Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

If you have been through this process at least once, you already have a good idea of what supply chain design is about: optimization. When most people hear the word “optimization,” they immediately think about minimizing costs. But optimization is much more than that! Let’s continue with this analogy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

They underwent a thorough Network Optimization exercise to identify the roadmap of transitioning to a hybrid offshore/nearshore model. They also performed Transportation and Inventory Optimization to ensure that products are delivered on time and with minimum inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

It’s time to focus on how we innovate and optimize our businesses and operations in this permanently altered world. There are lively debates about the meaning and prioritization of scale, globalization, outsourcing, and inventory optimization. Changes in our lives, economies and supply chains are ubiquitous and well embedded now.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Can you tell me about HEINEKEN’s AIMMS-based Brewing Capacity Model? I understand your team took ownership of this model. Yeah, so there was an existing Brewing Capacity Model which lived in a spreadsheet file. The main reason was that we were trying to manage our investments as optimally as possible.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For the longest time modeling and designing such nodes, modes, and flows has been the realm of Supply Chain Design. Just a handful of optimization and operations research experts ran models of the network and made recommendations. Sustainability initiatives can benefit through optimizing the carbon footprint.

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AIMMS

JULY 23, 2019

In a recent article published in Mundo Logística , Tereos’ Logistics and S&OP Executive Manager, André Margoto , shares valuable insights on how agribusiness companies can use optimization models in (near) real-time to inform planning decisions and bolster their S&OP process. People and culture are equally important.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Can you tell me about HEINEKEN’s AIMMS-based Brewing Capacity Model? I understand your team took ownership of this model. Yeah, so there was an existing Brewing Capacity Model which lived in an Excel file. The main reason was that we were trying to manage our investments as optimally as possible.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 24, 2022

For your business, converting to digital means you will be able to identify trends around things like customer preferences as well as define an optimal future direction for your organization from a technology perspective. For my parents the digital photographs will make it easier for them to share photos with others and store them.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

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. The slide below provides an overview of SupplyChainPlanning.com: Source: LLamasoft. So, where does supply chain design end and planning begin?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

Supply chain policies and configurations can be evaluated and then optimized across the likely ranges of demand, supply, disruptions, and financial drivers – providing the best plans across strategic and tactical horizons. The role of AI in decision intelligence extends to both optimizing decision-making and enacting those decisions.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To do this, we built two representative models of a business. While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines. While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines.

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AIMMS

JULY 23, 2019

In a recent article published in Mundo Logística , Tereos’ Logistics and S&OP Executive Manager, André Margoto , shares valuable insights on how agribusiness companies can use optimization models in (near) real-time to inform planning decisions and bolster their S&OP process. – Tweet this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

In terms of finding a 4PL solution provider, Mars wanted a company that could engage in truck loading and route optimization, and schedule shipments into and out of their warehouses. The stock rebalancing skill is designed to enable Mars to optimize DC to DC shipments. The analysis was not all that accurate.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

Instead using the discipline of the flow modeling as mentioned in #1 above, S&OP should incorporate: Identification and testing of specific points of failure, quantified impacts on the supply chain from these failures, and mitigation of the same. Traditional inventory optimization implementations often assume fixed network and flows.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

KPIs or Key Performance Indicators are a core practice of measuring the effectiveness and for continuous improvement in any business outsourcing model. The 4PL built a new routing tool specifically for Whirlpool that offered overall cost optimization and mode selection.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Using data has the potential to open up new business models, technologies, and an ecosystem where anything-as-a-service is possible. Exercise trackers like Fitbit or Garmin are part of an IoT network that collects and analyzes data from objects – people. Supply chain.

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Locus

APRIL 26, 2024

More and more companies are looking to digitalization of their end-to-end logistics operations for high efficiencies at optimal costs. Should the solution optimize dispatch for captive fleet, or allow you to leverage an asset-light model? The next step involves finding the right partner for this journey.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

It includes some questions to answer in determining the number of warehouses required in a network, and their optimal locations. High availability of accurate throughput data will be of great aid to the outcome of the design or layout exercise. Some Tips for Multi-Warehouse Network Planning. S is for Space.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities. In that case, you will need help from a logistics consulting provider who can perform the required modeling for you. While slotting is primarily a numbers exercise, data can’t tell the whole story.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

The added benefit of working with such a partner is that because they collect performance data from hundreds of companies, they can help you choose the most appropriate key performance indicators to use in your benchmarking exercise. Inventory optimization software. Network modeling and optimisation software.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

Process Specialisation Outsourced manufacturers, logistics providers, and other supply chain service partners dedicate all their resources to optimizing processes that, while essential for the success of your organisation, are secondary to its principal objectives.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 7, 2018

to the complex exercise of pricing. driven system can help to sort signal from noise: it can determine the point at which the model is in danger of being swamped by too much data, not all of it relevant. driven model become so fast and complex that it can’t be understood by its human users? pricing model. “If Can the A.I.-driven

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Selecting the right 3PL is no simple exercise, yet it’s one that’s all too often subject to shortcuts, a dearth of detail, and overly compressed timelines. Therefore, she will be unable to design an optimal solution, or calculate the resources necessary to provide an efficient service to the shipper.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 26, 2018

For most of human history, the success of that exercise has rested on the appointed seer’s years of experience, coupled with some indefinable grasp of probability. She sees new developments in 3-D modeling and augmented reality as leading to even more accurate determinations of optimal costing. Welch believes it can.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

The Path to Cost Reduction: The company undertook a supply chain network-redesign program, resulting in the commissioning of intermediate “merge centers” and optimization of cross-dock terminal locations. Moving to a vendor-managed inventory model wherever it was possible to do so.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Traditional training models address performance issues only when there is a lack of knowledge and skills. It is essential to determine reasons for the poor performance; this valuable exercise is a systematic, methodical evaluation that leads to an actionable strategy to yield improved employee performance outcomes.

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Penske Move Ahead

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Whatever financial model, the goal is to deliver exceptional levels of customer service in the most efficient manner possible," he said. We can process the data and optimize it in several ways. Petty stated 75% of the private fleets in the study are operating as cost centers or, as he calls them, contribution centers.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 24, 2019

Sherman was the first supply chain research director at AMR Research (now part of Gartner ), and helped develop the SCOR model and the Supply Chain Council. Each has its own mission and is focused on optimizing results in its silo only. That makes optimizing the supply chain very difficult if not impossible.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 21, 2016

That’s not to say that the following signs and symptoms are harbingers of disaster, but they should certainly prompt a distribution network design review, along with a modeling exercise to check if your outbound supply chain is maintaining that all-important balance between cost and service. Click To Tweet.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 21, 2012

Various reasons for a business transformation would include smart ways of working, effective information sharing, continuous improvement in the operation model, availability of vital information for better decision making etc. These forms key contributors to an effective transformation exercise. Extremely valid points.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Performance is Sub Optimal Related to the core skill issue, often organizations which have a strategic focus, other than in transport or warehousing, cannot attain the desired performance levels and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) required by their customers. To understand how these factors interplay, consider the following model.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2017

Workflow optimization. While individual industries may offer varying supply chain career perspectives, new supply chain technologies and business models are encouraging employment and career development overall. Financial planning. Forecasting. General management and business. International business practices. Mechanical skills.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 18, 2015

In an organizational context, it is a business model that involves practices that are commercially viable and meet the customer needs, and all this while ensuring the environment is treated well. Make the sustainability exercise a profound one, include all important stakeholders and by this I mean the customers and suppliers as well.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

If your supply chain network design has not been under the microscope, and you care about business success, it’s probably time to consider the benefits of a design review and optimisation exercise. Mini Case Study: Whirlpool. A disciplined approach to the collection, cleansing, and standardisation of supply chain data.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2017

Strange as it may seem, many business leaders don’t have the answers to these questions , because they’ve never conducted an exercise to understand the costs involved with supplying their customers. Review, model, and optimise your distribution network. Do you supply certain products to certain customers at a loss?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 1, 2015

The process owners representing the respective utility business function were all seated together, in fact it was surprising to note that most of them even had consensus on many common process which were suggested to be followed as part of the process optimization exercise. However, it did not meet its purpose.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The deeper the common understanding of the factors and mechanisms involved, the more effective the efforts at optimization. Managers need to become role models through their personal conduct. I found your real-world exercises in past years very enlightening. How can everyone agree on a common denominator for change?

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