Supply Chain and Sales and Operations Planning Software

The Supply Chain Planner's Guide to Tour Planning

October 11, 2018

The Integrated Tour Planner's Journey

Let's say you've got big event coming up—maybe an awards ceremony, or an important anniversary. You and some of your friends are...

Tags: SCM - Transportation Planning & Scheduling , Supply Chain Planning

October 9, 2018

6 Supply Chain Management Statistics to Know

As we enter an increasingly digitized era in supply chain management, owing to new technologies from IoT sensors to real-time...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , SCM - Supply Chain Management

October 4, 2018

5 Important Considerations for Smarter Route and Tour Planning

In theoretical computer science, the traveling salesman problem asks the following question: "Given a list of cities and the...

Tags: SCM - Transportation Planning & Scheduling , Supply Chain Planning

October 2, 2018

5 Key Benefits of Logistics 4.0

Raise your hand if you remember what it was like navigating on road trips in the pre-smartphone, pre-GPS era. Before you set out...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , SCM - Transportation Planning & Scheduling

September 27, 2018

What Industry 4.0 Will Mean for Your Employees

Reports of your job’s impending obsolescence have been greatly exaggerated. Sure, as Industry 4.0 systems continue to gain...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , SCM - Transportation Planning & Scheduling

September 25, 2018

How-to: Optimizing Your Planning Flow

Let's say you're an OEM, with a sleek manufacturing space and a sophisticated, technologically cutting edge process for creating...

Tags: Automotive

September 20, 2018

Optimize Your Inventory Management with These 3 Strategies

Imagine you’re packing up supplies for a backpacking trip across Tuscany. You’re limited by how much you can comfortably carry...

Tags: Digitization , S&OE - Sales & Operations Execution

September 18, 2018

Match Game: Choosing the Right Container for the Right Parts

Let’s say you’re moving into a new home. After a long day of loading boxes and furniture into your car and driving them to your...

Tags: S&OP - Demand Capacity Planning , Supply Chain Planning

September 13, 2018

Industry Report: Automation in the Supply Chain

These days, when most people think of automation, one of their first thoughts is of self-driving cars. What many people don’t...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , SCM - Transportation Planning & Scheduling

September 11, 2018

The Impact of Cognitive Analytics on the Automotive Supply Chain

IT pioneer and philosopher Ted Nelson, who coined the term hypertext, once famously said, "The good news about computers is that...

Tags: Automotive

September 6, 2018

The Logistics 4.0 Tipping Point

Let’s think back for a moment to the early days of Facebook. Today, the social media giant boasts more than a billion users...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , SCM - Transportation Planning & Scheduling

September 4, 2018

What Industry 4.0 Will Mean for Your Planning Workflows

Imagine you own and operate a pin factory at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. One day, you come in and announce to your...

Tags: Automotive , Industry 4.0

August 30, 2018

4 Surprising Uses for Real-time Information in the Supply Chain

In the past five to 10 years, real-time information has become a key value-added proposition for bolstering efficiency and...

Tags: Manufacturing , S&OE - Sales & Operations Execution

August 28, 2018

The Marriage of Industry 4.0 and Job Shop Scheduling

For decades, production planners in non-clocked production environments have been trying to optimize their job shop scheduling...

Tags: APS - Detailed Scheduling , Digitization

August 23, 2018

Ignoring S&OE Is Increasing Your Risk

Think about some of the biggest supply chain risks for a moment: unexpected weather events or natural disasters; price...

Tags: S&OE - Sales & Operations Execution , S&OP - Sales & Operations Planning

August 16, 2018

5 Uses for Machine Learning in Supply Chain Management

New technologies—from steam power to modern computers—have been the driving forces in supply chain management since the...

Tags: Supply Chain Planning

August 14, 2018

How Logistics 4.0 Will Impact Supply Chain Management

Imagine a scenario: Your company has contracted a shipper or freight forwarder to complete a delivery of parts to one of your...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , SCM - Supply Chain Management

August 9, 2018

5 Ways In-Memory Technology Adds Business Value

Let’s say you and a coworker are attempting to find areas of waste in your supply chain. You have a large conference table on...

Tags: S&OE - Sales & Operations Execution , Supply Chain Planning

Brian Hoey

The Integrated Tour Planner's Journey

6 Supply Chain Management Statistics to Know

5 Important Considerations for Smarter Route and Tour Planning

5 Key Benefits of Logistics 4.0

What Industry 4.0 Will Mean for Your Employees

How-to: Optimizing Your Planning Flow

Optimize Your Inventory Management with These 3 Strategies

Match Game: Choosing the Right Container for the Right Parts

Industry Report: Automation in the Supply Chain

The Impact of Cognitive Analytics on the Automotive Supply Chain

The Logistics 4.0 Tipping Point

What Industry 4.0 Will Mean for Your Planning Workflows

4 Surprising Uses for Real-time Information in the Supply Chain

The Marriage of Industry 4.0 and Job Shop Scheduling

Ignoring S&OE Is Increasing Your Risk

5 Uses for Machine Learning in Supply Chain Management

How Logistics 4.0 Will Impact Supply Chain Management

5 Ways In-Memory Technology Adds Business Value

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