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Resilience by Design: The Power of Simulation in Supply Chain Strategy

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This article describes how to incorporate simulation techniques into optimization, build a stochastic optimization model, and end up with a more resilient supply chain model. That strategy can lead to thousands of scenarios, and still no number of scenarios will answer all questions. But it has gaps.

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How to Improve your Manufacturing Processes with Business Intelligence

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For manufacturers, having the right business intelligence on hand at the right time can eliminate the guesswork from decision making, offering real-time visibility into business processes so you can anticipate your next move. Eliminate reporting inconsistencies and data redundancy. Reduce data warehousing costs. Scarce manpower.

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Bringing Order to Chaos: Last-Mile Delivery Costs and How to Reduce Them

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Read also: How to Calculate the Cost of Transport 2. A recent analysis by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) indicates that if existing trends persist, we could see a potential driver shortage reaching up to 175,000 by 2024. Efficient fuel management can enhance route planning and capacity utilization.

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How to Make Reverse Packaging Logistics More Efficient?

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Image source: Rawpixel.com | How to Make Reverse Packaging Logistics More Efficient? Each tactic—from active consumer involvement to sustainable design—is laid out clearly and demonstrates how we may improve the efficiency of packaging recycling.

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Top 5 Barriers to Supply Chain Network Design Adoption and How to Overcome Them

Speaker: Brian Dooley, Director SC Navigator, AIMMS, and Paul van Nierop, Supply Chain Planning Specialist, AIMMS

Want to build your internal capability, reduce costs and make better decisions? You may have recently had M&A activity, about to roll out a new product line or need to cut costs. When you finally have the analysis, everything has changed, and it is no longer relevant. It's easier than you think. We’ve all been there.

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Predictive Analysis in Logistics and Supply Chain: How to Apply

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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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Emergency alert! What to avoid in your Supply Chain Strategy?

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The mistakes that can pull your supply chain far away from the progress are bad cost management strategy, lack of optimized business processes, neglecting data and KPI’s, poor customer service and no future planning. But how to get rid of them? One of them is a bad cost management strategy. Keep your long-term growth plan ready.