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The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

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For example: Alignment of strategy and cost leads to happy shareholders. As an example, let’s say that as a part of its customer service promise, your company guarantees its customers that they will receive their orders within 24 hours. Why does the C-suite want the three pillars aligned?

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Omni-Channel Logistics Leaders: The Importance of Real-Time Inventory Visibility

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Performance Leaders Have Greater Real-Time Inventory Visibility Across Supply Chain Nodes. Across virtually every supply chain node, a greater percentage of Above Average Performers reported having real-time visibility of inventory compared to Average or Below Performers.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

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A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. For example, for a yogurt company, decision of where to ship a short lifecycle product coming out of a factory is done daily because “demand can shift in very short time frames.” Data is stored just like you might sketch ideas on a whiteboard.

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5 Steps to Address the Rising Geopolitical Risks to Your Supply Chain

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As an example, a major retailer whose market presence is in the Americas realized that several of their shipments that originate in China pass through Russia to make their way to the west and are now subject to shipment backlogs. Some may have believed themselves to be immune at one point, but now their perspective is shifting.

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Omni-Channel Logistics: The Importance of Real-Time Inventory Visibility

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Performance Leaders Have Greater Real-Time Inventory Visibility Across Supply Chain Nodes. Across virtually every supply chain node, a greater percentage of Above Average Performers reported having real-time visibility of inventory compared to Average or Below Performers.

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How to Mitigate Risk in Demand Driven Supply Chains

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This means for example, that marketing-campaign planning involves manufacturing and procurement functions, to ensure preparedness for an uptick in product demand. The desire to avoid data falling into the wrong hands is, of course, understandable, but digital security measures are improving all the time.

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How to Successfully Implement a Transportation Management System

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The reason is that TMS is one of the most highly integrated applications in an organization because it touches every node in the supply chain,” he says. Of course, no matter how well you plan and how good your people are, things always can and do go wrong to derail the project.