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

Logistics Viewpoints

These challenges necessitate extensive configuration within Advanced Planning Systems (APS) test environments to assess their impacts. APS are complex, live production environments requiring extensive configuration to accurately model a business’s operational reality.

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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

Moreover, this exercise might need to be repeated several times depending on how the war proceeds. For it to be an optimal solution, a mathematical model needs to be used. That model can then be used to analyze every new situation that arises. First comes the data and how well we understand it.

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Using Data to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Material Handling and Logistics

Learn how to organize your data operations in alignment with supply chain strategy. Forward-thinking supply chain professionals are looking to advanced technologies to streamline processes, improve accuracy, accelerate delivery and reduce costs. More data is coming in than ever before.

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Supply Chain Design Crosses the Chasm

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Design can help test such ideas before implementing changes to the master data.

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What manufacturers need to know about IIoT

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In 2018 a Forbes magazine published an article entitled “Every company is a data company” in which the authors urged all companies to use data as a core asset. That is now becoming a reality as businesses come to realize that data is the most significant asset they possess. What is IoT and IIoT? Growth of IIoT.

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

More recently the technology has evolved to a point where such processes can be conducted at a faster cadence than a typical monthly cadence that was the norm. Turn the planning processes outside in: The S&OP processes in most companies consider an inside out view relying on internal data.

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Flexibility in the Face of Uncertainty

Freightos

While COVID did see some modal shifts of everything from wheat to Peloton exercise bikes, there are certainly products that are less likely candidates for shifts. With more easily accessible data and bookings, alternatives to, yes, historically alternative routes suddenly become far more viable. kilogram to Europe.