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Editor’s Choice: 8 Supply Chain Planning Challenges Retailers Will Face In 2022 And Tips To Overcome Them

Logistics Viewpoints

Insufficient materials to meet customer demand. The ongoing chip crisis since last year affecting 100+ industries is the best example: supply couldn’t meet the increased demand, which led to rising prices and shortages in computers, cars, and pretty much any other electronics product with chips.

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A Guide to Optimizing Your Inbound Freight Management 

GoShip Blog

So how do you optimize inbound freight management? Why should you optimize your inbound freight management? Without them, you would not be able to meet customer demands. Exercise patience when asking freight providers to take on new lanes. This is why your inbound freight management must be smooth and foolproof.

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Bottom Line: What is the ROI of Supply Chain Network Design Software?

AIMMS

While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines. Extrapolating to smaller, simpler businesses, it’s likely that an entity needs to be scaled at around $500M annual revenue and above to meet this first ROI hurdle. Optimization ‘right sizes’ your network for each scenario.

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Key challenges and solutions for the fabricated metals industry

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The fabricated metals industry operates with a low margin in a highly competitive market and material availability, production schedules and workforce skills must align to meet customer expectations. Challenge: Meeting unique customer requirements. Solution: Technology investments and long-term skills training programmes.

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Planning Accuracy…Can You Get Too Much of a Good Thing?

AIMMS

Pursuing accuracy in a long – term planning exercise can bring a lot of unnecessary stress. Running a multitude of optimization scenarios will instead expose a plan that is projected to best meet your financial needs and is most resilient to inevitable but unpredictable changes in the market. . power grid.

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Bottom Line: What is the ROI of Supply Chain Network Design Software?

AIMMS

While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines. Extrapolating to smaller, simpler businesses, it’s likely that an entity needs to be scaled at around $500M annual revenue and above to meet this first ROI hurdle. Optimization ‘right sizes’ your network for each scenario.

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

For example, you don’t want to assume that a single logistics strategy and service approach will meet all your customers’ needs. Ideally, though, evaluating your position against competitors should not solely be a KPI benchmarking exercise. Inventory optimization software. It may do, but how do you know?