner that maximizes the goals of that company. This is, at many companies, a month-long process that produces a supplychain plan that spans out over several months – often 24 or 36 months.
We conclude our series on supplier quality management (SQM) today with a look at some case studies and examples of benefits derived from the application of a supplier quality management system. Examples and Case Studies from the Implementation of a Supplier Quality Management System. Today, 97.5%
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A large multinational is undergoing an impressive supplychain transformation that will run through 2023. A Complex SupplyChain. Not surprisingly a company this big, delivering different solutions to a variety of industries, has a complex supplychain. Products can also be designed with resiliency in mind.
A notable exception is MercuryGate (a Talking Logistics sponsor), which was founded 17 years ago and recently held its annual user conference in Las Vegas. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘The Future of Delivery,” which I love because it raises a lot of questions and possibilities (see my recent post on the topic).
As a supplychain director, manager, or boss of a multinational corporation, where the supplychain is an integral part of your business, supplychain cost reductions are always at the forefront of your team’s mind. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for SupplyChain Cost Reductions.
A similar problem exists with supplychain and logistics software. Addressing this problem is at the heart of Manhattan Associates’ Active Solutions, which the company introduced a couple of weeks ago at its Momentum 2017 conference. The three most important words in supplychain management today.
Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. Coupa also offers a robust, market share leading, supplychaindesign solution. The top Coupa executives, and the supplychain executives I have interacted with, are still working at Coupa.
One of the ideas at the heart of the discipline of supplychain management is the importance of collaboration. I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions.
Warehouse and distribution centre (DC) design is a fascinating and absorbing topic, but alas, is often misunderstood. Regrettably, few people fully understand the discipline of warehouse design and because of this, literally thousands of facilities are underperforming. For example: Why will it exist? One warning before I begin.
Warehouse and distribution centre (DC) design is a fascinating and absorbing topic, but alas, is often misunderstood. Regrettably, few people fully understand the discipline of warehouse design and because of this, literally thousands of facilities are underperforming. Warehouse Design and Layout: 1. One warning before I begin.
Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. The Hackett Group provides a useful visual for describing the maturity stages that supplychain is moving through as the industry strives to leverage data and advanced analytics.
Over the past couple of years, we have published many blog posts and produced several video episodes on supplychain digital transformation (see our archives ). Once complete, P&G said its new supplychain will enable 80% of U.S. production to reach stores within 24 hours.”. so that it can reach 90% of the U.S.
On Monday, March 8th, a vice president of supplychain for a large retail chain – a chain with over 5,000 stores – spoke at Körber’s supplychainconference Elevate. For many of the products this chain fulfills, their delivery window can be as quick as 30 minutes.
Through its extensive span of activities, the supplychain sector offers wide-ranging possibilities for employment and career progression. In a different context, online retailer Amazon spotted inefficiencies in the supplychains of other companies. The SupplyChain Career Environment.
A one-number forecast, for example, looks across the range of demand that might emerge in a period and decides to create a forecast that is mid-way between the most and the least demand that is apt to emerge. A probabilistic approach to planning would be better, but our supplychain tools have not supported this approach well.
Computer Vision can be used to improve process adherence in the warehouse Flymingo is an Israeli computer vision company that identifies supplychain mistakes in operating processes in existing warehouse camera feeds. For example, the WMS tells a floor associate to go to location AX32 and pick two cases.
Supplychain planning tools. Your WMS is no longer supported by the original company. .) – all of which required new design, coding, and QA testing. That might take six months to design. For example, processes will be different from picking to receiving to reporting. Disruption and resources needed.
Manhattan Associates was exhibiting its portfolio of digital supplychain solutions. I asked Manhattan about recent examples of customers utilizing the company’s WES functionality. Blue Yonder was exhibiting its suite of supplychain software solutions, but my focus again was on solutions that support warehouse productivity.
During a presentation on mobile warehouse robotics at a supplychainconference in Singapore this year, a local SME posed a question about the flexibility in choosing automation technology. Flexibility also exists for end users on using different types of robots within the same designated zone, like Geek+ Roboshuttle Plus.
Those systems and processes were designed to serve the current business model for 10 years or more. Supplychain and distribution leaders are already adopting new approaches to DC operations and technology to meet the challenges. One practical example of dynamic is AI-based batching and pick path optimization to reduce travel.
Walmart’s On-Time In-Full initiative is a compliance measure designed to ensure that freight arrives at a Walmart store or distribution center when it was supposed to, in the quantities expected. If a company short ships TVs, they are fined more than if they short ship soup, for example. But what if the shipments don’t achieve OTIF?
Cardinal Health’s senior vice president of global logistics, said of their implementation of the Kinaxis’ supplychain planning (SCP) solution, “I was scared! Pete Bennett, and his co-presenter, Mary Byrne, the vice president of supply and demand planning, spoke during a presentation at Kinaxis’ user conference Kinexions.
Logistics is the prime example of a changing industry – colossal, ripe for disruption and utterly opaque. It’s no coincidence that Transport Intelligence just emailed me an invitation to The Future of Logistics conference. Improved cargo capacity by innovative 40 foot container design (fold). Really hot.
Our initial CAB, held in conjunction with our first-ever user conference in 2017, included 15 customers gathered around a conference table to exchange best practices and suggestions for the direction of FourKites’ continued product roadmap.
What is a customer-focused supplychain? Having a customer-focused supplychain essentially means meeting the customer on their terms, rather than making them settle for yours. A good example of this is using new technologies and predictive intelligence to reduce backhauls and empty miles.
ARC recently attended the August 2021 New England Public Power Association (NEPPA) conference, where Gordon Van Welie, President & CEO of grid operator ISO New England (ISO-NE) described the challenges to maintain reliable, low-cost power, while meeting the urgent goals to decarbonize electric power. New options are needed.
FedEx, for example, has been on a multiyear digital transformation journey that included cloud computing and work-from-home capabilities but also widespread sensor technology buildouts, robotics forays and continued support of blockchain technologies. Critical packages will have a Bluetooth low-energy lightweight sensor.
Better communication is needed in the automotive supplychain, including between OEMs, suppliers, logistics providers and IT experts providing digital supplychain services. The automotive industry also needs to be able to respond faster to disruption in the supplychain when the inevitable unforeseen crisis hits.
As the car industry moves toward a more responsive manufacturing system producing connected and customised, autonomous vehicles with electric powertrains, its supplychain is transforming from something linear to more of a supply network based on real-time data sharing. Keeping up with current events.
Supplychaindesign is all about two things: Provide extraordinary customer service through fast and full fulfillment AND do this profitably. Sure, but then why do so many supplychain professionals only do the back half? As a company, you will not survive if you cannot do both of these things simultaneously.
This is very similar to the “What Colors Are This Dress” debate from a few years ago, and my commentary about that question (linking it to supplychain management) applies here too. DHL SupplyChain introduces end-to-end supplychain visibility platform. Target Redesigning Distribution Network for Speed.
The VP of SupplyChain and Logistics at our house (aka my wife) has been out of the country this week. So, while I count the days and hours and minutes until she gets back, here’s the supplychain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) Activates For Latest Major Hurricane Of 2018.
At Georgia Southern, we dispel this by illustrating the dynamic nature and variety of daily activities a supplychain manager encounters. Other ways we support experiential learning include hosting external student case competitions, touring logistics facilities, and attending industry conferences.
The war in Ukraine, the energy crisis and high inflation in many countries are presenting supplychain managers with major challenges. Additionally, the always present issues of shortage of skilled labour, supplychain disruptions and cost pressure also prove difficult. Demand fluctuations force action. foreign workers.
The Internet of Things World conference brings together stakeholders in the IoT space to help advance project implementation and reach ROI. And also this year we’re building out a developers conference at the show for the audience that is designing and delivering the future products in IoT. Welcome, Zach.
My wife often jokes that she is the VP of SupplyChain and Logistics in our family. Whether it’s preventing out-of-stocks of critical household items or making sure the kids are delivered on time in full to wherever they need to be, she keeps our supplychain running as efficiently as possible — while doing her day job too!
We continue our series on understanding the 3PL KPIs (Key performance indicators) from 3PL consultant, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean SupplyChain as it relates to the engagement with a 3PL. Solution 4 : Software, like eMonstro , for instance, has been designed to predict the true impact of a KPI on the organization.
I have designed power systems and communication systems. I will give you an example of predictive. That is the way we see it but to your point, to give that value, you cannot be thinking of just one piece of the logistic chain. When I came from the supplychain side, I worked in automotive.
Koerber SupplyChain’s ‘Elevate’ event in Prague was an opportunity to discover how software and technology address the unprecedented complexity in logistics. End-to-end connectivity, digitization and visibility are the goals for many supplychain managers. One new concept is supplychain ‘gamification’.
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