- 21. Driving Efficiency in the Supply Chain
- (News)
- Real-time inventory awareness is the cornerstone for supply chain success in the omnichannel age. Dan Berthiaume, on the Chain Store Age site, reviews three large retailers and discovers how inventory ...
- 22. Looking at Supply Chain Execution Convergence
- (News)
- Ready for a new acronym? How about SCEC- supply chain execution convergence. It's used to describe the next generation of supply chains that succeeds by bringing together organizational silos. On the ...
- 23. S&OP Pitfalls
- (News)
- Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is one of the most critical tasks for supply chain managers. It can get pretty complicated, and mistakes can result.The Supply Chain Shaman, Lora Cecere, has studied ...
- 24. Who Has a Supply Chain Strategy?
- (News)
- Having a supply chain strategy that's linked to overall company strategy sounds like something all companies should have, right? Well, Dan Gilmore of the Supply Chain Digest took a quick survey on the ...
- 25. The IoT Warehouse Challenge
- (News)
- Most articles you'll read about the Internet of Things (IoT) will present the technology as a panacea that'll transform all our lives. In Steve Banker's world, the mundane world of the warehouse is where ...
- 26. EDI And Global Commerce Make A Perfect Pair
- (Integration)
- ... EDI is integral to the execution of global commerce because it matches newer technologies with international markets governed by their own EDI requirements, says Davis. While EDI itself is not a new offering, ...
- 27. Drivers Behind Supply Chain Execution Convergence
- (News)
- Convergence seems to be a hot buzzword in the supply chain. What's driving it? Two things: visibility and collaboration.Evan Puzey writes about the topic of supply chain execution convergence in a recent ...
- 28. Considerations for Effective Change
- (News)
- Almost everyone in the business world recognizes that change is tough. Whether it's a new ERP, supply chain software, processes, organization, or all of the above, changes have to be rolled out properly ...
- 29. Global Sourcing Integration
- (News)
- Integrating global sourcing with your supply chain execution is a best practice that is often out of reach. There are approaches that can be taken to get you closer to the goal line, though.In a guest ...
- 30. Extended Supply Chain Effects
- (News)
- In a thought-provoking guest blog on the Supply Chain Matters site, Prashant Mendki discusses the new extended supply chain world in which we live. He examines the 5 basic functions involved in conventional ...
- 31. Supply Chain Planning and Execution Converge
- (News)
- On the ToolsGroup site, Jeff Bodenstab and Joe Shamir discuss the convergence of supply chain planning and execution. Their proposal of a 'control center' model makes a lot of sense.Developments in technology ...
- 32. Visibility Supports Planning
- (News)
- Supply chain visibility has many facets. What it means to an inventory planner will differ from what a risk manager perceives it to be. Fabrizio Brasca explains how visibility can be used to support planning ...
- 33. Make Your Re-Shoring Project Work
- (News)
- Re-shoring, or bringing back manufacturing and other processes that had been performed overseas, sounds like a great idea. The problem is, you have to have a plan and execute it, which sometimes doesn't ...
- 34. Supply Chain Segmentation Explained
- (News)
- In an interesting article about what makes high performance supply chains tick, Puneet Saxena on the Supply & Demand Chain Executive site looks at one of the major tenets: supply chain segmentation. Different ...
- 35. Visibility and Performance in an Omnichannel World
- (News)
- Michael Allen, in a post on the Retail Gazette site, takes a look at recent data from the Retail Systems Research group about omnichannel retail. Forrester has also contributed some analysis he reviews ...
- 36. Are We There Yet? Yes, We Are Still on the Road!
- (EDI)
- ... cost-effective. It can save the organization expense, especially in the people and systems resource areas. It can speed the overall process execution. It can bring additional product expertise and ...
- 37. Can’t We Just Execute an EDI Solution Already???
- (Blogs)
- ... be asked of each of the additional transactions. This will set you well on your way for the next wave of execution of an EDI solution. That of envisioning what your business partners and processes will ...
- 38. The Supply Chain as US Congress
- (Logistics)
- ... from the report: "Gaining visibility requires much more than basic track-and-trace functionality. It involves a control tower approach and closing the loop between planning and execution and synchronization ...
- 39. A Model for Supply Chain Execution
- (News)
- Planning, then execution. Sounds easy, doesn't it? Then why do so few supply chains do it well? In an article on the Supply Chain Digest site, a model that attempts to integrate planning with execution ...
- 40. Sustainable Execution
- (News)
- As an old operations guy, I'm a big believer in execution. But can it be a differentiator for your company?In an Enterprise Irregulars blog by Sameer Patel, we hear his thoughts on the importance of a culture ...
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