- 1. Logistics Industry Talent
- (Logistics)
- ... factors such as the construction of roads, shortages of drivers, oil prices, government regulations, etc can affect supply and demand economics of this industry. With frequent variability in freight rates ...
- 2. Disruption Coming to Trucking Industry with New Futures Market, Talent Migration
- (News)
- ... government regulations, driver shortages, consumer spending, oil prices and more can play havoc with the supply-and-demand economics of the industry. With too much week-to-week and even day-to-day variability ...
- 3. Variability in the Retail Supply Chain (Pt. 2)
- (News)
- Dan Gilmore discusses what's different about retail, why variability is so hard to control, and efforts being taken to address the problem in his 2nd piece on variability.It's a vexing issue but his article ...
- 4. Facing the Variability Challenge
- (News)
- Two significant events have changed the game for supply chains everywhere: the Great Recession and the rise of ecommerce. Since there's not a lot of top line growth going on in retail, execs are looking ...
- 5. Walmart & Target Go After Supply Variability
- (News)
- Retail supply chains have been innovative over the years, with efforts like RFID, advanced metrics, and ECR. However, they've been a little too accepting of variability from suppliers on things like delivery ...
- 6. Mind Your Data
- (Management)
- ... can collect more accurate and detailed performance information on everything from product inventories to sick days, and therefore expose variability and boost performance. Leading companies are using data ...
- 7. Congestion Everywhere!
- (News)
- Anyone who spends time on the road knows that congestion is not only a fact of modern life, but also that it's getting worse. It's not just traffic, though- congestion strikes across the supply chain and ...
- 8. Hazards of Big Data
- (Technology)
- ... can collect more accurate and detailed performance information on everything from product inventories to sick days, and therefore expose variability and boost performance. Leading companies are using data ...
- 9. Big Data Myths Explained
- (News)
- In an Information Week article, Phil Simon reviews a few of the most prevalent myths surrounding Big Data. Some are valid, others aren't, but this topic is most definitely not going away.Big Data is a ...
- 10. Usability of Big Data
- (News)
- There's a great infographic posted by Mark van Rijmenam on the Smart Data Collective site that gives us a feel for the volume, variety, and velocity of 'big data'.There's also speculation of how much of ...
- 11. Stats in the Supply Chain
- (News)
- I typically avoid posting math-heavy articles out of respect for our readers' precious time. However, this one illustrates an important concept in a short piece.In a 21st Century Supply Chain blog, Trevor ...
- 12. EDI POS 852 Data: A Diamond in the Rough
- (Retail)
- ... the document. What is involved? Because the EDI Point of Sales standard allows for a wide degree of variability - and because the POS documents do not contain all the information needed for retail ...
- 13. Can You Improve? Continuously?
- (Management)
- ... identify a ‘pilot project’ (see below for ideas) where you think you can improve cycle time, eliminate errors, reduce variability, or get rid of waste, and then try to sell it to whoever can provide the ...
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