Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Schneider Electric has been working to simplify its supply chain over the last few years. This French public multinational was selected as having the best global supply chain by a leading analyst firm. Schneider Electric’s supply chain operation is of great interest to other practitioners.

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AIMMS

MARCH 30, 2020

It’s taking a profound humanitarian and economic toll , impacting supply cha ins in many ways. Our team put several resources together to help supply chain organizations navigate through this crisis safely. . Evaluate different scenarios . Study 1: Anticipate Best- and Worst-Case Operations Scenarios .

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3PL Links

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Image source: Pexels | Shipping Trends for 2025: What Will Change and How to Adapt The logistics industry is continuously evolving, and as we move closer to 2025, businesses will face a range of transformative changes. How to Adapt: Setting up smaller warehouses in strategic locations reduces transportation costs and shortens delivery times.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2024

When these issues arise within your company’s supply chain operations, supply chain consultants can diagnose the issues, offer cost-effective solutions, and help ensure smooth implementation. What are Supply Chain Consulting Services, and Why to Use Them? Often, people think that supply chain consulting is about reducing costs.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Aera Technology offers a solution they call “Aera Decision Cloud” A key challenge for manufacturers is connecting integrated business planning (IBP) – a longer term plan – to operational planning and execution – what needs to be done in the near term. What part of the plan should be executed?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Getting started with AI in supply chain might not start where you think. Instead start with the foundation of your AI strategy, which should be an understanding of your company’s supply chain and your data. Since this advice on getting started with AI in supply chain may seem counterintuitive, let me explain.

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3PL Links

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How to Innovate Your Supply Chain Management: What You Need to Know | Image Source: Axestrack Organizations must prioritize supply chain management and implement strategies to increase its efficiency if they want to compete in the market. The supply chain is crucial in this regard.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supply chain performance requirements. What should supply chain leaders be looking for to close the talent gap? AGCO Logistics Team Accepts Prestigious Supply Chain Award. Mr. Stevens talked about their supply chain initiative.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Predictive Analysis in Logistics and Supply Chain: How to Apply | Image source: Pexels In logistics, predictive analysis is simply the process of identifying and forecasting patterns, trends, and behaviors in both human and machine learning approaches, data, and algorithms. This ratio increased to 54% in 2022.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process? More to the point, though, for S&OP to be effective, it matters not whether a company uses Excel spreadsheets or the latest best-of-breed sales and operations planning software.

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Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 27, 2020

Supply chains are evolving fast. To keep up with the fast pace of supply chain evolution it is important for supply chain planners to upgrade their skills and step up their business planning and forecasting techniques. It is about creating a planning process that is agile and flexible enough to integrate future events.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So, you are thinking about a career in supply chain? While this article is intended as an evergreen resource, to help you navigate in your search for a supply chain job, and is not a COVID-19-specific guide, the pandemic has galvanized attention on the industry and its criticality. What is the Role of the Supply Chain Worker?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One element of warehousing that can have a negative impact on supply chain costs is the way in which the space is set out and utilized. How many of the following five inefficiencies do you recognise within your company’s warehouse layout? 5 Ways to Achieve Efficient Warehouse Design: Improve Layout Efficiency & Save Costs!

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CLX Logistics

MAY 3, 2024

A resilient and agile supply chain strategy is not just a prudent choice—it’s a necessity, especially within the context of chemical supply chains. As such, the importance of investing in and outsourcing supply chain management becomes even more pronounced.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Well, not just for benchmarking, but also for maximum visibility of your supply chain and logistics performance. How hard can that be?” In answering that question, we’re not going to provide you with a list of possible supply chain KPIs to use in your business—at least, not in this article. I hear you ask.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Ask manufacturing leaders what changes they plan to make in the next three years in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, and they will likely say their use of technology will deepen as more and more players in their supply chains come to rely on digital connections for daily interactions. Talent gaps: ? Changing consumer attitudes:?

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EazyStock

MARCH 17, 2021

As globalization extends supply chains around the world, the likelihood of negative impacts stemming from supply chain disruption increases. Supply chain disruptions are an inevitability for any supply chain, though the severity of the impacts can vary. Types of Supply Chain Disruptions. Black Swan Events.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In an increasingly unpredictable world environment, practices for planning and forecasting inventory levels that worked in the past need to be reviewed. In the 1990s, APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) arose as a solution for making better decisions about inventory. Using AI in inventory management. Challenges of IO and AI.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2022

ARC analysts have published predictions about supply chain technology trends at the beginning of the year in past years. Supply Chain Disruptions Will Diminish, but Remain Substantial. Supply Chain Disruptions Will Diminish, but Remain Substantial. Inflation Will Hinder Supply Chain Resiliency, Supply Diversification Efforts.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 29, 2020

When we compare different levels of sophistication and performance in supply chains, we can identify particular levels that we think are important to achieve, or that represent typical performance levels for supply chains as a whole. Suppose you wanted to be the fastest runner in the world, for example.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In an increasingly unpredictable world environment, practices for planning and forecasting inventory levels that worked in the past need to be reviewed. In the 1990s, APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) arose as a solution for making better decisions about inventory. Using AI in inventory management. Challenges of IO and AI.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These are all pervasive issues for supply chain operators worldwide—and are classic symptoms of suboptimal inventory performance. The good news is that they are all problems with solutions, and that every supply chain can be improved through inventory optimisation. No inventory optimisation solution comes without tradeoffs.

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 31, 2022

What is demand planning? Demand planning is part of a company’s planning strategy to allocate resources in the best and most effective way to meet demand and respond to demand changes. Why is demand planning important? Is demand planning the same as demand forecasting? What does demand planning involve?

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 31, 2022

What is demand planning? Demand planning is part of a company’s planning strategy to allocate resources in the best and most effective way to meet demand and respond to demand changes. Why is demand planning important? Is demand planning the same as demand forecasting? What does demand planning involve?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 4, 2023

Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Choice ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. Today’s article comes from Erin Sun at Oracle and identifies five supply chain success factors CPG companies need to know for increased profitability.

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Logistics Manager

MARCH 10, 2020

Gartner has released a report detailing how to secure supply chains amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. As global leaders and health officials track the strain and make decisions regarding containment, supply chain leaders need to assess and plan for how the virus will impact global supply chains.

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Turvo

AUGUST 24, 2021

Before the COVID pandemic ran through the supply chain, in-network resiliency had never been tested or tried extensively. Today, the definition of supply chain resiliency has been changed in ways that have caused ripple effects. Real-time data is critical to the supply chain’s smooth operations day in and day out.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Supply chain delays, like those we’ve all experienced recently, can mean lost sales. If you order too late, you may run into supply chain issues or have an unexpected surge in demand that you can’t fulfill. This article will explain what reorder points are and show you how to calculate them. How to Calculate a Reorder Point.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Some suppliers of supply chain planning (SCP) software are experiencing robust growth despite the global pandemic. For each company, there are more than one reason for the robust growth, but all make the point that the need for an agile supply chain has never been stronger. Never has supply chain management been more important.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

The good news is that these peaks come at about the same time every year and can therefore be easily planned for. But what really gets the supply chain and warehouse managers in a sweat are extremely intense sales days or weeks such as the well-known Black Friday or Cyber Monday. This type of peak, however, can also easily be managed.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In the late summer of 2020, I was honoured with the opportunity to interview supply chain guru Deborah Dull, not just once, but three times. While all the interviews are available to view on the Supply Chain Secrets YouTube channel , I decided to create some brief articles from the transcripts. You know, “How does this scale?”

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AIMMS

JULY 13, 2020

Integrated Business Planning (IBP), as defined by its creators at Oliver Wight , is “the business planning process that extends the principles of S&OP throughout the end-to-end supply chain, product, service and customer portfolios, customer demand and strategic planning, to deliver one seamless management process.”

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2020

When we compare different levels of sophistication and performance in supply chains, we can identify particular levels that we think are important to achieve, or that represent typical performance levels for supply chains as a whole. Suppose you wanted to be the fastest runner in the world, for example.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 5, 2023

Medium-term demand planning has always been a tough nut to crack for retailers, suppliers and manufacturers. It’s that duration in between short-term and long-term planning, what we can call ‘medium-term’ demand planning, that has proved one of the thorniest problems in demand forecasting.

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AIMMS

MARCH 30, 2020

It’s taking a profound humanitarian and economic toll , impacting supply cha ins in many ways. Our team put several resources together to help supply chain organizations navigate through this crisis safely. . Evaluate different scenarios . Study 1: Anticipate Best- and Worst-Case Operations Scenarios .

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WorkWave

MARCH 21, 2023

From developing your business plan to marketing strategies and pricing your services, there is much to consider when beginning this journey. Join us as we take a deep dive into how to start a pet-sitting business. The first step is developing a business plan for your new venture.

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