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Network Visibility and Supply Chain Planning Work Better Together

Logistics Viewpoints

Infor is one example of a supplier that offers both advanced visibility and supply chain planning. A multi-enterprise supply chain network provides visibility to upstream and downstream events that can affect a company’s supply chain. Visibility to Events. There is a vintage television commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter cups.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2019

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Many of the leading ERP and supply chain software vendors have customer events in various countries around the world.; SAP : SAP SAPPHIRENOW , May 7-9, Orlando, FL.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2018

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Many of the leading ERP and supply chain software vendors have customer events in various countries around the world.; SAP : SAP SAPPHIRENOW , June 5-7, Orlando, FL.

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Frequently Asked Questions about S&OE

AIMMS

Some examples: They have used the same source data, while for S&OP they would aggregate data into monthly and product group buckets , for S&OE they would use the product and day/week level of data. Have you encountered issues with SAP integrations? What about connections between S&OE and S&OP apps themselves?

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Blockchain is Coming to Transportation – Here’s How

Talking Logistics

For example, a carrier posts data to the blockchain and allows customers and agents to use the data. Before SAP, he was senior vice president and general manager for Descartes Systems Group’s supply chain, transportation and logistics applications business, and also had been vice president of product management for the company.

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Dig Deep: What to Know About TMS Hosting, Data Models and Integration

Talking Logistics

Another example is a customer web service API for quotes. He was most recently at SAP where he was the solution principal focusing on SAP’s transportation, warehouse and event management offerings in North America and previously directed industry marketing for the company’s transportation and logistics business unit.

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6 Ways Big Data is enhancing the global supply chain

The Logistics Academy

For example, the organization that wants to leverage Big Data for track and trace of its products can do so by combining the purchase order (PO) details, shipment information and the carrier’s tracking information. Take pricing, for example. There is still a sizable gap between fourth place and the top three, where SAP ($2.93