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KRONOS Worldwide Improves Service and Reduces Costs with Managed Trans

Logistics Viewpoints

Autonomy led to a complex supply chain with shipments that traveled too many miles and required too many touches across the nodes. Uber Freight procurement events now require that the selected carriers be able to provide visibility to shipment status. There have also been customer service improvements.

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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

The upshot of all this is the result of now we very brittle supply chains, now inherently susceptible to massive disruption – even by a single event – such as the tsunami event in Japan. Response to node failures is robust. Attributes of sourcing strategies that focus effectiveness: High Adaptability. High Responsiveness.

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Is It Time to Move Beyond the Traditional Approach to IBP?

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Event-driven IBP – technological capabilities to monitor internal and external events (Supply Chain Control Tower) in real time. Contextualize and quantify event impact and be able to trigger re-plan in an integrated supply chain planning solution to create an executable and feasible plan.

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A Better Way to Think About Integrated Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

And agility is about reacting quickly and hopefully effectively to the actual disruptive event. But the event might not be disruptive at all if you had planned for it. One week, the model may show the capacity of an upstream node as being 200 units, the next week it can show 700 units.

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ASCM Connect Brussels

Logistics Business Magazine

The two-day event taking place June 4-5 in Brussels will feature 40 expert speakers plus two keynotes, 24 educational sessions, seven connection cafes and four panel discussions. Throughout the event, attendees will have a variety of opportunities to connect with other industry leaders from around the world.

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The Retailer FabFitFun Excels at Logistics

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And the goods all ship within five to fifteen days depending on the sale event. “We Before we even make the box, we rate shop it across a number of different last-mile carriers against our contracts, and it’s against every node of that carrier,” Mr. Van Erlach explained. “So, Mr. Van Erlach explained.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

Logistics Viewpoints

This is creating the need to shrink the time between identification of a sourcing need and executing on a sourcing event. The new generation Design-to-Source technologies allow for gaps identified during the supply chain design phase to be turned into sourcing events that can be created and executed.