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

Logistics Viewpoints

Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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Google Cloud Supply Chain with Paula Natoli

The Logistics of Logistics

Google Cloud Supply Chain with Paula Natoli. Paula Natoli and Joe Lynch discuss the Google Cloud supply chain and the solutions they provide to their logistics and supply chain customers. Key Takeaways: Google Cloud Supply Chain. About Paula Natoli . About Google Cloud.

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Probabilistic Planning Helps Master Supply Chain’s Unknowns

Logistics Viewpoints

When planning your weekend, you might check a 5-day weather forecast, which provides probabilities of rain, sunshine, or cloudy skies. Recently, Steve Banker wrote an article about taking a flight and planning the drive to the airport. Picture this: you need to plan your inventory levels for the upcoming holiday season.

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Build a Digital Playbook Beyond Scenarios to Thrive in Uncertainty

Logistics Viewpoints

Today’s supply chains are fraught with uncertainties across demand and supply yet are tasked with adding incremental value to their organizations while also meeting commercial, working capital and sustainability goals. The challenge for supply chain teams lies in increasing knowledge to create value amid this complexity.

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The Supply Chain in 2025: What to Expect

In 2025, the Supply Chain continues its evolution toward “Logistics 4.0,” inspired by Industry 4.0. Two major characteristics define this transformation: automation, driven by robotic solutions, and prediction, paving the way for an era of planning and simulation powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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Don’t Propagate Chaos with Your Supply Chain Planning System!

Logistics Viewpoints

Kinaxis is a leading provider of supply chain solutions. Kinaxis used to refer to itself as a supply chain planning supplier. They are now starting to call themselves a provider of supply chain “orchestration” solutions. They are now starting to call themselves a provider of supply chain “orchestration” solutions.

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Supply Chain Planning – A Market Viewpoint

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group has been covering the Supply Chain Planning ( SCP ) market for 17 years. The pandemic brought home the need for companies to run agile and resilient supply chains. Supply chain agility reflects a company’s ability to respond quickly to surges or plummeting demand.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). Delve into the critical role of communication and collaboration in navigating the complexities of product launches.

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Supply Chain Planning Maturity – How Do You Compare to Peers?

Today's supply chains are networked, global ecosystems. How prepared are supply chain teams to react and recover from a planning maturity stance? The use of scenario analyses: How widespread is the use of scenarios prior to and during planning meetings?

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The Essential Supply Chain Network Design Tooling Checklist

Dedicated supply chain network design software is fuelled by intuitive scenario analysis capabilities on the front end and powerful mathematical optimization on the back end. Answer 10 relevant questions and find out if your needs qualify for advanced network design & scenario modeling technology.

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How to Achieve True Net-Zero Emissions: An Action Plan for Supply Chain Leaders

This GEP whitepaper shows why supply chain leaders should take steps now, and offers an action plan for moving forward. To achieve sustainability, many firms set lofty net-zero emissions goals. However, meeting them is easier said than done.

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New Supply Chain Design Software Benefits Calculator

How much can you save by optimizing your supply chain network? What's the ROI of supply chain network design software? Take our calculator for a spin to see how much you can save per year by optimizing your supply chain network. Our benefits calculator helps you find out. We often get asked this question.

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New Planning Maturity Assessment

Test your Planning Fitness. In today's new supply chain paradigm, resilience and agility are key. Is your planning process fit enough to keep up with the pace of change? Is your tech stack helping or hindering your progress? Take AIMMS's new quiz to uncover learnings and benchmark yourself against peers!

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Supply Chain Network Design: The Ultimate Use Cases eBook

This eBook shares how supply chain leaders leverage their supply chain design software to tackle a variety of challenges and questions. Scenario analysis and optimization defined. Creating a strategic digital twin (digital representation) of your supply chain network. What's inside? Modeling your base case.

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Supply Chain Network Design in 30 Minutes

Speaker: Catalina Perez Leiva

Is your supply chain complex? Learn how AIMMS Network Design helps you run various scenarios to make informed decisions, all with personal, high-care implementation support and onboarding. Does it overly contribute to your costs? Has Excel reached its limits for mathematical optimization?