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The Counter to Constant Supply Chain Volatility Is Pervasive Visibility and Industry Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration. The impact?

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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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New year’s resolutions: Accelerating digital transformation with ERP

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The events of the last two years made one thing clear: wherever you are in the digital evolution embrace digital to thrive. The first step would be to replace paper-based systems with electronic systems to benefit from accurate real-time manufacturing intelligence and data to enhance collaboration and productivity.

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. It was quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline. Procurement ran a request for proposal event. An RFP is a data intensive exercise. Then the clock starts ticking again.” We’d rather not do that.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

The article, written in collaboration with our partner Luciano Moura ( UniSoma ) and Diego de Carvalho Moretti (Nortegubisian) , outlines the following planning challenges in an agribusiness supply chain: Supply chain flows are extended over a long period of time.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

The article, written in collaboration with our partner Luciano Moura ( UniSoma ) and Diego de Carvalho Moretti (Nortegubisian) , outlines the following planning challenges in an agribusiness supply chain: Supply chain flows are extended over a long period of time. But technology is only part of the process. – Tweet this.

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Overcoming e-sourcing apprehension

Transporeon

Some suppliers view RFPs as static cost-cutting exercises, which devalue their offering. Lack of feedback and transparency perceived as one-sided Certain platforms have a high degree of rigidity in terms of the types of offers allowed per event. Some platforms even prohibit multiple logins per account or event.